Alpine Stance
What is alpine stance? Alpine stance is a setup used for alpine (or race, or carve) snowboards. These snowboards are so narrow that small stance angles are impossible as your feet will quickly overhang your snowboard and you will wipe out. Front and rear angles are anywhere between +70° and +35° degrees and are usually set by the width of the snowboard. These angles together with hard boots allow you to carve aggressively. For better control in short turns, the difference between the front- and rear angle should be at least 5°.
Forward stance
What is forward stance? Forward stance is the usual stance used by most of snowboarders. Both snowboard bindings have positive stance angles but they are much smaller than with alpine stance. Stance angles can be smaller because the regular snowboards (freeride and freestyle snowboards) are much wider that race snowboards. Stance angles can vary between +40° and +15° degrees for the front binding and between +30° and 0° degrees for the rear binding. Keep the difference between the front and rear angle under at least 21° degrees. Some
stance angles setups:
- Stance angles: +21° on the front and +6° on the rear - this is a common all-mountain setup,
- Stance angles: +30° on the front and +15° on the rear - this is common setup if you are more carving oriented rider or if you are just starting out (stance for learning snowboarding).
Duck stance
What is duck stance? Duck stance is a stance where the front binding angle is positive and the back binding angle is negative. This stance makes your toes face different directions like Donald ducks feet. Duckstance gives you more stability as your body is aligned with the snowboard and is useful for riding halfpipe. With duck stance, the front angle is anywhere between 30° and 0° degrees while the rear angle is negative, between -1° and -20°. Keep the angles apart by at least 10 degrees.
Duckstance angles setup:
- Stance angles: +18° on the front and -6° on the rear - this is more laid back duck stance.
- Stance angles: +15° on the front and -15° on the rear - this is 100% (mirror) duck stance.
