Setting Up Snowboard Stance (part 3) : How To Determine Snowboard Bindings Set Back
Setting your snowboard bindings back on the board is fairly normal these days for all mountain freeriding. Snowboard bindings set back involves attaching your bindings so that the mid point between your bindings is slightly behind the center point of the board. To determine your set back correctly your will need to find the center of the snowboard. However, this is a bit more tricky than simply halving the length of your snowboard and marking the point. You’ll have to perform a bit of calculation first:
- Place your snowboard on it’s edge on a hard, flat surface.
- Get a tape measure and note the distance between where the edge touches the surface at the nose of your board and where the edge touches the surface at the tail of your snowboard.
- Now halve this length and and make a mark on the topsheet of your snowboard where this is because this is your snowboards center point.
- Get your bindings next and attach them to your snowboard keeping your desired stance width (in this case lets just use 20 inches). The mid point of your stance is halfway between the center of both bindings (in this cases example this would be 10 inches).
- For a centered stance your snowboard set back would be zero and so your mid point between both your bindings would be in the same place as the center point of your snowboard.
- For a set back stance on your snowboard the mid point between your bindings must be behind the center point of your snowboard and therefore closer to the tail.
- If you set your snowboard bindings up so that the mid point between your bindings is one inch behind the center point of your snowboard you have a set back stance of one inch.
Play and experiment with different amounts of set back on your snowboard to determine what you are comfortable with and under which types of riding and terrain you prefer which amounts of set back. Usually when riding powder you need to have a bigger set back then normal to keep your nose from diving and prevent your back leg taking all the strain from having to lean back on it to much.
