In surfing, the glide is everything. It’s the bread and butter, the icing on the cake, and the backbone of riding waves, all in one. You can’t surf without the glide; you can’t even catch a wave. And in snowboarding, it’s almost as important. Not quite, but almost. Sure, you can slide down a snowy hill on a board, but if you’re not gliding, you’re just sliding down a snowy hill on a board.
“You can ride a snowboard with poor glide but your options for creativity will be stifled,” the Jones Snowboard team writes. “Have you ever groveled through a powder gully marveling at another rider’s track high on the walls but you can’t get up there? Bad glide, wrong board.”
Since the glide makes snowboarding that much better, the Jones team reached out to master shaper Chris Christenson. He’s a man who knows a lot about surfboards (and hence, glide) — he’s shaped nearly 30,000 boards — and he knows that choosing a surfboard depends on a lot of things. The waves, yeah, but also your mood. You feeling punk rock today? You feeling jazzy? A little Sid Viscous or a little more Etta James?
“The one board is not the board for every day,” says Chris Christenson.” That’s how it’s always been. Now you can approach it like you’re on the golf course — you got your shot for your five-iron, your seven-iron, your driver. That’s why I’m stoked on the Jones line. There are so many options.”
And in the Jones Surf Series lineup, there certainly are a lot of options. The hardest part is figuring out which one looks like the most fun.
