Arbor

Arbor Snowboards

Every Arbor snowboard is like a work of art, Arbor’s Element RX or CX, The Westmark or the Coda snowboard, with their superb build quality and unique graphics, they stand out on the rack above anything else for their sheer quality. Top end, premium snowboards, they are super stylish with slick graphics and striking designs you’d be happy to display on your wall, Yet, fundamentally Arbor snowboards are on another mission: to create performance-driven snowboards in the most responsible and sustainable way possible, dedicated to reducing their environmental impact across 100% of their snowboard line.

Since they started in 1995, Arbor snowboards have sought to significantly reduce their environmental impact, replacing as many environmentally harmful materials as possible with functional, eco-based alternatives, in every single snowboard they manufacture. However, whilst protecting the environment is very much at the heart of Arbor snowboarding, this is far from buying a plank to ease your conscience. Arbor say that you can’t be green just for the sake of being green. Customers expect quality, performance and relevance even when choosing a sustainable alternative. To that end, Arbor snowboards combine the latest tech, for instance, their award winning ‘The System’ a fusion of interdependent technologies that support the new physics of riding rocker snowboards(Element RX, Formula or the Westmark snowboards), with natural materials, for instance, caster bean based bio-plastic topsheets or highly sustainable bamboo(Coda snowboard) has a tensile strength and weight-to-strength ratio superior to steel, yet it is light, flexible and resistant to compression. Coupled with the most powerful artistic collaborations, Arbor therefore can ultimately create better looking, better performing, more durable snowboards.

Arbor, of course, do not use the traditional snowboard categorisation but rather a ‘Board Mapping’ program, as today’s snowboards are all-mountain boards, extremely versatile, performing in a variety of terrains. The different designs allow riders to focus on certain types of riding, but don’t lock you into any one terrain or style. To that end, Arbor’s Board Map with the four categories of Transition(Pipe), Mountain, Park through to Street, and a flex pattern of the stiffest at the Transition end getting progressively softer the closer you go toward Street, allows you to identify your snowboard by where it performs best across a spectrum of terrains. For instance, the Element CX and the Element RX snowboards feed the ride-it-all addiction but perform particularly well in the Mountain and Park, whilst the rockered Westmark snowboard and the women’s Cadence snowboard still work as all-mountain snowboards but they tend towards a preference for jibbing, primarily for the Park and the Street.