CAMBER AND SHAPE MAP
DESIGNED BY SNOWBOARDING - BOARDS BINDING TECH
BINDING TECH
DIFFERENT CAMBER LINES POWER THE QUIVER OF SHAPES FROM THE DESIGN HOUSE
For our quiver of board designs that rip different zones of the mountain from the summit couloirs to the handrail near the lodge, our Co-Founder and board designer Paul Maravetz creates cambers, shapes, technologies and material placements that optimize three things that snowboarding demands:
CAMBER DESIGN Snowboarding has a wide diversity of super fun ways of shredding the mountain— trees, park, groomers, cliff lines, side hits, street features, half pipes, open bowls, backyards and more. And different cambers are better at bringing the stoke for some types of riding than other cambers. Selecting your cambers to build a quiver comes down to what you want to ride and how you want to ride it.
POP:
STRENGTH:
STAY POSITIVE CAMBER
FUSION CAMBER
From rocks to rails to the way some other brands design binding baseplates, there are certain things in snowboarding that put stress on snowboards. So we create technologies to make your board last longer.
We will always make the camber that most of our team riders and long-term Syndicate riders demand: positive camber through 100% of the running length. The reason why snowboarders like Stale, Ozzy, Bjorn and Alek like pure positive camber is for the high level of response it delivers. It loads rider energy and releases it with a distinctive feel for precision and power for carving, popping off the lip of a jump, stomping a landing or locking into a rail trick.
A modern evolution of a Rome “industry first” that we created back in 2009, Fusion Camber features positive camber through most of the running length, with a small amount of rocker just before the contact points. This design creates a versatile allmountain freestyle feel that has the power and response of the majority positive camber zone, combined with a smoother overall feel and added rise in powder from the small dose of early rise.
We like snowboarding to feel like a sports car or a moto bike and less like a luxury sedan or an old man’s Harley. Specifically, we want our boards to pop with dynamic response when riders load energy into them. This is critical for freeriding, all-mountain freestyle snowboarding, or park riding. Regardless of flex profile, all our boards have technology and design for Pop.
FEEL: While all our boards have pop, they have different feels. Some feel surfy, some feel playful, some feel super responsive, and some find that happy spot between playful and powerful. We do this through camber and other shape designs, as well as unique material applications.
POP TECHNOLOGIES FREE-THE-RIDE CAMBER
FREE-THE-RIDE3D CAMBER
CONTACT CAMBER
We unify three distinct zones of camber in this profile. Zone 1: from the tail to just in front of the front foot, we use positive camber. Zone 2: in front of the front foot, we use a section of flat camber. Zone 3: rocker in the nose. The result is a camber that drives all-mountain freeride performance. The positive camber mid body and tail drive the carving responsiveness and the slashing power. The flat zone that merges into the rockered nose balances powder float with clean turn initiation.
Featuring the same three-zone approach as the Free-The-Ride camber, the FTR 3D profile includes 3D rocker in the nose of the board. The 3D adds a round, surfy feel in powder, while the positive camber from the front foot to the tail works with the flat camber forebody to deliver a powerful, responsive feel for turning in all snow conditions. The result is a profile designed for all-mountain freeriding, with added performance in powder conditions.
Flat camber throughout the entire running length creates a balanced feel that combines the responsiveness of positive camber and the playfulness of rocker. This makes it a perfect camber for a rider who likes to rail turns and session jumps, but who wants the board to be more forgiving than a traditional positive camber board. To keep performance in this profile, we combine it with our responsive FiveGnar sidecut geometry.
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TURBOROD TECHNOLOGY:
HOTROD TECHNOLOGY:
ADVANCED CARBON TUBES FOR PRECISION AND RESPONSE
TARGETED POP FROM A DIVERSITY OF MATERIALS
Carbon is light and super poppy. Not a brand to just throw some carbon tape in a board, we take a unique approach to how we use carbon to improve response. We mill channels in targeted areas of the core and place a sleeve inside the channel. Then we insert a thin rod of carbon inside the sleeve and anchor the carbon rod at the end of the channel closest to the midpoint of the board. This allows the other end of the carbon to move in and out of the sleeve and load up more energy. When the storage of energy is released, it releases cleanly without vibration to increase power and pop for the board.
Using rods of carbon, glass and bamboo, we place HotRods in the boards to deliver power to specific areas.
CONFIGURATIONS OF TURBOROD AND HOTROD TECHNOLOGIES: PUTTING POWER AND POP PRECISELY WHERE YOU WANT IT CONTACT ROCKER CAMBER
NOHANG-UPS ROCKER 2.0 CAMBER
A moderate amount of rocker between the feet and positive camber in the nose and tail create a versatile feel that many riders prefer for a varied life of freestyle snowboarding and all-mountain freeriding. The rocker between the feet keeps the board floaty in powder and nimble at slow speeds, while the positive camber in the nose and tail deliver precision turning performance and pop off the lips of jumps.
This profile starts with a flat camber in the mid section of the board, and then adds rocker in front of each binding through the nose and tail. Looser and more playful than the straight Contact Camber, the rocker version is perfect for riders who want a park destroyer or an all-mountain weapon that flows smooth turns and floats effortlessly in powder.
The world’s best camber for learning to snowboard. We combine a “diamond” of flat camber under foot that also extends to the centerline of the nose and tail. Outside of this positive camber shape, we integrate three-dimensional continuous curvilinear rocker that raises the edges and becomes full rocker at the ends of the running length. The 3D rocker in the nose and tail keep kids from catching an edge, while the Rome-exclusive diamond under foot gives the edge control needed to learn proper carves and slashes.
POWDER S 3D CAMBER
POWDER S CAMBER
We combine a 3D rockered nose with positive camber from the mid-body to the tail. The 3D profiling in the nose adds float in powder and it gives a smooth, round shape to the arc of your powder turn. From there, the positive cambered mid body and tail take over to add power to your powder snowboarding for driving through arcs of deep snow an finishing with an explosive slash that can only come from a positive cambered tail.
This profile combines positive camber from the tail through the mid-body with a rockered nose. This delivers two things that we feel snowboarding demands for surfing powder: float and glide up front, and slashing power in the tail. We want to float into deep pockets, and then we want to explode them and enter dark white rooms.
In our TurboRod and HotRod Technologies, we use different configurations to control the level of response and the feel of the board. Some configurations just add longitudinal ollie pop. Some balance longitudinal pop with torisional response. And others focus more on improving the torsional power of a board
Torsional Power
Ollie Pop
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MTNPOP ROCKER 2.0 CAMBER
BOARD SHAPING We design three types of board shapes that work with camber to drive the different feels within the Rome quiver. Shapes don’t dictate where a board should be ridden, but different shapes definitely prefer different types of riding.
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TRUE TWIN
DIRECTIONAL TWIN
DIRECTIONAL
Our True Twin shapes are perfectly symmetrical. Stances are centered and the nose is identical to the tail. If you want to mount your bindings “backwards”, the board will ride exactly the same. The best boards in the line for riding switch, the True Twins define the the personality of our park boards and our allmountain freestyle boards.
When you set these boards on the snow, the part that touches the ground is a twin; from contact point to contact point, they are twin. They are directional in the nose and tail kick areas— the nose is slightly longer than the tail, and the shape of the nose and the tail often differ from each other. With twin and directional components to the shape, these boards are versatile, destroy-anything all-mountain freestyle snowboards.
Directional boards are boards that have longer noses than tails and boards that are stiffer in the tail. Many of the Directional boards also have taper where the width of the nose is wider than the width of the tail. These shapes are ideal for all-mountain freeriding and powder riding.
SINGLE BARREL
REVERSE RADIAL V
DOUBLE BARREL
DUAL ARC
THRUSTER
The configuration inlays a rod in the centerline of the board emanating from the binding towards the tip. This is great for freestyle boards that want more ollie and jump pop, without increasing the torsional stiffness of the board. Focused for a freestyle approach.
This pattern features arcs that start under the bindings and bend towards the middle of the board at the contact points in the nose and tail. On our advanced freestyle boards, this focuses rider energy in the middle of the board for added ollie pop without significantly increasing the torsional response.
This configuration features two rods that start under both bindings and extend in straight lines towards the tip and tail. The result is a double dose of straightline pop, and it also increases torsional response to put more kick into our flat-rocker and powder boards.
This pattern follows the arc of the sidecut on both the toeside and heelside edges. It results in a ton of extra torsional response for quick, powerful edge work, and explosive longitudinal response for high ollies and explosive pow slashes.
New for this year, the Thruster pattern includes two rods that start at the back binding near the center of the board and angle towards the edges of the board. This creates increased tail-specific power to add response to the carves and pow slashes of some of our freeride boards.
HIBEAM TECHNOLOGY: 3D DESIGN TO ADD OLLIE POP In the new Artifact, we three-dimensionally design an “I-beam” shape into the core in the nose and tail to add power where you ollie and nollie into and out of tricks. The top glass laminate contours over the I-beam profile, adding targeted stiffness where you want it, while still allowing the overall flex of the board to be forgiving and playful.
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