Friday, November 18, 2011

Arbor Snowboards @ Pioneers Board Shop in NH



We started Arbor in 1995 convinced that there was a need for brands willing to take responsibility for the impact their products have on the environment. For us, time spent riding had always provided a direct understanding of what’s at stake. We all need clean air to skate, clean water to surf, and snow to ride. For those of us who pursue boardsports, protecting the planet is about the environments we use everyday. It was becoming obvious that the boardsports industry, which relies on a healthy environment to succeed, needed to get more involved with protecting the planet.

To this end, Arbor was founded to design products around the goal of replacing as many environmentally harmful materials as possible, with functional, ecologically based alternatives. The mission is to deliver performance, durability, and style in the most responsible way possible. The result must be quality and reduced environmental impact.

As of right now, it is not possible to deliver a totally “green” product. Reality is about taking steps towards that future. Those steps are what drive the Arbor Collective. Having said that, we feel that you can’t be “green” just for the sake of being green. Customers expect performance and relevance, even when choosing a sustainable alternative. So, we select only those eco-materials that allow us to deliver better looking, higher performing, more durable products. Form still follows function, and this balance must be achieved if alternative products are to succeed in today’s fickle marketplace.

The Cadence-2012 Good Wood winner!
A rocker board designed specifically for women who take a park set of skills to the whole mountain; the Cadence supports spins, jumps, rail riding, and all-mountain cruising, with a lively disposition that’s hard to fathom.

The Swoon-2012 Good Wood winner!
A rocker board designed for women who take on big mountains; the new Swoon is a freeriding wonder that was designed to provide easy performance, reliability, control, and confidence when riding the full range of real mountain conditions.
The Draft
A street-specific rocker board for riders whose focus is park and urban jibs: rails, boxes, trees, wall rides, etc.; the Draft is the perfect platform for spinning, pressing, bonking, and buttering your way through life.

The Wasteland
Arbor’s flagship snowboard has finally met our flagship System set of technologies; the result, an all new Wasteland that still delivers its signature street-to-mountain versatility and powerful all around performance, but now with the ultra clean ride that only rocker provides.

The Element RX - National Geographic Gear of the Year Winner!
The ride-it-all addiction of a growing rocker community is nicely fed with the Element RX, which delivers rooty style and high-end performance on mountain, in the park, and well beyond; the quintessential do everything design.

The Roundhouse RX
A true all-mountain rocker machine that’s built to support larger feet, while delivering performance peak to parking lot; the new Roundhouse RX provides the quickness and power you need for 12 rounds of hard driving, all-terrain, mixed condition fun.

The Relapse
The classic mid-wide jump board for the more advanced rider; the Relapse provides massive amounts of power and durability for anyone committed to or coming back to camber-based park riding, expect old school ollie, spin, take-off and landing performance.



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