Camber Or Rocker-

I'm looking to purchase a Forum Youngblood but I am not sure if I should get the Chillydog rocker or the traditional camber. I would be riding in both the park and the mountain, but mostly mountain. Which do you think would be the better board to go with, Camber or Rocker?

Rocker Vs camber has a lot to do with preference, so be prepared for a lot of opinions in this thread.  Personally i would go with the traditional camber version for an all mountain stick.  Id probably change my mind if i was planning on riding a lot of powder.  Again, just my preference.

Originally posted by Digitalism If you're riding mountain, you want a regular camber board because a reverse camber is unstable at high speeds.

i would try and demo or try out a cambered and rc cambered board. everyones likes are different :) that would be the surefire thing to do.

Even if you try out a reverse cambered board, I don't think you'll fully get the hang of it within one day.

they already exist.  lots of libs and gnus, a few burtons, capita has the black death FK now, theres the agent rocker and anthem ss from rome, the gnarlier neversummers, and more.

Having the lowrize rocker on my Machete makes tree runs in the pow amazing.  Just that small amount of rocker makes it float beautifully.

IMO

if you have 1 board only - camber
if you have 2+ boards - camber and rocker

Like your women and liquor, this is very much a personal preference..

No, no.  Go Rocker.  Floats in the most sought out "perfect" conditions.  A bit more forgiving on catching edges.

if u live in the east coast get a cambered board. if u live in a area with conditions more like the western states the chillydog should be amazing

Camber for your style of rides.

I would say camber might work out better, but it is preference. I demoed a Banana when they first came out on a more powdery day and loved it. The next season I got a Hero. I put a few days on it and decided camber was for me. In the pow, RC rocks, but overall I miss the "pop" and stability of camber. Now I am back to my Rome Headroom and I picked up an Uninc last season, both camber boards. 

I have a rockere and have had no problem getting some high speeds going and havent found stability to be an issue. It goes great in the park and floats well, for me its more of a feel thing than whats better.

Just as the spencer said, I think its just mostly preference. They both excell at what they do, and have some disadvantages in some areas. I just bought a Reverse crew cause its cheap.

go with rocker.. especially if you will be riding a lot of park

Originally posted by spenser Originally posted by shwazy Originally posted by spenser they already exist.  lots of libs and gnus, a few burtons, capita has the black death FK now, theres the agent rocker and anthem ss from rome, the gnarlier neversummers, and more. Of these boards which do you think offers the aggressiveness you mentioned of a cambered board the most? any stiffer mervin with c2, like the lando or t-rice, the stiffer NS, etc.  they still have a feel of rocker, but theyre stiffer boards.  the way i look at it is... a c2 style rocker is more like camber with some of the feel of rocker, and then a rocker with rockered tips and camber in the middle (black death, YES camrock, etc) is more like rocker with some of the feel of camber.

If you're talking about a 2010 the camber version is going to have more pop, the chillydog main complaint from 2010 on the youngblood and destroyer is that there was not enough pop.

cant be stated in general.  just like cambered boards are different, rockered boards are different, and there are lots of rocker designs.  plus, pop is all preference, it cant necessarily be measured.  plus, if you have someone whos trying to pop a reverse camber board like a cambered board, youre most likely going to have them saying that it isnt very poppy.. but if you have someone who has adjusted and knows how to work rocker to their advantage, they might say theyre really poppy.  there are two basic different styles of ollies between camber and rocker, in general.  i call camber ollies where you load the tail and spring off the boards flex "snowboard ollies," and with a lot of rockered boards it helps to ollie more like a skateboard, where you snap real quick at the back binding and use your legs more to get the ollie up, like a skateboard.  really depends on which kind of rocker were talking about though.  some of them still have camber under foot (c2, never summer, flying v, rome reverse mountain pop, etc) that you can spring off of like camber... etc

reverse camber is the future!