Beginner

whats your budget?

well since you have no budget.....

board. you could go with a number of em

if you wanna go all mountain go for the burton custom x or maybe the GNU riders choice in white



for bindings, go for the ride alpha movements
they are nice!!!
http://shop.sierrasnowboard.com/browse.cfm/4,1163.htm

and for boots, go to your locasl shop and try a bunch on and see how they feel and take home the one thats most comfy.

i would go for ride bindings, a GNU board, and whatever boots fit you best

If you are a beginner, I don't know that I would get the Custom X or the Rider's Choice.  Both of these would be for somebody who knows what they're doing out there.  The Custom X is stiff, fast, and responsive :: = AGGRESIVE::.  Beginners would need something softer to make learning turns easier.  It is possible to learn on it, but it would leave you with a much steeper learning curve and you'll probably fall a lot more than if you had a good beg-intermed board.  It is an awesome board, however.  I would seriously consider it as your next board, once you've gotten a year or two under your belt.  

Edited by dcboardman - Dec/13/2006 at 8:11am

Well if you're going to get an entry level board, I personally picked up my first board from Sportsmart of all places.  It was an 03 or 04 5150 Covert last year (so two or three seasons old).  Picked it up for like $80.

I thought it'd be a piece of crap, but now that I've ridden some better boards, I've discovered that it really wasn't that bad.  I wouldn't ride it now and it's probably not as good as something like a Burton Clash or Ride Cue, but it was an amazing deal for amount of money I put down and I beat that thing up with an absolutely clear conscience.  Plus the top sheet graphic was SICK.

Thing about getting an entry level board... if you're going to plop down $300 dollars, you might as well go the extra mile and plop down that extra $150 it takes to get a better board.  But then, when you have that better board, it steepens your learning curve and you might screw it up unnecessarily.  I have a buddy of mine who owns a Baron (wide version of the Burton Custom)... he got it WAY too big and he's never been able to learn to carve properly.  He basically wasted a $500 board (though I'm sure he got it on sale... hopefully).

If you're looking for something that'll work both as entry level and intermediate, I'd look into the CHB.  I think it won Good Wood this year... and even if it didn't, it sounds like a sweet board.  If I hadn't found a such a good deal on my new board (Ride 06 Decade at $200), I'd probably have gone with the CHB myself.