CAPITA INDOOR SURVIVAL | $399 This is a cambered board, meaning it's rising up in the middle if you look at it, with the contact points at the tip and the tail. This would function well as an all-mountain board for an advanced intermediate boarder. They need a little more than the baseline. If you want to start riding faster, you start beefing the board up. They make it stiffer tip to tail and torsionally. A person who is a little more confident, gets a little more out of the board because of it. Because it's a little stiffer, if you put a little more into the board, the board gives a little more back. You get a little more energy and a board that doesn't want to fade out on ice. The tail loads up with more spring. So as we start to push the levels a little bit, they put some carbon-fiber stringers and some fiberglass on top. And a twin-tip shape, meaning the tip is the same as the tail. A board at this price level, for the most part, is the kind of board that'll work for anybody. You can take an advanced rider, who realizes that they can't push it to the ultimate limit, and really have a great season on a board that costs about $400. You can take somebody that's not quite there yet, but is going to get there, and put them on a board like that and give them room to grow, and by the end of the season, they'd really adapt to it and have a great season.
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