Benefits of Rocker

With rocker, your tips will float up in powder and crud. The feel is smooth and just like when you surf, wakeboard or waterski, rocker helps you to stay buoyant and on top of the snow. On skis, there's no need to do all that ridiculous bouncing and leaning back to keep your tips from going under. On a snowboard, your tip sits up higher out of the snow so you can avoid those face plants over the nose. You're able to maintain a more balanced riding stance which saves energy and improves your reaction time.

Rocker brings the tip and tail up and off the snow, shortening the contact length of the edges and making turns easier. Your ride becomes more nimble and maneuverable, allowing your to pivot and "slarve" without catching edges. You can slash the snow, slide sideways to scrub speed, smear and butter turns. The increased mobility works great when you are in the trees or tight chutes.

With rocker technology, your skis/board are pre-pressed which makes riding presses in the park easier. The less-catchy nature of a rockered ski/board allows you to initiate your spins early and gives you greater ability to recover from off-axis landings and under-spun airs.

With the expection of icy, pure competetion envrioments, there are rocker profiles meant to excel in every type of skiing and snowboarding. It has become quite normal for manufactuers to design all mountain skis and snowboards that incoorporate some kind of rocker. Everyone can ride rockered skis and snowboards and have fun. That's the beautiful thing about rocker technology. You can be a beginner or advanced rider, young or old, and benefit from riding rocker skis or snowboards.