Stomp Pads
Stomp Pads
Again, the stomp pad was once the preserve of the punter who was worried about looking like a dick on drag lifts and couldn’t trust his rear foot to stay on the board during the ascent.
A stomp pad was also the kind of thing that your gran might buy you for Christmas when your mum told her that you were a snowboarder, and she looked in the Snow and Rock catalogue for “snowboarder gifts for under £15”. Meanwhile, proper snowboarders sniggered in the lift queue.
Stomp pads are now all over shreds’ boards, and have gone walkabout all the way to the rails, nose and tail so that your hand doesn’t slip off mid 1080. Punters are now looking very confused as they see proper snowboarders getting onto drag lifts, expecting the cool kids to be putting their rear foot right at the back of their board.
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