There is a wide variety of snowboards available in the market today of which freestyle snowboards, backcountry snowboards, park snowboards and free-ride snowboards are the popular choices. We are here to reduce your confusion in making a decision on what type of snowboard to buy.

The chief features that determine which snowboard is best for you are your height, weight, foot size and your riding style. These key features decide the suitable width, shape, stiffness and height of a snowboard. Your riding ability and riding style will largely help you in determining the type of snowboard you should buy.

The length of your snowboard is decided by the combination of your height and weight. If you have an average physique, your snowboard should stand between your chin and nose. If you are a bit heavier than average, your snowboard should be longer and less flexible to ensure flotation. If you are lighter than average, go for a snowboard that is more flexible.

Your boot size decides the width of your snowboard. If your feet are smaller, go for a narrower snowboard and a wider snowboard for larger feet is ideal.

Free-ride snowboard is the best choice for the beginners. Free-ride involves riding the whole mountain which includes half pipe, groomed slopes, powder and off-piste. Free-ride snowboards are longer with a soft flex. They have a directional shape which is very helpful for the beginner riders to choose the direction in which you stance you want to ride- either left foot forward or right foot forward.

If you have improved your skills in the sport and want to try out the tricks, jumps, spins and rail slides, go for free style snowboard. These snowboards are shorter and lighter. The nose and tail shape of free style snowboard are identical. Free style snowboard is a versatile board to ride the whole mountain.

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If one asks you to tell which sport- football or baseball- is the number one in the United States, it may be difficult for you to give a fair reply since both the sports have wide popularity and passionate fan following. In this article, we have tried our best to give you an unbiased answer by analyzing the essential criteria that determine the popularity of a sport.

There are six main factors that help determine which sport is more beloved. They are the attendance (number of spectators in present in the match venue), ticket costs, revenue generated from television broadcast, salaries of the sportspersons, and venues of matches.

Attendance:
We can determine whether football or baseball is more popular in USA by looking at the number of spectators who present in the match venue. Let us take one instance. The average crowd at a baseball match venue in the year 2000 was 30,125 whereas around 66,077 spectators were present at a football game. This figure is based on a total yearly attendance divided by the total number of games that were played in the sport. These figures tell us that the number of people that went to football matches was twice as that of baseball games in during the year 2000.

Cost of tickets:
Ticket cost is an important criterion which can decide the popularity of a sport. Keeping this factor in mind, it can be said that baseball is more accessible and potentially more popular overall with the American families earning average to below-average income. During the year 2000, a ticket to baseball game cost $20.02, while football games cost around $54.14. We may thus say that live baseball is more affordable than live football.

Revenue generated from television broadcast:
This is another important criterion considered to analyze the popularity of a sport. We may say that football is the winner when it comes to the revenue that the sport generates from television broadcast.

According to a survey, the National Football League (NFL) has revenue of around 2.2 billion dollars generated from television broadcast in a year whereas the Major League Baseball earns about 340 million in a year.

Although football is on a few days per week while baseball is on nearly every night, the former gets more revenue from the advertisements on television. This clearly means that more people are watching football matches than the baseball games. We may thus say that if television revenue is compared, football is the number one sport.

The season of both the sports are opposite in many ways. When baseball season is long and drawn out with teams playing almost every night, football games appear only once a week. This adds to the buzz for a football game.