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Regular vs Reverse Camber What kind of board you ride has a huge impact
on your buttering. Longer, stiffer boards are harder to flex making buttering more difficult.
Reverse camber boards are usually softer and easy to press although I find that regular
camber boards have more pop and better balance points.
This board I'm riding is a Burton Easy Living, regular camber, which I like to use for every
day resort riding. It's got a medium flex pattern with lots of pop so is a good general
board for the park. This board here is a Burton Hero, which has
reverse camber. It's really easy to butter and doesn't require a lot of effort to raise
the nose or tail. It's soft, playful and great for buttering but doesn't perform as well
for other types of riding. This last board is a longer Burton Custom
with regular camber. I use this board for hitting big jumps, riding pipe and on pow
days. It's much stiffer so takes a lot more effort to butter.
It doesn't matter what kind of board you have, you can butter on all boards. Some will take
more effort then others although that extra effort required for a regular camber board
will challenge you making you a better rider.