Hovercraft

The nimble all-conditions racer

Ideal for pow slashing, crud busting and slaloming trees

Alternative Freeride

Shape

Traction Tech

Blunt Nose

Progressive Sidecut

Directional Shape

Flex

Stiffness: 7/10 - Playful

V-Core

Directional flex pattern

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DON’T CALL ME A POW BOARD, POW BOARD

The Hovercraft is an alternative freeride board who’s nimble maneuverability and diverse performance has earned it a cult following. The unique shape matched with a directional rocker profile, Traction Tech 3.0 and a long sidecut allows the Hovercraft to float through any snow plus rail turns of any size. With a blunt nose, a short stiff tail, and a wide waist width, the Hovercraft is designed to be ridden shorter then your average freeride board as the compact shape packs serious surface area in a small package. The Hovercraft features a 3D Contour Base 4.0 with spooned nose+tail edges for improved float plus a speed channel in the tail for added glide. New for 2020, the Hovercraft is built with an Engineered Veneer topsheet.

Personality

Directional Rocker Crafting

A hybrid rocker/camber flex pattern defined by more tip rocker then tail rocker and camber between the bindings. The rockered tip floats the board’s nose and improves maneuverability while the camber underfoot provides edge hold and response. A slightly rockered tail maintains the power and stability of a traditional board but helps keep the tail catch-free initiating turns and landing switch.

My experience is that most falls in freeriding start from the nose of the board – you either go over the bars in powder, the nose gets caught under a weird crust and tosses you, or you hit a hard tranny at the contact point of the tip and get bucked. Directional Rocker eliminates most of these falls. — Jeremy Jones

Traction Tech

Like a serrated knife slicing into the snow, Traction Tech improves your edge grip by adding multiple contact points along the running length of your board.

Traction Tech is a critical feature for rockered boards. Rocker improves glide in mixed conditions, but the decreased edge contact makes it harder to really lock
into your turns and hold a solid edge. Traction Tech is crucial to offset the edge drift of rocker. — Jeremy Jones

Blunt Nose

How a board glides in powder, crust, corn or any snow more than an inch deep, is dictated by it’s front contact point and just past it. Next time you are in soft snow watch how much snow comes over the corner of the nose near the contact point. The billowing snow coming out from behind the tip means you are plowing through it which is obviously slowing you down. By adding a blunt nose you get the float benefits of a much longer nose without the ‘snow plow’ rounded tip and it’s extra swing weight. — Jeremy Jones

Progressive Sidecut

At the far ends of the sidecut, the radius is incrementally increased as the edge reaches the contact point. Gradually increasing the sidecut radius towards the contact point delivers smoother turn initiation and exit as the edge tracks in and out of the snow with a less abrupt transition.

Wend Natural Wax

Jones boards are ready to shred straight out of the shop and are factory waxed with WEND natural wax.

Flip Flop Base

Producing two or more base color options minimizes p-tex waste. Order may be filled with either color. Color does not vary by size.

Sintered 7000

Durable natural base material with added carbon for speed and good wax absorbency.

Biax Fiberglass

A dual-direction, dual-layer, stitched fiberglass laminate that provides a fun, forgiving and snappy ride.

Factory Tuned

All Jones Snowboards are factory de-tuned at the tip and tail so you can go right from the shop to the mountain.

Recycled ABS Sidewalls

ABS Plastic is one of the necessary evils of snowboard production. We improve the sustainability of our snowboards by using only recycled plastic.

Oversized Recycled Edges

All Jones boards are made with oversized recycled steel edges for added durability and improved production sustainability.

Super Sap Bio Resin

All Jones boards are now built with bio-based, renewable epoxy instead of petroleum based epoxy. The raw materials used to make Super Sap Bio-Resin are co-products or waste products of other plant-based industrial processes. Producing Super Sap requires 33% less greenhouse gas emissions than conventional epoxy.

Engineered Veneer

New composite wood veneer topsheets. Wood veneer topsheets dampen ride and absorb board chatter.

Classic Core

Full wood premium poplar core that offers fun pop, even flex and solid durability.

Gear 101
Alternative Freeride boards are designed to be ridden substantial shorter than a Directional Freeride board.
For a Hovercraft, go 4 - 8 cm shorter than your Directional Freeride board.
Choose the ideal size Alternative Freeride board using your weight and boot size (see the size chart below).

If you wear US Men’s 11.5 or bigger, look for our Big Horn series boards with minimum waist width 26.3 cm.
Not sure your ideal snowboard size? Check out our sizing guidelines for each model.

Know your board
The dimensions of a snowboard define how that board performs on snow. The dimension specs of all our models are fine tuned for specific styles of riding.
Understand how waist width, flex and sidecut and stance dimensions effect board performance to find the best board for you.

For reference: drawing of the Flagship 161

Size Chart

Product Size	Weight Range (lbs/kg)	Bindings Recommended Size	Weight / Production tolerance +/- 15%	Big Horn Series	Effective Edge Length	Nose Length (cm)	Tail Length (cm)	Nose Width (cm)	Waist Width (cm)	Tail Width (cm)	Taper	Sidecut (m)	Reference Stance (cm)	Centered Stance (cm)	Setback (cm)
148	90-140 lbs / 41-63 kg	S/M	2,7 kg / 5,9 lbs		115.6	38.9	15.5	29.62	24.9	28.36	1.15	7.9	54	52	2
152	110-160 lbs / 49-73 kg	S/M	2,9 kg / 6,3 lbs		119.1	39.4	15.5	29.84	25.4	28.69	1.15	8.9	56	54	2
156	130-180 lbs / 59-82 kg	M/L	3,0 kg / 6,6 lbs		122.5	40	15.5	30.48	26	29.34	1.15	9.3	58	56	2
160	160-210 lbs / 73-95 kg	M/L	3,2 kg / 7,0 lbs	Big Horn Series	125.7	40.4	15.9	31.01	26.4	29.87	1.15	9.5	60	58	2
164	170-220+ lbs / 77-100+ kg	M/L	3,3 kg / 7,2 lbs	Big Horn Series	128.9	40.8	16.3	31.4	26.8	30.29	1.15	10	60	58	2

3D contour base 4.0

Our most advanced 3D-base contour pattern featuring 7mm of spoon bevel in the nose, 4mm in the tail and a 1mm deep Speed Channel between the tail edges. Concave Speed Channel pushes loose snow out from under the board for added speed.

Next level technology for ultimate response
Glide. Flow. Float.
3D Contour Bases are designed to make every run smoother and every turn more effortless by reducing the drag of the board tips. 3D Contour Bases enhance glide and improve float helping you ride faster and with better flow.

I’ve been on a quest to design a snowboard that offers the friction free glide and edge-to-edge fluidity of a surfboard for years. 3D Contour bases finally cracked the code on how to achieve this next level of board performance. Jeremy Jones

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High Performance, Sustainably Made Gear
We design gear that balances performance, durability and sustainability. We strive to make equipment you can trust with the most eco-conscious materials possible. New for 2020, all our snowboards and splitboards are molded with Super Sap Bio-Resin.
Proud member of 1% For The Planet, we donate 1% of sales to fight climate change by supporting our non-profit partners Protect Our Winters and Community Carbon Trees.