ASTM F1107-04

Standard Terminology Relating to Snowboarding

SCOPE
1.1 This terminology covers terms used to describe the geometry and common hardware used on snowboard skis, snowboard bindings, and snowboard boots.

General Information

• Status: Historical
• Publication Date: 31-Jan-2004
• ICS: 01.040.97 - Domestic and commercial equipment. Entertainment. Sports (Vocabularies)
• ICS: 97.220.20 - Winter sports equipment
• Technical Committee: F27 - Snow and Water Sports

Relations

• Replaces: ASTM F1107-95 - Standard Terminology Relating to Snowboarding
• Effective Date: 01-Feb-2004
• Replaced By: ASTM F1107-04(2010) - Standard Terminology Relating to Snowboarding
• Effective Date: 01-Sep-2010
• Referred By: ASTM F2546-07(2018) - Standard Test Method for Snowboard Step-in Bindings
• Effective Date: 01-Feb-2004

Standards Content (Sample)

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Designation:F1107–04
Standard Terminology Relating to
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Snowboarding
This standard is issued under the fixed designation F1107; the number immediately following the designation indicates the year of
original adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision. A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval. A
superscript epsilon (´) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
1. Scope
1.1 This terminology covers terms used to describe the
geometry and common hardware used on snowboards (skis),
snowboard bindings, and snowboard boots.
FIG. 1 Side View of Snowboard
2. Significance and Use
developed length, LN—the bottom contour length from the
2.1 A standard set of definitions is needed to allow produc-
snowboard tip to the snowboard tail, sometimes called the
ers, dealers, users, consumers, general interest individuals, and
Fig. 2).
material length (
consultants to use a common language for describing snow-
edge—asharp,narrow,steelsurfacethatisattachedthroughout
boards, snowboard bindings, and snowboard boots.
the length of the sidecut on the bottom edge of the
3. Terminology
snowboard.
free bottom camber, H—the height of the running surface
3.1 Definitions (Refer to Figs. 1-6): f
from a vertical plane surface measured at the highest point,
asymmetrical—this refers to a snowboard shape that does not
with the snowboard held laterally on edge, free from the
have a longitudinal line of symmetry. Heel-side and toe-side
effect of the snowboard weight.
sidecuts shaped and offset differently from each other; they
are not mirror images of each other. This typically requires
that a different snowboard be utilized for regular-foot (left
foot forward) and goofy-foot (right foot forward) snowboard
binding mounting positions (Fig. 5).
FIG. 2 Side View of Snowboard, Pressed Against a Flat Surface
asymmetrical offset, O,O —the distance along the longitu-
s h
dinal axis that each side of an asymmetrical shape is offset
from the other side. Offset may be different at the shoulder
and heel (Fig. 5).
chord length—(LTS) the straight-line distance between the
snowboard tail and the snowboard tip with the snowboard
pressed flat to a plane surface to take out the camber (Fig. 2). FIG. 3 Side View of Snowboard, Relaxed
DISCUSSION—Either method of measurement, at the manufacturer’s
discretion, may be used to indicate nominal snowboard length or
snowboard size when rounded to common increment.
contact length—the difference between the projected length,
L , and the sum of L +L or L =L −(L +L ) (Fig. 1).
p t s c p t s
contact surface area—the product of the average width times
the contact length expressed quantitatively as follows (Fig.
4):
FIG. 4 Top View of a Symmetrical Snowboard
b 1 2b 1 b
h m v
A 5 ~L !
c c
4
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This terminology is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee F27 on Snow
Skiing and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee F27.85 on Snowboarding.
Current edition approved Feb. 1, 2004. Published March 2004. Originally
approved in 1988. Last previous edition approved in 1995 as F1107 – 95. DOI:
10.1520/F1107-04. FIG. 5 Top View of an Asymmetrical Snowboard
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F1107–04
soft boot snowboard bindings—these are designed to be
used with soft boots, retaining the boots by means of binding
straps across the toe and ankle areas.
step-in snowboard bindings—these are designed to be used
with boots designed specifically for that binding. The boot
and binding interlock by mechanical means.
snowboard boots—footwear appropriate for use with snow-
NOTE 1—Heelside sidecut deeper (exaggerated).
board and snowboard bindings. The three types of snow-
FIG. 6 Bottom View of an Asymmetrical Snowboard
board boots have been identified as follows:
hard snowboard boots—plastic shell alpine ski-type outer-
heel (of the snowboard)—the widest part of the tail section of
boots with the inner boot consisting of an alpine ski
the snowboard (Fig. 4).
boot-type bladder for comfort and warmth. They are
hybrid asymmetrical—thisreferstoasnowboardshapethatis
designed to be used with hard boot snowboard bindings.
asymmetrical from side to side but symmetrical from tip to
soft snowboard boots—outer boots typically consisting of
tail, allowing the same board to be used by both regular-foot
a rubber or plastic lower portion and a leather or nylon
and goofy-foot riders by reversing the direction of travel, but
upper portion; the inner boot consists of an alpine ski
retaining the non-mirror image sidecut shapes of a full
boot-type bladder for warmth and support. They are
asymmetrical (Fig. 6).
designed to be used with soft boot snowboard bindings.
insert—a reusable, threaded attachment p
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