Best place to buy snowboarding gear in SoCal? This is for a girl and she likes colorful stuff.?

I know of a few places like Big 5, REI, Sports Chalet, the usual. Is there a speciaty store only for snow sports? Remember, I live in Los Angeles so it has to be local. Thanks.

Honestly I’d avoid those big retail stores. They only sell crap, Sure it’ll be cheap and I guess if the person you’re buying it for doesn’t ride very much then it’s fine. But if you’re looking for quality then look for a board shop, They’ll sell the quality gear, and usually around the end of the season they’ll have their 50% off sale on the gear they couldn’t sell that year.

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admin on October 30th 2009 in Snowboarding Gear

3 Responses to “Best place to buy snowboarding gear in SoCal? This is for a girl and she likes colorful stuff.?”

  1. Jake M responded on 30 Oct 2009 at 6:25 pm #

    Honestly I’d avoid those big retail stores. They only sell crap, Sure it’ll be cheap and I guess if the person you’re buying it for doesn’t ride very much then it’s fine. But if you’re looking for quality then look for a board shop, They’ll sell the quality gear, and usually around the end of the season they’ll have their 50% off sale on the gear they couldn’t sell that year.
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  2. BristolMTBoarder responded on 30 Oct 2009 at 7:07 pm #

    In terms of the board, bindings, and boots local snowboard stores or the stores at your local resort are good places. For clothing, I generally buy mine online because the selection is the best, but I have seen SOME good stuff at D I C K S Sporting Goods however it sometimes takes them a while to get the newest products in. I was in the Under Armour Outlet Store a few weeks ago and their selection was crap so I’d just buy clothing right off Underarmour.com and buy all the equipment at a local store or off dogfunk.com, there’s some good deals on there and they process orders fast
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  3. Jennifer L responded on 30 Oct 2009 at 7:23 pm #

    Go here and compare prices

    http://store.atticskateshop.com/boards.h...

    Email them and let them know what your intentions are. Keep in mind 5150 is a sister company of RIDE snowboards so you will be getting a RIDE board with 5150 graphics. Think about it, with the money you save you can have both your board and bindings for the price of a board alone.

    Hope this helps…
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    10 years of snowboarding

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