StyleCrave Giveaway: Rome SDS Design Snowboard! ($600)
By Mike Payne
Thanks to our pals over at Rome SDS, StyleCrave is giving away the lightest snowboard in the sport. When it comes to tearing up snow and leaving a white wake, lightness is better than good, its essential. The Rome SDS Design Snowboard is a $600 mountain shredder with a directional twin design and a nose-shaped tip and tail for freestyle boarding. While you can get the details on the board on Rome’s website, we’re proud to be giving a board away for free here at StyleCrave. Want to learn how? Check out the details after the break…
How to Win the Rome SDS Design Snowboard
To qualify for the free Rome SDS snowboard, you must sign up and comment. Here’s how:
- Sign up for the StyleCrave email newsletter. (you can do so here, unless you’ve already signed up for a past giveaway)
- Comment on this page, tell us about your favorite place to snowboard, a good snowboarding experience, a funny story or otherwise.
It’s that simple. We’ll select one at random at the end of the week. Please note that this giveaway is only available to U.S. readers 18 years of age or older. Best of luck StyleCravers, and thanks to Rome SDS for joining StyleCrave in this great giveaway. This contest will end on Sunday, December 7th, 2008 at 11:59p.m. Winners will be contacted the following week. Best of luck!
Tuesday, December 2, 2008 5:32PM
This looks like fun!
Tuesday, December 2, 2008 6:58PM
Hey, broke college student dead center of some of the best mountains on the west coast here! My board is trashed, this would be amazing!
Tuesday, December 2, 2008 7:18PM
looks like a pretty nice board! supposedly the lightest board out now
Tuesday, December 2, 2008 7:24PM
i have never been snowboarding. give this to me so i can start.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008 7:34PM
Nice board! Last season, a friend and I were on opposite sides of a slope and neither of us were paying attention while carving… needless to say, we collided and his board split the nose of mine. Sure it’s been sorta patched with ptex, but a new board would sure be nice. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008 10:21PM
i remember the day after my first snowboarding experience i had such a hard time sitting down anywhere because i fell on my butt so many times. i’d love to go snowboarding again though!
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 12:13AM
my old board was stolen at mt high last year. lesson learned, board check before you go into the lodge or place it by the window or put a lock.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 1:29AM
I’m away at college most of the year in Chicago so I only get a chance to snowboard when I’m home during Christmas break. I usually hit Alpine Valley in Chesterland even though it’s quite a hike for me. Here in Cleveland we have limited locations and the weather doesn’t always cooperate.
I’ve only been snowboarding a few years now and I remember the first time I went, I didn’t realize what a workout it is and I woke up the next morning walking like a zombie.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 7:21AM
very cool ski board you’ve got there
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 7:44AM
going to the poconos for new years.. always been a ski fan, but wanted to try my hand at snowboarding. this would work perfectly since im a broke college student lol.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 8:25AM
I went on this killer snowboarding trip to Snowshoe Mountain in WV last year around Christmas. It was powder for the entire week with snowfall every evening. This snowboard is sick and I’d love to show it off up there when I roll up for two weeks in February
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 9:38AM
Yeah this would be an awesome prize for my trip to BC!
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 10:35AM
RAD. All the way around.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 10:48AM
holy crap i want this board
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 10:57AM
The first time I took the wife snowboading – we went through the beginners class. During practice, she took out the instructor. Pretty representative of her time on the slopes. She loves it anyway though.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 11:46AM
First mountain, Big Bear. First time snowboarding.
What I shouldn’t have done is bring my girlfriend. I thought I could get the basics down on my own after a few tries, but I just made myself look like a fool.
I thought she couldn’t snowboard, but she showed me wrong.
How it ended, me getting taught by my girlfriend; talking gallantly as if she were superior in every way.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 11:47AM
This board is awesome! I’m a bay area guy and love heading up to Kirkwood for some of the best snow in Tahoe.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 12:20PM
I’ve never snowboarded before, but there’s a good chance I’ll be moving to Denver next year. I imagine Vail will become my favorite place.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 12:58PM
I’ve only been snowboarding for 2 years. I could really use a quality snowboard like this when we go to New Hampshire. Thanks.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 1:08PM
My best snowboarding story?
My cousins take me snowboarding for the first time and we go rent everything at the shop. Of course, I don’t get any insurance because Im thinking we’re going on the easy little bunny hills in front of me. Turns out I was wrong. Learning how to snowboard, and more importantly stop, on a medium to difficult hill is not too easy haha. I either skidded to an immediate stop and nearly tore my knees in half or Id just fall over. Then, I took a wrong turn one time and had my board teetering between some rocks and a tree with me balancing on my board. The board feels like its gonna collapse under me and Im there trying not to move as I dont wanna have to pay for breaking this board. My cousins finally find me and the 3 of them have to pick me up and carry me in some deep powder. Haha its a wonder I still love going snowboarding
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 2:22PM
This would be one hell of a Christmas present. With this I could stop bumming my buddy's board off him to hit the slopes in the UP (Michigan).
Thursday, December 4, 2008 2:10AM
It’d be great to hit the slopes on this awesome board!
Thursday, December 4, 2008 9:08AM
That’s a rawesome board! My first snowboarding experience was 2 years ago at Breckenridge. My husband was trying to teach me (bad idea). I went on a snow punching tangent the first day and it finally clicked the last day. Now I’m hooked!
Friday, December 5, 2008 2:26AM
How fantastic, from what I’ve read this is a great board. Just learning, I love to ski but this will be my first year boarding.
Friday, December 5, 2008 1:57PM
A friend at school told me about this website. My favorite place to ride is Northstar at Lake Tahoe!
Friday, December 5, 2008 4:57PM
i can’t wait to go snowboarding this year!
Friday, December 5, 2008 5:43PM
Great board! Would love to win this!
Friday, December 5, 2008 5:52PM
Angel Fire, New Mexico would be a great place to break in a new snowboard! What an awesome giveaway!
Friday, December 5, 2008 9:35PM
Favorite place to snowboard is right outside my front door in beautiful Massachusetts.
Friday, December 5, 2008 9:37PM
I need a new board
Friday, December 5, 2008 9:38PM
I’d take this to Snowmass for the first run
Friday, December 5, 2008 9:39PM
My roommate made me post this. But it’s a cool contest anyway
Friday, December 5, 2008 10:29PM
I need to learn how to snowboard so I can do something with this snowboard. But before I can I need a snowboard to do it with..what to do..what to do…
Saturday, December 6, 2008 12:27AM
wow sweet giveaway.
i snowboard in europe because there is no snow here in NC
Saturday, December 6, 2008 12:28AM
i snowboard in switzerland about once a year. would love to go more though
Saturday, December 6, 2008 1:39AM
Coconut Cream
Saturday, December 6, 2008 1:40AM
killington vt
Saturday, December 6, 2008 5:16AM
What a great prize! I would love to try snowboarding! I’m sure my kid would too! m04taes(at)verizon(dot)net
Saturday, December 6, 2008 7:30AM
With this board I could bring my son boarding with me.
Saturday, December 6, 2008 7:31AM
My son has been bugging me to death to start snowboarding. This may be his oppurtunity. Thanks for the sweep.
Saturday, December 6, 2008 7:32AM
My teenager snow boards and has been asking me to go with him. If I win this sweep than we can make it happen. Thanks
Saturday, December 6, 2008 8:10AM
Here in Oregon the best place to snowboard is Mt. Hood Meadows!
Saturday, December 6, 2008 8:25AM
Do you think I’m too old to learn? I’m 59. But I’m going to try
Saturday, December 6, 2008 9:21AM
I don’t actually snowboard but I know someone who loves to. This would make a great Christmas present for them.
Saturday, December 6, 2008 9:26AM
This would be a awesome gift for my son this Christmas. We could not afford to get him a new snow board as he wanted last year and so I got him a used one. It is not the best and I think he wipes out more because of it. I can just see the smile on his face and the massive amount of hugs I would get if I were to win this and give it to him for Christmas. Please pick us!
Saturday, December 6, 2008 9:47AM
i want it, i want it.
Saturday, December 6, 2008 10:41AM
Thank You for the Nice giveaway, Hope to win!!!
Saturday, December 6, 2008 10:49AM
I go out my folks back door – nice steep hill with a nasty dip 3/4 of the way down.
Saturday, December 6, 2008 12:04PM
want to win this
Saturday, December 6, 2008 2:03PM
I am starting my snowboarding lessons this year (always a skiier in the past) and this would be a great start!
Saturday, December 6, 2008 2:19PM
Nice giveaway, my favorite place to ride would be snowmobile accessed vail pass colorado, if I am going to a ski area, loveland all day…
Saturday, December 6, 2008 2:23PM
My Wife would love this!
Saturday, December 6, 2008 3:21PM
If I win these, I’ll have a great snowboarding experience to tell you. I left mine in the state of ten thousand lakes
Saturday, December 6, 2008 3:37PM
My favorite place to snowboard is SkiBowl’s Snowboard Park at Mt Hood – near Portland, OREGON.
It is exclusively for snowboarders.
Saturday, December 6, 2008 3:56PM
This board will ride fine down the Sugar Bush lines
Saturday, December 6, 2008 4:12PM
Hitting the hills with this beauty would be sweet!
Saturday, December 6, 2008 4:47PM
we try to get to White Pass,WA several times a year to snowboard.
Saturday, December 6, 2008 5:08PM
I would be my son’s hero if I won this!!!! Thanks
Saturday, December 6, 2008 5:45PM
Okemo in VT is GREAT for snowboarding!
Saturday, December 6, 2008 6:54PM
I’m in!
Saturday, December 6, 2008 6:58PM
Wow, awesome. I wouldn’t mind winning this one.
Saturday, December 6, 2008 7:46PM
Favorite place to board Wolf Creek CO. YEAH!
Saturday, December 6, 2008 7:47PM
This would be awesome!
Saturday, December 6, 2008 7:52PM
The board would be for my son. He loves to snowboard.
Saturday, December 6, 2008 8:08PM
My son and I visit Waterville Valley, NH every winter for a fun snowboarding trip. Thanks!
Saturday, December 6, 2008 9:50PM
Reading some of the comments I realize that, as a group, we are not the millionaire sophisticates that StyleCrave would have us be (not moneyed enough to buy this snowboard, cetainly!). And the “funny” stories are excruciating, really, about literal pain! But if you ask us to tell stories about our various yachts that we stable at the marina like horses, well then, we might hear something else altogether! However StyleCrave does have the best products (like this snowboard), the best recountings of architechtural post-modern wonders, and the coolest clothes around, so if nothing else, there’s a LOT to aspire towards! (Even though that’s incorrect, grammatically speaking! Another aspiration!)
Saturday, December 6, 2008 9:59PM
If I won this, I would give it to my Mom for Christmas, she is in her late 50′s and loves to Snowboard at Smugglers Notch VT in the winter
Saturday, December 6, 2008 10:38PM
Well I agree I am not a millionaire sophisticate, but I do appreciate the cool products here. Would love to try them out at Mammoth.
Saturday, December 6, 2008 10:42PM
omg- my son would love me forever
Saturday, December 6, 2008 11:49PM
trying to win this for my daughter to take with her to Big Bear
Sunday, December 7, 2008 10:06AM
I’ve never snowboarded before but this year I’m going to West Virginia. Hope I find a good place to snowboard.
Sunday, December 7, 2008 10:09AM
Awesome board!! I’d love a board like this to replace the Burtoon board I had to sell last year to pay my son’s hockey fees. Wah, me!! LOL Srsly, this would save me from being a total SPORE on my trip to Breck this winter.
Sunday, December 7, 2008 10:44AM
My buddy is convinced he can teach me to snowboard this season…we’ll see.
Sunday, December 7, 2008 11:34AM
Damn, I just started snow boarding last winter, and I love it. I won’t ever be able to get a board like this one so it would be AWESOME to get this!!!!!!!!!!!
Sunday, December 7, 2008 1:10PM
Thank you so much for offering this wonderful giveaway.
i would LOVE to win !!
Sunday, December 7, 2008 1:18PM
I’ve never really snowboarded before, but I’ve always wanted to learn!
Sunday, December 7, 2008 2:12PM
My son would love this–please make me a winner!
Sunday, December 7, 2008 2:19PM
I’d like to win this for my son. Most boards are so heavy. This light weight one sounds great!
Sunday, December 7, 2008 2:19PM
I love riding at Brianhead, and I would REALLY love riding this new board there!
Sunday, December 7, 2008 4:31PM
My favorite place to snowboard is Bristol Mountain ski and snowboarding resort. It is located in Bristol, NY. It is only about a 20 minute drive from our house so it is where I go almost everyday in the winter months! Hey, I just signed up to receive your emails. I am looking forward to seeing what you have to say! Thanks for this awesome giveaway!
Sunday, December 7, 2008 4:58PM
My husband would love this snowboard!
Sunday, December 7, 2008 6:59PM
My favorite snowboarding mecca is Whistler, BC. Well worth the flight to our northern neighbor.
Sunday, December 7, 2008 7:00PM
Love to win this gear and retire my antique vision board
Sunday, December 7, 2008 7:07PM
I don’t snowboard. Last time I went to a ski resort I fell flat on my face trying to get off the lift…
Sunday, December 7, 2008 7:14PM
first year and trying to survive 20 inches of fresh powder at Brundage (Idaho)
Sunday, December 7, 2008 7:16PM
would love to win this for my twin sons! thanks!!!!!
Sunday, December 7, 2008 7:18PM
The true depth of my addiction does not show until I realized that at any convenience I can and will spend 15 to 20 minutes telling some one who has never been snowboarding or skiing a day in their lives the phenomenal feeling of floating through a deep powder glade, being able to just minutely move your center of gravity and as if by magic your flight path is effortlessly altered to your intended direction. During the whole conversation feeling goose bumps go up and down my spine remembering the last glade of the season hoping that the left over adrenalin will catch and hook my unwilling conversational counterpart. I am also guilty of other things such as leaving my girlfriend behind to go boarding because the snow is so good or calling in sick to work due to “Good conditions”
I am not an expert by any means. My snowboarding life did not start until I reached the young age of thirty-six. Kelly K., a good friend of mine from my college, and happens to have a national level three snowboard instructor status and works at Bogus Basin in Boise, ID. she obliged my request for some private lessons. Kelly has known me for quite a few years and was very aware of my past athletic endeavors and miss adventures so she put me on the fast track of the learning curve. I spent my first day hitting the basics, flat ground work and the basic sliding and skating action of the toe and heel edge, after a day of pushing and pulling my self off of the snow I was very exhausted so when Kelly said we were going up the quad I respectfully declined using the excuse that my muscles were not doing what I was asking them to.
The next day on the hill I did not fully believe Kelly’s expert advise, from the day before so I chose to run the Beginner hill one or two more times for my warm up. I was practicing a toe side traverses and at the advise of Kelly I started alternating toe edge to heel edge to my surprise I was linking turns and not just shakily linking turns but linking them with the effectiveness of my trusty old skate from high school, it was right then that the potential of this sport was realized to me. Skate boarding was mode of transportation to me while in high school I was not one to do kick flips and all that I was in to distance, cruising, long arcing turn’s and board slides to slow down and stop. The thrill of movement at a fast pace on an unforgiving surface was lost to me a little while after I attained my drivers license, my skate was inadvertently sold to the junk yard when it was locked in the trunk of one of my many broken cars
“Wow the quad’s are allot faster and cushier than the old doubles” were the first words the came to me as we were being pushed back in our seats according to the laws of gravity and momentum. This was not my first experience riding a large chairlift I had done some summer mountain biking in the past, so chairlifts were not a huge issue with me. At the top of the run after successfully disembarking and strapping in I was a little apprehensive not because of the steepness of the run but of the length, it was a least ten times as long as the beginner hill. I made it all the way linking turns with out crashing once although the run was a blast it took about 45 minutes and my legs were effectively gelatin. It was at that point that Kelly said “You’ve got it now all you need to do is practice.” I felt a little concerned and befuddled I did not think that the sport that I had been watching on T.V. could be that easy to pick up. After asking Kelly if she was sure she said that I picked it up faster than most and that it must be related to her awesome teaching ability, haha, but seriously that I was just picking it up and practice was the best thing for me to do before taking my next lesson set.
It’s been three years and thanks to the ridiculously low season pass prices of Bogus Basin I have had one for all of them. My riding ability has tremendously increased due to that fact and that I only live 18 miles from the resort so I have been able to go up forty to sixty times per season. Most of my time on the hill is now spent bailing off side chutes and exploring glades and saving the groomers for the icy days. We happened to have a great 2008 snow season so there were not that many icy days. The unwritten rule of thumb for me and the group of riders that I hang with was to not hit the groomers except to traverse to glade shots. We received a great end of season storm and I did not have to be at work until 2:00 so I rallied a couple of friends and we hit the hill. It was a Tuesday and there was anywhere from six to eight inches of fresh powder on the whole hill so we decided to hit the backside up first off. The back side of our hill doesn’t have night skiing so it was shut down at 4:30 so there was going to be first tracks abound. On the second half of the first run I over judged my ability and lost my situational awareness, a long story short, as if in a slow motion I watched my knee impact the tree and heard the sickening “Crunch” of my ACL. I was broken my season was finished!
The loving woman who I have been with and am lucky to call my girlfriend, Teresa, decided to take up snow boarding this year so for her support and to aid in my post injury boredom I decided to go up the hill with her and do some lounge skiing and rejoice in the great season we have had. After hoisting more than a few drinks I realized that it was heavily dumping and that I have not seen my girl friend in a couple of hours, I was a little worried because she usually only did a run or two then rested. When she finally came into the lodge she was totally covered in snow with one of the biggest smiles I have ever seen on her face she said “baby I sorry I haven’t came in and hung out with you but the snow is just getting better and better”.
To my astonishment I have passed the passion on, my girl friend was now addicted!
Sunday, December 7, 2008 8:57PM
This is really cool. It is just what my son has been admiring.
Sunday, December 7, 2008 11:36PM
I’m new to snowboarding but would like the opportunity to learn more about it.
Monday, January 12, 2009 3:10AM
me me me!
Sunday, February 8, 2009 4:48AM
siiiiiiick anyways i like to snowboard in nashoba valley and funny thing is my mom is asian and she doesnt want me snwoboarding
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 3:20PM
My favorite place to snowboard is Ski Santa Fe, the terrain is excellent, I'm just a beginner so most of the times I get out I come back home with bumps a bruises, but I love it.
Thursday, October 29, 2009 4:17AM
This one time i fell off the chair and broke my board….damn. I still need a new board…:(
Thursday, December 31, 2009 4:09AM
I live near Purgatory ski area so I would have to say the best place to go is right in my backyard!!! Thanks.
Sunday, January 17, 2010 2:34PM
Went Snowboarding in Kaprun, Austria. It was a fantastic intro! conditions were perfect and the powder was a great for learning! That was a couple of years ago and i would like to think i’ve gotten a bit beyond beginner … but to really graduate … methinksmy very own board!!!