ARBOR SNOWBOARDS F/W 2025/26 PREVIEW

Retail Buyers Guide: Snowboards F/W 2025/26 Retail Buyer’s Guide
Brand: Arbor
Interviewee: Eddie Wall – Marketing and Athlete Manager

What trends or developments are you seeing with regards to board construction, shapes, and general innovation? How is this shaping your 25/26 range?
The A-Frame and Terrapin PFD are the latest shaping innovations from Arbor in our 2526 Founders Collection. The A-Frame looks a little different from previous years – but the legacy lives on. Reincarnated as a swallow tail, this next-gen A-Frame embodies the ethos of Arbor’s Founders collection by fusing surf-inspired design with progressive directional shaping. Equal parts precision carver and pow-day optimizer, its camber profile is paired with a progressive dual radius sidecut and RWD carbon A-Frame to provide a powerful back-foot dominant directional turning feel unlike anything before it from Arbor. The new third-gen Terrapin recalls its first-gen roots, but has been contemporized with PFD design shaping. Short for Powder Floatation Device, this new Terrapin revisits its surf-inspired directional System Rocker profile but adds a longer flattened section under the backfoot for added on-demand power and control. Redesigned 3D Fenders and a heavily tapered shape harken back to the OG Terrapin. But the addition of a 3D boat-hull-like centerline through the nose and an aggressive tail slot to add more edge-able contact in the deep and through the trees make this board your go-to on the deepest days or when you finally make it to Baldface Lodge.

Any new design or pattern approaches in your 25/26 gear?
In 2526, Arbor is continuing to focus on merchandising opportunities between bindings to key snowboard models. For example, the Cypress is Arbor’s highest-end freeride-focused men’s snowboard binding designed for all-level all-mountain riding. The Black/White colorway is designed to merchandise with the Founders Collection which also includes the A-Frame and Terrapin mentioned above. Similarly on the women’s side, Marie-France Roy has a signature binding colorway on the Sequioa that pairs with her Veda snowboard.

Are you planning to focus on a special product range or type of customers? What’s your newest range?
Arbor’s Product Collection’s categorize and group individual snowboards by use-case through terrain targets. This allows riders to narrow in on the most optimized tool for their individual needs, making it easier to taper what can otherwise be a daunting search for a new snowboard. The Founders Collection fuses surf-inspired designs with progressive directional shapes to create specialty tools for precision turning or the deepest powder days. Omnis means “everyone” in Latin, and the Omnis Collection is everyone’s all-mountain and daily-driver product category designed for a blend of on-resort and side-country experiences. Freestyle-focused and progression-driven, the Candle Collection offers athlete-inspired designs that are park and street-ready and new-growth-oriented.

Key Products:

EL CAMINO:
Big air, don’t care. Built like a brick shithouse, ready to launch off anything, and equal parts freight train and Formula 1. Are we describing Jared Elston or his new Arbor Pro Model snowboard? Actually… both. The all-new El Camino is the embodiment of Jared’s style, built to charge. Parabolic camber, slightly directional shaping, small Grip Tech contact points and a full real-wood topsheet – this board is spec-heavy to be airtime-light and an apex on- mountain predator. ” The El Camino will live in the Omnis Collection. Omnis means “everyone” in Latin, and the Omnis Collection is everyone’s all-mountain and daily-driver product category designed for a blend of on-resort and side-country experiences.

El Camino

BRYAN IGUCHI PRO:
The Brian Iguchi Pro has been a pillar of the Arbor collection for over a decade, and in 2025, we welcome you to the Brian Iguchi Pro 2.0. Featuring a version of System Camber fully optimized to Guch’s performance needs – this retooled iteration comes in with a little softer flex profile, a little more setback, a little more width, and a little more nose volume to be the kind of paintbrush that Brian colors the mountains with today. Like the man himself, the new Guch Pro combines freestyle roots with backcountry performance, making it a premier performance-based, all-mountain, mixed-terrain and variable-condition choice for the intermediate to advanced rider. The Guch Pro will also live in the Omnis Collection.

Bryan Iguchi_Pro

KURO NEKO:
True twin, pure camber, and park ready – the all-new Kuro Neko focuses on the core basics of freestyle snowboarding with a female-first and focused, low-tech approach to progression. Its name, Kuro Neko, means Black Cat in Japanese – so you know it’s nimble, quick, ready to slash and always lands on its feet. The Kuro Neko will live in the freestyle-focused and progression-driven, Candle Collection which offers athlete-inspired designs that are park and street-ready and new-growth-oriented.

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