Back from snowboarding in the adirondacks, Gore Mtn, with my son. I was able to manage getting some bindings to work on my old burton twin, but moving forward I'm going to get him a board to hopefully use for a few seasons then hand it to the younger brother. I'm not entirely sure what board I'll look for. My older son I would place at beginner/intermediate, but adapting quickly to intermediate.
What's interesting to me as I've not paid any attention to boards in years, is that the descriptions and base profile are totally foreign to me at this point. I began snowboarding in 1992, and I feel like every board had camber back then. I owned maybe 3 boards between 1994 and 1998, a nitro asym 155, a burton twin 49, and a salomon 159 (no clue what model name.) All had camber and varied in stiffness with the salomon being the most stiff as it had a cap as well. I finally got myself a nitro dropout last season, but that was for myself. Researching boards for my son is a little difficult, or maybe reviewers have just gotten too highly nuanced. It seems like in reading reviews that people note camber as being difficult to learn on, or maybe I'm just focusing on that. Full rocker profile seems like it would be squirely.
So for what it's worth I've looked at a few boards and thought that as this would be something to use for years I'd lean towards intermediate rather than beginner for a board. Any suggestions from people here? My son leans towards all mountain, mostly avoiding park but not fully averse to it. We literally get a week in out of the year, so no planning on pow. Although it did snow a bunch while we were up there. I'd add my thought is a true twin wouldn't be his choice most likely he'd prefer a directional board. Could be shaped, or could be directional twin. Also east coast conditions, as we just go visit fam in the adirondacks and don't really go destination hunting.