Name: Scotty Arnold, a.k.a. S-C-O-Dubbs, Arnie 5-G, or S.C.O.
Age: 23
Sponsors: Salomon, Vans, Section, Agency, Smith, Grenade, Jack’s Garage, Pro-Tec,
Years snowboarding: 12
Roots: Holderness, New Hampshire
Lives: Park City, Utah and Mammoth, California in the winter; and Newport Beach, California in the summer.
Height: 6′
Weight: 180 lbs.
Stance: Regular, 23.5 inches wide, with eighteen degrees angle on the front foot and negative-fifteen on the back.
Forward lean: On rails, I use none-forward lean is supposed to help you turn, but you just go straight at rails. In the park and pow I use about three clicks so I can turn better for pipe, riding into kickers, and shit like that.
Board: The Salomon Arnie 5000 ($450)-my first pro model. I ride the 154 for rails. It’s smaller and easier to press and spin onto stuff. I use the 159 for pow and park because it’s faster and easier to land on.
Boots: Vans Fargo in either black or camo, size ten ($239).
Bindings: My Agency binding called the 1134 ($159).
Personal settings: I pretty much ride everything stock outta the box, except edges.
Tuning techniques: On my rail board, I use a grinder I bought at the hardware store to pretty much grind the edges completely round, tip to tail. For my bigger board, I grind the tip and tail completely round and take a little off the edges on the rest of the board.
Jacket: Section MFM in XXL ($249).
Pants: Section MFM in XXL ($199).
Gloves: Whatever Grenade Gloves keep the hands warm.
Goggles: Smith Fuse with mirrored lenses all the time, unless I can’t see ($85).
Riding style: Everything-rails, pow, pow jumps, pipe, park, park rails … everything except hips. I hate those f-king things so much! Ride stuff for fun. Who cares what it is? Except for hips. Holla!
