What Size Snowboard?
The first half of what snowboard should I buy is length. Set your height on the gauge above and it answers with a board band — drawn only from the part of the chart where two blind readings agreed.
Reading the gauge
Height in, board band out — that is all the card above asks and all it gives. The band is drawn from the agreed part of the chart only: two blind readings were taken separately, and only where they matched did a band make it in.
The chin-to-nose check
Stand a board on its tail and it should come up to somewhere between your chin and your nose. That is the old shop-floor version of the same answer, measured against your own frame instead of a wall chart.
Where the gauge stops
Above roughly 170 cm of rider, the two readings genuinely parted ways. Real charts compress up there, and weight takes over from height as the thing that matters. So the gauge does not stretch the line to cover you — it stops and says so. Past that mark, treat the last band as a neighbourhood and let weight carry the decision, not the chart.
That stop is the point of the page, not a gap in it. A band you can trust to its edge is worth more than one that keeps answering after it has run out of agreement.