Shoulder width is good.  Angles are a personal preference.  I ride +25 -10 and that works for me as an expert rider.  I would not think any different for different ability levels, mainly just personal preference.  I came to those angles by simply standing on my board and simulating motions that I do while snowboarding naturally, like toeside turns, heelside turns, slashes, tucks and grabs.

Hope this helps you

Since we're on this topic... When i go boarding, I freeride on the diamonds most of the time, but i still like hitting some mid height jumps on the easier slopes, or hit up the ramps.  I'm working on my 180 and some other low skill tricks, so I am riding switch sometimes.

Could I get a recommendation on binding angles? 
I've been riding 15, 0 for the past 4 years... so maybe something moderate and then I can ease my way into the more extreme angles like frosty 

Josh Yu

Well they're more extreme than mine   I heard that putting a lot on your back foot can be hard on your knee(s?)

Thanks for all the great input guys!

While we're on bindings,

I was trying to figure out what stance i what to set my bindings up on.  I ended up getting the Burton Elite, and I am very satisfied with the board.  I've been messing with the settings and i don't know the terminology for this, but I know that my board has the binding holes 1" back towards the tail.  Right now, my tail side binding is set an extra inch towards the tail, thus, my nose is 4 inches longer than my tail where as if i moved it up, the nose would be 2 inches longer.

Should I move my bindings up?

My angles are 18, -6, if that makes any difference

When I picked my stance for my new boards, I laid the board down on the floor and stood on it
comfortly.  I ride slightly bigger than shoulder width, but I put my feed dead center of the binding
holes and checked the stance. If that felt good, I mounted my binding with the sliders left-right
so I could adjust slightly on the mountain. It gives you about a quarter inch in either direction,
half inch total of adjustment (atleast on my rides).

My all mountain board has an 8mm set-back in the stance, so I ride it a bit on the tail side.
My park board has a centered stance (no set back) and I ride it centered.

I set my angles by putting my bindings on a piece of wax paper and standing on my board
in my ride stance, then stepped out of the binding gently to leave it in place on the board,
and bolted in.

I ride +25/-15 all mountain and +15/-15 for park. It took some dialing in, but I think you have
to find your own personal sweet spot.

Nice post Daniel.  I would also like to add that a stance that works perfectly for one rider may not be right for another.  Everyone is built differently and styles of riding make a HUGE difference in stance options.  A good rule is the more comfortable and stable feeling your stance the better.

Also, I would like for your Ortho guy to get in on the boards here and start a thread on injuries and we can all share our thoughts and experiences on that kind of stuff

i have Ride bindings. do you prefer certain brands??

Sure, I got opinions on bindings.  Should probably make a new thread about that tho