Capita Asymulator 2020 Review Although it seems like a new model this year, the Capita Asymulator is the new name for the older Spring Break Twin. I guess that over the past couple of seasons it got popular enough to move into the regular Capita lineup. [tabs type=”tabs”] [tab title=”Description” active=”true”] Features of the Capita …
Jones Ultra Mountain Twin 2020 Review The Jones Ultra Mountain twin is the upgraded, stiffer and faster version of the Jones Mountain Twin. It keeps the majority of the overall features and style of the original, but with a stiffer core, faster base and lighter weight. [tabs type=”tabs”] [tab title=”Description” active=”true”] Features of the Jones …
Nitro Beast 2020 Review The Nitro Beast is a very full on board, super stiff, traditional camber, that would be a top choice if you want to ride the biggest jumps, and charge everywhere. You would want to be a pretty aggressive rider to get the most out of this one. [tabs type=”tabs”] [tab title=”Description” …
Jones Mountain Twin 2020 Review The Jones Mountain twin is a medium stiff flexing, mostly camber directional twin board that is made to ride a bit of everything. It’s a good all rounder, and would probably be my top choice if I could only choose one Jones board to ride. [tabs type=”tabs”] [tab title=”Description” active=”true”] …
Rome National 2020 Review The Rome National is an all mountain, ride everywhere mid flexing (almost) camber board. [tabs type=”tabs”] [tab title=”Description” active=”true”] Features of the Rome National 2020 Fusion Camber Overall Fusion Camber has a traditional regular camber profile (pictured in red), with just a tiny rocker section (pictured in green/blue) at the contact …
Jones Mind Expander 2020 The Jones Mind Expander is a weird one, at first it looks like just a powder board, but it actually rides completely differently to how I expected it to. [tabs type=”tabs”] [tab title=”Description” active=”true”] Features of the Jones Mind Expander 3D Contour Base 3.0 The base of the Mind Expander is spooned …
GNU Hyak 2018 The GNU Hyak is a new board for 2018, and has replaced the original Carbon Credit. For a while it was a bit confusing, with the Carbon Credit coming in two versions, the regular and an Asym version. To make things easier, the Carbon Credit is only asym now, and the Hyak is …
DC Space Echo 2018 Review The Space Echo is a pretty aggressive, old school regular camber all-mountain snowboard. [tabs type=”tabs”] [tab title=”Description” active=”true”] Features of the DC Space Echo 7/10 Flex Rating Camber Regular old school camber profile, that has Directional Twin Shape Twin Flex Stratus Core Triax Fiberglass Sintered Base Fresh Deck Top Sheet 2×4 …
Niche Theme 2018 Review The Niche Theme is mostly camber, medium flexing freestyle board that is pretty fun to ride. [tabs type=”tabs”] [tab title=”Description” active=”true”] Features of the Niche Theme 2018 Camber Dominant Hybrid Pretty similar to a regular camber profile, though it is a bit flatter between the bindings. It has solid pop, is stable at speed …
The Ride Warpig is a new board for 2017, that comes in two sizes – small and large. It is made to be an easy carving, park board that floats in pow. It’s one of those boards that is popping up in edits all over the place.
Capita Kazu review The Capita Kazu is Kazu Kokubo’s powder and all mountain board. A cambered, smooth turning machine – a solid board all over the mountain. Features of the Capita Kazu Kokubo Pro Directional Shape Radial Taper 0.5″ Setback 6.5/10 Flex Like a few of the higher end Capita boards, I think that that …
Salomon Super 8 2017 Review The Salomon Super 8 is a wider board, that is made to be a mix between a hard charging all mountain board, and a surfy powder board. [tabs type=”tabs”] [tab title=”Description” active=”true”] Features of the Salomon Super 8 2017 Tapered Directional Shape The width of the tail is tapered (compared to the nose/tip) by …
Salomon Ultimate Ride 2021 Review A board that was added to the Salomon range in 2017, that won best overall board in the 2018 Blackboard experiment, and for me it is one of the best boards that I have ridden. The first few years the Ultimate Ride was a mid-stiff flexing, twin shaped almost full …
The Never Summer Proto Type Two is a new model for 2017, which is based on a combination of the older Proto, the Funslinger and the Ripsaw.
The Never Summer Twenty Five is designed as a directional freeride version of the Proto Type Two. It is a special edition made for the 25th Anniversary of Never Summer.
Sims Juice 2017 Review The Sims Juice is an all mountain freestyle board, with a micro camber profile and retro graphics. [tabs type=”tabs”] [tab title=”Description” active=”true”] Features of the Sims Juice: True Twin All Mountain Freestyle Same size nose and tail mean that the Juice will ride the same in both regular and switch directions. …
GNU Mullair 2019 Review The GNU Mullair is Nicolas Müller’s pro model snowboard. GNU describe it as a “directional all terrain freestyle/free ride power” board, but to me it rides like a good, old school traditional camber board. [tabs type=”tabs”] [tab title=”Description” active=”true”] The GNU Mullair has GNU/Lib Tech’s C3 camber profile, which for all intents …
The Never Summer Swift is a powder board made for those deep pow days, but actually rides well in hardpacked conditions as well.
DC Media Blitz 2018 Review The DC Media Blitz is Torsteins board, that has had quite a few changes in the last couple of seasons. It has changed from an aggressive camber board, to a playful and easy to ride board. If you read the specs, it sounds like it should be aggressive like it used to …
Burton Custom X 2023 Snowboard Review The Burton Custom X is one of Burton’s high end performance boards, that has roughly kept the same design and features for quite a long time. Basically, it’s a stiff, directional shaped camber board that does best for agressive riding/riders. There are two versions of this board, the regular …