The 2013/14 buying season is slowly coming upon us as we move into fall. All summer if you weren’t too preoccupied with other endeavors you probably noticed that we rolled out a new review a day for you to peruse. Now if you were too busy for that here’s the comprehensive list of everything broken down by company and gender for you.
APO Snowboards:
Arbor Snowboards:
Arbor Ladies:
Dinosaurs Will Die:
Echelon Snowboards:
Echelon Ladies:
Flow Snowboards:
K2 Snowboards:
K2 Ladies:
Launch Snowboards:
Launch Ladies:
MarHar Snowboards:
Neepo Snowboards:
Niche Snowboards:
Niche Ladies:
Niche Minx
Nitro Snowboards:
Ride Snowboards:
Ride Ladies:
Rome Snowboards:
Rome Ladies:
Rossignol Snowboards:
Rossignol XV Magtek Splitboard
Rossignol Ladies:
Salomon Snowboards:
Salomon Ladies:
Signal Snowboards:
Signal Jake O. E. Freedom Machine
Sims Snowboards:
Wi-Me Snowboards:
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Thanks for this, especially the inclusion of women’s boards for review.
Many thanks to Zara for being the girl who helped make that happen! Her reviews are informative and enjoyable reads.
You going to post winners (you have that already) and runners up like last year?
Yep
K then 🙂
If I was looking for a flat camber-less board that was just a all around fun park board 50% rail 50%jumps would you have any stand out recommendations from the boards you’ve tried…? Thanks
I can’t think of any flat decks I rode other than the Sims. Which is a park destroyer.
Nice work, BTW any noteworthy binding tech coming this season? Everything I’ve been seeing looks pretty status quo. Also, I’m curious, did you do all the outerwear reviews on the same day? You guys looked pretty worked in some of those sauna segments! I also noticed the Thrive deck makes a recurring appearance…
Locking people in a sauna for three hours in outerwear is not recommended. It was a deck I was riding that’s all. Binding reviews will start dropping next week.
Killer reviews! Super helpful and much appreciated. As a fellow female, Colorado rider big shout out to Zara for her well written insights.
Curious your thoughts in the Lib Tech sticks. Heard a lot of good things about the TRS … how does it stack up against some of the other top all-mountain decks?
Haven’t had the opportunity to be on a TRS in years, but I will say that was always one of Libs decks that I really dug unfortunately the last time that I actually rode one was back when the first generation Banana came out.
Have you ridden the new camber option from smokin yet? I am very interested in what its like.
Job well done, like every season.
If I was to search for an All-Mountain Freestyle board that has a rediculous amount of pop, especially off natural features and on the slopes, with a middle-of-the-road flex, that can still rail hard turns like nobody’s business, where do you suggest I start looking?
Rome Mod Rocker.
eh by the way I am a 5.6 coming in at 165 lbs.
Thanks. What about the MarHar Throwback compared to the mod rocker? which one can carve harder? i love the throwback’s design!
You’re dealing with two different shapes and styles. If you charge hard the Mod is awesome at it. With the Throwback it’s a board you have to understand how it carves as it’s not like a cambered board or even a rockered one. It locks in directly under the feet.
Thanks for answering my questions. Still can’t let go of the Throwback! Can it handle charging (given I learn how to handle it correctly) and all mountain in generall? On the other hand, can the previous season’s Mod Rocker do jibs and butters?
Joe you obviously want it. Get it and shred and shut your brain off to all the other bullshit.
Got ya!
Anyone ridden the Salomon Protocol? Wish AS would review it.
I asked for that board but the local reps that supply me with boards for review didn’t have it available.
I want a board similar to my old school K2 Darkstar (camber). That thing was a blast to ride, it was snappy edge to edge, it load and boost like no other and butter was fun as heck (not as easy as other decks, but still playful). I want to board to be able to rail carves yet still flexible to ollie and nollie off anything, hold a press with minimal effort (ok some effort). I want a board to not feel squirrelly landing a 40-50.
I’ve ridden rockers (1-2years), flat boards (2 years) and i hate them both, the boards feel too dead to me. I want something i can ride with quick edge to edge and have that poppiness out of turns yet I want go butter on my nose and tail without too much effort. All this new tech is confusing the heck outta me. Can you please point me in the right direction? I demoed the the dc mlf and ride machete 3 -4 years ago and really like them both, but i’m sure their decks have changed. What should i look into?
I want another old darkstar but that aint happening. So is there anything out there similar to it? I know what I like, but i’m having a hard time finding it. I also have small feet (size 9) so the board can’t feed too wide (capita and lib techs feel too wide, even the non-wides). Thanks bud.
Get the K2 Happy Hour with the Lifted Camber profile. It’s essentially what the old Darkstar morphed into.
is there anything else kind of similar? not really digging the stabbing tip. What do you think of the Ultradream?
nevermnind, reading more it seems the Ultradream would be a little too aggressive and less playful… however, is there anything else similar to Old Cambered Darkstar, i really loved how tight it turned and playful it was. Thanks bro.
The Happyhour looks like flatline tech. I have a newer K2 Darkstar (thinking it would feel somewhat like my old k2, but i wasn’t lively at all) with flatline tech, and i don’t like how dead it feels. I think camber (or at least something with that feel) is what i’m going to go back to, any suggestions?
From K2’s Website. See where it says LIFTED. That is Camber. Reading comprehension might help you.
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