We have survived the technological uprising in snowboarding that led to the alternate camber wars, we’ve surpassed the fast entry binding crusades, and even lived through the multiple prophesied down sized dooms days. We’re at a point where technology and progression are going hand in hand which some might view as stagnation because it seems no one is thinking outside the box. As much as this might be the thinking with the big companies, it’s the ones on the fringe that have definitely left the box in search of the ‘Next Big Thing’.
This is where Torqrex Snowboards creative minds are at. This Japanese brand is thinking so far out the box one can only question the practicality of some of the technologies they are introducing.
Did the cut material in the middle end up in the nose?
Tip shapes generally cause people to inquisitively look at a board and think that’s where the tech story is, but as you can clearly see that center cut begs for answers. The tip shape is a knock off on the Rome Hammerhead that was inspired by Christian Hosoi’s skateboard shapes.
A notch in the sidecut won’t effect anything.
According to rough Google translations this notch in the sidecut is to help with torsional control as well as allow the rider to drive the edge into the ground easier.
Because 2 camber humps weren’t good enough.
While some companies are experimenting with triples these guys decided to just crank it right up to 11 and go for the quad camber.
Because one flat kick on each tip wasn’t enough!
After viewing their video it seems that double flat kick creates a serious hinge point for tailblocks.
Is this model the most technologically advanced snowboard on the planet? Well on paper it might be, but then once you dive deeper into the Torqrex stable of boards you can discover there is still more untapped technology potential.
What do you even call this tip shape?
Their Tsuchino Convex model takes the 3D base trend design to a whole new level. They also offer a more simple 3D design on their Scratcher board as well.
In a world of flat bases…
Subtle is less scary to some people.
While this may have been designed by a engineer one has to ask if this is practical or has ever been thoroughly tested. Which leaves us with the question are the Japanese ahead of the future trends in snowboarding technology making them visionaries, or is this someones pipe dream of attempting to reinvent the proverbial wheel? If anyone has ridden this please comment, the world needs to know if these actually ride well.
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I have a hard time seeing this design come to fruition…anywhere…anytime. No not because stuck in my ways, but logical errors in the board. The hammerhead style design looks like it would catch and hang anytime the board is heavily compressed and angled, such as spinning off any booter, or laid out carve. What about jibs? in my riding i depend on my board to have the same width in all places, those torsion divots in the middle make your board considerable more narrow and therefore much sketchier for any board slides on a narrow rail. So no hard carves, no spinning off your local lapped out park booter, protecting your balls and teeth every time you board slide; whats left? basically what you saw in the video, some mediocre flat land tricks and mellow riding. This board = No puss
P.s.
Torqrex, have mushu goon throw a back 5 off one of the jumps in the park he passed up and make me eat my words in the next video.
Im turning Japanese, better eat more cliff bars for energy nom nom noms
All solid points of contention Cliffbar
… except the whole no puss thing, that’s retarded…
I know your implying that the board limits your ability to shred therefore relaying the inability to “show off” for the girls, but that entire notion should really make you question why you snowboard dude. we get it, you think you’re good, no need to assert that unnecessarily into a comment, just makes you seem insecure to the rest of us who see through comments like that.
Oh hello chase ive wrote you a novel! Thank you for agreeing with me 95%…Ill take it.
The hot new thing to do this year is question other peoples reason for shred. I get it bud. We as snowboarders are like a protective parents eyeballing the douchebag that wants to take out our 15 year old daughter.
Alas, you dont know me fool!!! maybe you should. My background in snowboarding is at the purest level let me assure you. My family moved to a rich stuck up ski town when I was ten, I couldn’t make friends with any kids at school for literally years! Disneys Johnny Tsunami was loosely based off of my personal life story! Snowboarding was my best friend (true love), eventually it gave me real human friends, helped me meet my first GF(puss) and get my first job at a rental shop! Snowboarding is the giving tree dude, except im not cutting it down, even if i had to ride that shit board posted above! I couldn’t comprehend questioning why I ride as you suggested, maybe for yourself you can?
with no intention of insulting you or anyone on the site, i could literally give two shits what anyone says about my securities involving grabbing tail on or off the board and anywhere in between. im here to make some points and try to be funny. works for you guys, works for me dudes.
Torqrex (if youre watching and can read engrish): your graphics are overtly gangsta its kinda dumb and thats coming from a guy who used to wear tall T’s. I stand by my original words This board = no puss.
Feed yo’ chick cliffbars…..makes for more tail to grab yadidamean.
Cliff Bar,
“Engrish” just made me spit up my coffee at work. Thank you sir.
As for the board: Don’t knock it til you try it………looks wonky as hell though and all the points you made are valid.
this guy is rad.
I’m gonna tow a pallet of cliffbars up to opening day…
Yeah DUDE!!! dropping cliffs and bars all day! well probably not opening day since lack of snow for cliff drops but you know what i mean. We are all rad cause we ride.
–someone asks any of us on the chair “can i put the bar down?” reply “no” and jam one of your backup cliff bars in their face.–
” I couldn’t comprehend questioning why I ride as you suggested, maybe for yourself you can?”
maybe ive been studying too much and my brain is fried, but im not really sure what your question is and im over it anyways
” i could literally give two shits what anyone says about my securities involving grabbing tail on or off the board and anywhere in between”
hence the novel response right? makes sense
I understand though, cliffbar life story in a nutshell = No life before snowboarding/ Life begins after snowboarding. I’m sorry snowboarding was the only thing that forced you to develop social, work ethic, and flirtation skills but hey at least it happened right? . Rad, keep your energy up yo.
Let me reword it, as you seem intent on the idea I shouldn’t snowboard.
” I couldn’t comprehend questioning why I ride as you suggested, maybe for yourself you can?” so its a little less muddled for you let me explain…… I really cannot imagine a scenario were I would ever see snowboarding as something negative in my life, ergo I cant picture myself questioning if i should ride my snowboard or not. You suggested this to me. So now i am curious if you can picture any way snowboarding is not a positive factor in your life. The idea would be alien to me.
Now, allow me to respond to your comment:
“I understand though, cliffbar life story in a nutshell = No life before snowboarding/ Life begins after snowboarding. I’m sorry snowboarding was the only thing that forced you to develop social, work ethic, and flirtation skills but hey at least it happened right? . Rad, keep your energy up yo.”–chase
As i posted Ive been snowboarding since i was about 10. It would be fair to say you are correct i didn’t have an enriched social and cultural life before snowboarding. Also you were right again at ages 0-9 i didnt demonstrate vast amounts of work ethic and abilities to flirt with women. I blame my age at the time, but not all of us are born perfect. A lot of us have to grow into ourselves and learn who we are, and it helps with a catalyst like snowboarding. Something you can dump passion and energy into and will teach you lessons in return.
You must be quite a dude with all the judgement you are passing down regarding development and courting women. Are you studying for your MBA at Harvard? cause you seem to have a leg up in life over me and I still scraped through and graduated from a university. Also I got married right after college, she probably doesn’t look like the models you probably date, but she is super hot and funny for an average Joe like me.
Im starting to kinda think you’re a douche bag chase. I hope not maybe you’re just blowing off some steam.
**Its better to be a cliffbar wrapper than a bag that had previously held a douche**
Your changing your story to support your new statements but that’s cool man, nobody else will notice cause nobody else cares. I never said you shouldn’t shred, I said you shouldn’t use it as a tool to pick up chicks cause in my opinion that’s the epitome of an on mountain douche ya know? You’re like, “that guy”. I actually am studying for my MBA at Harvard, good guess. Maybe you should pursue your psychic abilities. About the judgement you’re right, I’m sorry I just have no patience for people who lack common sense and I tend to tear em’ up for it, my bad. This whole tangent about looks and super models is beyond me, no f**king clue why you decided to bring that up. I may be a douche, but you’re an idiot, which is worse is a matter of opinion.
By the way that Johnny tsunami comment, priceless. Really, gave me a good long laugh.
**it’s better to never eat a cliff bar than eat one at the risk of turning into this f**king guy**
ooo gloves off eh chase? Ok lets say you are right. I am an idiot and your a judgmental prick. All an “idiot” really is-is someone who finds adventure in obscure and non traditional ways making their actions seem idiotic. Now lets dissect “judgmental douche”. A judgemental douche is just an asshole who isn’t smart enough to see that they’re just compensating for their own short-comings and/or to lazy to fix themselves. Despite your obvious self-deprecation you might be my favorite person on this site. You agreed with me on the flaws with the board above, you laughed at my johnny tsunami joke…i said i was here to make points and spread some humor.
Oh and if you dont think youre a hypocrite look at this:
Chase to Cliffbardropper:
I know your implying that the board limits your ability to shred therefore relaying the inability to “show off” for the girls, but that entire notion should really make you question why you snowboard dude. we get it, you think you’re good, no need to assert that unnecessarily into a comment, just makes you seem insecure to the rest of us who see through comments like that.
So shouldnt i write this back:
I know your implying that ‘being tired from studying’ was statement purposefully written for relaying your obvious superiority in the areas of responsibility a achievement, but that entire notion should really make you question why you wanted to share that on a snowboard site dude. we get it, you think you’re smart, mature no need to assert that unnecessarily into a comment, just makes you seem insecure to the rest of us who see through comments like that.
BTW , heads up dude…enjoy life now that party ends after college and you start having to prioritizing fast. oh and imitation is the sincerest form of flatery, i enjoyed that cliffbar comment.
“only god can judge me–Tupac” –Cliff B. Ardropper
Nah I was really just tired from studying and I couldn’t understand your question cause your an idiot. I love your presumptuous attitude though, I guess you had all your college and expenses paid by mommy and daddy. Oh and btw an idiot, is someone that’s stupid, like verbatim. Look it up if you don’t think so. Solid response though, you really dedicate time into these.
“Enter quote by someone cool from a perspective on life that I’ll never understand”
Looking forward to your response Cliff-tard
hmm wtb snowboarding much?
Any humor in you chase any whatsoever? The quote of a quote by Tupac by cliff B. Ardropper is a joke! not a quote to seem trendy. What does the funding of my college courses have to do with anything? Id explain how i paid for college but something tells me you don’t actually care, you’d rather make assumptions. Ill give it to you i take a couple minutes out of my day to write this thread back. Think about it though you’re really not criticizing me, you’re probably just mad that you’re in college and have nothing better to do on a Friday night than write some dude online you’ve never met. Kling is right. I dont mind arguing with you, i just wish it was about something snow related.
P.s. its not “your and idiot.” it is “you’re an idiot.” i wouldn’t bring it up as it is likely a simple blunder, but you might as well hold yourself to some sort of grammatical standard while telling someone they’re stupid. losing credibility chase.
To add more to this board (the original thread topic): i watched some other youtube vids on the board. those weird lumps under the board are for butters, which i guess worked that little Japanese guy was spinning around like a top. once again i see issues with this design in regards to boxes/rails.
Prioritizing is an everyday part of life for people who work and go to school, which leads me to believe that you stating “once college ends you have to prioritize fast” means you had no idea what that was like until school ended and forced you to wake up. Lol, you completely misidentify the definition of an idiot and I loose credibility cause I forgot to add a contraction to a word? My bad, YOU’RE still an idiot though. My small paragraphs definitely take up my entire night, good work detective. Oh, and I have a great sense of humor in me dude, you ever stop to think that maybe YOU’RE just not that funny?
I don’t know what WTB means but you’re probably right, our collective bad Kling
WTB: Want to bang.
Sick, makes more sense, thanks Angry
the best thing about snowboarding:
it bangs back!
True words kling!
Chase: what i meant was you seem stressed now, well in my experiences after college the job i got with that degree was far more demanding than working part time/ school full time. so you will have to prioritize for it. that’s it, nothing more nothing less. I would have totally understood missing that contraction if you were just a guy jotting something down on a snowboard website, but you’re not, for whatever reason you’ve had it out for me since my first post trying to attack credibility and intelligence. I get it, you’re frustrated and need someone to fight with. You’re out of your league though, i don’t even have to call you names to get you fired up. just me writing this pisses you off. And you’ll roll back here and attack my intelligence by name calling like “idiot” because you are simple and seemingly insecure. There is always hope maybe you’ll silence yourself and we wont have to bicker on a site meant for our enjoyment.
Exactly, you worked part time, how could you understand what prioritizing really meant. I attacked your need to be seen as a good snowboarder, you’re the one that brought up intelligence and credibility read your comments bruh. And your right I am outta my league, guess I’ll have to stop stooping down to your level. As far as you’re silence comment and the whole fired up deal, that’s truly ironic coming from you but of course you wouldn’t realize that. Oh yeah, you’re still an Idiot. Idiot. Hahaha
Your quotes say more than i could about you.
“And your right I am outta my league, guess I’ll have to stop stooping down to your level.”
“Oh yeah, you’re still an Idiot. Idiot. Hahaha”
oh boy i just cant wait till i mature to your level.
Yeah you’re right, white flag raised, you win. End post.
Chase, fuck off. Go home.
+1 up vote for Cliffbar
Came for the tech. Stayed for the internet ego jousting.
Golf clap for all involved! Except G13nSix who contributed nothing at all.