K2 Snowboard Reviews

The K2 Lifelike is the Slayblade for snowboarders that acknowledge that they aren’t going to be the next Eero Nimela. If you’re an intermediate to advanced snowboarder that rides less than a month a season you’re certain to have tons more fun with on the Lifelike than you’d have battling with the Slayblade.

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The K2 Happy Hour is the replacement for the aging Believer. Fashioned in the Dark north by Snowboarding Troll Danny Larson, when this twin, zero camber board isn’t thrashing the park and throwing Danny into all manner of handplants it’s a great weapon for stabbing unsuspecting skiers, snow BMXers and those stupid Snow Tubing rings. Go forth and puncture!

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The replacement for the Zeppelin may have surpassed its predecessor’s legend. The K2 Slayblade is a firm flexing setback twin that will aggressively attack every terrain you ride. Now with bamboo in the core and Carbon Web around the tips the Slayblade’s pop is more ferocious than ever.

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In 1956 at the height of the Cold War, hidden in top secret military labs miles from civilisation in the uninhabitable tundra of Siberia, Russian scientists developed a machine that was capable of launching a single human being into the stratosphere. Recently K2 was able to get hold of this devise and in 2011 is releasing it onto the unknowing public. They call this machine the Protohype, an untameable snow sliding and flying devise that will scare the life out of anyone good enough to ride and kill those that aren’t.

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The World Wide Weapon returns with same incredibly soft rockered profile and cut-down shape that has made it a household name. This year the WWW gets over-size blunted tips so you can use it shovel snow off the steps at your favourite handrailÖ I can’t imagine there’s any other use for them.

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Last year the Fastplant surprised us with its versatility and with how much fun it was to ride. This year the Bambooyah cored park entertainer gets K2’s all new Ollie Par for even more pop. A strangely damp and controlled snowboard that pops huge!

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K2 has hit the snow touring with the all new Panoramic. K2 wanted to stick to their riding principle and steer clear of the hippy soul surfer image so the created a splitty with All Terrain rocker and a very slightly directional shape that will allow riders to enjoy freeride and freestyle snowboarding in the backcountry. The Panoramic also features K2’s Bambooyah core for extra life and pop.

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Girls want to ride as much as the boys these days, the Kandi is K2 throwing a bone to the next generation.

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With a directional shape, Catch Free Rocker and soft flex the K2 Moment is designed for absolute beginners or people who are struggling to master the basics. The Moment is a great example of a functional, inexpensive and basic snowboard.

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The K2 Lunatique is a popular snowboard with beginner and intermediate female snowboarders looking to get the most out of their money. With its soft biaxial glass laminates and forgiving, easy to ride reverse camber profile the Lunatique ticks all of the right boxes when it comes to a first time buyer’s check list.

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For women who get off the chairlift in any conditions and head straight to the park, rain or shine the K2 Va Va Voom is a prudent choice. With its Jib Rocker profile, twin shape, soft biax glass and three degree park it’s as park focused as you are.

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If you’re after a good time then the Fling is worth a whirl. Designed for lapping the Terrain Park and general cruising, the twin shape is perfect for those that want to push their switch riding and the zero camber profile makes the Fling catch free and extremely press-able on the groomers and park jibs. Carbon Web keeps pop in the nose and tail for getting airborne.

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The K2 Eco Pop is a very slightly setback, directional twin shaped snowboard with an All-Mountain Rocker profile and Harshmellow dampening designed to provide intermediate to advanced female snowboarders with a versatile board that will charge down varying terrain and snow conditions. Essentially the K2 Turbo Dream for the fairer sex.

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Leanne Pelosi’s new board is a Wolf in Sheep’s clothing. The suave black topsheet and fluro sintered base hide a construction loaded with high spec materials. There’s the new carbon Ollie Bar and the Bambooyah Blend core for snappiness, Hybrilight construction and Honeykomb to keep the weight down and Flatline camber and a directional twin shape for all terrain and conditions versatility.

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Before you prized Burton Vapour gets vandalized on a makeshift box in your backyard by your over eager 13 year old son, get down to your local board shop and pick up a K2 Vandal .With its Jib Rocker profile and soft and buttery biaxial glass it’s the perfect board for kids to learn the ropes on and progress into the park with.

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For newcomers to the sport there’s one characteristic a snowboard should offer them. It has to be easy to ride and forgiving. With Catch Free Rocker, a 3 degree edge bevel and soft and forgiving biaxial fibreglass the Brigade fits the bill. You’re 60%* more likely to catch Bird Flu than an edge on the K2 Brigade. *note: 99% of Snowboard-Review statistics are fabricated on the spot.

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The Playback is K2’s new budget conscious twin freestyle deck. With Flatline zero camber, a twin shape, an easy to maintain extruded base and a 3 degree park edge bevel the Playback is the perfect board for your first tentative steps in the park.

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A popular choice for beginner and intermediate snowboarders, the K2 Raygun has all the features and board shape you’ll need for cruising the park, slashing the pow and charging the groomers.

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Parkstar by name park star by nature. The K2 Parkstar is the perfect snowboard for everyone from beginner to pro who likes an easy flexing freestyle snowboard with a responsive sidecut and a stable but playful Jib Rocker profile that doesn’t wash out on tail heavy landings or feel sketchy on rock hard pistes.

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The Turbo Dream is K2’s original all-mountain, ride everything Snowboard. You’ll find freeride pros picking their way down sheer Alaskan spines on the TD, you’ll watch movies of Wille Yli-Luoma sticking huge spins into choppy backcountry landings and in every snowboard park on the planet you will spot kids taking their Turbo Dreams to rails and boxes.

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Arguably the snowboard that brought reverse camber back into snowboard design. The Gyrator is K2’s specialist deep day’s powder mower. It has an incredibly banana-ed rocker and setback shape which should have you floating when everybody else is sinking.

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Bamboo is the future! Once again K2 have taken a technology that’s been around for years, made it better and then put tons of money behind marketing. The Fastplant’s new Bambooyah core helps to create a snowboard that is easy to ride, full of energy and pop and most importantly, more fun than Disneyland to ride. The Bambooyah core is no gimmick it’s the future of freestyle snowboarding.

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The Slayblade is a classic all mountain freestyle snowboard designed for advanced riders who want to charge big jumps and pipe walls. Not a lot of change from the 2010 Slayblade, 2011’s model gets sneakily upgraded to a Zero sintered base, so you won’t have to worry about hitting any kicker knuckles. Will the Slayblade ever fill the void left by the Zepplin? Sure, it is already a classic.

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The snowboard that has been haunting many a snowboarder’s dreams. With a more exaggerated rocker than most, how on earth does the Turbo Dream carve with the best of them and pop like a seagull with a penchant for Alka-Seltzer? The 2011 Turbo Dream is another K2 snowboard that meets the needs of snowboarders of any level, this board is best suited to riders who like to hit transitions all over the mountain, pisted or powder.

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A fairly significant change to the Zero has been the swap from a cambered profile to zero camber aka K2’s Flatline technology. Lighter than most and a smoother ride than P. Diddy’s Cadillac, the Zero is minimalist snowboarding at its best. Designed to be ridden aggressively but accessible to snowboarders of all levels. 

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Back by popular demand, the K2 Parkstar hits 2011 for another year of Park riding domination. K2’s Jib Rocker profile combined with a progressive sidecut makes the Parkstar, loose and responsive, perfect for last minute adjustments on run-ins. The Parkstar is also ridiculously forgiving so don’t worry about getting those rotations perfect, concentrate on doing bigger spins instead!

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New to the K2 brotherhood the Raygun is set to stun. Snowboarders looking for an affordable snowboard to ride every type of terrain have a lot of choice in 2011 but the Raygun looks like it might be a quality choice. The Raygun is a surprise budget performer for all mountain cruising. 

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With all of K2’s technological developments and the huge number of new boards joining its already bulging line-up, it’s easy to overlook the Believer. Don’t, the Believer is a quality freestyle snowboard that performs all over the mountain. Tom our head of testing has spent the last 12 months riding everything from the powder laden trees of Argentina to the icy mid winter groomers and moguls of Verbier in Switzerland, evidence that the Believer can do it all.

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If you’re a dedicated Darkstar fan like our team tester Ben you might be a little disappointed by K2’s decision to use zero camber instead of camber in the 2011 incarnation of last year’s Good Wood winner. What the Darkstar loses in pop, grip and power it gains in forgiveness. More Parkstar than it has ever been.

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Like a nuclear submarine or a Stealth Bomber, the K2 World Wide Weapon is designed with total urban destruction in mind. Take this soft and forgiving rail slayer to the park or your favourite ledge and wall-ride setup; with Jib Rocker, plain biaxial glass and K2’s JibTip shape (maximum effective edge for minimum board length) you’ll be dropping steezed out style bombs all day long.

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Freestyle snowboarding doesn’t have to cost a months wage cheque, not when K2 are releasing budget freestyle rides like the Anagram. Twin shape, progressive sidecut and Catch Free Rocker; everything you need for boosting your freestyle skills without blasting your bank balance.

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With All Terrain Rocker, a setback twin shape, Harshmellow dampening and Carbon torsion rods, you’d be excused for thinking that you’d picked up the K2 Turbo Dream, but you’d be wrong. This is the Eco Pop and it is K2’s all mountain shred machine designed exclusively for women snowboarders who like to ride everything that the mountain has to offer without limits.

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Gretchen’s pro model is the only board in the K2 line-up that has camber. That’s because Gretchen spends most of her time firing herself out of icy pipe walls, where the grip that camber offers can make the difference between a podium finish or placing further down the pecking order. If you like pipe and riding hard and fast and the star spangled banner base floats your boat then the GB Pop is a winner.

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I guess you could call the Fling the woman’s version of the Believer. A medium flex, 4000 grade sintered base, Flatliner zero camber profile and carbon torsion forks should keep even the most capable riders satisfied. You’ll be sure to be wanting a long term relationship with the K2 Fling.

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Don’t let the Gyrators name give you the wrong impression, this board is all about smooth riding. K2’s exaggerated Powder Rocker provides tons of float, a directional shape gives all of the tools you need for laying down chin dragging pow carves and Harshmellow dampening to take the bumps out of riding on harder days. 

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Beginners have a new snowboard to turn to for an instant skills boost. If you’re getting to grips with snowboarding but bored of catching an edge on your cambered hire board, the soft flexing Brigade with Catch Free Rocker is everything you need to improve your riding minus the pain.

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With zee new Nikita artwork, zee jib rocker profile and zee JipTip construction, zis board is parfait for a little cheeky jibbing. K2’s latest female jib specific snowboard has zee, how do you say, Va-va-voom.

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The next step up from the Moment. All terrain rocker, biaxial glass, the specially designed rythem core and Extruded 2000 base provide a board that’s as easy to learn new tricks and butters on as it is to maintain. Don’t be a Lunatique, buy one.

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Every design decision that was made when the engineers at K2 started sketching ideas for the Moment screams ‘learning’. The Catch Free Rocker and biaxial glass will help even the most cautious learner to master turning and start the journey towards signing that first pro deal.

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Good Wood Overall winner!! Voted the overall winner for Men’s premium snowboards in Transworld Snowboarding’s Annual Good Wood test, The K2 team continues to be the sole driving force of the believer, the perfect snowboard for taking tricks from the park into the backcountry.

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Stop playin’ start slayin’. Slay everything that gets in your path with wicked power. It’s like a switchblade on the snow. An impressive all-mountain snowboard suitable for anybody at an intermediate level and up. The K2 Zeppelin lives on!

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Combining the ultimate powder riding experience with freestyle perfection, the Turbo Dream with All Terrain Rocker is the latest and greatest all terrain machine. It’s no wonder that pro riders from other brands were asking us if they could get one.

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The weapon of the future is here. If you crushed it on your WWW for the past few years, the Jibpan is the next step in park dominance. Super buttery and soft, the K2 Jib Pan is the ultimate high spec noodle for jib gurus.

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Everything you loved about the Darkstar get’s rockered for the ultimate versatile high performance freestyle board. An extremely easy to ride, but progressive snowboard that encourages buttery spins and offers forgiving landings… snowboarding made easy.

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Zero Doubts! K2 claims the Zero is the lightest most technologically advanced deck ever built. Featuring ‘Earth Conscious’ construction you can be sure you’re riding the best K2 has to offer and helping to minimise the effects of sport on the environment. On the riding front, the Zero is undoubtedly one of the most refined rides on the planet, a medium/firm flex, damp underfoot in all snow conditions, lively in and out of carves, stable off jumps and effortless in the air… there aren’t many boards that deliver such quality.

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Rock out with your weapon out!!! Jib tested, rider approved, and validated by smiles around the globe in parks everywhere, the rocked out K2 WWW is the perfect jib board. The WWW Rocker’s shortened nose & tail mean that the effective edge has been increased. Essentially you can ride a 152 and have the same edge contact as a standard 157… very clever indeed.

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The true twin-tip and medium flex of the Darkstar offers immense POP, torsional responsiveness, and freestyle mastery for the rider looking for the premium freestyle shred.

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All time, all terrain performance. The best board for the buck anywhere, the K2 Podium is best in class combining superb technology and all terrain performance and versatility for any rider. A shinning light in the mid-priced board category featuring a great materials spec and a versatile shape that will take you all over the mountain.

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Never a day too deep! The K2 Gyrator is for those days when nothing should get in your way. Wake up, forget work, forget breakfast, forget it all…hey might as well forget the leg burn or leaning back too. Leave it all behind and just enjoy.

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