Burton Whammy Bar - 2012
The Whammy Bar is Burton’s jib and rail thoroughbred. Everything about it is designed to make rail tricks and jibs easier, or shall we say less risky. The tips are slightly scooped (bowled) to keep them from catching on the snow when you’re buttering and the middle of the board is scooped to prevent rail hook-ups. The Whammy Bar is V-Rockered to improve slow speed pop, help exaggerate those presses and make under-rotated landings butter through clean. Then there’s the torsionally soft biaxial glass and rail ready tune that will guarantee you safe passage through all kinds of kinks should all of the above fail. You get the picture; this board is for serious jibbers who don’t like slams.
Manufacturer's Description:
The award-winning Whammy Bar is, unfortunately, not a snowboard trick, but actually a snowboard. If it was a trick, however, it would probably be the equivalent of a triple cork down a double kink. With the extra-pressable and bite-free powers of V-Rocker™, Mid Spoon, Scoop tips, and Rail Ready™ edgesóit’s pretty much impossible to catch an edge on. Might as well just send in that sponsor tape now.
Recommended for park riding.
Recommended for rail riding.
Medium cost $
Available in MidWide.
Rocker Construction.
Twin Shape.
Year: 2012
Available Lengths (cm):
150mW, 153mW, 155mW, 157mW
Riding Style: Freestyle/Park
Specifications:
Hi-Speed Quad Package
The Channel
BEND: V-Rocker
SHAPE: Twin
FLEX: Twin
CORE: Super Fly® with Dualzone™ EGD™
FIBERGLASS: Dual Density Biax™
BASE: Sintered
SIDEWALLS: 10:45™
EXTRAS: Mid Spoon, Scoop, Rail Ready Edge Tune, Ellip Kicks, Pro-Tip™, and Infinite Ride™
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on April 24, 2012 at 10:52 AM
I’m 180cm tall, 80kg, Size 10uk.
155 board with Malavita EST
I bought the 2010/11 board stupidly cheap from ebay and took it away last weekend for the first time, it’s the same board as this season.
It’s brilliant fun in soft snow and slush, really playful, presses and butters really well. In good conditions its a fun board on the piste as well as in the park. Burton’s description of it being catch free is absolutely true. In the park the scoop tips and mid spoon work just as they should. I’m pretty new to snowboarding compared to most so as a learned the catch free ride is great for learning (I feel) And gives you confidence you’re not going to land on your face (or at least you wont be blaming the board for it :).
We got a foot of fresh powder on the last day and it can ride this pretty well, obviously as its a short twin it’s not that fast in deep snow but it does float well enough for a bit of powder fun! When I stopped carving and just pointed straight down hill it got good speed up, felt steady and floated over any chop well.
The concern I had over this board when I got it is how it would handle on hardpack & icy conditions with all those upturned edges. On hard snow it takes a small adjustment in riding style in that you need to go hard on your front foot to get an edge but it does work and wasn’t unstable. On ice you’ve got nothing and I really mean nothing in terms of grip for steering. Tail turns and digging in hard are what will get you down and thats no fun.
I found the Whammy Bar does what it’s designed for and does it very well indeed, If you don’t spend any more than 20% of your time outside of Jibs & Rail riding then I reckon you will like it a lot. It’s a bit to specific for a single board otherwise though. I only paid £140 for it so I’m keeping it for my local indoor slope during the summer where I now know it will be great, but will be investing in an all mountain board come next season.