Amplid Paradigma - 2012
Last February was my first chance to ride a Paradigma. I’d heard that it was a pretty firm and lightweight snowboard for charging groomers and hitting big transitions. Getting on the Paradigma I experienced all those characteristics, but it also felt really manageable and even though I was riding a 159, it felt lightweight and agile. It popped nicely into switch, buttered and felt effortless in the air. As far as all-mountain snowboards go the Paradigma really covers the spectrum of what you’re likely to encounter on the mountain. Amplid call the Paradigma their Swiss Army Knife… it’s a pretty good analogy.
Manufacturer's Description:
In case there will ever be a ““kill-it-all”” contest for boardshapes, our PARADIGMA will for sure be ending up “intergalactic champion”. This reincarnation of the 3P - park, piste, powder - is simply the best one-for-all tool. The directional shape provides perfect nose floatation on deep days. For the 2011/12 version we replaced the camber with our flatliner for easier pow and buttersessions, while the gnarly pop in the tail still remains.
Again: the one for all. And therefore 10 points on the awesomeness scale !
Recommended for park riding.
Recommended for halfpipe riding.
Recommended for freeride riding.
High cost $
Zero Camber Construction.
Directional Shape.
Year: 2012
Available Lengths (cm):
153, 156, 159, 163
Riding Style: All Mountain
Specifications:
P10 Superlight Wood Core
Sintered Base
P.L.T Gloss UV Coating
Magma Edge Shock Absorber
360° Wrap Around Steel Edge
Fly Tips
Doomsday Camber
Glassfiber Light Biax
MC Bezier Spline Sidecut
22° Slanted Abs Sidewalls
Sintruded 6.6 H.M. Base
Shred Ready
Similar boards: Nitro Blacklight Gullwing - 2012 Burton Custom - 2012 Imperium DJVII - 2012 Rome Anthem - 2012
Snowboard Review:
Watch the 2012 Amplid Paradigma Video Snowboard Review
From my first turn I got on with Paradigma. Over the years the Paradigma has evolved into a very refined package, its latest tweak being a mellower Flatliner zero camber profile. I’ve ridden both the 10/11 cambered and 11/12 Flatliner versions of the Paradigma and although I love the cambered 10/11 version the move to Flatliner is positive. On the one hand the revised Paradigma feels extremely light, precise and lively, on the other it’s forgiving and more versatile than it ever has been. On choppier snow the Flatliner profile skips across the surface, buttering into switch and popping small spins off the side of the slope the Paradigma is less effort than you’d expect from a directional 159. Point some bumps or lock into a hard carve and like previous cambered models the board is cool, calm and collected. Watching the way Peter rides you can tell he’s not a man willing to make too many compromises to how well the Paradigma rails a carve, with his background in racing, feeling that kick from the board’s flex on exiting carves is obviously a design necessity and it shows, feedback from turns is still on the money.
Little else has changed from last year’s board; despite the move to zero camber the shape is identical which should raise a sigh of relief from long-standing Paradigma fans. If there’s one thing that has always be right about the Paradigma it is its slender waist, directional ever so slightly set-back shape and smooth, verging on mellow sidecut. Short to Long radius carves melt together and edge-to-edge response is synaptic. Riding switch the Paradigma is also extremely capable. This year the Paradigma keeps its 6600 Sintruded base, I haven’t worked out what the Sintruding process involves (if there even is one) but I can safely say that the Paradigma ran equally as nicely on the hard mid-winter snow at the top of the mountain as it did on the slightly slushy man made white-stuff at the bottom. The build quality is fantastic as you’d expect, coming from Austria’s Elan factory and the little touches like the holographic inlay, two-tone sidewalls and Germanic Bauhaus styled graphics ooze as much class as Peter’s pimped-out Audi. The fact that I hope to be riding a 159 Paradigma next season says it all, I really loved it.
Posted by Rich Ewbank in • Amplid
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