Signal Park Rocker - 2010

Quick
stats: Recommended for park riding.

Full time rail slayers and jib bonkers look no further. The Signal Park Rocker is perhaps the most forgiving and pliable snowboard ever built, the perfect toy for helping you to learn those technical tricks… but it is a toy and if you want to ride big tables and anything outside the confines of the park, the Park Rocker will struggle.

Manufacturer's Description:

Signal’s own Three-Stage Park Rocker was introduced as a late release in 2008. Its unique design offers the latest technology for more fluid control under a variety of shred circumstances, making even the most technical tricks feel effortlessly smooth.

You want this board! Stage One is continuous contact. This creates a level board through the bindings. It allows you to hold an edge without catching one. Stage One acts as a small board when you stand flat over this section. Stage Two rolls up ten degrees into Stage Three, the ‘flat spot’. Stage Two creates a pivot point when transferring from the level— or flat—area between the bindings and the ‘flat spot’ of Stage Three. Stage Two also acts as a secondary contact point when you are carving. These stages are engineered to give you more confidence when hitting rails and boxes. You will sit on presses like never before!

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Year: 2010

Available Lengths (cm):
148, 152, 154, 156, 158

Riding Style:
Freestyle/Park

Specifications:

PMU 4060 urethane topsheet
IS4400 extruded base
Biaxial glass
3 stage rocker
ABS sidewalls
Poplar wood core

SB-RV Review

Certainly the strangest snowboard I’ve ridden in 2009 so far. Jeremy from TSA warned me that the Park Rocker was soft, but nothing can prepare you for the slippery sponge that is the Signal Park Rocker. Knowing it was a soft board I took out the 158 which is the largest size the Park Rocker comes in, however with the enormous stance width it didn’t look big once I was strapped in. At the top of the run I leant over to do my bindings up and was immediately flat on my face. Once I’d adjusted my riding style so that I wasn’t placing too much weight over either end (you have to be riding with you’re weight 50/50 over the bindings), jibbing and bonking came so easily.

Through tight transitions the Park Rocker was right at home, and the soft ride meant that adjusting my weight through transitions and spins, and onto rails was telepathic. Pressing boxes and rails was simple thanks to the 3 stage rocker profile and buttering was a doddle although if you intend to butter around with any speed I’d suggest loosing a few pounds. About the piste, the Park Rocker was a bit of wet fish being pushed around by the heavier snow and washing out when carving at high speeds. There’s no point in preaching to the converted, if you’re looking at the Park Rocker Series then you know what the Pak Rocker offers; an unbelievably soft and forgiving flex perfect for riding rails, for slow speed pop, and accelerated trick learning on technical rails. Unfortunately the Park Rocker’s out and out, uncompromising dedication to Jib riding means it’s far to loose and soft to be ridden elsewhere on the mountain.

If you’re riding indoors, on a small local hill where it’s all about rails and jibs or taking it to the streets then look no further. If you’re going snowboarding on an actual mountain, probably best to look elsewhere.

Posted by Rich Ewbank in • Signal

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Nate on July 16, 2009 at 11:10 PM

Yeah, definitely a super soft ride. Luv pressing and styling the Park Rock on boxes and handrails, the bomb. I rally like riding it on jumps too but I usually take my Young Blood out for the bigger jumps and pipe. The best board on the planet for rails!