Forum Scheme - 2010
Summary:
The Forum Scheme is an all-mountain freestyle board with a soft torsional flex and a stiffer longitudinal flex. Too stiff longitudinally to be a jib board, too soft torsionally to be a snowboard for monster kicker lines and high speed carves, the Scheme has found it’s home in backcountry kicker riding where the strange flex pattern really works, offering easy and responsive carving in deeper snow and tons of pop.
Manufacturer's Description:
The joy of snowboarding.
Happy little tree runs. Happy little landings. Happy little slashes. This smiley ride is a throwback to before royalty checks, autograph sessions and the X Games when Saturday mornings were about sugar cereal, five channels and happy boarding. High-resolution landscapes from the private Bob Ross collection turn a blank canvas into a piece of rec room art, while easy cruising geometry keeps both powder hounds and park rats on cloud nine. Bob was the original DIY artist and this board is no happy little accident.
Year: 2010
Available Lengths (cm): 154, 156, 158, 162, 154W, 156W, 158W
Riding Style: All Mountain
Specifications:
Flex:5
Gnar Core (Lightweight Hunter Aspen with engineered grain direction)
Light Triax
Formula Sintered Base
Twin-like shape
Swinger’s Club (CNC profiled core)
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Review of Forum Scheme:
With the Afro clad Bob Ross plastered all over the Forum Scheme, providing you’re currently listening to Fleetwood Mac, Genesis or Abba on your iPod and you’re keen to rock flared trousers and a body warmer or corduroy sports jacket this winter then the Forum Scheme could be a nice touch to complete the look.
So, how does the Forum Scheme ride? Well, in all honesty I didn’t find it the liveliest or most exciting of boards to ride in the Park or on the Piste. The torsional flex of the board wasn’t responsive or stiff and the longitudinal flex (flex along the board) wasn’t soft. This makes for a very strange ride that isn’t particularly stable and isn’t particularly playful. Even on smaller icier kickers I could feel the landings through my feet but this feeling didn’t help on rails as the longitudinal flex limited the amount control I had. Surprisingly, the Scheme wasn’t as stable on an edge as I would have liked either; so understandably I began questioning what the point of this board was? Don’t get me wrong it’s not a bad board, in my opinion it just doesn’t stand out from the crowd.
In all honesty it’s not until you take the Scheme off-piste that you really understand the purpose of this board. It’s unbelievable fun to ride in powder; it sits perfectly on its tail and pop’s everywhere effortlessly. Kickers and cliff drops with powder landings are great fun due to the Scheme’s poppy characteristics and blend of flex. The weaker torsional flex means that initiating turns on powder is very easy and I found that the extra feeling in my feet really added to the floating sensation.
If you enjoy riding off-piste kickers and get to ride a fair amount of powder then the Scheme is definitely worth a look. If you’re mainly interested in the park or you’re an intermediate that sticks to the groomers then there are better rides on the market.
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