Burton SE7EN - 2010

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Tom on July 16, 2011 at 12:14 PM

I rode the 2010 Seven in Chamonix last sesason. I rode the 158cm, here are my thoughts:

The Seven is (to me anyway) a thing of beauty! With its ellipitcal blunted tip & tail, dark moody topsheet (featuring a of a Moog synthesiser) and piano-key base graphic, you get admiring glances and comments like ‘nice board man’ where ever you go. But enough of the aesthetics, how does it ride?

I bought the Seven to use primarily as a park stick and to progress my kicker riding, stepping up to larger booters. I must say for this purpose it didn’t disappoint.

The Seven has regular camber with a ‘Park Scoop’ (we’ll come to that in a minute). Having ridden a reverse-camber board last season, one of the things that really bothered me was how it would ‘wash out’ on off-center landings, but also the lack of pop. The Seven had no such problems, stomping landings cleanly and confidently as you would expect from a camber board. It has a true twin shape/flex so riding switch feels exactly the same. The board features Burton’s ‘Lightspeed Vision’ base (stupid name) which is basically an extruded base. Despite this, I didn’t experience any speed issues.

The camber shape, triax glass and the ‘positive core profile’ (thicker between the bindings, thinner out towards the nose and tail) meant that the Seven has plenty of life in it and decent ‘pop’ when you need it. It is solid and reasurring underfoot when straight lining it towards that massive booter. It is stable on take-off and so easy to initiate spins.

It doesn’t have any carbon I-beams or anything etc so its not as explosive off the lip as other higher-end Burton boards like the Custom, but as a park board you wouldn’t want it that stiff anyway (if your hitiing rails too). To me, the Seven has that perfect ‘mid-flex’, not too stiff, not too soft, perfect for all areas of the park.

As mentioned before, the Seven features the ‘Park Scoop’. This is basically a very subtle concave in the nose and tail area (like a spoon) which very gently lifts the contact points of the snow. When you look at the base, it’s almost impossible to see. I was intially sceptical but all I can say is that it definately works! Seriously, for a camber board the Seven is ridiculously forgiving. This gives you loads of confidence when going for that extra 180 when trying to nail that 540, landing slightly off-center the Seven will not kick your ass!

On Rails & Jibs, the Seven locks in really nicely (despite being quite a solid board) on boardslides. Featuring a ‘Rail Ready Tune’ means that you can hit all manner of boxes and rails with confidence. The Seven doesn’t hook-up at all (maybe the ‘Park Scoop’ helps out here). Having a Mid-wide shape and large nose/tail area it isn’t as manoeuvrable as a pure jib stick, but who cares when you can hit big jumps all day too!?

All good so far, what about the bad? Well, the Seven is marketed as a Park board so you wouldn’t expect it to be all things to all men. Despite the triax glass and camber profile, outside the park the seven has its limitations. The main problem for me was edge hold, or lack of it when hooning down the piste or making technical carved turns. Maybe it was the ‘rail ready tune’ or pure twin shape, but the Seven just doesn’t grip like my all-mountain board. For this reason I wouldn’t have thought it would be particularly suitable for pipe riding (although to be fair I didn’t get the chance to ride it in the pipe).

I did get a chance to ride the Seven in powder a few days. Obviously being a true twin it has its limitations. However, because of the wide nose and tail area, mid-wide width and ‘spoon’ nose/tail, the Seven performed suprisingly well in the deeo stuff! If you set your bindings back you can easily ride all quite comfortably. How many other ‘park’ boards can you say about?

In summary, I would say that the Seven is the perfect mid-wide ‘slopestyle’ board for the intermediate-advanced park rider who wants to hit both rails and the bigger jumps. The Seven will definately help you progress your kicker skills. It’s not a pure focused ‘jib-stick’ so if you just wanna hit rails/street look elsewhere. Outside the park the board is versatile enough to perform adequately on piste and in the pow, although the edge hold isn’t the best in the world. However, as a ‘park’ board you wouldn’t expect it to. As a park board, it does exactly what it says on the tin!

Pros & Cons Summary:

Pros: -Liveliness of camber but still forgiving. -Solid and stable off big kickers. -Easy to spin. -Solid on landings -Smooth on rails -Suprisingly good (for a park board) in powder.

Cons: -Below average edge grip/carving on piste and ice. -Not as manoueverable as a pure jib/street board -Extruded Base

Tom on July 16, 2011 at 12:21 PM

PS sorry for the typo/spelling mistakes!