Last year the K2 Zero rocked the Snowboard-Review.com team’s little world. For 2011 K2 have replaced the camber with Flatline Technology. Team tester Ben checks out the Zero and shares his opinions.
Rich from snowboard-review.com spends a couple of hours testing the Cobra, young Polish brand Contract’s team choice for park and pipe shredding, and lets you in on his thoughts.
Snowboard Instructor and Snowboard-Review.com tester Ben Molloy rips up the Kaunertal Glacier on the very handsome Endeavor High 5 and talks about its features and the ride.
Snowboard-Review.com tester Mikee takes the 2011 K2 Turbo Dream on a buttering bonanza with the odd straight-line charge thrown-in and share’s hit thoughts on a snowboard which is fast gaining legendary status.
Snowboard instructor and Snowboard-Review.com team tester Ben, lays down the law on the 2011 K2 Parkstar and gives feedback on K2’s hugely popular freestyle snowboard.
Not happy with the welding and general craftmanship going into the Kaunertal Snowboard Park picnic benches, jib guru and team tester Mikee C attacks said furniture with the 2011 Ride DH and spills the beans on Ride’s seasoned veteran of park shredding.
The all new Burton T7 (replacement for the infamous T6) takes Tom for a ride, powers him through some chin scraping carves and delivers him at the bottom of the mountain in one piece, after which Tom shares his harrowing experiences.
Rich takes K2’s most exciting snowboard release for years the Fastplant through the park, off some booters, on boxes and rips-it-up on the groomers. With its all new skateboard style bamboo core (K2 call it the Bambooyah core) this board is set to blow minds in 2011.
Snowboard-Review.com’s hired help and supreme jib and rail ninja Mikee C takes the all new rockered DC PBJ for a shred, runs through the features and compares it to last years PBJ.
Snowboard-Review.com editor Rich takes the much anticipated 2011 Burton Custom Flying V for a few runs on Kaunertals groomers, explains the revolutionary Flying V profile and gives his thoughts on the latest incarnation of the legendary Custom.
Rich takes out the 2011 Atomic Hatchet with freestyle Pop Rocker for a spin around Kaunertal and shares his thoughts. The Hatchet even manages to deal with a half backflip!
Tom from Snowboard-Review.com takes the redesigned Rossignol Decoy for a shred on Kaunertal Glacier and shares his thoughts on the Rossi Decoy’s new Freestyle AmpTek profile.
Resident jib lunatic Mikee C takes the totally redesigned 2011 Rossignol JDub through the park and all over the mountain, jibbing everthing in-sight and gives his opinion on Rossi’s hard charging JDub and the all new MagTek profile.
Tom takes the 2011 Bataleon Goliath for a few laps through the Kaunertal Glacier snowboard park and down some groomers and shares his thoughts.
Tom takes K2’s Slayblade out for a spin in 12 inches of fresh snow, and gives us the skinny on whether the Zeppelin’s replacement still cuts it in 2011.
Wanna see what the Pro’s are rocking in 2011? Snowboard Review recently headed down to an FBBB progression session at the UK’s Hemel SnowCentre to chat to a few UK pro’s (Nathan Onions, Sparrow Knox and Lon Canu) about what boards they’ll be riding during the coming season.
The Snowboard-Review.com crew take thirteen of 2011’s most hotly anticipated jib decks for a spin and decide which board is the best board for jibbing, the winner is crowned ‘The King of Jib 2011’.