Burton 2014 Snowboard Reviews

The Burton Process Flying V X is a board for a new kind of freestyle experience. The Squeezebox technology comes in and focuses energy to the nose and tail making for a more responsive and powerful pop. Along side the, the Carbon I-Beam reduces overall board weight and creates a reliable, smooth pop throughout the life of the board. A Flying-V camber makes for a stable ride at high speeds with camber directly under foot, and with rocker in the nose and tail, this board is soft and playful and has great float in the powder.

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The X9FV is a great board for ripping around anywhere on the mountain at high speeds. It is equipped with Flying-V rocker which gives it great control and pop cruising through the park, or ripping the backcountry with camber directly under the feet and putting rocker in the nose and tail makes for a super soft, and playful board in the park, or a poppy float machine in the powder. The 45 degree Carbon Highlights reduces overall board weight and adds a very consistent and smooth, responsive pop throughout the life of the board. Frostbite Edges make for a grip in the snow, even on the most bullet prod of days.

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This board is designed to help jumpstart the beginning girls riding skills, fast and efficiently. This is the most forgiving girl’s board we make. The extruded base makes for an easy, catch free ride by raising the edge of the perimeter of the board off the snow. The Flat Top with Easy rider makes for the softest flex available and gives a solid edge in the snow for control and making for turning and stopping to be very simple and beginner friendly. A twin shape and twin flex makes for the Chicklet to give the rider an identical feel on the board riding switch, as it doe regular.

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The Riglet Board is great for teaching children the basics on an “anywhere” you want system. From the snow, to the grass and even the carpet around you house, this board with no edges and allows you to tow them on almost any surface. EVA footpads are soft and grippy. If the little one feels ready enough for bindings, Inserts make it easy to put bindings on and allow the youngster to be attached. A Flat Top makes for a flexible, playful board to get used to riding.

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The After School Special makes learning snowboarding as easy as riding a bicycle with training wheels. This board is super soft making it very easy to maneuver. It is similar to a saucer in the way that the base is extruded which raises all of the steels edges of the perimeter of the board off the snow, making for a simple, catch free ride. This also promotes balance and board control. The After School Special is the board to jump on, and start riding from the start.

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The Chopper Star Wars editions comes with the limited Star Wars graphic. It is for beginners that want to get out there, and snowboard. This board is designed to be an easy, worry free ride. The Flat Top makes for a great, stable ride, with a soft flex that makes the board very loose and forgiving. It has the softest flex possible to make maneuverability a breeze. The extruded base raises the edges of the perimeter of the board off the snow, making for a simple, catch free ride down the hill. The Chopper is equipped to fit the Riglet accessory on sizes 100-120 for towing around the youngster until he’s ready for binding.

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The Chopper is for beginners that want to get out there, and snowboard. This board is designed to be an easy, worry free ride. The Flat Top makes for a great, stable ride, with a soft flex that makes the board very loose and forgiving. It has the softest flex possible to make maneuverability a breeze. The extruded base raises the edges of the perimeter of the board off the snow, making for a simple, catch free ride down the hill. The Chopper is equipped to fit the Riglet accessory on sizes 100-120 for towing around the youngster until he’s ready for binding.

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The Super Hero Smalls is a great board in the park. It comes with a Flat Top to give it good edging control and stability at high speeds, and the softer flex for a more playful and very forgiving feel in the park. The extruded base makes for a weapon against catching edges by lifting the edge of the entire perimeter of the board off the snow. A twin shape and twin flex makes for an exact feeling on top of the snowboard riding switch, as you do when you ride regular. The Super Hero Smalls is designed to help the riders progress their skills and help push their limits to the next.

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The Shaun White Smalls is a great board, to take the progressing groms to the next level. This board is the downsized version of what the man himself rides. It comes with V-Rocker, which makes a for a stable ride at high speeds with excellent pop, and the flex of rocker on the nose and tail which gives it great float in the powder and makes for effortless pressing on the jibs in the park. An extruded base raises the edges around the perimeter of the board off the snow, which helps prevent against catching edges on the snow and rails.

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The Custom Smalls is a great all around board for the small shreds out there. It gives a great ride through the park and all the way across the board, to the powder. The Flying-V camber makes for a solid, great at high speed control with camber under foot, and the rocker nose and tail make for an effortless floatation device on those unexplainably “you had to be there” deep powder days. The extruded base raises the edge of the perimeter of the board off the snow, making for a great defense against preventing catching edge. Twin shape and flex make for the Custom Smalls to give a rider the same feel on the board riding switch, as it does regular.

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The Pro-Test is designed for the hard charging groms out there, looking for a harder charging board. The new Filet-O-Flex technology helps give a soft, playful flex. It is equipped with regular camber, which gives it great control at high speeds, and ensures to give you maximum response and pop ability. Twin shape and flex gives a great, equal feeling whichever direction you are pointing downhill. This is the first children’s board with The Channel for a faster, easier way to set up your stance, and get you out the door.

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The Feelgood is backed by two of the most aggressive charging ladies in the game, Kelly Clark and Hannah Teter. It is made to charge throughout the entire mountain, and give you complete control. The Feelgood is one of the lightest boards on the women’s market, making it extremely maneuverable. Carbon highlights reduces the boards overall finished weight, and gives the board a very responsive and consistent pop throughout the life of the board. The Frostbite edges giving you grip on the iciest days in the park. It comes with the option of either regular camber for ultimate control and pop, or The Flying-V camber allows it to have a fun, playful feel. The Feelgood is designed to help women push their sport to the limit.

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The Genie is made to be Burton’s easiest women’s board out there. The Flat Top with Easy Rider makes for a soft, playful flex, still containing a great pop.  The extruded base will provide you with help against catching edge by raising the perimeter edge slightly off the snow. A twin shape and flex with help ensure that you have the same opportunity to advance your switch abilities as you do riding regular. For the riders out there trying to progress their beginning abilities, the Genie makes learning a breeze.

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The Feather will allow is a very easy board for riding the entire mountain. The Extruded base helps prevent against edge catch by raising the edge ever so slightly off the snow around the perimeter of the board. The Feather is loaded with V-Rocker, giving you ultimate control and pop with camber directly under foot, and a loose playful ride with rocker in the tip and tail. This also creates a great float in the powder for effortless powder slashing. Tapered shaped allows the board to naturally raise the noise up in these deep conditions. Twin Flex allows for great edge to edge control, even while riding switch. The will help save energy and progress your riding to the next level.

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The Social is an all around shredding machine. Whatever terrain you are trying to ride, it will handle the task. Powder shred with ease due to the V-Rocker giving you ultimate float and play and jump off everything in your path. The twin shape and flex makes sure that you have the same feel on the ground riding switch as you do regular. The Overbite Frostbite edges are made to grip the snow even when it feels like an ice area out there. The Social makes for a fun, playful freestyle type ripping machine.

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The Lyric is for the women out there starting to progress their skills throughout the mountain. The Flat Top gives you an excellent pop and edge control, but gives you a soft, playful flex for those buttery tricks in the park. A twin shape and twin flex gives you the ultimate ability to advance your switch riding skills wherever you are riding. The Frostbite Edges gives you a solid edge grip in any condition that you may run into on the hill. The lyric is a great board to go out and explore every challenge you find yourself at.

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The Burton Nugget is a great board throughout the park and powder. It is a big board in a small package, allowing you to downsize your board up to 10cm with the new Raduction technology without loosing overall board performance of your preference. The Flat Top gives you great edge control and pop, while the slight rocker in the nose and tail allows for a playful, fun feel on the hard pack, and an easier day of floating in the powder. The Frostbite edges gives you solid control and edging throughout those bulletproof days on the hill. The Nugget helps you trim size, and push progression of your riding.

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The Sweet-Tooth can handle any terrain that you want to take it to. From the park to the top of the hill, this deck rips. The Flat Top design gives you ultimate edge control under your feet, going to rocker on the nose and tail, giving it a very loose, playful feel on the hard pack. If you are looking to downsize your board, but not sure that it will be able to keep up with you, have no fear, with this year’s Raduction, you can be worry free to downsize u to 5cm shorter then your preferred size, without loss in overall board performance. The Sweet Tooth is a great board for pushing your skills to the next level all over the mountain.

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The Lip-Stick is designed to shred everywhere on the mountain, on any day, in any condition. It is equipped with a Flat Top to give you great stability and control, and extra rocker on the nose and tail to create a looser, more playful feel on the hard pack. With the twin shape and twin flex, this board makes it easier to transition into learning switch tricks and gives you the ultimate control and maneuverability throughout any situation you get yourself into. Frostbite edges gives you the ability to grip the snow in those drought driven days of bullet-proof ice. The Lip-Stick holds the great prestige of the 2013 Transworld Good Wood Award.

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The Deja Vu Flying V is for the women out there that are taking their park skills, into the backcountry. This board rips all over the mountain. The Flying-V camber gives you the camber under your feet for ultimate pop and high speed edge control, and the rocker throughout the rest for a soft, playful feel on the hard pack, and the ability for easier float in the powder. Frostbite edges help grip throughout the iciest conditions anywhere on the hill. The Deja Vu will help you push yourself in more difficult terrain.

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The Feelgood is backed by two of the most aggressive charging ladies in the game, Kelly Clark and Hannah Teter. It is made to charge throughout the entire mountain, and give you complete control. The Burton Feelgood is one of the lightest boards on the women’s market, making it extremely maneuverable and controlable in the air. Carbon Highlights reduce the board’s weight and give the board a very responsive and consistent pop throughout the life of the board. Frostbite edges improve grip on icy days, whether cruising groomers or launching backside airs out of the pipe. The Feelgood comes with the option of either regular camber for ultimate control and pop or Flying-V camber/rocker hybrid which loosens up the Feelgood a little, softens the flex and improves floatation in powder. The Feelgood is the equivalent of the men’s Custom… a do-it-all board for riders who don’t want to be confined to one element of snowboarding.

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Get Rad-uctional with the Burton Nug and drop some length off what you normally ride from day to day. The Nug is designed to allow you to reduce your board length by between 8-10cm. Smaller boards are easier to maneuver and spin through the park amplifying the amount of fun you can have cruising the small jump line or hitting side-hits. The V-Rocker gives it a soft, buttery flex that is exactly what you need to perfect that nose press. Squeezebox is added into the equation to put a little more pop into your day and the Frostbite edges and Side Effects geometry are there to help regain some control lost by reducing the board’s effective edge and depening the sidecut. The Nug is marketed as a do-everything snowboard but in reality its for soft days on mellow terrain when you want to extract every gram of fun possible from a day on the hill.

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The cambered version of the Process is the choice of many Burton pros for slopestyle competitions because of its twin shape, middle of the road flex and dependable performance. Smooth Ride and Squeezbox technologies aid stabilityand enhance pop for bigger ollies. A directional flex gives a touch more power in the tail for variable terrain and Scoop Tech in the nose and tail reduce the risk of catching edges when buttering and pressing. The Burton Process is a dependable freestyle twin jam packed with features which is probably why Mark McMorris the world’s #1 chooses it from the entire line to thorw his triple corks on.

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The TWC Pro is Shaun White’s competition board of choice. We’ve heard Shaun hates the nickname the Flying Tomato… tough. From the park, to the pipe, this board screams for speed and edge control because that’s how the Flying Tomato likes to ride. The traditional camber provides maximum control at high speed and paired with the very narrow waist guarantees lightening fast edge-to-edge transitions. Frostbite Edges are there to imporve edge grip further and are probably only necessary in the iciest halfpipes. Whether you are trying to boost 20 feet out of the pipe, double cork your way down the park, or just straight line it like a bat out of hell, the TWC Pro will deliver. What did you expect from Shaun… I mean the Flying Tomato’s promodel?

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While most other boards fall off the map after a few seasons, the Burton Custom has been THE “all-terrain” answer since 1995. This year sees the Custom get a little lighter then in the past, with carbon highlights integrated into its bag of goodies. The carbon also gives it a solid, smooth pop. It has a directional shape and a twin flex.  The Custom is available in regular camber for great pop and control, or Flying-V camber for a more relaxed, playful day around the mountain. A time proven classic that gets a little bit better every year.

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The Burton Custom X is a top of the line, performance focused snowboard with a sterling reputation. It is a very aggressive directional snowboard designed to be ridden at warp speed with great control. This board is equipped with regular camber and a narrow waist to give the board a very responsive and aggresive feel. Add the 45 degree Carbon Highlights Hi-Voltage and that ferocious pop and edgehold will last throughout the life of the board. The use of Carbon also reduces the need for other materials and increased core thickness, helping to minimise overall weight. The Custom X has incredible edge hold and demands a confident and experienced rider; once unleashed on the snow it’s ready to rip trenches into hardpack and fire meter’s above superpipe coping. Beginners and Intermediates keep this board on your wishlist until you have the skills.

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The Burton Ripcord is focused on the helping riders master the basics and then push their skills into more difficult terrain. It is a mid wide/wide deck that will allow the riders with larger feet to minimise heel and toe drag allowing them to really commit to their edges to carves in steep terrain. The Ripcord has a directional tapered shape which causes the board to sit back in the powder all by itself minimising back leg fatigue. A V-Rocker profile gives the Burton Ripcord a soft, playful feel on the snow, allowing riders of all skill levels to flex the board into all types of turn shapes and jump and jib around in natural terrain.

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The Burton Descendant is the point in the Burton line-up where a comprehensive board-spec meets a great price and is aimed at inexperienced intermediates looking for a new jib board to add to their quiver. A Flat Top camber profile attempts to offer pop like a regular camber and increases flex and forgiveness. The Descendant’s extruded base features perimeter bevelling designed to help prevent you from catching your edges when turning those rail Zeaches to committed boardslides. The Channel binding mount system makes dialling your perfect stance fast and easy. Like it’s ancestors that slayed the park before it, the Deccendant is a soft flexing freestyle thoroughbred for progressing riders happy to confine their riding to the park.

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Soft, forgiving and easy to ride, the Burton Clash is designed to make learning the basics of snowboarding as easy as possible. The convex base helps prevent against the ever so dreaded, edge catch which can cause a beginner to hang-up hi/her boots in no time. A V-Rocker profile gives it a nice soft flex, and makes it feel very loose and playful on the snow. It’s a directional board which adds versatility for all conditions snowboarding.

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Every aspect of the Burton Blunt yells ‘pick me’ in the face of beginner to intermediate park addicted snowboarders. Equipped with Burton’s Flat Top camber profile the Blunt has an easy, playful feel, yet it is stable enough for pointing it into scary jumps and transitions. The Blunt’s tip scoops reduce the risk of nasty edge catches and create a looser skateboard style feel on snow. Its twin shape and twin flex are exactly what you need for launching or landing your latest trick, switch or reg.

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Have you been searching for a smaller board, but just can’t seem to find one that can support your size? The Super Hero is a smaller board for the bigger rider. Clverly designed geometry allows the rider to drop down upto 5cm in length. The flat camber profile offers a compromise between playfulness and control and Squeezebox core profiling transfers energy to the nose and tail improving pop and making sure the board won’t fold under presses. The Super Hero’s slight early rise nose and tail improves floatation adding versatility. This year the Super Hero won a Good Wood Award.

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The Burton Process is a fun playful freestyle board waiting for a new set of bindings to be mounted on it, and shredded in the park. It is the choice of many Burton pros because of the twin shape, and playful feel. Don’t take this the wrong way, the Process doesn’t lack stability, its Smooth Ride technology helps absorb impacts and chatter and Squeezbox core profiling adds stiffness behind the bindings for increased ollie pop. The Process’ combination of features make a great freestyle board that is capable of holding its own tackling the whole mountain. Agressive experienced riders should choose the regular camber for stability and response; less experienced riders or those with a more relaxed riding style should consider the Flying-V version for a little more flex and play.

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Take the Burton Sherlock deep into the backcountry and huck yourself into deep powder. The Sherlock’s Side Effects geometry maximises surface area in a true twin shape and its floatation is further aided by its Flying-V camber. True twin shaping and a centred shape puts the rider directly centered between the nose and tail to make switch take-offs and landings that little bit more natural. The Sherlock’s Carbon-I beam helps to add pop without weight. Pillows, backcountry cheese wedges or the occassional park run, the Sherlaock has spearheaded a new genre of true twin snowboards with incredible pow riding ability.

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Want a piece of that surf style freeriding without commiting to the crazy taper of the Burton Fish or the swallow tail of the Cloud Splitter? The Barracuda is a versatile snowboard that can be enjoyed in any snow conditions or terrain but that really shows its true colours in fresh snow. S-Rocker puts rocker in the nose for effortless float in fresh snow; camber under the rear foot adds ollie pop and tail control in sketchy snow. The Barracuda is designed to dominate the technical aspects of backcountry and side country while adding a surfing like fluidity to your lines. The Fish might be the board of choice when riding chest deep powder in Japan’s tree-lined glades but when it comes to other conditions the Barracuda eats it for breakfast.

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While most other boards fall off the map after a few seasons, the Burton Custom has been an “all-terrain” answer since its release in 1995. This year the Custom is a little lighter than previous years, with carbon highlights integrated into its bag of goodies. The Custom’s classic time proven directional geometry conquers all terrain and the twin flex adds familiarity for smooth switch turns and pop. Choose between regular camber for return out of turns and control through carves, or Flying-V camber for a more relaxed, playful day around the mountain with that added lift in powder. The Burton Custom has been the industry standard for all-terrain and condition snowboarding for almost 20 years, that’s a reputation few brands can compete with, let alone boards.

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The Burton Fish is endorced by THE name in snowboarding that means something, Terje. Needless to say, the love child of JG and Terje Haakonsen is a pow charging beast with over 10 years of heritage. The Fish has an S-Camber camber line giving it a manageable, fluid flex pattern and auto-float in deep snow. The Fish calls-out for overhead pow days with its extreme taper, allowing it to sit back while you to relax. The extra tail wings make slashing that deep powder up in the air, effortless. The Burton Fish turns snowboarding into a wild surf experience in the whiteroom.

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The Antler is playful, meets high-performance. Its Flying-V camber profile gives it a relatively soft flex. It has a slightly directional shape, with a true twin flex giving it the shape to tackle all terrain and snow conditions whilst feeling predictable being ridden switch off jumps. Slim carbon highlights in the core add pop while shaving weight off the overall board weight. Take this board anywhere you want over your local hill, and it will keep up. Don’t worry, if you don’t want to push it to its limits, this deck allows even inexperienced snowboarders to make effortless, picture perfect turns with ease.

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All the lightweight uber science of the standard Burton Mystery but with Burton’s more versatile Flying V profile. Making it more suited to less experienced snowboarders or those that indent to ride more powder.

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The Anti-Social is the splitboard that you ladies have been looking for. This S-Rocker splitboard with its gentle flexing in nose and tail will help you float on top of the deep powder, camber under your feet will give you a nice solid pop when desired and enough strength in the tail to hold heavy landings. The tapered shape makes the Burton Anti-Social naturally sit back, allowing the nose to stay out of trouble whilst reducing fatigue. The light-weight design will help you ladies stay out lapping in the backcountry all day with ease and keep steeper accents as painless as possible.

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The Burton Freebird Splitboard is a board for those over the lift lines; trekking into the backcountry to find new lines and peace. Break this deck down into the touring set up to make it out to your line of choice. Skin up and put this machine back together for the ride of your season. S-Rocker camber helps you float above the deep powder, while giving you solid pop and tail control with the regular camber under your feet. This deck has the prestige of winning Backcountry Magazine’s 2012 Editor’s Choice Award.

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The Burton Spliff Splitboard will help you access deep into the backcountry to set up camp, or make your favorite “slack-country” hike a little less effort and time. This little Spliff, packs a big punch. At a mere 148cm this splitboard is designed to give you the stability and floatation of a larger boars, staying on top of fresh snow with ease. This board is made to ride up to 10cm larger then it actually is with the perfect combo of waist width, flex and shape. The S-rocker camber gives you great pop and a little give in the nose and tail. With the Burton Spliff you can’t judge the book by its cover, apparently size doesn’t matter.

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The Juice Wagon is the choice for those who look at backcountry terrain and see the endless jumps on the natural terrain the mountain gives you. This board is equipped with traditional camber, offering stability, precision and pop. It is slightly tapered to help you naturally sit back in the powder. The Juice Wagon is designed for “park riding”, outside of the park. It takes shaping concepts from the Burton Fish and Barracuda and creates big spinning, backcountry killing, directional beast. So juice the landscape for whatever it is worth on the Juice Wagon.

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For women heading into the backcountry scene, the Day Trader is the board you want under your feet. Kimmy Fasani helped design this board to dominate the terrain, from waist deep in the Rockies, to the extreme technical terrain of Europe.The Day Trader is directional, tapered and has early rise camber in the nose which will help you naturally sit in the back seat on those leg burning days of deep snow. Carbon Highlights ensure the flat camber under foot will respond quickly.

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The Fishcuit is for those bottomless powder days or slushy surf style expression sessions. With a thin deck profile, it has great flex and play making tigh manouvers a piece of pie. This powder machine comes equipped with dampening pads to absorb impact; for you adventure nuts, feel free to take your bindings completely off and send it “no-board” style for the extreme powder surfing experience. Ship Bow styled shaping in the nose lets you float with little effort at all and helps a ton with pond skimming. A micro tail is just enough to splash with but don’t expect any ollie pop.

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Are you one of those park rats taking your freestyle game into the bigger, badder backcountry scene? The Burton Trick Pony will suit you to the T. This deck was designed by some of the best backcountry senders in the game. John Jackson, Jussi Oksen and Mark Sollars stepped in to make a perfect deck for sending themselves . An almost entirely flat camber profile extends all the way across this twin deck, providing pop, power and control in either direction whilst offering more floatation than conventional camber.

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The Cloudsplitter is aimed to be shredded by those backcountry activists. It is a directional monster that will rip with ease in the deepest powder in the world with the camber under the feet going into early rise camber in the nose. Not to mention the swallow tail that will allow you to sit in the back seat with ease. 60 degree carbon highlights make sure that you pop out of any situation you get yourself into. With great control at high speeds, do not be afraid to point this beast out of the “Big Beast” in your own back yard.

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