Contract Snowboard Reviews

Contract’s freestyle team favourite the Cobra has a touch more mass appeal than it’s tech heavy sibling the 3D Swell. The Cobra teams a conventional shape and more importantly a <8m sidecut with Contract’s Snake Transition and TRIP technologies to produce a light and responsive snowboard that will appeal to aggressive pipe and kicker riders.

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Contract’s fun shred the Jibber Jabber is a soft flexing, durable and affordable snowboard designed to be riden at your favourite street spot, on your parks funnest jibs and on those hits that build up along the sides of the groomers. It’s an aunashamed jib machine for snowboarders who take more enjoyment from dialing nightime rail sessions and waking up late than spraying up rooster tails in the morning pow.

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The 3D Swell is Contract’s flagship board. It pretty much features every technology that Contract and nearly every other snowboard brand on the planet has invented over the last decade. There’s Contract’s Snake Transition Technology, a 3D wave that increases torsional rigidity without increasing longitudinal flex. There’s T.R.I.P. technology that raises the start of the effective edge narrowly off the snow (although it’s absolutely minimal). Contract have also included Carbon and Kevlar reinforcement, honeycomb inserts to reduce weight, zero camber and biaxial glass power plates under the bindings for better edge control. However after all of this technology the one feature that has the most impact on the way the 3D Swell rides is the 12m sidecut radius, which makes the 3D Swell feel a little unresponsive and cumbersome, when you want to do anything other than point the board straight or do long arcing powder turns.

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