Atomic Axum - 2010

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The Atomic Axum is an extremely versatile freestyle snowboard. Playfull and forgiving without being feeble, the Axum will fill you with confidence. Great value for money and extremely capable in and out of the park.

Manufacturer's Description:

All the fun of riding a reverse camber board but with all the pop of a cambered board, thanks to the new POP Rocker FS. The lightweight core and the tough as nails RSR + make this the board of choice for any type of freestyle terrain.

Recommended for park riding.

Recommended for halfpipe riding.

Recommended for rail riding.

Medium cost $

Rocker Construction.

Twin Shape.

Year: 2010

Available Lengths (cm):
150, 153, 156, 159

Riding Style: Freestyle/Park

Specifications:

D4 Sandwich Construction
Twin Prog Sidecut
Sintered 7200 base
Truth 3 CNC wood core
Inter Carbon
2.5 Degree Park bevel
RSR +
Pop Rocker FS

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Snowboard Review:

One of my favourite boards on the test. The Atomic Axum is an extremely versatile freestyle snowboard. As stable as most of the all mountain boards I’ve ridden during high speed carves. Extremely energetic out of carves, playfully popping you from edge to edge. Fun to butter, without being feeble when landed heavily on the nose or tail. Easily thrown into frontside and backside spins off small jumps and predictable when charging into larger transitions. Despite being responsive when carving the Axum felt great on rails, committing to a variety of slides wasn’t an issue and the double edge technology felt reassuring underfoot. Although this board would be a pleasure on backcountry kickers, it hasn’t been designed to ride powder and the centred stance and and short length would result in some serious rear leg burn. A great board for intermediate to pro freestyle riders who want to ride every obstacle the park has to throw at them without compromise.

Posted by Rich Ewbank in • Atomic

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What colour is powder?

Matt A on October 16, 2009 at 05:20 PM

Hi Rich, awesome set of reviews you have here. Anyway, I’m just about to start my second season as an instructor and was choosing between the Axum 156 and Stepchild Chiborg 155. I’m looking for one board i can ride all the time and as i never know what I’m gonna be asked to teach it has to be a pretty good all rounder! Personally, if there is no fresh I just like jibbing about the pistes, riding the small and medium park features and throwing the occasional high speed carve. I was just wondering if you had any recommendation for one or the other. Thanks mate.

Rich Ewbank on October 17, 2009 at 02:43 PM

Thanks Matt, much appreciated. Both the Axum and the Chiborg are awsome snowboards. If you’re looking for more of an all-rounder I’d be tempted to say the Axum is the more suitable board, for a park board, I even had a laugh in the pipe. But on the other hand the Chiborg is just such a laugh, hitting the jumps on the sides of the groomers and tearing up the mini shred was so much fun. So if you want is a board to have a laugh on and showing off your minishred skills infront of your students whilst your teaching then go for the Chiborg. If you want to ride 10-15m kickers and get technical on rails as well as put in the odd hand dragger, go for the Axum. Hope that helps.

Chris on October 24, 2009 at 01:11 AM

Hey Rich, same situation as matt here, basically a good all round board needed for teaching but hitting the park on my time off, doesnt need to blast in the pow but would be good to not have to swap boards. anyways if it was between the axum and the k2 parkstar which would you opt for? the parkstar seems like the business but i recently came across this board and aside from looks they both seem the same deal. as all the other rocker boards apparently fail at high speeds for big kickers. Cheers

Rich Ewbank on October 24, 2009 at 11:07 AM

Hi Chris,

I wouldn’t say that all rocker boards fail at high speeds, some of the more park orientated rockers might be a little less stable at high speeds and tail heavy landings aren’t quite the same as on cambered boards, but providing you’re not on an uber noodle like the WWW or the Lib Tech Box scratcher then you’ll be ok, especially if the park is well groomed.

Talking about the boards, the Axum has got the Atomic Pop Rocker. Essentially this means the board is cambered until your weight is applied when the camber goes flat and the nose and tail rocker (check out the Atomic snowboards site they’ve got a good graphical explanation). THis means the Axum is a little bit more capable on big long carves than the Parkstar. I think that the Axum is a little bit more versatile, both of them kill it in the park, but the Axum has potential in the pipe. If you’re riding style is quite aggresive go for the Axum, if you’re a buttery smooth jib meister then the Parkstar will be more your cup of tea.

Chris on October 24, 2009 at 02:49 PM

Hey again, because of the blunted tips will the 153 technically be the same as a 55/6 in another board, effective edge wise? i rode a 154 o-matic extr-emo all last season and im just wondering which size would you say would be best? i dont want to get the ‘56 and it feel much different to the 54 i had and massive for rails and park, but i would like opportunity of some powder ability on it. sorry if im not making any sense here, it makes sense in my head haha :D

Rich on October 24, 2009 at 03:28 PM

Your message makes complete sense. The effective edge of the Axum is really short because the pop rocker profile means the nose and tail are raised up. Providing you fit within the weight restrictions and you’re not right at the upper or lower limit of the advised weight range I’d say you’ll be ok in a bit of powder, 2-3 cm isn’t going to make a huge difference especially if the stance is centred, 1cm at the nose and the tail.

The weight recommendations are as follows:

153: 50-80kg 156: 60-100+kg 159: 60-100+kg

Rory M on October 28, 2009 at 03:26 AM

hey man, i’ve been looking at boards online and the axum looks like the perfect one for me. the only problem is i can’t find a store or website to buy it. so maybe if you can give me a link to a site that would be great. thanks rich

Rich Ewbank on October 28, 2009 at 11:24 AM

Sure Rory, which country do you live in?

Rory M on October 29, 2009 at 03:55 AM

The U.S.

Rich Ewbank on October 29, 2009 at 11:52 AM

Wow that’s really tricky! Hardly any shops stocking the Axum, I guess you could email House or Evo and find out whether they’ll be stocking this years Axum. Alternatively check out the atomic site and click on the trolley (buy now) and it will take you to a dealer locator.

http://www.atomicsnowboarding.com/

Sorry not much help but I thought it’d be more widely available.

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