Category Archives: Snowboards

Burton Blunt 2010

by Matt P.

The 2010 Burton Blunt is ready take you to another level of riding. If you’ve hit the wall and can’t seem to get anymore out of your current board, then give the Burton Blunt a look. This board can open you up to a whole new world of riding.

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The Blunt features patented V-Rocker and Cruise Control technology. This board will do the work for you. It features a rocker design, a healthy amount of pop and doesn’t know the meaning of the word ‘edge.’There’s a reason that the Blunt won Twsnow’s Good Wood Board Test. The 2010 Burton Blunt doesn’t disappoint.

Key Features of The Burton Blunt Snowboard :

  • NEW V-Rocker
  • NEW Twin Cruise Control Technology
  • CORE: Fly® Core with Negative Profile
  • FIBERGLASS: Biax™ React
  • BASE: Lightspeed™ Vision
  • EDGES: NEW Pressure Distribution Edges with Rail

Buy this Board

From $279.95 at ProBoardShop

From $279.95 at The-House

Burton Custom X – 2010

Burton’s new Custom X 2010 snowboard is touted to be one of the lightest, fastest, snappiest wood core board on the market. As one of the highest performance, aggressive snowboards on the market, the Burton Custom X is the choice of many top freestyle riders. While this board is best suited for advanced riders, and intermediate rider may find it the perfect board to grow in to.

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The Burton Custom X is as home in the air as it is on the snow, and features ‘The Channel’ technology connecting your feet directly to your edges. The Channel is specifically engineered to work with Burton’s 3D and EST bindings, and allows maximum flexibility in how you configure your stance on the board. In terms of board graphics, the Custom X is nothing to write home about, but with this kind of performance, the graphics are truly an after thought. Continue reading

BitchBoards Aire 2009

By: Jenn

Board Model and Year: BitchBoards® Mode 2009

Board Size: 144

Age: 26

Riding Style: All mountain- some park

I had the unique opportunity to ride my girlfriend’s BitchBoards Aire snowboard two seasons ago and I fell in love immediately. I’ve been riding for 5 years and was a Burton-snob, so I was pretty skeptical of the board’s ability. It definitely was pretty to look at, but I wasn’t sure if it could ride…. boy was I in for a surprise!

The board was amazing from the first run I took! Continue reading

Burton Playboy 2009

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By Jordan

Board Model and Year: Love 08/09

Board Size: 162

Age: 29

Riding Style: Old School

So I warranited my Capita “Photo Phetish” 160 and decided to try something different, and I like the degenerate graphics of the 80 Playboy stars. Ok so its a true twin like the capita and a mid-wide. The first thing I must say is as soon as you go with a burton 3 bolt board you are way more limited to your stance width options which just plain sucks. I Tried two stances on it maxed out- and front binding one back. Maxed out was rediculously wide like stupid wide and one back was a bit, further back than I usually like but better. This board is extremely soft it has a decent sidecut but not a lot of pop or edge control in and out of your turns I find it carves sloppy. It has a bit of pop to it under foot ollieing but it doesn’t make up for the boards biggest problem which is IT IS FUCKING HEAVY! Really heavy. Riding this board compared to my Capita is like night and day it feels like a giant brick under foot and it fucks up my riding. I will go back to riding my old rock board now because what is the point of getting used to riding a 1990s weight board??. I refuse to spent another day on it no matter how good it looks.

My advise is stay away from this tank and ride somthing with some better core material unless you want it for your wall. Not feelin the Love.

Burton Custom 158

By John

Board Model and Year: custom

Board Size: 158

Age: 38

Riding Style: freeride

I am 38 years old, and have been riding for 8 years. I started my illustrious career on a burton custom 158. After two years, I bought and rode a burton omen 163 (gr8 board for pow). After two years on that, I switched to, and have been getting my freak on with a custom X 160 (gr8 responsive board). I had mounted burton P1 HD bindings (they don’t call them that anymore, but they were p1’s with carbon fiber highbacks). I rode Salomon F24 boots. Altogether, this was a super stiff set up, which translated into vigorous carving at high speeds. Lots of fun. however, this year I got back into bumps and trees and wanted a much softer set up. I have returned to the custom 158 with burton triad bindings, and a more forgiving Salomon F22 boot. Let me tell ya… If bumps and trees are your thing, the custom 158 is the one. I never cease to be amazed by the sheer number of customs I see on the mountain, any mountain, year after year. After years off that board, I now have enough riding experience to understand why.

Never Summer Evo

By Forrest

Board Model and Year: 2009

Board Size: 155

Age: 27

Riding Style: All Mountain / Park

The new NS Evo with the rocker camber tech is by far the best I have ever ridden. It butters like a fiend and has just the right amount of flex and pop. It rides way nice, plus I love supporting the smaller, still made in the usa snowboard companies. Best warranty in the business, but it is unlikely you will ever need it. I still have a NS premier from 1999.

2009 Rossignal Jeremy Jones

By Fes

Board Model and Year: Rossignol Jeremy Jones 2008-2009

Board Size: 158

Age: 36

Riding Style: Freerider

Last weekend when I was at Stevens Pass, the backside was filled with fresh pow so I decided to demo some long boards. I am 150 lbs and only 5’4″ so a 158 is essentially a long board for me. My regular ride is a 156 Burton T6 and my board for hitting park jumps is a K2 Anagram.

I was pretty stoked to see that they had the Jones Rossi board in stock.

The Jones board is a very stiff ride meant for backcountry pow riding where the snow is nice and deep. It’s not a light board by any means and as such has a lot of dampening (the Burton Custom 158 I demoed later in the day was a lot lighter). It bombed through the slough and fresh snow. I felt very stable on the slough and the pow going at high speeds on it. On the groomers, it was a lot of work getting to stop it from slipping out. Tapered boards are not meant to be ridden on the groomers and in the icy patches when I was headed back down to the base area, this was an extremely unpredictable and dangerous ride. For this long a board, with the proper speed checking, I was able to get it to pop a bit over jumps and oh yes, stomp the landings like nobody’s business.

Overall, the board was a great ride, stable as all hell, but what sucked was the crappy Rossignol bindings they put on it and that’s the only binding that they had available for that board and they were not mixing bindings at all. This is not for groomer/regular resort riding. It’s for the steeps and the backcountry where the pow is fresh and a plenty. In those conditions, it rules supreme. Why do think Jeremy rides it in those conditions? 😛

Next year’s model for this board has Magnetraction and a rocker for even better pow float. Magne and reverse camber? In a non-Lib Tech board? Whudathunkit?

Never Summer Lotus

By Sally

Board Model: Lotus

Board Size: 154

Age: 23

Riding Style: Freeride

These guys are a smaller company but if you want a board that will last longer than you will, then you should check them out! They are called Never Summer and I found out about them from an instructor friend. She rides the Infinity and after doing a little homework I decided I would get a board from them too… Best board I have ever been on, bar NONE! If you don’t believe me check out their website www.neversummer.com to see what I’m talking about.