[Diggiey]

Hey everybody, I've been looking to get a new all mountain board for intermediate to advance riding and every store I go to seems to be suggesting something different. I tend to do a lot of resort riding where I can hit the side hits or go up to the bowls and only go to the park sometimes. I was wondering if anyone had any insights on what they thought was best. The boards I've been recommended are:
-Burton custom camber
-Ride algorythm
-Capita mercury
-Arbor Coda camber
I am open to other ideas too, these are just a few I've been recommended and was leaning towards. For reference I'm 170 lbs and have a size 11 boot. Thanks for any advice that is given!

 

[Diggiey]

My top pick from that list would be the Coda Camber. But at 11 it may depend on your boots, what is the boot model?

Otherwise a good size for your weight and style I would personally look at the Rome Stale Crewzer, Bataleon Goliath, Nidecker Escape Plus, or a Jones Aviator

Thank for the response! My boot is the ride Lasso and I have the union stratas for bindings. Would you recommend the boards you listed over the coda?

 

[Diggiey]

I’ve been in Mammoth for the past 2-3 weeks, with two massive storms, wind… lots of pow, then wind blown firm conditions with pow stashes in the trees. And my Bataleon has been my go-to.

Mostly stick to in-bounds stuff, mainly blacks, bowls, trees, nothing too gnarly.

The Thunder has been excellent, and is the board I’m reaching for the most. Can charge anything. 3BT lets me get away with murder on bumps and chunder. Have had sketchy landings where would have ate shit on other boards, can 3BT can save me. On deep carves, it does feel lacking, especially compared to the Amplid. But still very fun to carve on.

Also have a Surfari with me, and while that board is excellent in pow and in a carve… it’s quite a lot of work imo. (Especially compared to the Bataleon where I can just point it and charge it)

I don’t think 3BT is for everyone… so best if you can demo one!
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Awesome! I just looked up the thunder and definitely seems very cool. I'll have to see if I can demo it anywhere. I've been trying to find good places to demo up at copper or winter park, but the places seem lacking in options to try (it's also hard to even get an idea of what they have even when calling them). I appreciate the reply and will definitely look into bataleon some more!

 

[Diggiey]

The classifications of what's beginner, intermediate, and advanced are mostly arbitrary.

There's plenty of advanced riders riding a so-called beginner board and vice versa.
There's additional questions about your intended use:
How stiff do you want the flex?
Do you intend to ride switch often (or at all)?
How much powder do you intend to ride vs groomers?
How much do you want to spend?
Are you set on Burton's Channel binding mounting system? Or prefer the usual 4-bolt mount?

There's a million different possibilities of "what is the best board" for your needs... so if the mountain you visit does demos, then you can test ride some boards the ski mountain store has.

A snowboard store will only recommend the products they carry.

And look at Youtube for some opinionated snowboard reviews

Thanks for the response! For how stiff, I was looking at around a 6 or 7 to keep it pretty all mountain. I ride switch some. Maybe 10-20% of the time. I will mostly be on groomers with going on powder only sometimes. In terms of spending I would say up to $700 but that is going to be pushing it. I don't care if it is channel or not, just happened that the custom was recommended to me.

 

[Diggiey]

We wont be any different 😂 . So many options and so many opinions.

Hahaha yeah, my list of boards to look into is only growing. I thought it was going to shrink 🥲. But having so many options is exciting to see that there is a lot of great competition in the market!