Who rides a Korua?

So I wanted to experiment with 24/0 and more stance on my CR, so I moved the front foot to the front insert. Really liked what I got on a lot of aspects. I was afraid the board would not like it and be too stiff between the feet, that wasn't the case at all.

The board more reactive from the tail, chaining jumps into carves really well. My back foot was a bit more technical to handle at first (easy to put to much /too few pressure), but once I got it dialed in, I really liked it made the end of my turns much much better. I was also much more at ease on bumpy snow (although today was mainly perfect groomers, off piste was useless).

On the downside, well booting out on eurocarves or super low points. That's a bummer on board like this... Also my back knee didn't know which way to go sometimes

Then I switched back to 30/12 and lost a lot of that back foot power. Ollies, transitioning between turns, absorbing terrain, all of that felt worse. But my turns were way smoother, lower...

It's really an intersting setup to go more all mountain, while still carving great. Really worth trying, I might even try a bit of negative.

I learned a lot about the board and how it can feel. My goal now is to find back that back foot power while keeping the +/+ angles. I thing it's mainly down to habit, I just suck at +/+.

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I rode the Dart160 for the first time yesterday, and loved it! I think I’ll sell both my CR159 (too narrow) and CR164 (too stiff.)

Needless to say that in powder it’s ridiculously fun, and on soft groomers I like how I can put pressure on my back foot and bend the tail and make the board turn quicker. It’s so wide I’m never dragging my boots. Because of the width, I can carve better on Dart than I could with CR159. On soft groomers the CR164 was too stiff for my weight, and the nose was ploughing instead of bending nicely into the turn. I think the stiffness of Dart160 is pretty close to CR159.

I could not notice any difference in camber and nose profiles when comparing the CR164 and Dart160 side by side. I think they are made in the same mold and the rocker just means that the nose has softer flex. Feels like the Dart has one less laminate or uses thinner laminates because it’s also less torsionally stiff compared to CR164.

I’m 175 lb, 6 feet 7⁄16 inch with 11.5 boots. So slim riders with bigger feet, consider the Dart as an serious carving board and not just a pow board.

Just because this thread needs more pics