The Official Korua Shapes Thread

[Spenser]

Just paid Tyler for his OG TF. It lives in AK now.

[coleslawed]

are you keeping both shapes? or going OG only?

[Spenser]

Keeping both until further notice

[SJF_NH]

Spencer is on a quest to be the guy with the most toys.

Challenge accepted...

[Spenser]

I love both of them… it was already here, and for the price, I figured why not. Got the new one in a bit of pow yesterday, and obviously the old one floats a bit better, so I can see choosing it on fresh snow days when I still want to ride a TF, instead of the CR or something else. Will also be a good one to loan out, to give people a taste of korua

[SJF_NH]

The Otto is the one that's currently on my radar. I'm having an internal battle trying to decide if I have enough self-discipline to wait until next season, or just pull the trigger now.

Sometimes I'm just pathetic when it comes to buying boards, although I do have a convenient excuse this time. I loaned my TF to a buddy just for a try-out and now the prick has gone dark on me...

[pow_hnd]

The Otto is the one that's currently on my radar.

Otto is a game changer. It’s my 90% of the time resort board now. It just does everything so well, still love my PinTonic ( which is just an OG TF57 with a pointy nose/tail ) but really only riding it on the stupid deep days, when the pow is funky or at Baldface. When it’s typical Utah blower the Otto (161) just crushes it for me, like the amount of just stellar pow days I’ve ridden that deck this year and been totally content is just mind boggling.

After riding only tapered decks for a bunch of years I really forgot how much better a deck without taper and tons of setback rides in certain conditions, especially when the groomers get bumpy. I also ride switch quite a bit at my resort because of a few long ass cat tracks that I frequent, riding switch takes pressure off my total knee replacement and damn does to Otto ride so much better switch than the PT/TF.

I tried mounting my PinTonic all the way forward for a bit of a happy medium, but it made it turn too funky.

In a perfect world, which we know doesn’t exist, a deck from Korua with the Otto shape, 15mm of setback and 10mm of taper would be a board I would probably ride 98% of my resort days. That would be my ultimate quiver killer.

[SJF_NH]

@pow_hndthanks for the intel. I feel the same about tapered boards, I love them and have been riding them a ton over the last 10-15 years or so. But I think one of the reasons I really like my Banked Country as my go-to daily is that it's not really tapered (on paper I think it's only 2mm). The Otto seems like it would be the perfect Korua-flavored daily for our terrain and typical snow here in the East so I'm all in.

As for your perfect "tweaked" Otto, I'm with you there 100%, I'd be all over that. I have a Yes PYL Uninc that's along those lines but it's got a big-ass nose and is way more powder-centric, as a result it's a little slow edge-edge. If you could persuade the Korua guys to take on an experiment and build what you've spec'd out, I'd buy one without hesitation!

[SJF_NH]

Adding to my comment above, I know that we're all more than a little geeky here on EL, but I honestly believe that if Korua built a board spec'd as you described, they would sell a shit ton of those, something kinda in between the Otto and TF. I'm convinced we're not the only people that would would like to see them design a deck like that. And without having ridden an Otto (yet), I've got to believe there's a massive difference in the way the Otto and TF handle for the everyday resort riding, and not just for riding switch.

[pow_hnd]

I've got to believe there's a massive difference in the way the Otto and TF handle for the everyday resort riding, and not just for riding switch.

100%, if you throw switch out the door, it's just so much better when things get bumpy. Like I'll rip the PinTonic for the first few laps of the day ( on a big ass pow day, like 12"+ new ), then once the groomers start getting haggard, I stop at the van and switch to the Otto for the rest of the day.

It's not just me doing it either. My homies do the same thing on completely different brands of decks. My buddy will swap from his Navigator that he has mounted setback and go swap for his Mercury that's more "centered" as it just handles the bumpy groomers so much better.