kimchi wrote: ↑Wed Oct 18, 2023 1:47 pm
Lol the way the marketing has changed around the Sickstick since inception is bonkers. You look at its first year release marketing and the messaging is basically "This is the ultimate backcountry freestyle board!"
The brand copy for the 2023-- but your reviews --makes it sound like a pretty solid all-mountain deck.
Some of the key specs are basically the same, just the industry changed around the board. 12 mm of taper went from unusual to run of the mill for all-mountain decks.
Yeah. The sickstick has went though a number of transformations that other brands would have just made different boards out of. The 2009 is a pretty different board than what the current iteration is.
The 151cm I have is a volume shifted board with a wider waist /nose/tail than the other sizes in the sickstick lineup and they only made it a couple years (2019-2021). They have a volume shifted 151 in the lineup for 2017-2018 but it's also slightly different specs to the 2019-2021 version). There's no 151 in the line before or after those years.
It's a little odd that they took 1 size in the lineup and made it volume shifted while the others are normal in specs. I think it changes that single board in a way that doesn't quite fit the profile of the others. Unless you're a guy that looks at specs and understands them, I think most people overlooked it.
Outside of the 151cm version the sickstick lineup doesn't really spark me. But this one board has won my heart over and has the capabilities to go from kickers in the park to glades of powder and whatever in between and I really can't say enough about how much fun it is. I didn't quite expect it to excel with the versatility of areas it works in when I got it.
I've been a long time advocate of bamboo boards since the Illuminati Evolver I had with the bamboo topsheet and bamboo sidewalls. It just makes them so much livelier and responsive without being stiff and heavy af. I think there may be a sacrifice with how robust they are, but idk. Capita had the Kazu prototype with bamboo sidewalls years back, but then production came out without them. So could be that, or it could be sourcing it sucks, or maybe just the layup...idk. But the solomon / wolle boards are often these bamboo top sheets and it's got me hard looking at a few others.
I think your 151 sickstick evolved out of the Derby series and and just became a single size. iirc, all the boards were very different when they were doing that 151 volume shifted Sickstick. essentially they were a series where one person could buy all three boards to have a full quiver.
I had a derby too. Forgot about that. The derby didn't excel in any area and I never really found its home on the hill. The 151 is the board the derby wished it was.
Good take on the original series. Makes more sense.
G.D. wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 11:09 am
Ps. I like their little shout out to keep the peace with Angry? His reply in the comments also lol.
They mentioned in the comments that they'll only review snowboard brands too which is cool to see. Someone was asking about Salomon and their reasoning for not reviewing ski brands is to keep the dollars within the snowboard community.
Yeah, that's the main bit I've seen. I swear I've seen one or two other little things as well.
I genuinely don't care what someone's skill level is. Everyone should be embraced wherever they're at. However, when you boast this persona and are probably the most popular reviewer, I feel like you should probably have some level of skill to back it up, simply to show that you can ride at all in the first place, in order to have any idea what you're talking about. And these days, there's no excuse not to have a clip or two if you're doing review videos.
To be clear, I'm not looking for proof of potential skill. I'm looking for him to expose himself.
Edit: I also don't understand how someone's riding can only have progressed that much when they supposedly ride 100 days a year, every year, for a long time.
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