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This is what I want:

Park/resort board. Currently Yes Jackpot 156, but it's has the worst epoxy I've seen and I have already glued parts of new base material on it. I need to replace this asap before it falls apart again. I had a Nitro Optisym, but had to send it back. It was fun, but I didn't like the extruded base, specially at thet price point. New one probably something in the lines of Stale Mod/Crewzer/Freaker, Blossom, Huck Knife/Highpath or Indoor Survival.

All mountain. Nitro Banker 159. I really like this one. I can do everything with this. It's on the stiffer side, so I need the softer park board sometimes to complement.

A split. I have a longer big mountain board 165, which is good for touring days, but not so fun in the resort. I am planning to test the Nitro Team split 159 this year for lift access splitting.

I also have the Nitro Suprateam 159, which I really like, but Banker fills its spot usually when travelling. If I lived close to the mountains, this would probably be my resort ride.

I sometimes want to add a wider freestylish board for spring conditions and maybe to take with me on the mountains instead of the park board. Somethin like Nitro Dinghy, Dancehaul, Burton "what ever the wider Kilroy 3d is now called". I've had some pure powder boards, but I have found I don't like them enough to take with me when traveling, so I don't know..

So 3 would be enough, but more than 5 is too much in my current situation.

[C.Fuzzy]

3 being a twin, an all mtn, and a free ride ( all skewed to riders personal preference) + (for me) a split = 4.

for my 3 I'd have a directional twin, an directional carve / all mtn, and a pow oriented board.

My current 3...or 4ish ( maybe I'll get around to a new picture eventually)

1. Directional Twin: Salomon Sickstick 151: Whooodoggy have I come to love this board. For me it's darn near perfect for a playfull everday resort ride that can carve, sidehit, float some fresh and hit a line through the park.

2. All Mtn Directional: Yes Optimistic 154: Where the Salomon leaves off this board picks up with being longer, stiffer and more aggressive for getting after it in steeper and deeper and more demanding terrain.

3: Pow board: Ride Psychocandy. Due to that I generally ride Midwest and it's flatter terrain, I go for more volume shifted boards with less taper than I might otherwise in bigger steeper mtns. I came to this board from the Yes 420 bc I wanted something slightly tapered and a little less wide. But I'm not entirely sold on this one (as detailed in other threads) and I can see this one may change as I'm eyeing other options.

4. Splitboard: Last year I picked up the Optisplitstic 159 and then proceeded to take out my Jones Mindexpander Split more just due to conditions and terrain. The mind explooger is better suited for my midwest expeditions, but I'm hopeful I'll get back out west regularly again and the Opti will carry me into BC heaven. I could go eitehr way on this one and be happy.

[kimchi]

1. Directional Twin: Salomon Sickstick 151: Whooodoggy have I come to love this board. For me it's darn near perfect for a playfull everday resort ride that can carve, sidehit, float some fresh and hit a line through the park.

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.

[G.D.]

@kimchi just seen that Korua added a 160 T.Finder. Haven't seen the specs yet, but think that was the size you were hoping they would add that would be DD material, iirc?

And to add to the ongoing discussion, I know it's not the best of ideas (taboo, even? ) to ride new boards early season, but tbh, the temptation is too hard for me to resist personally lol. Especially out here in Southern ON where our off-season is super long, the excitement to get on a new ride feels more heightened ... aka don't really have a designated "rock board" lol.

With regards to quiver rotation, as much as I love nerding out on new board options, I tend to mainly ride 1 deck for majority of the season here. So ideally I try my best to keep the rotation to a trio. Cos feel guilty at times when I have a great board just collecting dust.

In any case, first time in quite awhile I'm going into the season with the same boards from the last winter. Looking forward to getting back on my 57 Passport.


Current rotation

Daily Driver/1st choice for Banked Slaloms: 57 K2 Passport
Fun mellow turning/spring conditions: 58 Burton SK
Backup DD/banked slalom/"freestyle-friendly": 56 Nitro Banker

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This was supposed to be the year I didn’t grab anything new. So much for that. Sold a few items, made a few trades, and suddenly I’m finding myself with an expanded active quiver. Thinned out the outerwear and bindings a bit, though.

While I’ll still be primarily riding my fleet of Korua boards this season, I’ll be dabbling a bit with some Mervin decks, notably the Banked Country and Jamie Lynn.

[C.Fuzzy]

1. Directional Twin: Salomon Sickstick 151: Whooodoggy have I come to love this board. For me it's darn near perfect for a playfull everday resort ride that can carve, sidehit, float some fresh and hit a line through the park.

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.

[kimchi]

@kimchi just seen that Korua added a 160 T.Finder. Haven't seen the specs yet, but think that was the size you were hoping they would add that would be DD material, iirc?

They finally did it, but the 160 has a 278 mm waist unfortunately. I can deal with the 268 mm waist as a DD (Instrument is 266), but that wide is tough unless I stiffen up boots and bindings. If I ever go back to a current Korua shape for daily driving, it'll most likely be the Otto 161.

[coleslawed]

1. Directional Twin: Salomon Sickstick 151: Whooodoggy have I come to love this board. For me it's darn near perfect for a playfull everday resort ride that can carve, sidehit, float some fresh and hit a line through the park.

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.

[coleslawed]

i forgot Salomon actually had both the First Call & SickStick series for a year or two, both had the exact same shapes, the Sicksticks just had the bamboo/HPS construction while the First Call was more traditional.
https://issuu.com/jeanmath/docs/salomon_2019

[Snowdaddy]

1. Directional Twin: Salomon Sickstick 151: Whooodoggy have I come to love this board. For me it's darn near perfect for a playfull everday resort ride that can carve, sidehit, float some fresh and hit a line through the park.

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 used to have the First Call 151. A board I really liked, but unfortunately it was too soft for my weight. The side cut was really fun though, so I can see how a Sickstick would be a lot of fun.