Signal Park – Hand crafted in California
Signal Park is the best selling board in the range and the chosen stick of pro rider Jake Olsen-Elm. When you look into the details it’s a no brainer – not only is it affordable, the technology and core structure are of the highest quality – hand crafted in their own factory in California. This means all boards are designed, built, tested, tweated, redesigned, built re-tested then only produced when 110% stoked on the finished article – the ride and build quality is unique to Signal.
One of the main features is the “park profile” core. This means the board is thinner in the tip and tail and standard thickness between the feet. There are two main benefits with the park profile. The first being a lighter, more nimble board under your feet which gives the board an amazing response to the riders input which you can feel from the first turns you put in. The second benefit is giving the board a softer nose+tail whilst still keeping the classic “cambered” structure to the board. Therefore you do not compromise the effective edge as can happen in a rockered board but it will press as easily – win win.
The board has a soft flex and a radial side-cut which makes it user friendly to all levels of riders. One of the other unique features is every core is specifically designed to each length of board, therefore your flex patterns and stance options are never compromised.
Having thoroughly tested the park 150 in varying snow conditions I have nothing but positivity for this board. Most riders spend around 80% of their time cruising, jibbing and thrashing up the pistes and park – which is where this board dominates. If you want to really crank the edge on and drive power through the board, it will hold, but wont give you same performance as a directional board. For the same reasons it won’t give you epic floaty feeling in deeper snow, but you’ll still manage to put some turns in and feel stoked after your run.
Sum up – Amazing, fun, light, lively and responsive board, particularly if your more park orientated – If you’re looking to free-ride more and only want one board in the quiver, look to the Signal OG
For full board details, go to www.signalsnowboard.com
September 27, 2010
