A little too short

By Gear Guru Tyson Ranked #526 - All Mountain Snowboards October 30, 2004

The fish is designed to minimize the only bad thing about riding a snowboard in powder, having to put your weight on your back foot for the duration of your glorious powder day, we all know that by the end of the day your leg is starting to spasm and you can barely walk on the damn thing. The other thing that Burton has tried to deal with is the other unfortunate part of pow riding, you usually have to have a board that dwarves you, something in the upper 160s or even 170s, well we all know that having to pack a board that long around the mountain isn't exactly cake, so Burton in their infinite wisdom have shortened the board down to a 156 and a 160. I recently took the 156 up to Alta (take that you damn skiers) for some pre-season pow riding, I have to admit I probably would have enjoyed it more if I had the 160, the 156 might have been a little short for a 6' 180-190 guy like myself. The reason I gave it a 4 instead of a 5 is because I actually put the nose down a few times, admittedly I was going slow and it was a pretty mellow slope. Its definitely a great innovation from Burton, and I'm glad that some one out there is still making a tapered design. All we need now is a Winterstick swallow tail...

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