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What is Bataleon Snowboards' poplar Birch Goodwood core?
Bataleon Snowboards' Poplar Birch Goodwood core is Poplar core with sidecut active hardwood enforcements along the sidewalls.

What is Burton Snowboards' V-Rocker?
The V-Rocker is a three-stage rocker that’s equally fun from park to pow, V-Rocker™ features a center rocker between your feet, with additional rockers outside each foot that lift the tip and tail completely off the snow. Along the Channel zones, we added Pressure Distribution Edges for enhanced grip and power that balances the board’s loose and forgiving, skate-like feel. Together, the V-Rocker package energizes edge control while disengaging tip and tail contact points to create a catch-free feel that’s incredibly forgiving, floaty, poppy, and fun on all terrain. Enjoyed by team riders such as Mikey Rencz, Marko Grilc, Chris Sörman, Sani Alibabic, Dimitry Fesenko, and Jack Mitrani.

What is Burton Snowboards' Smooth Ride Technology?
Smooth Ride™ dampening technology, exclusive to the Burton T6™, is designed to let you react quicker, go bigger, and ride faster for longer with less impact on your body. Chatter, vibration, and the shock from flat landings gets absorbed by the board before making it to your body.

What is Burton Snowboards' The Channel technology?
The Channel is snowboarding’s most direct connection—focusing power through a central connection spine that evenly distributes energy for added rebound and snap. It works with both Burton’s 3D® and EST™ bindings, and lets you mount bindings to board any way you see fit. Easily dial in your stance width and angles with next-level micro-adjustability.

What is Burton Snowboards’ Ultrameth Construction?
The culmination of 33 years of board-building experience, UltraMeth™ construction on Burton's NEW Method represents a paradigm shift in high-performance. Blending unconventional design with the latest in aerospace technology, UltraMeth replaces glass with a NEW S2 carbon composite that maximizes strength while minimizing weight. Every element from edges, core, and sidewalls to the plug inserts on the Channel has been analyzed in terms of function and performance. With a seemingly paradoxical mix of featherweight construction and premium performance, the result is a board that not only challenges convention, but also the law of physics.

What is Burton Snowboards' Freestyle Scoop?
The Freestyle Scoop is an exaggerated spoon shape that creates a more forgiving feel by turning the edges up at the tip and tail. We’ve taken the Scoop in two directions for 2010. The Park Scoop excels at jibbing, pressing, and buttering thanks to steeper, more aggressive scooping that extends slightly into the board’s running length. For a more versatile ride that adds looseness and float, the NEW Freestyle Scoop features mellower scooping that tapers off just before the contact points.

What is Burton Snowboards' S-Rocker?
Speed and float are your friends, and that’s what S-Rocker is all about. Entry rocker extends from the nose of the board to under your front foot, then transitions to a traditional camber under your back foot that is positioned to match the board’s setback stance. When you compress and ‘punch’ the camber under your back foot it causes the entry rocker to naturally lift the nose. This design keeps the nose afloat and helps maintain momentum through the deepest turns and variable conditions, meaning more control, speed, and maneuverability with even less effort.Enjoyed by Terje Haakonsen, Nicolas Müller, Jake Burton and anyone else who seeks enlightenment through deep snow meditation.

What is Burton Snowboards' Cruise Control?
Cruise Control™ boosts confidence with the catch-free combo of a softer flex and mellower edge tune. On the Clash™, Bullet™, and Feather™ the nose is fully convex, whereas park boards like the Blunt and NEW Social are convex at the nose and tail for effortless fun regular or switch.

What is Burton Snowboards' New Party Rocker?
Inspired by the feel of skating, our NEW P-Rocker features Zero Camber between your feet with rockers outside each foot like a skateboard that lift the tip and tail completely off the snow. Super easy to slip and slide, this shape makes the board feel loose, soft, and effortless to press and butter. Hungry shred or seasoned pro, mini shred to mega jib, P-Rocker will fuel your park creativity. Enjoyed by team riders such as Yale Cousino, Mark Sollars, and Sami Saarenpää.

What is Burton Snowboards' Flying V?
Take flight with V-Rocker’s next evolution. A premium blend of camber and rocker performance, Flying V offers the best of both worlds. Rocker overall, including between and outside your feet, enhances playfulness and float through pow. Underneath your feet, subtle camber zones combine with Frostbite Edges, EGD, and The Channel to focus edge-control for crisp snap, added pop, and power through turns.

What is Burton Snowboards' Multizone EGD?
The wood grain is perpendicular to the core only under the bindings—the area from which a rider’s power emanates—to enhance carving precision, response, and durability while maximizing snow sensitivity.

What is Burton Snowboards' Powder Fly Core?
Powder Fly Core features a more resilient, lighter-weight nose that when combined with the board’s tapered shape and set-back stance, promotes float and eliminates rear leg burn so you can relax when riding powder.

What is Burton Snowboards' Park Fly Core?
Beefier between the bindings and lighter at the tip and tails, these cores are soft where you want it, burly where you need it, and super light all around.

What is Burton Snowboards' Dualzone EGD?
The wood grain is positioned along the toe and heel edges, perpendicular to the rest of the wood core, for superior edge hold and added strength.

What is Burton Snowboards' Negative Core Profile?
The team’s favorite Negative Core Profile features thinner sections of core between the bindings for softer flex and torsion. Perfect for everything from park, pipe, and pow to rails and boxes, these boards excel over a variety of terrain and conditions.

What is Burton Snowboards' Super Fly Core?
Lightened up and loaded with pop, the Super Fly Core is a vertical sandwich of hard and soft woods saves weight and improves snap and response.

What is Burton Snowboards' Dragonfly Core?
The world’s premier Dragonfly wood core incorporates over 500 independent laminations, each individually oriented within the core to create the lightest, strongest, and liveliest wood core on the planet.

What is Burton Snowboards' Even Core Profile?
Even Core Profile is designed for all-around performance. Creates a consistent flex and feel over the entire length of the board that balances stability and playfulness at both high and low speeds.

What is Burton Snowboards' Carbon I-Beam?
Carbon I-Beam is our ultra-light carbon backbone gives the board added pop and longitudinal snap.

What is Burton Snowboards' Triax Response Fiberglass?
Triax Response Fiberglass makes for versatile flex and response that’s capable of everything from straight-line big mountain descents to mellow laps through the park.

What is Burton Snowboards' Lightning Bolts?
Radiating outwards from the Channel, these energy transfer lines send input from brain to edge in the blink of an eye, allowing thoughts to become actions with effortless precision.

Board Insiders Translation:
This is a special fiber glass inlayed to the core that helps you turn faster and give you better edge response.

What is Burton Snowboards' Dual Density Biax React Fiberglass?
Dual-density fibers from tip-to-tail strengthen our park boards without adding weight or changing the buttery nature our Biax™ fiberglass is famous for.

What is Burton Snowboards' Dual Density Triax Response Fiberglass?
Dual-density fibers from tip to tail strengthen high-impact zones without adding weight or changing the overall forgiving flex of our park boards.

What is Burton Snowboards' Carbon Vaporskin?
Found on the Custom X™/Wide, Feelgood ES™, Supermodel X™, and X8V™, Carbon Vaporskin™ is a lively carbon blend that shaves precious ounces off the board while magnifying feel and response.

What is Burton Snowboards' New S2 Carbon Varporskin Lite?
In a never-ending quest to reduce weight without sacrificing performance, we have infused Carbon Vaporskin™ Lite with S2 fiberglass on the NEW Method. The result is envelope-pushing performance and increased strength in the lightest composite matrix board construction to date.

What is Burton Snowboards' Sintered base?
A sintered base is an ultra-durable and highly porous base, our sintered base’s superior wax absorption results in greater overall glide.

What is Burton Snowboards' lightspeed Vision Base?
Lightspeed Vision Base has strength, speed, easy maintenance, and poppy graphics for a fast ride even without wax.

What is Burton Snowboards' Sintered Vision Base?
Vivid graphics and improved speed, plus the durability and wax absorption our sintered bases are known for.

What is Burton Snowboards' Sintered N2O WFO Base?
Taking dual temperature wax impregnation to scary-fast, chemistry-nerd levels, N2O WFO blends high and low temperature-reactive waxes with a super durable and absorbent high-density sintered material. The result is a super fast, low-maintenance base that stays Wide F!#@ing Open all season in any condition imaginable.

What is Burton Snowboards' Blunted Elliptical Kicks?
An elliptical tip and tail shape promotes pop while providing added float and clearance when riding pow and variable conditions.

What is Burton Snowboards' Elliptical Nose?
An elliptical tip and tail shape promotes pop while providing added float and clearance when riding pow and variable conditions.

What is Burton Snowboards' Mid-Wide Shape?
Pros know that a wider waist width makes all the difference when stomping landings and getting tech on rails. That’s why we build mid wide boards around a size 10.5 boot. The added meat beneath your feet eliminates dreaded toe and heel drag while increasing stability so you can throw down without getting beat down. Mid Wide boards include:All-Mountain Freestyle: NEW Custom™ V-Rocker, NEW Joystick™, Hero, Hero Limited, and Mayhem™.Park: Jeremy Jones, NEW Easy Livin, Fix™, Love, Twin, Dominant™, NEW ConDOM, and SE7ENFreeride: Supermodel X™, Supermodel™, and NEW Guru.

What is Burton Snowboards' Swallow Tail?
Besides helping the nose stay afloat, the Swallow Tail on the Fish™ Limited lets you punch the tail through a turn without bogging down, allowing you to easily maintain speed for your next slash.

What is Burton Snowboards' Pro-Tip shape?

Pro-Tip Shape
	Another Burton first. The Pro-Tip is the tapering thickness of the tip and tail and dramatically reduces swing weight and creates a more playful flex in the tip and tail.

What is Burton Snowboards' Directional shape?
The classic, most versatile snowboard shape, designed to be ridden with a slightly longer nose than tail to concentrate pop in the tail while still giving you plenty of float and control to rip any terrain or snow condition.

What is Burton Snowboards' Twin-Like Shape?
Twin-Like shape is combining the twin aesthetics of a park board with the added versatility of a slightly directional shape, this design promotes precision in both directions while amplifying float, pop, and control in any situation.

What is Burton Snowboards' Twin-Like Shape?
Twin-Like shape is combining the twin aesthetics of a park board with the added versatility of a slightly directional shape, this design promotes precision in both directions while amplifying float, pop, and control in any situation.

What is Burton Snowboards' Twin?
The shape is perfectly symmetrical for a balanced ride that’s equally versatile when ridden regular or switch. Jib, spin, stomp, and butter with a greater balance of freestyle mobility and cat-like stability.

What is Burton Snowboards' Infinite Ride?
This exclusive pop and power-enhancing technology allows us to maximize pop and strength by overbuilding the board, then putting it in a machine that breaks the board in for you. The result is a consistent feel from the first day forward, season after season.

What is Burton Snowboards' Pro:45 Sidewalls
Found on select tapered boards, Pro:45™ Sidewalls feature a slantwall sidewall shape towards the nose that transitions to the burlier 10:45™ Sidewall at the tail. This allows the nose to cut through pow and crud while the tail takes all the abuse of off-piste riding.

What is Burton Snowboards' 10:45 Sidewall?
Extra-meaty 10:45 Sidewalls use two different angles to absorb the impacts that aggressive riders dish out.

What is Burton Snowboards' New Slimrail?
This new, ultra-minimized evolution in sidewall construction on the NEW Method shaves weight without sacrificing edge hold, strength, or rideability.

What is Burton Snowboards' New Surf Rail?
The Channel is snowboarding’s most direct connection—focusing power through a central connection spine that evenly distributes energy for added rebound and snap. It works with both Burton’s 3D® and EST™ bindings, and lets you mount bindings to board any way you see fit. Easily dial in your stance width and angles with next-level micro-adjustability.

What is Burton Snowboards' Grip & Rip Edge Tune?
Grip and Rip Edge tune is a tried and true edge tune, perfect for slicing and dicing the entire mountain to pieces.

What is Burton Snowboards' Pressure Distribution Edges?

Pressure Distribution Edges
	No fancy marketing campaign—just nine years of experience and another Burton breakthrough. The edges beneath the binding area extend out slightly for tremendous edge hold on hard, icy conditions, while remaining ever playful in soft snow. It’s there when you need it, yet can’t be noticed when you don’t.

What is Burton Snowboards' Stainless Steel Pressure Distribution Edges?
To help simplify things, we've assigned a single "feel" rating to each of our boards. This number is based on a variety of factors including the board’s materials, shape, tip-to-tail flex, and torsion (aka edge-to-edge rigidity). This number is based on a scale from one to ten with one being softer and more relaxed and ten being most responsive. Keep in mind that a higher number doesn't mean the board is more difficult to ride. It simply helps you compare boards within our line to determine which is best for your riding style.

What is Burton Snowboards' Positive Core Profile?
A Positive Core Profiles is thicker between the bindings and thinner towards the nose and tail. Drives you through a turn while increasing edge grip, response, and carving precision.

What is Burton Snowboards' Alumasuperfly Core?
Lighter than any core before it, yet strong enough to survive a launch into outer space, our new ultra-minimized Alumasuperfly core offers the final word in heightened snow-sensitivity and mind-reading control.

What is Burton Snowboards' Rail Ready Edge Tune?
This less-catchy tune lets you slide without hang-ups and still get plenty of grip for hitting kickers.

What is Burton Snowboards' New Titanium Alloy Pressure Distribution Edges?
The NEW stainless steel titanium alloy edge on the Method offers superior strength-to-weight and corrosion-resistance, and when combined with our Pressure Distribution Edge geometrics results in unstoppable edge-hold and everlasting precision.

What is Burton Snowboards' Twin flex?
The twin flex is perfectly symmetrical from tip to tail for a balanced ride that’s equally versatile when ridden regular or switch.

What is Burton Snowboards' Directional Flex?
This versatile flex features increased pop in the tail and a more resilient nose that allows riders to easily maintain control over all terrains and conditions.

What is Burton Snowboards' Living Color graphics?
The Twin features our Living Color graphics that morph the topsheet art as temperatures drop. Inside your house, or on slushy days, the topsheet features a tonal graphic. When the mercury dips below 40°F, the topsheet’s dark side comes to the forefront. The dynamic nature of the ink makes for a constantly evolving graphic.

What is ‘The System’ from Arbor?
The System is a fusion of interdependent technologies that support jib-specific performance.

What is Arbor’s Grip-Tech Sidecut?
Arbor’s Grip-Tech Sidecut is unblended progressive tri-radial sidecut design that creates additional contact points directly under-foot for significantly improved control.

What is Arbor’s Street Rocker?
Arbor’s Street Rocker is a rocker profile based on a stretched parabolic arc that further improves control, while providing a more uniform running surface nose to tail.

What is Arbor’s Rocker Flex?
Arbor’s Rocker Flex is a rocker specific flex pattern designed to address how riders experience board flex when shredding a de-cambered design.

What is Arbor’s Inlaid Power Spine?
Arbor’s Inlaid Power Spine is a structural spine of wood that counters the effect of de-cambering to maintain pop, while not hindering the rocker benefit of easy spins, presses, and butters.

What is Arbor’s Robusto Tips?
Arbor’s Robust Tips are a wider, more blunt shape and flat kick design that meets the needs of a rocker nose and tail’s more specialized role as platforms for presses and butters.

What is Arbor’s True-Twin?
Arbors True-Twin is a twin-tip shape that encourage riders to equalize their stance and more effectively activate the Grip-Tech contact points and Street Rocker design.

What is Arbor’s Mercy Edges?
Arbor’s Mercy Edges are softer bronze edges that deliver a less catchy ride, while balancing the active edge performance created by Street Rocker and Grip Tech.

What is Arbor’s Sumo-Stance?
Arbor’s Sumo-Stance is an expanded 2×4 insert system that provides a much wider stance (Max: 25.20″/64cm) allowing riders to size down their boards for classic rocker performance.

What is Arbor’s Structural Wood Topsheet?
Arbor’s Structural Wood Topsheet works like a 3rd layer of fiberglass - during construction resin locks the dense wood fibers in place, creating a composite layer that structurally enhances a board, providing added return and durability, while allowing for important weight reduction.

What is Arbor’s FSC Certified Wood Cores?
All of Arbor’s wood cores are made with poplar that has been certified by the Forest Stewardship Council as sustainably produced. Poplar is still the best choice as a primary wood core material due to its combination of lighter-weight performance, durability, and availability.

What is Arbor’s Paulownia Weight Reduction?
Paulownia is a fast growing, plantation-cultivated wood species that we use as an ultra-lightweight, balsa-like core additive. Unlike balsa, Paulownia’s tensile strength is similar to traditional wood core materials, which allows us to deliver maximum weight reduction, without reducing durability.

What is Arbor’s Fusion Base?
Arbor’s Fusion Base is a tough, user-friendly extruded compound that is light and easy to repair.

What is Arbor’s Rocket Base?
Arbor’s Rocket Base is an advanced, ultra-high molecular weight sintered compound that provides unmatched durability, wax absorption, and speed.

What is Arbor’s Mission Core?
Our most affordable core, built using grade A poplar and a high-density composite material that is made with a 30% reclaimed wood fiber content. The wood fiber is added to improve strength and reduce weight.

What is Arbor’s Medicine Core?
Our all-mountain core, built out of 100% grade A poplar; the industry standard for reliable energy and lasting durability.

What is Arbor’s Shaman Core?
Our lightest core, designed for on-mountain and park riding, built with a 50/50 blend of ultra lightweight paulownia wood and poplar for added compression strength.

What is Arbor’s Mystic II Core?
Our most bomber core, designed for aggressive park and mountain riding, built using light TDS poplar, with bamboo reinforced rails for improved initiation and landing durability.

What is Arbor’s Mystic I Core?
Our high-end park and street core, built from grade A poplar and reinforced with two bamboo axels running up the center of the core. The bamboo axels are designed to improve durability and pop without effecting spin, butter, or press performance.

What is Arbor’s Druid Core?
Our most technically advanced core, designed for high speed and on-edge performance, built using light TDS poplar, with cork stringers to dampen vibration and Diamondwood rails to improve edge hold and rail durability.

What is Arbor’s Voodoo Core?
Our second lightest core, designed for on-mountain and park riding, built with a 100% TDS poplar, which is a specially selected lighter grade of wood.

What is Arbor’s Carbon Fibre Truss?
Running carbon fiber across the whole board from contact point to contact point provides the maximum torsional support - designed for the highest performance in the pipe, steeps, or at speed.

What Is Arbor’s Carbon Fibre Strut?
Inserting carbon fiber down the center of a board creates a compression strut that livens up a board's longitudinal flex without negatively affecting turn-ability, spin initiation, or landing recoverability.

What is Arbor’s Progressive – Standard?
Arbors Progressive-Standard is a blended tri-radial sidecut that provides tighter turning and quicker initiation, while maintaining stability at speed and during landings.

What is Arbor’s Progressive – Unblended?
Arbors Progressive-Unblended is an unblended tri-radial sidecut that provides improved turning, initiation, and stability, similar to our standard progressive sidecut, while adding specific performance benefits to our rocker design. By not blending the three radii that make up the sidecut, you add two additional contact points under the feet that improve edge hold. This alteration allows the Draft to still grip the snow even with its rocker profile, which releases the leading and trailing contact points off the snow for improved spin, press, and butter performance.

What is Bataleon Snowboards' Poplar Good Woodcore?
Bataleaon Snowboards' Poplar Good Woodcore is their basic woodcore.

What is Bataleon Snowboards' Poplar Beech Goodwood Core?
Bataleon Snowboards' Poplar Beech Goodwood Core is Poplar core with hardwood enforcements along the sidewall.

Bataleon Snowboards' Poplar Beech+ Goodwood Core?
Bataleon Snowboards' Poplar Beech+ Goodwood Core is Poplar core with extra hardwood enforcements along the sidewalls.

What is Bataleon Snowboards' Poplar Birch Impact Zones GoodWood Core?
Bataleon Snowboards' Poplar Birch Impact Zones GoodWood Core is Poplar core with sidecut active hardwood enforcements along the sidewall. Extra reinforced impact zones in binding areas.

What is Bataleon Snowboards' Poplar Lite Lite WoodCore?
Bataleon Snowboards' Poplar Lite Lite WoodCore is a light core that is still strong enough to stand up to our break tests.

What is Bataleon Snowboards' FSC Certified Good WoodCore?
This woodcore is made with wood taken from sustainable sources.

What is Bataleon Snowboards' Extraduded 2000?
Bataleon Snowboards' Extraduded 2000 is easy to fix and can take a good beating. Wax it for more speed

What is Bataleon Snowboards' Synthduded 2555?
Bataleon Snowboards' Synthduded 2555 is Fast as f*(k great wax absorption, though as nails

What is Bataleon Snowboards' Nano Hai Lite Speed?
Bataleon Snowboards' Nano Hai Lite Speed is a bit too much really normally only used one race boards. If you keep this base waxed its the fastest base on the hill.

What is Bataleon Snowboards' Recycled Base?
Bataleon Snowboards' Recycled Base is Made out of recycled base material that is grinded up and compressed to solid fresh base that is good for nature. We recommend using soy wax on this one.

What is Bataleon Snowboards' 3x2x Lamiate?
Bataleon Snowboards' 3x2x Lamiate is Tri-ax over the woodcore with Bi-ax under the core wich creates an easy flex with lots of feel.

What is Bataleon Snowboards' 4x4x Laminate?
Bataleon Snowboards' 4x4x Laminate is Quadrax over and under the core and delivers precision to your riding.

What is Bataleon Snowboards' 3X By 2X Carbon Laminate?
Bataleon Snowboards' 3X By 2X Carbon Laminate is Carbon Tri-ax and Bi-ax wich brings liveliness and precision while giving and extreme weight reduction.

What is Bataleon Snowboards' Kevlar Enhanced?
We put extra Kevlar stringers into our highest hi-end models to increase the already crazy responsiveness.

What is Bataleon Snowboards' Carbon Enforced?
Bataleon Snowboards' Carbon adds carbon stringers wich save weight while adding strength.

What is Bataleon Snowboards' Custom Stone Grind?
All bataleon boards leave our factory with hand tuned custom stone grind finish.

What is Bataleon Snowboards' Solvent Free?
We care so we use strictly solvent free lacquers.

What is Burton Snowboards' Super Fly II Core?
Placing stronger and lighter wood in specific areas of the core provides snap, strength, and reduced weight for uncompromised board feel and response.

Devin

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