By habit I would lean back a touch, which brings the whole front half of the board up, which makes it float even easier. The nose feels quite long, and with the short tail and taper naturally keeps it above the snow. In powder the Harpoon floats like you think it would. It isn’t often that regular blue and green runs feel fun just to turn on, but that is exactly what the Harpoon does. It is probably helped by the taper, but it somehow felt almost as quick as a regular to narrow waist board. With almost no effort, you can guarantee a strong and grippy turn, that is very natural to start, and smooth to exit.Īlthough this board does have a wider waist width, I didn’t feel like swapping edge to edge felt any slower like it can on other wide boards. Whether it is the sidecut, or the Fusion profile, turning is very smooth and easy. If I had to highlight one feature that the Harpoon does best, it is turning. The Vario sidecut is made up of a bunch of different sidecut sizes, which in real life gives plenty of grip in all parts of a turn. Still at my weight (155lbs) it wasn’t hard to move and flex the board around.Įdge hold is where all Never Summer boards do well, and the Harpoon in no exception. The mid flex is stiff enough to give the board a stable feel in chopped up terrain, so I didn’t run into any situations where I felt like I was going to get thrown around if the board didn’t power through the bumps. I wont really comment much on the damp rating, as overall all Never Summer boards feel quite damp as a brand compared to most others. Never Summer give this board a flex rating of 5/10 and a damp rating of 5/10. I had to adjust the amount of effort that I needed to ollie, and while it was quick and easy to get used to, it is nothing like the solid pushback you would get from a camber board. Even with the more pronounced camber profile under your back foot, it is pretty much what you would expect. I never expect to get good pop from any hybrid board (with rocker between your feet), so my expectations are realistic no matter how much carbon or extra things are added into the board to try and help. Leaning slightly back will lift the whole front of the board up, which is a good indication of why it floats well in deep snow. Overall it does have the standard Never Summer feel when you are on the board, which I think is mostly from the feeling of the rocker section trying to push your feet up if your weight isn’t centered. It seems like it has the large rocker section between your feet from the Original profile, a more aggressive camber section under your back foot from the Ripsaw, and a subtle camber section which flattens out on the longer nose. This profile is used on their directional boards, and like the name Fusion suggests, is a mix between a few. I had only ridden one other board with this profile, which was the Never Summer Swift – so I wasn’t super familiar with it. There had been a little bit of fresh snow overnight, so overall conditions were soft in the trees, and quite grippy on groomed runs. I did wonder how a board that is probably going to ride better at a smaller size would go, but it turns out 159 was fine for me. Although Never Summer say that you can ride this board 3-6cm smaller or just your regular size, 159 is on the longer end of boards that I would normally ride. I was riding with positive positive stance angles, and a fairly narrow stance. I am 6 foot tall and weigh 155lbs – or 183cm tall and 70kg. Womens Harpoon – 144cm and 148cm How it Rides The better of the two main sintered bases that are used on Never Summer boards. Will mount all regular bindings to the board. 259mm waist on the smallest size, up to 164mm on the biggest. It has quite a large rocker section between your feet, with more camber under your back foot, a small section towards the nose and a large flatter section.Ī medium flex rating, soft enough that you can can flex without too much effort, but still stable enough at high speed.Īlthough they say it is Mid-Wide, compared to boards from other brands this is definitely a wide. This profile is basically what is used on their directional boards. All Mountain, Freeride, Freestyle, Powder
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