Hitting Kickers

Just picked up this board (161 f2 Sonic) on my last day in Chamonix, but haven’t had a chance to ride it yet. Will report back when I’ve given it a go in February. For now all I can say is its fairly stiff, black with red trim and it looks mean.

I spent 4 days riding the f2 Sonic (fitted with Salomon SPX44 bindings) in Austria last week.

The board is billed as a 50-50 freeride freestyle board which is ideal for me, as I love cruising the pistes/off piste as much as I do hitting kickers and doing little tricks.

For FS stuff, the board had an excellent pop to it but retained good stiffness for carving out turns. In fact it has a really tight turning cirlce.

No problems getting up some serious speed on this board either, though as a fairly light board it tends to bounce about a bit when you’re caning it on rough terrain.

All in all, shed loads of fun though it took me a day to get used to it. But when I did, it flew.

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