2 Day of Testing. Hundreds of Reviews.
As more than just a product showcase, on-snow demo, or cultural gathering, Field Test was designed to harness the collective expertise of the industry’s best.
With the backdrop of a dynamic event celebrating snowboarding culture, Field Test offered an unprecedented opportunity to build a database of rider-driven feedback for use by brands and retailers.
“Field Test is a cornerstone for gathering unbiased feedback and creating an experiential interface between the best snowboarders and the best snowboarding gear.
By bringing together passionate riders and experienced industry professionals, we’ve created a valuable resource for both brands and retailers to test the offerings, share their thoughts, and gain valuable knowledge on the future of snowboard product.”
We have crunched all the data,
below are the results for our stand-out categories including;
Best All Mountain Board, Best Pow and Backcountry Board, Best Park and Street board, Best Quiver Killer Board, and three Honorable Mentions of boards that were hot on the heels of the stand-out category winners.
Follow the links to each brand’s site
for full specs and information.
Best All Mtn. Board:
Korua Shapes
Transition Finder
From Korua:
The Transition Finder is the ultimate melting pot of freeride, freestyle, and carving. With slightly less taper than the original, it’s more balanced than ever and ready to adapt to any terrain. From surf-inspired soul turns in powder, to trenching groomers, to boosting transitions in the park, this board turns the entire mountain into your playground.
Freestyle versatility defines the Transition Finder. Less taper keeps it balanced and easy to set on edge, while the medium flex and early-rise nose keep it fun and playful across terrain. The elongated diamond tail ensures stability, whether you’re stomping landings, spinning natural features, or hitting side-hits with style.
Best Pow Board:
Nitro Stiletto RS
x Drew Hicken
From Nitro:
OG Nitro pro rider Drew Hicken is our first guest shaper, with a tribute to Nitro‘s first swallowtail board, the Retro, and the legendary Pow boards that followed with Drew‘s design input. A powder field destroyer with its wider swallowtail shape, focusing on the float and glide with responsive flex for stability in drops, high speeds, and end-of-the-day chop! It‘s a limited board, so get it while you can for your collection.
Best Park x Street Board:
PUBLIC Statement
From PUBLIC:
The PUBLIC Statement Snowboard is Kas Lemmens' mid-wide masterpiece. It combines positive camber with flattened contact points for quick edge-to-edge transitions, while the slightly wider waist eliminates toe and heel drag for riders with larger boot sizes.
Built with a poplar wood core for smooth, consistent flex and featuring 20mm quad carbon strips in the tip and tail for explosive pop, this board delivers serious performance whether you're carving groomers or hitting features. With a sintered base for enhanced speed and urethane sidewalls for impact protection, the Statement provides the responsive, durable platform that lets your riding speak for itself.
Best Quiver Killer Board:
PUBLIC Outreach
From PUBLIC:
We are proud to introduce the all-new PUBLIC Outreach to our lineup of boards. Totally flat, and slightly set back – the Outreach is the quiver killer you’ve been looking for.
Lightweight, and nimble, this board offers that ‘skating with loose trucks’ feeling you need when you’re riding whatever the mountain can throw at you. From tree runs, and park laps, to pow days and springtime slush sessions, the Outreach is guaranteed to satisfy all your needs without breaking the bank. Available now for PUBLIC consumption.
Honorable Mention:
Salomon Jetstream
From Salomon:
The Jetstream is a charismatic and maneuverable freeride board with versatility for everyday use, regardless of conditions. Equipped with Rock Out Camber and a tapered directional shape, the Jetstream carves like a knife and floats like a dream with lightning-fast edge to edge transition thanks to a progressive flex and a refined radial sidecut.
Honorable Mention:
K2 Sky Pilot
From K2:
Sage Kotsenburg linked up with our product design and engineering team and wanted to work on a new snowboard that was designed to ride pillowy, forested, technical terrain.
The concept was to be able to “pivot” and “release” the tail freely to allow the rider to ride the natural contours of the terrain in front of them. The crew got to the drawing board (read: very expensive computer software), pumped out proto #1 … and we were off to the races on what became to be the Sky Pilot.
Honorable Mention:
RIDE Moderator
From RIDE:
The unisex Moderator is your new quiver killer. Truly one board for everything. A medium (some might even say moderate) flex with a Tapered Directional Extra Camber profile, this board is built for smooth turns and pop while having just enough rise in the nose to float on those deeper days. No need to swap out decks or change your stance depending on conditions.
The Moderator should be ridden in a standard length, no downsize needed. The Tapered Linear Quadratic Sidecut is designed for smooth turn initiation and powerful grip without washing out. The Moderator features our Slim Wall construction, where a urethane layer runs along the edge of the board to increase flex and damping to create a board that is at home anywhere on the mountain. This is a premium all-mountain board and features RIDE's Performance™ Light Core, Carbon Array™ 3, Sintered Stone Ground Base, and bio-resin. The Moderator will take you anywhere you want to go.
We designed the Field Test to collect both quantitative and qualitative information on products. Quantitative to make for easy and fair comparisons on product characteristics, and qualitative to go deeper into the nuances and minutiae of thoughts and observations.
As with any data set, there is some inherent bias based on external conditions so take this all with a grain of salt. These results aren’t absolute, they are just data!
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Huge thanks to all of our testers & reviewers, our exhibiting brands, our supporting sponsors, and everyone involved at INTERLUDE.
The Interlude Team