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Bataleon Storm 2021-2022 Snowboard Review

  • Price: £490 / €560 / $560
  • Category: All-Mountain
  • Sizes: 144, 148, 152, 156
  • Flex: 5/10
  • Shape: Directional
  • Profile: Camber
  • 3D: Yes
  • Base: Sintered
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Bataleon have been at the forefront of the recent progression in snowboard shapes, and the Storm is a case in point. It takes the best features of their popular Push Up model and adds a more aggressive nose to boost the performance in deep snow. But make no mistake, you can still ride this anywhere.

“Bataleon have been at the forefront of the recent progression in snowboard shapes, and the Storm is a case in point”

Who Is The Bataleon Storm For?

Women who want to do it all: crush the park, cruise the pistes and slash the powder. This is a modern silhouette for modern all terrain snow sliding.

Shape, Profile and Sidecut

While it might not be an obvious ‘volume shift’ model like Love Powder (found elsewhere in Bataleon’s women’s range) there’s some clever stuff going on with the shape of this snowboard. The Storm has a lot of 3D bevel in the nose, and a little less at the tail, together with an extra steep flick at the widepoints which Bataleon call Sidekicks. All this means that it rolls smoothly into turns and ploughs easily through powder; the hull-like design also works super well over rough snow and slush. The overall silhouette is not ridiculously wide or tapered, and there’s enough tail available for you to ride switch and/or send a few laps through the park.

From tip to tail the Storm features traditional camber, which makes it lively to turn and poppy to ollie. Thanks to Triple Base, which raises the contact points off the snow, it never feels twitchy – even if your edge changes are less than perfect.

“From tip to tail the Storm features traditional camber, which makes it lively to turn and poppy to ollie”

Construction and Materials

The Storm is built around a lightweight 50/50 Swiss paulownia and poplar core. It’s got a medium flex level and a few little extras to spice up the ride. First of there is a pair of carbon rods aka SuperTubes positioned on either side to reinforce that lively camber profile. More carbon (diagonal stringers, this time) is included within a triax fibre layup. It all adds up to a responsive board that’s comfortable holding an edge and won’t buckle or vibrate even at warp speeds. Pillows and cliff drops are meat and drink to this thing; rails less so.

The base is sintered (read: rapid) and features what Bataleon call a Flip Flop die-cut – essentially the discarded jigsaw pieces from one base are used in the next board on the production line, reversing the colours and minimising waste.

“Innovative shape, premium materials, versatile performance: they’ve got the balance spot on here”

Roundup

At first glance the Storm looks almost like a traditional design. Almost. Turn it into the light and all its 3D goodness is revealed. Sure, it’s made for mixing park jumps and powder lines like all-mountain boards of old, but there’s literally another dimension to the Storm that makes it way more exciting – and progressive – to ride. Innovative shape, premium materials, versatile performance: they’ve got the balance spot on here.

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