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KORUA Pencil 2021-2022 Snowboard Review

  • Price: €449 / $549
  • Category: Freeride + Powder
  • Sizes: 147, 159, 164
  • Flex: 7/10
  • Shape: Directional
  • Profile: Combo
  • 3D: No
  • Base: Sintered

Snowboards don’t come much cooler than the Pencil. It’s a classic piece of minimalist Swiss design that doesn’t need to shout with a wild graphic to have that wow factor. If you yearn to turn, look no further.

“Snowboards don’t come much cooler than the Pencil”

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Who Is The KORUA Pencil For?

Riders who want to master the art of carving, on and off the piste.

Shape, Profile and Sidecut

The Pencil is a directional silhouette with a long pointed nose and a short crescent tail. Both these elements come into their own in deep snow. With heaps of rocker up front to generate lift, the back of the board will naturally sink and let you concentrate on drawing graceful lines through the pow.

It’s still a great performer on hardpack, though, thanks to a cambered profile underfoot that helps keep the edges engaged and let you spring rapidly across the base. The sidecut is fairly sharp, so it’s a nimble board that you can thread down crowded pistes and empty tree runs alike.

“The sidecut is fairly sharp, so it’s a nimble board that you can thread down crowded pistes and empty tree runs alike”

Construction and Materials

They’ve kept things fairly simple with the construction of the Pencil. It’s got a full length poplar core for tried and trusted pop, together with a biax fibreglass topsheet which keeps the flex firmly in the middle of the range. In fact we’ve found many of the KORUA’s are less stiff than you might expect for carving-focused boards, so you don’t need to be intimidated – pretty much any rider will feel at ease on this thing.

The base is sintered, and it’s red. We like to think Nicholas Wolken and friends were inspired by Ferrari when they came up with their ubiquitous colour scheme, though more likely it’s something to do with the Swiss flag, or pantone charts. Either way, it’s cool as fuck.

“You don’t have to have the edge technique of a slalom racer to enjoy it, but if you stick with this board for a while, you soon will”

Roundup

Imagine a giant compass, like the ones you used to use to draw circles in maths, only 50 foot tall, and on the end of it is a red-and-white snowboard. That’s the Pencil, etching perfect arcs in the snow. You don’t have to have the edge technique of a slalom racer to enjoy it, but if you stick with this board for a while, you soon will.

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