As with most all-mountain snowboards, the Cream dials the balance of being soft enough for jibbing, flatland and rail riding, yet still packs enough muscle under the hood to take it to larger park features or harder charging across the rest of the mountain. The flex sits at a 5/10, so there’s options on either side of it, like Eiki’s buttery soft pro model, or the big-hitting park machine, the Sender. But for a one-stop-all-mountain-shop, the Cream easily ticks the most number of boxes.

That’s largely down to the construction. Mid-flexing biax laminates are layered on either side of a wood core made from poplar stringers with beech wood reinforcing the higher-stressed, impact areas. This sits on top of a pretty decent sintered base – nothing like a race board, but certainly fast enough to carry speed into sidehits spotted at the last minute on the home run.

“The Cream dials the balance of being soft enough for jibbing, flatland and rail riding, yet still packs enough muscle under the hood to take it to larger park features”

Lastly, there are carbon stringers running along the sidewall, from around insert pack out towards the widest part of the nose and tail. The benefits of this are two-fold. Carbon has dampening properties so it will help to stabilise the snowboard when you’re trucking full beans towards the run-in of a kicker and therefore keeps the edge engaging in the snowpack for a solid setup turn.

It also delivers a tonne of pop without overly affecting the more playful torsional flex in the middle of the snowboard. Granted, it makes the ends of the board a little less pressable so if that’s more your jam then maybe consider the Stomper instead.

Lobster haven’t completely shifted direction with the Cream. Everything about it, right down to the graphics, has the signature look and feel of what those boys are all about. But who says freeriding needs to be all about Goretex and Cliff Bars, or that freestyle has to take place inside the park ropes? It’s that space between the two where the magic really happens. You’re still thinking about that buttcheeks analogy, aren’t you? Sorry about that.