Shape, Profile and Sidecut

Many jib specific boards are built around a true twin shape and a mellow flex to make switch riding, pressing and butter really accessible, and Eiki’s pro model is no different. The blunted off nose and tail are designed to reduce the swing weight of the board, so it’s much easier to control your spins and rotations in the air. It’ll also make finding the ends of the board that bit easier when you’re locking it into a press.

Perhaps surprising for a jib-specific deck is the low rise positive camber running from tip to tail. It’s not a super aggressive profile, so it’s still very easy to bend and jib around on, but that full-length camber does give you some additional ollie power when it comes to getting this thing up in the air.

Where the Eiki pro breaks away from the crowd is with its jib specific variant of Triple Base Technology. If you’re familiar with Bataleon snowboards you’ll know all about this already. Starting from just outside the inserts, the nose and tail of the board are broken into three sections.

Firstly, there’s a wide centre base section, which gives you a really stable platform if you’re popping or pressing off the ends of the board, while either side is flanked by two sidebase sections. These have a really subtle uplift which increases more around the contact area and creates a three-step spoon-like shape at the very ends of the board.

It’s pretty obvious how that translates to park riding and jibbing. By having slightly uplifted contact points, the board becomes way more forgiving on boxes, rails, or if you don’t quite get your rotations round on a kicker, but it does so without compromising any of the board’s pop or its stability when you’re riding on the centre of the base. Converts to Triple Base have long sung its praises for all-mountain versatility and performance in a variety of conditions, and while we wouldn’t completely box in the Eiki Pro to just the park line, it’s certainly going to be at its best when you’re taking it to freestyle-features.

“The blunted off nose and tail are designed to reduce the swing weight of the board, so it’s much easier to control your spins and rotations in the ai”