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Salomon Oh Yeah Grom 2021-2022 Women’s Snowboard Review

  • Price: £220 / €249
  • Category: Park + Jib
  • Sizes: 127, 133, 138
  • Flex: 5/10
  • Shape: True Twin
  • Profile: Combo
  • 3D: No
  • Base: Extruded
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The Oh Yeah Grom adds a touch of purple power to the junior lineup from Salomon. Modelled after the women’s freestyle board you can kit out your kid with a matching board if you want for some Grillo style family ripping through the park.

Underneath the stylish topsheet is the same snowboard as the Sleepwalker Grom which won a spot in the coveted Whitelines 100 this year for it’s amazing value for money for junior park riders. So rest assured that the Oh Yeah Grom is matching that pedigree!

“The Oh Yeah Grom adds a touch of purple power to the junior lineup from Salomon”

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Who Is The Salomon Oh Yeah Grom For?

This a super stylish, freestyle focused board that would be well suited to any young ripper that’s looking to earn their chops in the park. The Oh Yeah Grom is well designed to support progression without adding in unnecessary consequences to the mistakes we all make learning.

Shape, Profile and Sidecut

Built for freestyle progression and forgiveness, you’ll find a true twin shape on the Oh Yeah Grom. An EQ Rad sidecut features straight sections between your feet and in the tip and tail. While a slight radius near the bindings helps to link this all together. When you add this all up you get a responsive and grippy ride that’s super reliable to set up or land switch in thanks to that true twin orientation.

When you get towards the nose & tail you’ll find that the edges have been totally detuned as part of Salomons’ Bite Free Edge which is ideal if you come up a little short on a spin.

When it comes to exploring the world of freestyle getting the right profile is super important depending on what you’re riding. In the case of the Oh Yeah Grom Salomon have blended everything together to create the Rock Out Camber profile which is perfect for trying something on every feature while you figure out your preferred niche.

The flat section between the bindings provides great stability and will help lock into any boardslides, the slight camber underfoot offers something to push back against in your turns or load up with power to get airborne and the rockered nose and tail allows for some forgiveness if you skuff a landing.

“This a super stylish, freestyle focused board that would be well suited to any young ripper that’s looking to earn their chops in the park”

Construction and Materials

If you peel back that cool topsheet (don’t though) you’ll find a Popster core that cleverly uses varying thicknesses of wood to create a natural, poppy response. In short, the wood is thinner between the bindings and also tapers out in the tip & tail which adds a lot of snap to the board. There’s then a slightly thicker section under your feet to provide a stable, reliable feeling.

The Aspen wood strips you’ll find inside are all FSC certified and are combined with Biaxial Low Density Fibreglass to create a reliable torsional flex that’s super playful and will maintain the same flex and feel forever.

The extruded base is a must for learning new tricks in the park, built a little tougher than sintered alternatives and much easier to repair if it gets dinged on a rail.

“Built for freestyle progression and forgiveness, you’ll find a true twin shape on the Oh Yeah Grom”

Roundup

This is an amazing choice for any up & coming grom that’s honing their skills in the park, it has everything you need to grip it and rip it, but there’s enough forgiveness in there to let you get away with some sloppy landings on new tricks.

Feeling safe and being able to get away with sloppier landings can really help to improve a young snowboarders confidence, and once they’re feeling good about trying the trick, the board has the tech they need to tighten up a smoother landing and keep progressing.

Don’t forget that the Oh Yeah Grom is exactly the same under the hood as our 100 winning Sleepwalker Grom (insert link). So if you love the board but aren’t a fan of the graphic or have perhaps outgrown the sizes available then there is another amazing option from Salomon.

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