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Slash Spectrum 2021-2022 Snowboard Review

  • Price: £360 / €379 / $379
  • Category: Park + Jib
  • Sizes: 148, 151, 153W, 154, 157
  • Flex: 6/10
  • Shape: True Twin
  • Profile: Camber
  • 3D: No
  • Base: Extruded

There are two big comebacks we’re seeing for winter 21/22. The first, and more general one, is the of fully positive camber profiles — the OG, Mac-Daddy classic snowboard bend for unrivalled pop and precision. The second, and one we’re equally stoked about, is the return of the Slash Spectrum.

“True Twin? Check. Camber? Check.”

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Who Is The Slash Spectrum For?

Park riders. Pure and simple. The Spectrum is purpose built for freestyle fiends who want one board to jib and press on but still take to the jump line and send it into the stratosphere.

Shape, Profile and Sidecut

True Twin? Check. Camber? Check. A progressive sidecut, blending various radii and super smooth contact points in the blend zone for a super predictable and precise ride? Yep, check.

The Spectrum is in every sense a classic park and freestyle board. With sizes going from a 148 up to a 157, it’s designed to be ridden a little shorter than your all-mountain deck and makes it much easier for chucking into spins, locking into presses and reaching those grabs at the end of the board a little more easily.

While full caber park boards were once the norm, they’ve been somewhat pushed to the sidelines in recent years to make way for more funky combo profile and 3D base contours, but for riders who know how to work the board and get the most performance out of it, these types of profiles can properly level up your riding.

“The Spectrum is in every sense a classic park and freestyle board”

Construction and Materials

The Spectrum shares much of its construction with the fan-favourite Happy Place, but substitutes out the sintered base for a more rugged and jib-friendly extruded base. This knocks the price point down a little and, though you lose out on a little wax retention, your local workshop will thank you for the easier repair job when you snag it on a street rail or box.

Carbon stringers are placed directly underfoot to give that already poppy camber profile a little added firepower. The flex point sits at a mid-stiffness six out of ten – enough play for jibbing and buttering across the mountain but still retaining a decent level of response to inspire confidence on bigger features.

“The Spectrum shares much of its construction with the fan-favourite Happy Place, but substitutes out the sintered base for a more rugged and jib-friendly extruded base”

Roundup

With the tsunami or new shapes and profiles pouring into the market, it makes sense that the Spectrum was dropped from the line a few seasons back. But it makes even more sense that it has returned for winter 21/22. Dedicated park boards are a tricky thing to get right. Trends come and go, but style lasts forever, and the Spectrum epitomises this excellently. Right down to Sebastian Müller’s artwork on the topsheet.

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