Construction and Materials

The Meta sits at the top end of the flex scale, and as such it can be a pretty powerful beast when you push it. This is thanks in part to its Ultralight Wood Core, which as you can probably guess, is pretty damn light. It’s bolstered by the carbon and Kevlar layup, stiffening the board without the hefty weight penalty of some materials.

Topped off with a super slick Sintered 7200 base, the Meta is most at home when its charging hard and fast. This is where the reactive fibreglass layer really comes into its own, when you’re going mach 10 you need to be able to react to external stimuli at the drop of a hat, and the Meta allows for just that. Precise, powerful and pretty damn fast, an ideal combo for a heavy-duty all-mountain machine.

“It’s bolstered by the carbon and Kevlar layup, stiffening the board without the hefty weight penalty of some materials”

Roundup

As with all Vimana snowboards, the graphics are from the hugely talented Peter-John de Villiers aka The Shallowtree. From podiums to powder fields, the Meta transcends labels. It’s the fabled one snowboard to do it all, not an easy thing to achieve, but we had a blast on the Meta all over the hill.

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“It all started with Brage Richenberg wanting to change his model from twin to a directional platform. We worked closely together to build a directional all mountain board that could work in the park but also kill in the backcountry. The result is a true quiver killer, one board to rule them all. Taking the sidecut inspiration from our most balanced board the Clone, Early rise nose from our Vega and Astro, and power charge from the Vufo. We made two versions, The B-Rage and The Meta – The Meta being the supercharged version for intermediate to experienced riders.

We strictly build dream boards that our team riders use, this is definitely at the top of that list.”