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Weston Rise 2021-2022 Snowboard Review

  • Price: £500 / $500
  • Category: All-Mountain
  • Sizes: 143, 146, 149, 152
  • Flex: 6/10
  • Shape: Directional Twin
  • Profile: CamRock
  • 3D: No
  • Base: Sintered

Colorado based Weston Backcountry have carved out a name for themselves as some of the best freeride and powder boards in the industry. The kind of company you’re more likely to find out testing boards than sitting in a boardroom, they do it for the same reason you or I do, for the love of snowboarding.
The Rise lives at the intersection of freeride and freestyle, delivering the playfulness of a park board with the hard charging power of a freeride gun.

“The Rise lives at the intersection of freeride and freestyle, delivering the playfulness of a park board with the hard charging power of a freeride gun”

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Who Is The Weston Rise For?

Experienced ladies who don’t want to be pigeon-holed by their gear. You’re just as happy boosting the kicker line as you are bombing groomers, and you’ve always got your eye out for untracked powder to dip into.

Shape, Profile and Sidecut

Built around a versatile directional twin chassis, the Rise makes the most of the best of both worlds with a lot of its features. Directional twins are pretty much the bona fide best for riding a bit of everything, and the Rise will have your back across a multitude of terrain.

There’s no taper to speak of, so it’ll still ride switch pretty easily when you want to take a lap through the park or take your freestyle out into the world, but the setback stance and rockered tips give it the edge when it comes to floating in the deeper snow. On the hardpack, the camber midbody delivers that extra bite of pop and aggression for biting into the snow and pumping edge to edge, but it’s not as catchy or twitchy as a traditional full camber.

“Built around a versatile directional twin chassis, the Rise makes the most of the best of both worlds with a lot of its features”

Construction and Materials

The Rise sits just north of middle in the flex scale, so it’s still playful enough for buttering and pressing, but not so noodley you’ll find it difficult to push yourself. The flex is bolstered by carbon stringers in the nose and tail, these maximise pop power through those areas, and give them an extra bit of reinforcement for heavy landings, as well as soaking up some of the chatter when you’re blasting around.

Weston use their Freedom core, with paulownia and poplar to marry strength and power, with lightweight manouverability. This sits between responsive triax fibreglass, so the Rise will be on high alert to move and react to external stimuli at the drop of a hat.

“Overall, with the Rise you’ve got a solid all-mountain snowboard that does a bit of everything really well”

Roundup

Overall, with the Rise you’ve got a solid all-mountain snowboard that does a bit of everything really well. Realistically, it’ll get beaten out by a specific powder board if push comes to shove, but for one board to do it all, at a really reasonable price then it’s hard to beat.

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