| The Next Series 159RC is new to the Endeavor line up, it’s Endeavor’s premium freeride rocker. My first thoughts were that the Next Series was quite heavy compared to similar boards of it’s length, this is because of a fuller nose and a slight taper at the tail to assist float, and no-doubt because the rocker construction has had to be beefed up to handle big cliff drops and powder landings. Despite being a little heavier than other boards, the Next Series was extremely quick and nimble edge-to-edge, I felt like snake hips weaving my way around Kaunertal, definitely more agile than similar boards of it’s size, but still stable at high speed. The Next Series also provided impressive float in deeper snow. I can imagine pumping through tight trees would be amazing fun on the Next Series, especially in heavier snow. Off kickers the Next series was really poppy. At high speed on bashed pistes, the Next Series did display a bit of chatter, but in deeper snow this wasn’t a problem, it’s a trait that I’ve seen in a number of rockered boards at high speed. An all-mountain board which would be happy in the park and dropping 30ft cliffs at high speed in head height powder, I would have loved to have hit some big backcountry booters into deep powder, I’m sure the Next Series would be in it’s element. If I was doing a season in Whistler and I could only take one board, I’d take the Next Series. |
Not much to add to that from us. |
| The Endeavor Roots was a really pleasant board to ride and felt much longer than 154cm. The sidecut for the board was pretty perfect which combined with a good amount of torsional stiffness meant that making small controlled turns down steep terrain was as easy as making long radius carves down wide-open mellow piste’s. If you’re a smaller rider and you’re looking for a board that can do it all; Park, Pipe and Piste then you really don’t have to look any further. I wouldn’t say that the pop was particularly aggressive but the flex between the bindings was on the stiffer side of medium and the tail and nose were pretty solid which made powering through crud easy and made landings solid. Ideally this board would suit somebody around 60-65kg who is an intermediate but looking to progress their riding quickly in the Park and on the Piste.
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A good reflection of how we see the board. It does suit lighter riders particularly well, but will be happy with someone a good bit heavier than 65kg. We think it is a nice all-mountain freestyle board for anyone under around 80kg. |
