Women’s Snowboarders Review Burton Snowboards; Burton Supermodel, Burton Troop
Articles October 21st, 2009
Snowboarding has long been a male-dominated sport and until recently this extreme sport did not even have snowboards specifically designed for women to use. Today there are women specific snowboards which are generally shorter and have a softer flex than the snowboards that their male competitors use. Currently there are less than 10 women’s snowboard manufacturers to accommodate a growing number of women snowboarders who are climbing the ladder of success and grabbing the gold away from the guys time and time again.
Shannon, also known as Shay of shayboarder.com, is a self proclaimed photographer, writer, curvy girl, product tester and above all else an A+ snowboarder. She takes out various snowboards and tests them in different conditions and then writes reviews on her website for those women considering different types of snowboards.
Burton Snowboards features a great product line for women’s snowboarders including the Burton Supermodel. Shayboarder.com tested the Burton Supermodel and loved it. Admitting that she was well over the weight limit for this size snowboard, she still believed it handled very well and found the “flex stiffer longitudinally than torsionally”.
Shay believes women’s boards were meant for carving and the Burton Supermodel is really for a woman freerider, holding an edge on icy spots and groomers. It can easily hold an arc on each turn and make lines in the snow with it.
Another Burton snowboard meant especially for women is the Burton Troop which some women described as having butterfly soft flex and makes you feel as if you’re riding on a cloud. One woman wrote a review stating the Burton Troop was one of the best boards out there, especially for parks where it works great on rails, pipes and boxes. It’s very lightweight and turns nicely; however if you are into carving down double diamond runs, you may have some trouble holding down a turn.
One woman complimented the Burton Troop as being “light enough not to tweak your ankle on the lift, but substantial enough to ride all over the mountain, plus the board has a lot of flex and pop.”
