UPDATE: Check out our review of the Bataleon She W Snowboard for 2020/2021 by clicking here.
- Sizes: 140, 143, 146, 149
- Flex: 3
- Profile: Camber 3BT
- Shape: True Twin
- Price: £399 / €470
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The SheDub is a veritable freestyle weapon, and is one of only a few truly high-end women’s jib boards on the market. It’s the best of both worlds; soft without being a noodle but stiff enough that you can stomp and slash around without feeling like you’re strapped on to a large wooden door.
The twin shape keeps your weight centred directly over the middle of the board and allows you to ride regs or goofy without any dramas. It also balances the swing weight nicely, keeping you on track when you’re trying to spin it to win it.
“Additional carbon stringers underfoot make it torsionally a little stiffer to keep it stable when you’re going a bit faster”
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The mellow camber provides you with bag loads of pop, and a super solid edge for when you’re working up speed on the run in, but not so much you find yourself stuck on an edge in a waylaid carve. A hollow carbon rod down the length of the board increases the pop without adding extra stiffness or weight to the board.
Bataleon’s Twin 3BT features in the board, making it super forgiving for when you’re trying to turn those threes into fives. The uplifts at the contact points help to stop you catching edges if you don’t quite stomp a landing and puts paid to those embarrassing scorpions when the snow gets choppy. Learning new tricks can be intimidating, but the She-W essentially gives you a ‘Get out of Jail’ card every time, leaving you able to focus on technique rather than worrying about painful slams.
The softer tip to tail flex makes it perfect for those little flatland manoeuvres, when you’re wanting to press and butter all over the shop, while additional carbon stringers underfoot make it torsionally a little stiffer to keep it stable when you’re going a bit faster.
The high end extruded bases makes for easier repair when you’re clattering over rails and boxes, but still is able to hold the wax well – so you don’t get left behind when your pals go racing off. An absolute weapon on the hill, the She-W is locked and loaded, and ready to handle it all.
