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Salomon Super 8 2021-2022 Snowboard Review

  • Price: £450 / €499
  • Category: Freeride + Powder
  • Sizes: 151, 154,157, 160, 163, 166
  • Flex: 7/10
  • Shape: Directional
  • Profile: Setback Camber
  • 3D: No
  • Base: Sintered

The Salomon Super 8 has a classy, understated look to it with some rad topsheet photography from Tom Hegen. But that sleek style is hiding a shedload of turn-orientated tech that makes this a bit of a hidden gem in the Salomon lineup.

“The Salomon Super 8 has a classy, understated look to it with some rad topsheet photography from Tom Hegen”

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Who Is The Salomon Super 8 For?

This is a great board for any backseat drivers out there like a surfy feel to their turns and are honest enough to admit to themselves that they don’t huck it in the park or charge it down mega steep Aspen backcountry faces.

As soon you as accept what you don’t need in a snowboard you can focus on what’s right for your riding. If you spend as much time as possible slashing powder pockets, searching out tight lines in the trees and only venture out of the sidecountry to rail some carves then this is the board for you.

Shape, Profile and Sidecut

The Salomon Super 8 has a directional shape with a slight taper in the back and an elongated nose which makes it a great choice for powder enthusiasts right off the bat as you’ll have no problem keeping your nose above (frozen) water.

Doubling down on the directional style the Super 8 also features a slightly setback stance and camber in the back of the board but a flat section in the front. This makes turns feel super surfy when you’re in the soft stuff but will also aid turn intuition for carving on piste too.

Speaking of carving the board also runs slightly wider than your standard deck to reduce toe/heel overhang and give you better edge control in your carves. The fairly tight quadratic sidecut lets you turn on a dime and better edge control means you can get way lower into the turn for more style and control at higher speeds.

“Speaking of carving the board also runs slightly wider than your standard deck to reduce toe/heel overhang and give you better edge control in your carves”

Construction and Materials

The setback camber profile is a great way to help with turn initiation on piste but can make getting good pop out of the board a little harder as the camber is that much harder to reach and engage. Thankfully Salomon have deployed their Popster core which utilises the natural snap of wood profiling to counter this.

That being said, this is still definitely more of a boost-off-a-wind lip kind of board than a full camber, park orientated deck so don’t expect to be sent to the moon when you ollie.

On the flip side though, the back seat camber and flat section in the nose will make landing jumps off piste feel a lot more comfortable as there is some absorption under your back foot while the nose stays up to prevent a yard sale.

Under the hood is a premium, stone finished, sintered base that’s built for speed. You’ll also find Salomons cork damplifier tech in the nose and tail which dampens the board way down for less chatter, smoother landings and a better float. Gunslinger Sidewalls help to make the damp, damper for a truly smooth ride, free from any scary bumps in the night.

“Under the hood is a premium, stone finished, sintered base that’s built for speed”

Roundup

What’s cool about the Salomon Super 8 is the focus that’s been put into make it ride exactly how they wanted it to ride, in exactly the style they want you to ride it.
It’s not going to pretend to be a park board or claim super-all-mountain ability. But what it will do is offer a natural surfy feel to your turns, amazing float in powder and make carving feel reeaalllyyy good again.

Sure, landing switch might be a bit of a challenge in the powder but hey, now’s the time to either perfect your full rotations or just commit to a monster straight air and get a nice tweaked grab in there, rest assured the landing will feel bang on thanks to that backseat camber profile.

I’d argue that for the way that your regular, intermediate+ rider enjoys snowboarding these days this is a great option for a fun trip.

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