One way to defend awesome is to keep the highest-scoring board in our test at the lowest pricepoint of any all-mountain winner. A board that testers called “incredibly playful without sacrificing integrity or edge hold,” the DOA has a shorter camber profile extending five centimeters past the inserts to flat, which allowed enough play to keep it fun at low speeds and in softer conditions. Testers liked how this four-time Good Wood winner “ripped both long and short radius turns with a ton of snap.” Not quite stiff enough to be your big-mountain AK slayer, but ideal for everything else.
From the testers: “Truly an all around ripper, the shape feels good in the park and the flex was manageable everywhere. Blast ollies, rail carves, and center up on a rails. Join the fight with this board!”
Length (cm) — Sidecut Radius (m) — Waist Width (cm)
148 — 7.60 — 24.40
150 — 7.70 — 24.60
152 — 7.80 — 24.80
154 — 7.90 — 25.00
155W — 8.10 — 25.80
156 — 8.00 — 25.20
158 — 8.10 — 25.40
158W — 8.20 — 26.00
160 — 8.20 — 25.70
161W — 8.30 — 26.20
Flex: Medium
Camber: Hybrid (regular camber past inserts, zero to reverse to tips
(Flex is not standardized and differs by brand. The rating here is the best estimate of the board’s flex ranging from soft, medium-soft, medium, medium-stiff, and stiff.)
(Sidecut Radius: The measure of how deep or shallow the arc of a board’s edge is from the tips to the middle, in meters. A smaller radius, around six to seven meters means a board will generally turn tighter. As the radius number increases, a board can be expected to make wider turns. Multiple numbers on the same length board means the radius is blended.)
Read more at http://snowboarding.transworld.net/gear-guide/2016-good-wood
