Working with Jeremy Jones and Zak Hale, we began designing a board built specifically around a park rider’s stance. ![]() Recently there have been some strange happenings at our Vermont proto shop. It must work because Transworld gave it a coverted Good Wood Award. Make sense? Don’t worry! In essence you’re left with a board that has a specific heal edge and toe edge and means manouverability, edge hold and pop are all improved. ![]() As a consequence you’re left with an asymetric core. This is Squeezebox technology that thins directly under the riders foot but at a freestyle stance of +/- 15 degrees. The main feature of the Parkitect is the Off-Axis Squeezebox. This deck is by no means your average snowboard but then again Jeremy Jones isn’t your average rider and if anybody has the experience and knowledge to build a killer board it’s got to be JJ the OG. Burton have embraced some fairly ‘off the wall’ technology by building the Parkitect.
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