DESCRIPTION
Always Best in Class.
After winning four consecutive Good Wood Awards, the Hel YES. has anchored itself as one of the industry’s top standards for women’s freeriding. A directional twin layout, UnderBite outline, sintered base and a bamboo stringer core has allowed Helen to carry her unique mark on women’s snowboarding.
Guillaume Rousseaux made the artwork : “The wolf & the lamb: Do you still think that the reason of the strongest is always the best? Drop the masks and find your path.”
PRODUCT DETAILS
DESIGNED FOR: Intermediate – Expert / All-Mountain, Freeride, Pow, Backcountry
SHAPE: Directional Twin
FLEX: Medium 7/10
BASE: Sintered
CAMBER PROFILE: Directional CamRock
BINDING MOUNT: 4×2 12-pack + Slambacks
FEATURES:
CAMROCK
The response of camber with float-ability of rocker. By combining camber and rocker you allow the board to be both responsive and floaty. The camber is between your feet as a spring keeping your contact points on the ground as you go in and out of turns allowing you to keep that edge hold longer. Once compressed the camber will accentuate the rocker and lift the nose out more allowing it to float.
UNDERBITE
UnderBite edges re-distribute a rider’s weight in such a way that it enhances turning ease and edge hold. Creating divots inward at the binding area reduces and disrupts the surface area of the edge that has contact with the snow while the board is turning. This increases the edge pressure by distributing your weight/energy in the areas where you need it – from the binding out, and through the center of the board where the carving arc is taking place. This segmentation of the sidecut into 3 key zones focuses your body weight onto areas that initiate, hold and release turns.
POPLAR/PAULOWNIA/BAMBOO + SLAMBACK
Creating a lighter, more responsive core than the Full Poplar. The Poplar + Bamboo uses the same durable core, lightens it up by replacing 30% of the Poplar with Paulownia and then inserts two bamboo stringers down the full length for added pop and response.
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SIZE GUIDE
Board Length (cm) | 146 | 149 | 152 | 155 |
Surface Area (dm2) | 36.2 | 37.3 | 38.1 | 39.3 |
Tip Length (cm) | 19.5 | 20 | 20.5 | 22 |
Tail Length (cm) | 19.5 | 20 | 20.5 | 22 |
Effective Edge Length (cm) | 111 | 113 | 115 | 117 |
Contact Length (cm) | 107 | 109 | 111 | 111 |
Waist Width (cm) | 23.9 | 24.1 | 24.2 | 24.4 |
Tip Width (cm) | 28.2 | 28.5 | 28.6 | 28.8 |
Tail Width (cm) | 28.2 | 28.5 | 28.6 | 28.8 |
Rocker / Camber (mm) | R2 / C3 / R2 | R2 / C3 / R2 | R2 / C3 / R2 | R2 / C3 / R2 |
Sidecut (m) | 6.7 (MULTIPLE) | 6.9 (MULTIPLE) | 7.1 (MULTIPLE) | 7.3 (MULTIPLE) |
Ref. Point (cm) | 49.5 | 50.8 | 53.3 | 54.6 |
Ref. Point (in) | 19.5 | 20 | 21 | 21.5 |
Ref. Stance Setback (mm) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 15 |
Min Ref. Stance Width (cm) | 45.5 | 46.8 | 49.3 | 50.6 |
Max Ref. Stance Width (cm) | 53.5 | 54.8 | 57.3 | 58.6 |
Rider Weight (kg) | 45-63 | 50-68 | 54-72 | 59-77 |