At the end of each test day, when riders got to pick one board to shred around and snap some photos, everyone would beeline it to the Mai Tai. “The flex was really fun and playful with good torsion, but it held up hitting that big hip where you needed high speeds going into it,” said Eddie Wall. Some claimed it rode like the badass park rat little brother of the Sleazy Rider, one of this year’s all-mountain winners. Others reported that the camber profile and flex matched really well so you got stiffness when you needed it and playfulness and fun when you didn’t need to be ripping turns and going fast.
From the testers: “Rides a lot like my 2009 Stepchild Corporate. Best Stepchild I’ve ridden in a long time.”
Length (cm) — Sidecut Radius (m) — Waist Width (cm)
149 — 7.12 — 24.8
152 — 7.28 — 25.0
155 — 7.46 — 25.2
Flex: Medium
Camber: Regular camber (low-profile)
(Flex is not standardized and differs by brand. The rating here is the best estimate of the board’s flex.)
(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