I've been with weston snowboards we're here at si a talking about our new lineup of split boards this season where it's really hard this year to figure out hold of spaces so that is kind of our new technology for this season we were able to do a lot of r&d; to use some fine. Thread screws, and we were able to actually create homeless bases this season so you can see no through holes at all this season brand-new olace basis we're using Karakorum ultra clips will a tip and tail clips this is our new for 2019. Range so one of our best free ride for. Its last year this for one free ride split board of the year split water bag so just one of our best free ride all-mountain words it's a setback twin. About an inch and a half setback you can. Set it forwards and it rides like a true twin one of the lightest poppy is those. Flexible boards on the market buffalo got carbon stringers run into the tail as well for case wintered bases. Stone brown and textured right their in. Our factory. Got the award-winning backwoods this. Board has been split border earth support of the year editor's choice in. That country mag two years running it is certainly one of our most versatile shapes we design it as a powder board but it is a all season board from early. Season powder late season spring cool ours this thing just rips all conditions. And certainly my favorite all-mountain spliff did we make again you know the wholeness basis we love to highlight follow my top sheets and this we. Actually left our core visible so you can see the bamboo stringers and the poplar and polonia cores that we incorporate into all of our boards. We've got the women's reba when I'm one. Of our favorite new women's boards all of our boards are camber underfoot with. Earlier eyes nose and tail this is obviously in tour mode with some beautiful new spark surges right there. The riva is made for a woman who rips. The aggressive rider who is looking to get out and ride an aggressive board we've used all the best technology from all of our men's boards and crammed into the best package we can dream and then our big chief this is an. Award-winning split board again at stake in split board of the year before it's a little stiffer board it's made for an aggressive rider or big lines big guys they need a horde that can keep up with them we also have a 1920 prototype here. That we've been working on really hard this is the new japan so this is. Top secret but we're giving it out for. You guys this thing is tail weighted which we've really been working hard on you can see that tail wave what this does even though it has no tail at all it's still heavier than the nose when. Your kick stepping your nose always stays up and doesn't dig into the stone so i can actually show you guys which is pretty sweet so if we just bump off our bindings. Care for alpine crime is awesome. We only have three connections here to. Now the details so on this board right. Here in the center where your joe is we've specifically weighted it so the. Nose will always come up just like that if i kick it back just an inch the nose. Is all of a sudden heavier so, so we put a lot of tech into this board we're still dialing it in, but we're really hoping to come up with one of the best swallowtail split boards on the market weighs in at just over seven and a pound. So also super light amazing amazing board we're hoping to really dial it in and get it out to you guys next.

Hey pete here from back country skiing in. Canada today I'll be talking about the western range split board this board features a directional twin shape with. Rockered tip and tail camber underfoot. The wintered base is almost all one. Piece with the exception of two small graphics this keeps things fast and durable you may notice there are no. Holes coming through the base where the. Split board tech usually comes through. These clips here that hold the board. Together normally have holes that come. Through the other side where you can screw the hardware in but weston has. Eliminated those holes creating a smoother faster base back to the clips. We have the Karakorum ultra clips. These are definitely an improvement from. The original Karakorum clips they pull. The board together a little bit tighter and can be locked down when you're in. Touring mode so that they're not shattering around while you're walking the edges feature reinforcements at the. Tip and tail adding durability to the board in somewhere that's often a bit. More vulnerable the board offers medium. Flex the core is a popular poplar and. Bamboo and features triax fiberglass and. The top sheet is the only way paulie. That might shed snow nicely so you're not carrying snow around with you all over the mountain this is a nice playful. Board designed for pretty much anything. And everything you want to throw at it maybe for a bit of an intermediate rider. He's looking to get out into the. Backcountry and push their limits. Thanks

hi my name is tony perez I'm the rocky. Mountain sales rep for arbor snowboards and here I'm holding the swoon women's. Specific board made for the woman that wants to go do everything on the mountain riding powder riding trees doing big lines awesome board comes with. A sustainably sourced bamboo top sheet a sustainably source of wood core recycled steel ledges based on our system rocker. Parabolic rocker with grip tech great. Board for doing everything the arbor swoon comes in multiple sizes all the way from a 40 all the way up to 156.

Hi my name is melanie and I'm with the evil and I'm going to talk about the arbor swoon this is a women's specific all-mountain directional twin board and. It's got a true rafter profile which. Means it's rap rapper from tip to tail but it's a parabolic rocker which means the rocker is going to be more exaggerated between the feet and then tapers towards the tip and the tail so. It's going to have fun all mountain capabilities without half but. Still forgiving and catch free for easy. Spins butters and presses but still good. For aggressive mountain riding it's got great tip which gives you extended side cut on the underneath of the bindings so. Attica edge control and i seer hard pack. Conditions and it's got a bamboo nice. Looking bamboo power-play top sheet that's the harbor swoon.

Sup guys tj here today is my first day. Split boarding I'm out of birth dude pass super stoked couldn't ask for better conditions pretty amazing out here we're just at the bottom of our. Loop right now going to send it up the hill and do some touring and try to get some nice cow laps in and today I'm. Going to talk about my voule universal split board bindings it's my first day. On them and I'm just gonna let you guys know what i think on my first impressions on those bindings and just. Split boarding in general colorado. Avalanche info center says it's a super. Low avalanche risk today it's safest rating that they give also this. Late in the season the snow's nice and fused up and pretty safe, but we do all have our beacons shovels and probes just. In case. Oh my god should stick out here guys. We're almost at the top i think we might. Be turning around right now I'm out riding with my buddies Jordan and cam. Today and looks like we're going to get. Some good turn i think we're going to. Hit a line right up there somewhere. Maybe over there maybe that shoot right. There buddy hey v lie. So i thought this was going to be the hardest part transitioning from split to. Snowboard mode but i guess with the lubrication from the snow that binding. Just slid right on it was super easy and that in that pin which a lot of people complain about wasn't really a big deal so sorry if the audio quality drops guys. The input jacks my external mic so i. Hope you got to hear me okay son Jordan. So we just got to the top for our first. Lap i just kind of getting all the gear ready got my flint converted back to snowboard mode and just kind of. Discussing our lines the two lines i showed you earlier the first one is over their second guy is kind of ahead of us. Over there the binding so pretty good on the way up I'm running the bowl a. Universal split board binding just with my regular union bindings you guys seen all the review videos I'm also on the jones explorers flip board and i have a spark rd skin, so they felt really. Comfortable on the way up nice long strides overall it's been an awesome experience so far I'm super happy with. The bowl a universal kit the transition was super mellow putting in that tin was no big deal sliding the bindings on was nice and smooth so I'm really happy so far really. The only difference I'm seeing is that you're elevated just a little bit over the board which isn't really that big of a deal so far it's been pretty. Sweet All right we're at the top of the first. Line and a little scared but look how. Good this looks all right do it all good. All right here comes cam dude that was. Insane bottomless george about to drop you've. Taken a different route than we did Oh good dude all right it's still pretty. Early in the day we're going to head back down to that cabin and go up for one more lap. We get clip down if i could we take under. Almost back to the cabin alright guys. We're going up for round two we've got. Some snow coming down but a temperature. Stayed nice and cool all day so it should still be nice and safe we probably won't go up to tie this time but uh trying to get some more of those. Bottomless turns in that was epic i feel. Like you can get some really nice long strides with these bindings so that's. Pretty awesome Knudsen help and keep up with my ski your friends taking some long strides keeping a good pace one. Think though when i was setting these guys up today i don't have my right. Binding perfectly a zero on the ball a slider so I'm about 3 degrees angled. Forward so I'm not perfectly at the. Stance i sent my pucks at well yeah other than that it's been really good out here today super stoked on the experience transition time has been. Really short i feel like it's harder to. Get into touring mode than in to snowboard mode when you're sliding that pin through but it's really not that big. Of a deal either way i wouldn't say it took me more than three or four minutes. Either way so i think these bindings are pretty sweet if you're looking to get out in the back country I'd highly recommend them 160 bucks brand-new msrp so it's a lot. More affordable than binding a three or four hundred dollar or more split board binding alright keep going we'll go one. More lap in and then head back to the car and get back to denver as a reasonable time. You got the avalanche-prone terrain here. Guys it's about 38 degrees wind blow to slope. Underneath this cliff band, so we're just going to traverse it one by one and try to reduce the load on this face here and. Get across it safely be found the spot. So good pretty excited much better than. Anticipated look at this all right. Dropping tj the hips and let it rip oh. All right oh my god. All right final stretch to the truck of. Apollo camp. Oh my god guys that was so much better. Than expected the standard has been set. For split boarding now we're we're good hey buddy definitely going to be doing a. Lot more of this spring especially if the snow keeps up like this one last. Think on those bindings that second time. It took me a lot longer to transition because i didn't realize my binding wasn't slid all the way forward so when you are transitioning on these guys make sure that it's all the way forward or you might waste a bunch of time trying when it's not going to say awesome guys. It's been an epic day out here thanks for watching it's got any questions for me leave it in the comments below or hit me up on Instagram at board archive if you want. To check out these bindings in my gear in a little more detail we got a link in the description for you and keep having. Fun out there guys i hope some of you are still snowboarding still pretty epic out here in colorado I'm gonna try to keep this going and I'll see you guys next time

Yes i would like to hear again really. Yeah i mean your four bindings which. Perfect target for you for your bindings. It would be great if you can tell us for. Which kind of split border yeah every. Kind of finding feels best cool okay. Yeah we'll start at kind of the top of. Out of our line so this is the prime x. Carbon this is for the customer. Looking for the apex and back country technology no sacrifices no compromises. Just the best technology can buy they want kind of the futurist foot boarding right now really stiff carbon high back all the weight savings of the. Prime x no compromises just stiff charge. All over everything the best thing you can get prime x a very similar customer. It's really up to the customer what they want in feel that same customer that wants maybe just a slightly less aggressive high back is going to go for. The prime x i mean really happy this is like kind of i put the stiffness of this high back at probably. A seven and a half hour eight on the stiffness scale the stiffness of this high back but the prime x carbon is a 10. Out of 10 so very similar customers with the x and x carbon moving into the prime. Nomad this is for us kind of bar study. In back country bonding i would just say the back country pier is someone that's doing a lot of time in the back country is going to be really happy with the prime nomad and as morning grows a. Lot of snowboarders a lot more snowboarders keep making the transition into split board ian the connect binding is meant to reach out to those customers. And bridge the gap between snowboarding and split boarding so if you want a really comfortable resort feel you're going to be really happy with the fully va footbed the nylon damping sidewalls and just. Overall kind of familiar feel of a. Connect binding it's also a more accessible price point and then the connects we break up into two models with the connect are being kind of the mainstay bread-and-butter nice high back all the benefits of the kine ct all the benefits of the prime system rides awesome mainstay connects bind in. Connect s softer high back softest strap. A more surf ii kind of feel someone that's looking for softer ride is gonna. Be really happy on the connect s and the connects to is for the rider that wants. Nothing but stiffness is the stiffest sidewall stiff is high back and the. The Stiffest connection to the board someone that's just really interns everywhere or someone that's maybe a bigger rider that can never get enough stiffness out of their binding look no further than the connect ci.

We're here at yes bow, and we're here to talk about all the improvements Karakorum is making for next year this year our overall theme was to make everything lighter without sacrificing. Performance without compromise got our new prime x bonding for next year we took our existing prime x, and we made it much lighter weight and basically we did. Everything we could to it to improve the binding without giving up any of the performance or ease of use advantages that we've built up over the years so on. This new prime x we've got aluminum hardware on the sides here that's a way. To save shave weight bryce went through with tyler, and they just thought of every creative innovative way they could go to save weight and make the bindings better aluminum hardware you can see. That here on the bottom as well. Hollow pins on the toe attachment the. Toe catch as well as the pins inside the. Heel stay all hollowed-out cord out just. As light as possible we got this overall binding weight down to 585 grams that. I'm holding in my hand right now it's really light but also very. Responsive something that's really important to us is a full length sidewall that gives you a lot more support both when you're riding and when you're touring and the prime x takes. That one step further with asymmetric full sidewalls so you still get the full. Support from toe to heel but on the inside you get a little bit more range of motion so you can drive into your turns while you're in ride mode really feel kind of more of a surfing kind of feel while you're riding but you get the high side wall on the outside of your foot which is great support for tour in so you've got a high side wall on the right you've got flex locks supporting you from the inside and altogether you've got a really well tour in binding that's extremely lightweight we. Replaced the sleeves of our individually. Sleeved tour axles with aluminum on the. Part that doesn't need wear protection, and then we have stainless steel on the critical components here so still really long-lasting still very efficient and smooth so a new door line this year is. The prime nomad the prime nomad is. Replacing the prime sl this is a kind of flagship binding kind of our bar setting binding for alpine back country performance it's all. The features that an advanced alpine split boarder is going to need so you have a really successful long tour in the back country at a more competitive. Price point this is kind of you can. Think of the prime nomad as the prime x and the prime connect had a baby it's got easy adjustment on the side this is a very responsive binding with a. Stiff less co2 heel but you have some good range of motion and kind of more. Spring-loaded feel going tail to nose so. You have good range of motion for riding it feels really intuitive and comfortable but very responsive when you're going edge to edge you really want to drive into a turn as well. New on this binding the reactive air the. Reactive high-back another way to save weight so between the reactive high-back the new x chassis and the air pod strap. This binding is about 60 grams lighter than the prime sl well-being stiffer and offering more response with a stiffer. High back and new straps so again it's. Lighter weight and also more responsive for the same price point as a prime. Myself.

They're late shawn school thing kimiko coming at you for the 1819 season with the Karakorum versus spark split board. Binding his showdown so for this year we. Really went all out we have the very best from both spark and kara corn the. Spark pro line surge split board binding. Lightweight functional beautiful beast. Right here love these things have a separate review detailed review with videos and pictures on this guy wanna hear me calm that I'll link to his review and over here we had the. Karakorum carbon ex-prime rp roberts. Edition that artists right their split. Board binding their top dog offer so. This is not just apple samples those bushels of apples to bushels of apples. Let's get into what makes these both. Great makes them different it what might be right for you so we'll start with the spark proline is new for this season saw the arc which is a more lightweight and cutout version on the base plate in a search I'm pretty heavy guide so i go with a search every year and this is its lighter weight than the. Previous versions of surges a save weight on the pillow straps carbon high-back just it's the lightest binding. Out there proof pictures below comparing. These two together it's just a minimalist strong functional sexy beast. This one's all black diamond t-shirt this is available to the public but the. Ones you'll see that are available at least below will feature some pretty cool colored bolts and stuff like that they really did a great job thinking these are handmade in montana spark crew awesome people love they do good work. Yeah these are very light i think in a. 600 gram range I'll have all pics below proving the weight of this ice bar okay how the spark work they work in the. Tried and true puck system you know if you have pucks I'd recommend getting the spark metal pucks over the plastic ones they just work better this day in plays. Better spark also offers canted bucks so if people wider stance snowboarding or split boarding that's a really cool option to have to for this year 1819. Season they will be using enhanced metal. Touring bracket right here it'll have updated hardware all throughout the. Lighter weight stronger and just really bad ass the last season i get to test out. The next season's proprietary nylon. Touring brackets they're really awesome, but they'll probably available after the season till then i think is even better than they have a handsome metal one right here then we'll have details from the specs and the battles and all that involvement just know that not only is a binding updated and improved in every way possible but so is the torreón bracket so keep that in mind and then a little cool feature about the sparks is there lenny mark so to engage your high riser right. There as your low disengage so you. Imagine you're checking pull out yes. Boom there it is one does engage super. Simple butter smooth be honest after. Couple seasons the username i love i have had one or two fall off here and there but I'm like really hard to my care of my job to test things and break things and also those were prototypes of the value was working with so you know everything is better as more they refine some i have not had an issue with this one phone yet it just works as possible so that is the spark serge pro right here. Size large 600 and i believe 40 grams. For 380 grams of exact specs below. Correct all right on to the Karakorum. But one last feature so on the high back is carbon infused and has adjust ability. So for 2 or 8 feet you would disengage. It i have my stuff really tight right now it's about to go over to her always tighten your gear chicka-chicka gear double-checking gear carry backups of buckles and straps because everything does break alright it's a sign outside. For to work you'd want this for more. Ability to work and then for shredding i. Would just engage this guy and yours won't be a squeakiest mine i really have a titan known as a spark a surge the. Karakorum prime carbon acts by Aeneid right here carbon fiber high back you can see right here very clearly this particular one is rp roberts version beautiful mountain right here is literally artwork i love steering this thing the high back also features ability to adjust or to. Toe rings so here you go you have more range of motion articulation if i. Wouldn't be shredding some mellow pow laps I'll put it on one right there and. If I'm a do steeper terrain i would put it on the more aggressive lean forward so unlike the spark you can't. Really adjust it on the fly you need to know a both wrench to it to adjust it but you can really dial in what your stance is as far as angle so that you can have three options which is really cool as opposed to two four options this is usually better pretty much an awesome. Strap system we can talk about unique very lightweight minimalist no buckle to break which is awesome because buckles always break i was recommended carry an extra strap mister buckle for any gear you carry. With you and so how this works meeting. Is also the baseplate is a meld our. Ears cut out so it's they save weight by. Doing that unlike a spark but does have. A lot more pieces going on so it is a little bit heavier than the spark it's still extremely lightweight comparatively it's last when they offer but it has more metal going on also more. Metal on the sides here it's a more contact with your boot which i feel when I'm riding may or may not it's all my. Perception feel like more contact and more control again that's my perception you may differ how it works you see the. Interface here is different than this one so as opposed to is sliding on as a. Sparks others do it actually has an active joining technology mean it comes down lots of place. it's very tight so you have multiple. Points of contact as opposed to sliding in and clamping down like that does which work really good tell these lucent they do this contact it creates. An amazing feel and feedback from the board, and he saw how it tied it was like a had very minimal play i might want to adjust that for next tour tomorrow just. So i can have a little bit of place should i get a little bit of snow or ice in there so I'm thinking mine the spark are pretty much self-cleaning and also of note that bass player i showed you this is from last year so if you order these bindings this year you'll have a better more refined baseplate they'll do a better job of clearing snow and ice out so except to look forward to when. They come out I'll have the next week I'll update this review accordingly how. You disengage it this is very thoughtful rubber doodad right here previously i was just to take a bunch of. Guerrilla tape or duct tape and put back here so i can unhinge it but that works. Really well you saw these it was. All right so there it is that's how that. Works it comes down engage this guy boom you. Should price out there watch as there're two pins right here okay so it latches on right here there're two pins will pop. Our right here well and so it sucks into. The board which is really cool i think it creates incredible board fills you get a couple a little bit dampening right there they're rubber so again it's. A lot more going on this binding I'm moving pieces and stuff to it you get a little bit of flex which is kind of nice. When you're really carving and how it differs to in a two-hour mode if you have sleeved axles right here you can. Actually do this part to maintain envelope of lubrication there's some oil and so as opposed to creating friction. And hinge enough of these bushings to spark this it actually locks into place. And then you tore on these sleeve axles. Which i think is pretty cool not that i haven't it well I've broken both of Karakorum a spark couple of years everybody has that just happens in a back country what I've had sometimes happen as bushings would fall out in previous generations they address that for this year, so we have me again and so i guess an earthing has an. Opportunity a fact yesterday just brother pierce snowshoes test it just happens right so prepared in the back country always carry extra buckles extra strap a couple extra bolts I've. Actually lost bolts on the tour and tighten your stuff down the night before or the morning before you tore it's just it's something you should do like you check your battery's new beacon you should check your gear make sure it's all tightened you heard how tight I'd had those things that's really tight i might want to dial off a little bit but just check your gear double-check before you go out make sure you got backup it was a military is saying it we're gonna cinavia seals one is none and two is one thing about them. So that was a long-winded tangent but. It's a very important one so to summarize the Karakorum carbon ex. Split floor binding is the bee's knees. From kara form it is super awesome the. Spark pro surge is the bee's knees from. Spark it is super awesome and you can see them side by side and on pictures below side by side as well a little bit different as far as like a little more metal contact on the spark which adds to its weight baseplate simpler more. Complex different kind of mechanism to. Walk them to the board whereas this one slides into place and then ramps down. Similar kind of high backs and that their carbon fiber carbon infused and both adjustable for terrain and for. Writing both straps are extremely comfortable pliable resilient and provide amazing contact and boot. Connection the toe strap on the spark is. Probably my favorite it just works but again there's a buckle might break my future who knows this thing is this basically well a strap and so lester break a little bit lighter. Weight so as you're probably gathering I'm not gonna tell you which one they get but hope that you're making up your opinion as you're watching this review what is more important to you a little. But lighter by like 40 or 50 grams for. Size largest I'm 11 and a half food i. Fit nice very well so if you are 11 or. 12 definite too large let's have great buckles both are hand. Built in america washington state montana state so you feel good about that both will serve your purposes i write i literally write both as you tell my both setups because i love both people write. It is great for individuals read these. Are great for three products and i would recommend both that's probably not your bailiwick to get both so hopefully this. Review helped point out some similarities some of differences its pros some cons of both bodies spark. Pro surge Karakorum prime x carbon will. Have weight more detailed reviews on both of these independently and then comparatively in the review below when i cameron calm michelle so hopefully you. Found this helpful double check your gear be safe make. Smart decisions and have fun the back country take care.

I'm gonna show you in the face and snow. Conditions not having terrible. Clips if i need to first I'm gonna do is. Engage my board clips i have a little cord palette on here make it easy for me. To use my gloves in cold weather I'll. Put on my tail clip. My front board clip my front tip clip. Now as you can see i have some snow buildup on my ride mode attachment what I'm. Gonna do take my binding i can use my. High back sticky wet snow when it gets. Really cold and things are frozen to the board you're gonna rely on the high back floor what you'll find is that it's a great tool for cleaning this area between your. Tabs same thing swipe off mic so. Attachment just get all general snow. Clear check the bottom of my binding. Good rotate the binding down and settle it into the ride mode engaging my lever and. My lock block and i change my ride. Stride from tour mode to ride mode go. Take lining in shret so I'm gonna change. Over from ride mode back to tour mode first thing i do is disengage my lock. Block open my lever set my binding in. The snow upside down get board clint. Nose clip just engage my back finding. Okay to do the changeover to tour mode. I'm gonna use my tour mode axle okay. Open my lever I'm resting the axle into. The cradle making sure it's straight i rotate the body down I'm gonna lastly. I'm going to show you the step in feature from ride much a tour mode now. That i have my skins on my pulls out to. Set my to a mode axle straight into the. Cradle take my tour mode axle push the. Cam over good to go. going to gauge my short climbing wire be. Ahead of my ski fall tall wire need to. Make sure that it's in the riser position and not in the heel lock down position. Oh.

Hey lady shots oh thank you matt come here we're reviewing the Karakorum. Carbon prime x custom slip war fighting. I love this binding these that says January this year so now mace I've got four solid months of using it and that's strong opinions about these so this is. The lightest fighting they offer has 600. Grams besides large is a purple graphite. Highlander with the custom graphics know how the links are below awesome guy so. Carbon graphite very responsive very lightweight very stiff aggressive high. Back of course that high back easy to. Adjust for tori there we go tour mode. And then a variety this is the current. Eighteen model right here you can purchase it humpin to below next year. When they go production they're gonna have this lanyard right here lagger makes opening the back hole i easier if. You phone carrier korn's before you know you should buy duck paper grill table these i didn't or lanyard around here to facilitate open it in the cold now it. Took that knowledge and made this nice durable attachment and also when you're. Done use is locked into place very handy. So this is a sturdy strong responsive. Binding i love this baby it's made of a 75 aluminum so it's. Lightweight and strong the active joint. Technology is i think really helpful when you're writing it sucks the board together so care club has there. Own proprietary base plates this is not a plug system so you'll need to make sure you have base plate but it comes in. Their favor because of relays and boards together and you'll notice it right away when you're writing this tip your binding has a really comfortable pliable. Strap here i love this one then this toe. Strap it's a love-hate relationship took. Me a minute to get used to it but now I'm used to it makes more sense essentially you said it once that's it just put your toe in first loop it over and you're done you can get. Proficient at it gets pretty quick pretty awesome so again this is a. The Lightest binding 690 grams for a size large very responsive very strong. For the board field frank satori — these sleeve axles are lubricated and. So it is very smooth not a lot of. Friction going on because we're lubricated you can always go back and lubricated more although I've never had done that you can't do that it's a very. Well thought out buying to even the sides there's more sight going down so. Give me more support on your boot so. Really good edge hold when you're. Turning and stuff and also in your tor ii it's a very solid finding they're currently available so I'll have links below lonna gimmick comm for best prices and where to purchase them and then next year should you purchase these you'll get that updated lanyard and also a. Really cool update i should mention earlier that is currently available and will definitely be available to next season is the hill risers this was i would say the Achilles. Heel for Karakorum their hill risers were great on paper and function until they broke, and then they solve that so. Now here's your high there's your low boom very reliable very. Strong and of course you do have a heel lock down right there although i don't use that feature very often it is there and then their hardware is improved -. And next year they might have the different brackets and I'll put that. Teaser in below this video from omar this year but currently this is what you. Would get if you purchased the Karakorum prime x and then this is the high-back. You would get to get the custom and i think it's really beautiful not only if you get a really awesome performance binding but it looks really. Cool I'm a kid something tends met up here camping and just look at that mountain shixin right there and just put a smile. On your face and care chrome toes in a nice t-shirt and a little poster see. Deep underwater coal artist cool concept. Cool collaboration there it is. Karakorum carbon prime x this is the. Custom version leaks below where participants as sean sewell thank you ring calm found it helpful and take care.

Hey buddy shawn sue cameron calm we have. Got a really cool comparison for you at the Karakorum prime split board bindings and the spark rd arc squid ward bindings. These are a spark rd arc they teamed up. With burton for the straps and buckles, so they're nice and buttery smooth easy. Breezy now these guys are based in. Montana they do a great job the high-back is really cool so when you're. Touring you can disengage this right here and get a little more articulation so get that touring benefit and then. When you want to get after it you just put it in place and there you go and it's cool to this tooless to design how. Much forward lean you want or don't want so that's pretty cool. What else is cool you can buy this for. Like 40 bucks and that will engage and lock down the heel so there it is locked. In place disengaged now the risers are cool. They're built into the base plate here so you pop it out there's your short riser and rest until. A little nodule right there then you pop. It out one more time so it's the same way pop it out one more time and now you're in a high so reston's a nodule. There nicely too so pretty easy. So that's engaged disengage it you're. Touring nice and smooth and again you. Can adjust there's a few different ways but you'll need a four or five. I have any issue last season's razor i broke it going forward somehow russell. Maroon Karakorum is awesome they replace her for free so next year but. Let me get to go buy these the issue won't be present and of course they have their own unique interface system that we'll get into in part 2 of the review when it's more relevant so there we go we have the proper the airport prime. Binding right here and we have a spark. Already come with the hardware the spark you'll need either you use your plastic putz from ballet or you can buy these spark plugs which are awesome and again. We'll have links when where to buy these bindings the sparks the pucks and all. That money gamer calm stay tuned for. Part two. Anyways the chanson game in town with. Part 2 of our review here and this is. Our mounting bracket and you can hole. Right here so you can slide it up down you can go 30 each direction so you can really fine-tune it as well as forward. And back so very user-friendly very fun. To adjust the contact points are here and then check this out right here these pins will come in engaging with. The bindings right here so again I'll. Show your house works so you get the board put together you line it up with. Those guys and then you engage it rights. There making one very strong secure. Connection i actually tore most time with these by. The way they feel how they respond to board very fluid side is the. Karakorum prime that's the base model. They have extra miles above that and different strategy to purchase to here's. A spark r&d; arc so these are great bindings as well how they attach there's. This little mechanism here from part one. They slide on to the puck system and. They slide on very firmly so you can tell. Around there so the benefit in a. Downside so the benefit is so you have. The puck system these are sparks pox. These are great because you have infinite and variability here as well as back and forth and angle to angle so. Whether you have the spark plugs other companies pucks bolle pucks whatever even make canted pucks now to the. Binding itself slides on with that. Channel system and then yeah latch it. Down with that guy so let's see if i can get it back on this weird angle and then. There and of course it creates a nice. Strong secure connection as well so the. Spark are indeed bindings come with the bindings that you see here, and they come. With the tour bracket here and the tie. Rakhie here you'll need to purchase this. Separately you'll need to purchase your own pucks separately and if you want to. You can purchase as padding although i don't think you really need it you. Purchase the Karakorum the cost little more money but you get the binding you. Get the puck system valley puck you get the mounting system you get the touring. Brackets and you get the heel risers so you get it all in one package. Further, questions always drop us a line I've been it helps to shun souls endearment calm stay safe from that country. You.

All right hi I'm kyle from Karakorum and. This is the lightest snowboard binding. And the lightest flipper bunny in the world this is our new prime x carbon. Totally new for 1718 it works on our. Prime system the prime carbon with the. Problem carbon ex with the inside gravity kit weighs in at 590 grams. That's quite a bit lighter than anything. Else on the market it's a let's see. About 100 in about 100 grams lighter. Than you think we've made before the way. We were able to get that much weight out of the binding while still keeping all the performance that Karakorum has to have is we upgraded pretty much all the. Materials on the heel stay and today are now made out of a 7000 series aluminum. It's a really strong dense. Aluminum that we're able to take a lot of weight out by a removing material so. It's so strong that the shows that you can see there's almost nothing here same thing with the heel stay bryce did some. Really cool things with the design when he was producing this line in um we. Learned a lot with the connect bindings that we made last year that were released and one of the things kind of key design elements that we were able to do with that is we've put all the mounting points on the bottom as a post on the side you see here's last year's sl I'll mount hardware comes in on. The side now we put an extra bend on the heel cup all the hardware is on the bottom it's out of the way it looks very sleek and that also adds a lot of strength along the toe heel axis so when. You're making the toe side heel side turn the bindings very stiff and strong another cool aspect of the x. Chassis is it has kind of damping. Element built in if you look at it along this plane you can see that there's somewhat of an arch here it's kind of similar to the damping system we have on our connect bindings and you can just feel of it there's enough damp damping this year to absorb you know kind of the day-to-day chatter you'll experience when you're on this is the x chassis with our carbon high back so that's the prime x carbon our carbon high back we. Worked with jeremy to make it and it's uh has a nice blend of a little bit of. Torsional stiffness but still very stiff so to heal another thing you can see on the x bonding is our anti-gravity kit that's the anti ratchet as well as titanium hardware so that allowed us to get that. Extra weight out we got under 600 grams that was a big milestone for us we've really wanted to have a binding in under 600 grams for a while now it's been kind. Of just like on the horizon like maybe we can get there and this year we finally broke that mark under 600 grams. With the anti gravity kit with the. Anti-rattle titanium hardware to use the. Anti ratchet super simple just like a ski buckle just pops right off you can. Open up just like a regular strap set it. Up before you ride and then it's really easy to put on it's got a couple different settings so if there's snow and your boot no worries it still goes on just snap it here it cams over with. Your boot in it's totally locked in you're secure yeah awesome system the. Antigravity kit is a accessory that you. Can get once you get the prime carbon axe or prime x finding so yeah. That's the x it also comes with both our. Air strap and our ratcheting air form. Toe strap so you can take your choice if you want the super light easy to use air strap or if you just prefer a traditional normal toe ratcheting strap. One more thing that's kind of cool about this money and all the contact points are plastic and that's the prime x carbon prime x has our new reactive high. Back it's an extremely durable strong plastic makes for a stiffer high back. Then what we had on our sls then out this is our airflow high back this is kind of mid stiffness video a little on the soft side high back now this is a little bit stiffer it's a kind of just a little bit less stiff than our carbon high back but still very stiff going toe to heel so stiffer lighter reactive high back. All of our bindings for next year are. Going to have our new dual ride stride. Forward lean adjustment, so we've been known in the past for having our ride and stride mode adjustment so when. You're riding you have nice forward lean when you tour you get a little extra room on your stride right now we added. An extra this is the second ride mode, so we have ride stride this. Second ride mode is kind of easier setting so this is either going to be set at a eleven degrees or zero degrees and then you can set the regular setting anywhere from zero to twenty-two degrees whatever you prefer it's for me as a snowboarder. The perfect forward lean adjustment we could have gone with just a traditional tool-less forward lean but. This is just with the two settings it's by far the easiest to go between your. Rowdy and aggressive you know baked slalom like really in turns aggressive forward lean setting and your more mellow just kind of cruising around the hill not burning your ankles out setting you can adjust this while your foot strapped into the bindings so just lean forward and flip it to the other set in and now you've changed your forward lean and you're good to go. So yeah those are the features of our. Prime x mining the prime x is weighing. It six hundred and fifty grams so maybe. Eighty grams lighter than last year's prime now self.

We have the solution this is my one. Board quiver i love riding different. Boards but when it comes time to travel for me it's a no-brainer the solutions. Going in the bag solution is camber. Underfoot rocker tip and tail works in all conditions from meaty powder to. Bulletproof ice and it's just this. Really predictable incredible platform. That's also really fun to ride this year. Really excited we were able to bring in. This bolt list bridge which means no. More screws on the bottom and this. Karakorum ultra clip this combination of. The bolt list bridge with the ultra clip have just made a significant improvement. On the torsional stiffness of the board. This board also features inner edge. Magna traction this helps with side. Heeling on icy slopes and as the eco. Plastic top sheet made out of castor beans. The solution comes in nine sizes from a. 154 to a 169 why the 161 is my go-to. Size early in late season I'll go down. To a 158 carbon solution this is truly. Our finest split weapon we have it's got. All the features of the normal solution but it's got at extreme carbon top sheet and this is new for this year this is a. Material that i first started playing with a couple years ago and it's lighter. Damper and more responsive this board. Also has the fastest base that we make. The Fastest base on the market this is a race bass brought in to snowboarding all. The splits this year we re-engineered the tip and tail of them just get more. Durability out of them. This is for the serious foot boarder the loves performance.

This is my baby this is the solution. This is the board i ride more than anything else probably 70 to 80% of my. Snowboarding these days is on this board. I spend more time on my split board than any other board i just love getting away. From people being away from the resorts this board is opened up terrain that i. Never thought i could get to in the past now i can get there on my split board. And it's actually really enjoyable because with foot board every step the. Same it's not like a when your boot. Packing it's like the full slog you can. Go out all day on a split board and set. Is set a slow pace where you're barely. Breaking a sweat where for example for. Me six hours on a split board is a lot easier than a three-hour boot pack this. Board is a flagship turned into a split board but it has magna traction down the. Middle to help with traction on side. Heeling anyone who split boarded one knows that's one of the. Drawbacks of a split board is side heeling and this really helps with that and it's a board that's made for. Everything from waist deep out a bulletproof ice and got a great tail for. For landing switch and powder it's. Really the do everything destroyer and. Changed my whole perspective of where i. Can go on my snowboard and has opened up. Terrain that i never thought i could get to and has evolved my snowboarding more. Than any other board.

I'm lisa with venture snow horse clear. Fief silver ton colorado, and we built all our force from scraps right there in the heart of san juan mountains what we're. Looking at right here is the paragon this is a newer board in the line it's. All mountain and intended to kind of be a quiver at one you can ride it anywhere and like all the ports in our line you can see it's available both solid. And slit so if you're venturing out of bounds or want to get into the back country we have your cover their next up we have the felix. A directional twin so those that are a. Little more freestyle oriented will find this is a really good choice that they like to ride switch and the graphic on. This is featuring topo map of the. Silverton area so this is actually sultan peak right outside of silver ton. That you see here just tying it together a little bit with where the boards are actually made next up we have stormed. Which is our flagship free ride board. Probably our most popular model this has. Some paper and stance offset a nice wide. Shovel so really pops out the snow and. Does great in a variety of different snow conditions this is probably my favorite board in the line the one that i write about and here we have the odin. This is a big mountain board so if you. Want to make three turns top to bottom if you like to go at mach speed this is. The board for you really excels in steep. Terrain i have a shallower side cut than. The rest of the boards in the line so it's going to make big wide arcing parents this one here is our euphoria and this. Is a powder surfer and a powder specific. Shape as you can see it's got a super wide nose a cool little fishtail that. Helps your back leg thank you and it's 27 centimeters wide so lots of. Surface area for slope nation and then. Over here we've got our women's offerings on the oracle and a tempest. And these are the women's versions of the paragon and storm that we talked about over there more of an all-mountain shape for just riding in bounds with the resort or you. Now a variety of conditions and then a pretty rad shape for ladies that want to take it into bigger terrain so that's. The venture lineup

Bored insiders your snowboard resource I'm lisa with ventures snowboards, and we. Are a silver ton colorado based company that builds all our boards from scratch and I'm here to tell you a little bit. About our 1112 lineup to show you here. How a slip board works essentially what. I've got here is our storm split board, and we've got a pair of spark r&d; binders on here this is a split board specific binding and so it's fairly easy. To get these on and off there's a pin that slides out and then you just slide. The binding right off and as you can see there's a puck system right here and in. The bottom of the binding is a slider track that allows it to go on and off so. That comes off pretty simply pretty easily we'll do that here on the back foot now. Pin coming out. Binding slides right off so now you've. Got just the board itself here that you're going to want to get into ski mode, so we're going to flip this clip on. The tip same thing down here on the tail. And then we're just going to slide these. Two halves apart now you're in ski mode so you're going to swap it like this so. That you have your side cut on the inside edge for better control and then. You'll take the binding and it's going. To attach right here using that same pin. On this pivot point and then you're. Essentially going to be able to use it like a tele binding while you're skiing. So that's the basics of how that works it's really a very efficient way to. Switch between modes and it's way more. (Efficient) than snowshoes in the back country for the latest snowboard. Reviews check out board insiders com.

What up benson here for tactics for shop. Enter now you are checking out the 2016. Dakine mission backpack it's a great. Pack for weekend adventures going out. Snowboarding skateboarding just doing a little bit of everything actually own this pack from a couple seasons ago i love it so you will too we're gonna. Check out some of the features so let's just get right into it so this backpack is 21 inches tall and is 11 inches wide. And it is 8 inches deep creating about. 1,500 cubic inches of space as you can. See right on the front you've got your vertical snowboard or skateboard I've. Carried my escape one of this backpack before straps pop those open put your board right there strap them back up and you're good to go behind that is just. Fairly simple accessory compartment open. That up you do have these little sleeves. Right here and the cool thing about these sleeves is they fit most smartphones perfectly, and they're actually fleece lined so you're not going to be scratching the glass when you put those in there it's a great place to put your phones when you're out there riding or doing whatever then you've got your small little pocket up there as you can see it only goes down that deep the main compartment is behind. That open it up as you can see super big. To put whatever you want hoodies just you can pack for a weekend it's gonna fit right in there and you do have this. Padded sleeve right there that will fit most 15-inch laptops i have a 15-inch. Mac book pro fits right in there when I'm going on a little adventures or skate trips or snow trips i put it rights there and it fits great you do have two. Pockets on either side of the pack of this one's cool cuz it is fleece lined so you can put any type of accessory in there that you don't wanna get scratched and it'll be fine on the other side you. Have the exact same pocket but it isn't. Fleece lined so maybe through your keys or headphones or whatever you wanted they're good to go above that nice small. Little fleece line sunglass pocket so again sunglasses in there you're not gonna scratch the lenses on the back you. Do have an adjustable sternum strap as. Well as a padded waist belt two little. Accessories or accessory straps that are great for when you're riding you can strap everything down so the packs really secure to your back and the last. Think i want to point out is your fleece. Lined goggle pocket pop that open. Through your goggles in their just like every free slime pocket anything accessories in there it's not gonna get scratched because you got the fleece lining so that's awesome that's it the kind mission backpack for 2016 like i. Said i own this one i loved it i do love it's great head over to tactics calm you can check out all the colors for 2016 or pick up one for yourself happy. Shredding.

I'm lisa with venture snow horse clear. Fief silver ton colorado, and we built all our force from scraps right there in the heart of san juan mountains what we're. Looking at right here is the paragon this is a newer board in the line it's. All mountain and intended to kind of be a quiver at one you can ride it anywhere and like all the ports in our line you can see it's available both solid. And slit so if you're venturing out of bounds or want to get into the back country we have your cover their next up we have the felix. A directional twin so those that are a. Little more freestyle oriented will find this is a really good choice that they like to ride switch and the graphic on. This is featuring topo map of the. Silverton area so this is actually sultan peak right outside of silver ton. That you see here just tying it together a little bit with where the boards are actually made next up we have stormed. Which is our flagship free ride board. Probably our most popular model this has. Some paper and stance offset a nice wide. Shovel so really pops out the snow and. Does great in a variety of different snow conditions this is probably my favorite board in the line the one that i write about and here we have the odin. This is a big mountain board so if you. Want to make three turns top to bottom if you like to go at mach speed this is. The board for you really excels in steep. Terrain i have a shallower side cut than. The rest of the boards in the line so it's going to make big wide arcing parents this one here is our euphoria and this. Is a powder surfer and a powder specific. Shape as you can see it's got a super wide nose a cool little fishtail that. Helps your back leg thank you and it's 27 centimeters wide so lots of. Surface area for slope nation and then. Over here we've got our women's offerings on the oracle and a tempest. And these are the women's versions of the paragon and storm that we talked about over there more of an all-mountain shape for just riding in bounds with the resort or you. Now a variety of conditions and then a pretty rad shape for ladies that want to take it into bigger terrain so that's. The venture lineup

We have the solution this is my one. Board quiver i love riding different. Boards but when it comes time to travel for me it's a no-brainer the solutions. Going in the bag solution is camber. Underfoot rocker tip and tail works in all conditions from meaty powder to. Bulletproof ice and it's just this. Really predictable incredible platform. That's also really fun to ride this year. Really excited we were able to bring in. This bolt list bridge which means no. More screws on the bottom and this. Karakorum ultra clip this combination of. The bolt list bridge with the ultra clip have just made a significant improvement. On the torsional stiffness of the board. This board also features inner edge. Magna traction this helps with side. Heeling on icy slopes and as the eco. Plastic top sheet made out of castor beans. The solution comes in nine sizes from a. 154 to a 169 why the 161 is my go-to. Size early in late season I'll go down. To a 158 carbon solution this is truly. Our finest split weapon we have it's got. All the features of the normal solution but it's got at extreme carbon top sheet and this is new for this year this is a. Material that i first started playing with a couple years ago and it's lighter. Damper and more responsive this board. Also has the fastest base that we make. The Fastest base on the market this is a race bass brought in to snowboarding all. The splits this year we re-engineered the tip and tail of them just get more. Durability out of them. This is for the serious foot boarder the loves performance.

This is my baby this is the solution. This is the board i ride more than anything else probably 70 to 80% of my. Snowboarding these days is on this board. I spend more time on my split board than any other board i just love getting away. From people being away from the resorts this board is opened up terrain that i. Never thought i could get to in the past now i can get there on my split board. And it's actually really enjoyable because with foot board every step the. Same it's not like a when your boot. Packing it's like the full slog you can. Go out all day on a split board and set. Is set a slow pace where you're barely. Breaking a sweat where for example for. Me six hours on a split board is a lot easier than a three-hour boot pack this. Board is a flagship turned into a split board but it has magna traction down the. Middle to help with traction on side. Heeling anyone who split boarded one knows that's one of the. Drawbacks of a split board is side heeling and this really helps with that and it's a board that's made for. Everything from waist deep out a bulletproof ice and got a great tail for. For landing switch and powder it's. Really the do everything destroyer and. Changed my whole perspective of where i. Can go on my snowboard and has opened up. Terrain that i never thought i could get to and has evolved my snowboarding more. Than any other board.

Yes i would like to hear again really. Yeah i mean your four bindings which. Perfect target for you for your bindings. It would be great if you can tell us for. Which kind of split border yeah every. Kind of finding feels best cool okay. Yeah we'll start at kind of the top of. Out of our line so this is the prime x. Carbon this is for the customer. Looking for the apex and back country technology no sacrifices no compromises. Just the best technology can buy they want kind of the futurist foot boarding right now really stiff carbon high back all the weight savings of the. Prime x no compromises just stiff charge. All over everything the best thing you can get prime x a very similar customer. It's really up to the customer what they want in feel that same customer that wants maybe just a slightly less aggressive high back is going to go for. The prime x i mean really happy this is like kind of i put the stiffness of this high back at probably. A seven and a half hour eight on the stiffness scale the stiffness of this high back but the prime x carbon is a 10. Out of 10 so very similar customers with the x and x carbon moving into the prime. Nomad this is for us kind of bar study. In back country bonding i would just say the back country pier is someone that's doing a lot of time in the back country is going to be really happy with the prime nomad and as morning grows a. Lot of snowboarders a lot more snowboarders keep making the transition into split board ian the connect binding is meant to reach out to those customers. And bridge the gap between snowboarding and split boarding so if you want a really comfortable resort feel you're going to be really happy with the fully va footbed the nylon damping sidewalls and just. Overall kind of familiar feel of a. Connect binding it's also a more accessible price point and then the connects we break up into two models with the connect are being kind of the mainstay bread-and-butter nice high back all the benefits of the kine ct all the benefits of the prime system rides awesome mainstay connects bind in. Connect s softer high back softest strap. A more surf ii kind of feel someone that's looking for softer ride is gonna. Be really happy on the connect s and the connects to is for the rider that wants. Nothing but stiffness is the stiffest sidewall stiff is high back and the. The Stiffest connection to the board someone that's just really interns everywhere or someone that's maybe a bigger rider that can never get enough stiffness out of their binding look no further than the connect ci.

We're here at yes bow, and we're here to talk about all the improvements Karakorum is making for next year this year our overall theme was to make everything lighter without sacrificing. Performance without compromise got our new prime x bonding for next year we took our existing prime x, and we made it much lighter weight and basically we did. Everything we could to it to improve the binding without giving up any of the performance or ease of use advantages that we've built up over the years so on. This new prime x we've got aluminum hardware on the sides here that's a way. To save shave weight bryce went through with tyler, and they just thought of every creative innovative way they could go to save weight and make the bindings better aluminum hardware you can see. That here on the bottom as well. Hollow pins on the toe attachment the. Toe catch as well as the pins inside the. Heel stay all hollowed-out cord out just. As light as possible we got this overall binding weight down to 585 grams that. I'm holding in my hand right now it's really light but also very. Responsive something that's really important to us is a full length sidewall that gives you a lot more support both when you're riding and when you're touring and the prime x takes. That one step further with asymmetric full sidewalls so you still get the full. Support from toe to heel but on the inside you get a little bit more range of motion so you can drive into your turns while you're in ride mode really feel kind of more of a surfing kind of feel while you're riding but you get the high side wall on the outside of your foot which is great support for tour in so you've got a high side wall on the right you've got flex locks supporting you from the inside and altogether you've got a really well tour in binding that's extremely lightweight we. Replaced the sleeves of our individually. Sleeved tour axles with aluminum on the. Part that doesn't need wear protection, and then we have stainless steel on the critical components here so still really long-lasting still very efficient and smooth so a new door line this year is. The prime nomad the prime nomad is. Replacing the prime sl this is a kind of flagship binding kind of our bar setting binding for alpine back country performance it's all. The features that an advanced alpine split boarder is going to need so you have a really successful long tour in the back country at a more competitive. Price point this is kind of you can. Think of the prime nomad as the prime x and the prime connect had a baby it's got easy adjustment on the side this is a very responsive binding with a. Stiff less co2 heel but you have some good range of motion and kind of more. Spring-loaded feel going tail to nose so. You have good range of motion for riding it feels really intuitive and comfortable but very responsive when you're going edge to edge you really want to drive into a turn as well. New on this binding the reactive air the. Reactive high-back another way to save weight so between the reactive high-back the new x chassis and the air pod strap. This binding is about 60 grams lighter than the prime sl well-being stiffer and offering more response with a stiffer. High back and new straps so again it's. Lighter weight and also more responsive for the same price point as a prime. Myself.

They're late shawn school thing kimiko coming at you for the 1819 season with the Karakorum versus spark split board. Binding his showdown so for this year we. Really went all out we have the very best from both spark and kara corn the. Spark pro line surge split board binding. Lightweight functional beautiful beast. Right here love these things have a separate review detailed review with videos and pictures on this guy wanna hear me calm that I'll link to his review and over here we had the. Karakorum carbon ex-prime rp roberts. Edition that artists right their split. Board binding their top dog offer so. This is not just apple samples those bushels of apples to bushels of apples. Let's get into what makes these both. Great makes them different it what might be right for you so we'll start with the spark proline is new for this season saw the arc which is a more lightweight and cutout version on the base plate in a search I'm pretty heavy guide so i go with a search every year and this is its lighter weight than the. Previous versions of surges a save weight on the pillow straps carbon high-back just it's the lightest binding. Out there proof pictures below comparing. These two together it's just a minimalist strong functional sexy beast. This one's all black diamond t-shirt this is available to the public but the. Ones you'll see that are available at least below will feature some pretty cool colored bolts and stuff like that they really did a great job thinking these are handmade in montana spark crew awesome people love they do good work. Yeah these are very light i think in a. 600 gram range I'll have all pics below proving the weight of this ice bar okay how the spark work they work in the. Tried and true puck system you know if you have pucks I'd recommend getting the spark metal pucks over the plastic ones they just work better this day in plays. Better spark also offers canted bucks so if people wider stance snowboarding or split boarding that's a really cool option to have to for this year 1819. Season they will be using enhanced metal. Touring bracket right here it'll have updated hardware all throughout the. Lighter weight stronger and just really bad ass the last season i get to test out. The next season's proprietary nylon. Touring brackets they're really awesome, but they'll probably available after the season till then i think is even better than they have a handsome metal one right here then we'll have details from the specs and the battles and all that involvement just know that not only is a binding updated and improved in every way possible but so is the torreón bracket so keep that in mind and then a little cool feature about the sparks is there lenny mark so to engage your high riser right. There as your low disengage so you. Imagine you're checking pull out yes. Boom there it is one does engage super. Simple butter smooth be honest after. Couple seasons the username i love i have had one or two fall off here and there but I'm like really hard to my care of my job to test things and break things and also those were prototypes of the value was working with so you know everything is better as more they refine some i have not had an issue with this one phone yet it just works as possible so that is the spark serge pro right here. Size large 600 and i believe 40 grams. For 380 grams of exact specs below. Correct all right on to the Karakorum. But one last feature so on the high back is carbon infused and has adjust ability. So for 2 or 8 feet you would disengage. It i have my stuff really tight right now it's about to go over to her always tighten your gear chicka-chicka gear double-checking gear carry backups of buckles and straps because everything does break alright it's a sign outside. For to work you'd want this for more. Ability to work and then for shredding i. Would just engage this guy and yours won't be a squeakiest mine i really have a titan known as a spark a surge the. Karakorum prime carbon acts by Aeneid right here carbon fiber high back you can see right here very clearly this particular one is rp roberts version beautiful mountain right here is literally artwork i love steering this thing the high back also features ability to adjust or to. Toe rings so here you go you have more range of motion articulation if i. Wouldn't be shredding some mellow pow laps I'll put it on one right there and. If I'm a do steeper terrain i would put it on the more aggressive lean forward so unlike the spark you can't. Really adjust it on the fly you need to know a both wrench to it to adjust it but you can really dial in what your stance is as far as angle so that you can have three options which is really cool as opposed to two four options this is usually better pretty much an awesome. Strap system we can talk about unique very lightweight minimalist no buckle to break which is awesome because buckles always break i was recommended carry an extra strap mister buckle for any gear you carry. With you and so how this works meeting. Is also the baseplate is a meld our. Ears cut out so it's they save weight by. Doing that unlike a spark but does have. A lot more pieces going on so it is a little bit heavier than the spark it's still extremely lightweight comparatively it's last when they offer but it has more metal going on also more. Metal on the sides here it's a more contact with your boot which i feel when I'm riding may or may not it's all my. Perception feel like more contact and more control again that's my perception you may differ how it works you see the. Interface here is different than this one so as opposed to is sliding on as a. Sparks others do it actually has an active joining technology mean it comes down lots of place. it's very tight so you have multiple. Points of contact as opposed to sliding in and clamping down like that does which work really good tell these lucent they do this contact it creates. An amazing feel and feedback from the board, and he saw how it tied it was like a had very minimal play i might want to adjust that for next tour tomorrow just. So i can have a little bit of place should i get a little bit of snow or ice in there so I'm thinking mine the spark are pretty much self-cleaning and also of note that bass player i showed you this is from last year so if you order these bindings this year you'll have a better more refined baseplate they'll do a better job of clearing snow and ice out so except to look forward to when. They come out I'll have the next week I'll update this review accordingly how. You disengage it this is very thoughtful rubber doodad right here previously i was just to take a bunch of. Guerrilla tape or duct tape and put back here so i can unhinge it but that works. Really well you saw these it was. All right so there it is that's how that. Works it comes down engage this guy boom you. Should price out there watch as there're two pins right here okay so it latches on right here there're two pins will pop. Our right here well and so it sucks into. The board which is really cool i think it creates incredible board fills you get a couple a little bit dampening right there they're rubber so again it's. A lot more going on this binding I'm moving pieces and stuff to it you get a little bit of flex which is kind of nice. When you're really carving and how it differs to in a two-hour mode if you have sleeved axles right here you can. Actually do this part to maintain envelope of lubrication there's some oil and so as opposed to creating friction. And hinge enough of these bushings to spark this it actually locks into place. And then you tore on these sleeve axles. Which i think is pretty cool not that i haven't it well I've broken both of Karakorum a spark couple of years everybody has that just happens in a back country what I've had sometimes happen as bushings would fall out in previous generations they address that for this year, so we have me again and so i guess an earthing has an. Opportunity a fact yesterday just brother pierce snowshoes test it just happens right so prepared in the back country always carry extra buckles extra strap a couple extra bolts I've. Actually lost bolts on the tour and tighten your stuff down the night before or the morning before you tore it's just it's something you should do like you check your battery's new beacon you should check your gear make sure it's all tightened you heard how tight I'd had those things that's really tight i might want to dial off a little bit but just check your gear double-check before you go out make sure you got backup it was a military is saying it we're gonna cinavia seals one is none and two is one thing about them. So that was a long-winded tangent but. It's a very important one so to summarize the Karakorum carbon ex. Split floor binding is the bee's knees. From kara form it is super awesome the. Spark pro surge is the bee's knees from. Spark it is super awesome and you can see them side by side and on pictures below side by side as well a little bit different as far as like a little more metal contact on the spark which adds to its weight baseplate simpler more. Complex different kind of mechanism to. Walk them to the board whereas this one slides into place and then ramps down. Similar kind of high backs and that their carbon fiber carbon infused and both adjustable for terrain and for. Writing both straps are extremely comfortable pliable resilient and provide amazing contact and boot. Connection the toe strap on the spark is. Probably my favorite it just works but again there's a buckle might break my future who knows this thing is this basically well a strap and so lester break a little bit lighter. Weight so as you're probably gathering I'm not gonna tell you which one they get but hope that you're making up your opinion as you're watching this review what is more important to you a little. But lighter by like 40 or 50 grams for. Size largest I'm 11 and a half food i. Fit nice very well so if you are 11 or. 12 definite too large let's have great buckles both are hand. Built in america washington state montana state so you feel good about that both will serve your purposes i write i literally write both as you tell my both setups because i love both people write. It is great for individuals read these. Are great for three products and i would recommend both that's probably not your bailiwick to get both so hopefully this. Review helped point out some similarities some of differences its pros some cons of both bodies spark. Pro surge Karakorum prime x carbon will. Have weight more detailed reviews on both of these independently and then comparatively in the review below when i cameron calm michelle so hopefully you. Found this helpful double check your gear be safe make. Smart decisions and have fun the back country take care.

Hey lady shots oh thank you matt come here we're reviewing the Karakorum. Carbon prime x custom slip war fighting. I love this binding these that says January this year so now mace I've got four solid months of using it and that's strong opinions about these so this is. The lightest fighting they offer has 600. Grams besides large is a purple graphite. Highlander with the custom graphics know how the links are below awesome guy so. Carbon graphite very responsive very lightweight very stiff aggressive high. Back of course that high back easy to. Adjust for tori there we go tour mode. And then a variety this is the current. Eighteen model right here you can purchase it humpin to below next year. When they go production they're gonna have this lanyard right here lagger makes opening the back hole i easier if. You phone carrier korn's before you know you should buy duck paper grill table these i didn't or lanyard around here to facilitate open it in the cold now it. Took that knowledge and made this nice durable attachment and also when you're. Done use is locked into place very handy. So this is a sturdy strong responsive. Binding i love this baby it's made of a 75 aluminum so it's. Lightweight and strong the active joint. Technology is i think really helpful when you're writing it sucks the board together so care club has there. Own proprietary base plates this is not a plug system so you'll need to make sure you have base plate but it comes in. Their favor because of relays and boards together and you'll notice it right away when you're writing this tip your binding has a really comfortable pliable. Strap here i love this one then this toe. Strap it's a love-hate relationship took. Me a minute to get used to it but now I'm used to it makes more sense essentially you said it once that's it just put your toe in first loop it over and you're done you can get. Proficient at it gets pretty quick pretty awesome so again this is a. The Lightest binding 690 grams for a size large very responsive very strong. For the board field frank satori — these sleeve axles are lubricated and. So it is very smooth not a lot of. Friction going on because we're lubricated you can always go back and lubricated more although I've never had done that you can't do that it's a very. Well thought out buying to even the sides there's more sight going down so. Give me more support on your boot so. Really good edge hold when you're. Turning and stuff and also in your tor ii it's a very solid finding they're currently available so I'll have links below lonna gimmick comm for best prices and where to purchase them and then next year should you purchase these you'll get that updated lanyard and also a. Really cool update i should mention earlier that is currently available and will definitely be available to next season is the hill risers this was i would say the Achilles. Heel for Karakorum their hill risers were great on paper and function until they broke, and then they solve that so. Now here's your high there's your low boom very reliable very. Strong and of course you do have a heel lock down right there although i don't use that feature very often it is there and then their hardware is improved -. And next year they might have the different brackets and I'll put that. Teaser in below this video from omar this year but currently this is what you. Would get if you purchased the Karakorum prime x and then this is the high-back. You would get to get the custom and i think it's really beautiful not only if you get a really awesome performance binding but it looks really. Cool I'm a kid something tends met up here camping and just look at that mountain shixin right there and just put a smile. On your face and care chrome toes in a nice t-shirt and a little poster see. Deep underwater coal artist cool concept. Cool collaboration there it is. Karakorum carbon prime x this is the. Custom version leaks below where participants as sean sewell thank you ring calm found it helpful and take care.

Hey buddy shawn sue cameron calm we have. Got a really cool comparison for you at the Karakorum prime split board bindings and the spark rd arc squid ward bindings. These are a spark rd arc they teamed up. With burton for the straps and buckles, so they're nice and buttery smooth easy. Breezy now these guys are based in. Montana they do a great job the high-back is really cool so when you're. Touring you can disengage this right here and get a little more articulation so get that touring benefit and then. When you want to get after it you just put it in place and there you go and it's cool to this tooless to design how. Much forward lean you want or don't want so that's pretty cool. What else is cool you can buy this for. Like 40 bucks and that will engage and lock down the heel so there it is locked. In place disengaged now the risers are cool. They're built into the base plate here so you pop it out there's your short riser and rest until. A little nodule right there then you pop. It out one more time so it's the same way pop it out one more time and now you're in a high so reston's a nodule. There nicely too so pretty easy. So that's engaged disengage it you're. Touring nice and smooth and again you. Can adjust there's a few different ways but you'll need a four or five. I have any issue last season's razor i broke it going forward somehow russell. Maroon Karakorum is awesome they replace her for free so next year but. Let me get to go buy these the issue won't be present and of course they have their own unique interface system that we'll get into in part 2 of the review when it's more relevant so there we go we have the proper the airport prime. Binding right here and we have a spark. Already come with the hardware the spark you'll need either you use your plastic putz from ballet or you can buy these spark plugs which are awesome and again. We'll have links when where to buy these bindings the sparks the pucks and all. That money gamer calm stay tuned for. Part two. Anyways the chanson game in town with. Part 2 of our review here and this is. Our mounting bracket and you can hole. Right here so you can slide it up down you can go 30 each direction so you can really fine-tune it as well as forward. And back so very user-friendly very fun. To adjust the contact points are here and then check this out right here these pins will come in engaging with. The bindings right here so again I'll. Show your house works so you get the board put together you line it up with. Those guys and then you engage it rights. There making one very strong secure. Connection i actually tore most time with these by. The way they feel how they respond to board very fluid side is the. Karakorum prime that's the base model. They have extra miles above that and different strategy to purchase to here's. A spark r&d; arc so these are great bindings as well how they attach there's. This little mechanism here from part one. They slide on to the puck system and. They slide on very firmly so you can tell. Around there so the benefit in a. Downside so the benefit is so you have. The puck system these are sparks pox. These are great because you have infinite and variability here as well as back and forth and angle to angle so. Whether you have the spark plugs other companies pucks bolle pucks whatever even make canted pucks now to the. Binding itself slides on with that. Channel system and then yeah latch it. Down with that guy so let's see if i can get it back on this weird angle and then. There and of course it creates a nice. Strong secure connection as well so the. Spark are indeed bindings come with the bindings that you see here, and they come. With the tour bracket here and the tie. Rakhie here you'll need to purchase this. Separately you'll need to purchase your own pucks separately and if you want to. You can purchase as padding although i don't think you really need it you. Purchase the Karakorum the cost little more money but you get the binding you. Get the puck system valley puck you get the mounting system you get the touring. Brackets and you get the heel risers so you get it all in one package. Further, questions always drop us a line I've been it helps to shun souls endearment calm stay safe from that country. You.

All right hi I'm kyle from Karakorum and. This is the lightest snowboard binding. And the lightest flipper bunny in the world this is our new prime x carbon. Totally new for 1718 it works on our. Prime system the prime carbon with the. Problem carbon ex with the inside gravity kit weighs in at 590 grams. That's quite a bit lighter than anything. Else on the market it's a let's see. About 100 in about 100 grams lighter. Than you think we've made before the way. We were able to get that much weight out of the binding while still keeping all the performance that Karakorum has to have is we upgraded pretty much all the. Materials on the heel stay and today are now made out of a 7000 series aluminum. It's a really strong dense. Aluminum that we're able to take a lot of weight out by a removing material so. It's so strong that the shows that you can see there's almost nothing here same thing with the heel stay bryce did some. Really cool things with the design when he was producing this line in um we. Learned a lot with the connect bindings that we made last year that were released and one of the things kind of key design elements that we were able to do with that is we've put all the mounting points on the bottom as a post on the side you see here's last year's sl I'll mount hardware comes in on. The side now we put an extra bend on the heel cup all the hardware is on the bottom it's out of the way it looks very sleek and that also adds a lot of strength along the toe heel axis so when. You're making the toe side heel side turn the bindings very stiff and strong another cool aspect of the x. Chassis is it has kind of damping. Element built in if you look at it along this plane you can see that there's somewhat of an arch here it's kind of similar to the damping system we have on our connect bindings and you can just feel of it there's enough damp damping this year to absorb you know kind of the day-to-day chatter you'll experience when you're on this is the x chassis with our carbon high back so that's the prime x carbon our carbon high back we. Worked with jeremy to make it and it's uh has a nice blend of a little bit of. Torsional stiffness but still very stiff so to heal another thing you can see on the x bonding is our anti-gravity kit that's the anti ratchet as well as titanium hardware so that allowed us to get that. Extra weight out we got under 600 grams that was a big milestone for us we've really wanted to have a binding in under 600 grams for a while now it's been kind. Of just like on the horizon like maybe we can get there and this year we finally broke that mark under 600 grams. With the anti gravity kit with the. Anti-rattle titanium hardware to use the. Anti ratchet super simple just like a ski buckle just pops right off you can. Open up just like a regular strap set it. Up before you ride and then it's really easy to put on it's got a couple different settings so if there's snow and your boot no worries it still goes on just snap it here it cams over with. Your boot in it's totally locked in you're secure yeah awesome system the. Antigravity kit is a accessory that you. Can get once you get the prime carbon axe or prime x finding so yeah. That's the x it also comes with both our. Air strap and our ratcheting air form. Toe strap so you can take your choice if you want the super light easy to use air strap or if you just prefer a traditional normal toe ratcheting strap. One more thing that's kind of cool about this money and all the contact points are plastic and that's the prime x carbon prime x has our new reactive high. Back it's an extremely durable strong plastic makes for a stiffer high back. Then what we had on our sls then out this is our airflow high back this is kind of mid stiffness video a little on the soft side high back now this is a little bit stiffer it's a kind of just a little bit less stiff than our carbon high back but still very stiff going toe to heel so stiffer lighter reactive high back. All of our bindings for next year are. Going to have our new dual ride stride. Forward lean adjustment, so we've been known in the past for having our ride and stride mode adjustment so when. You're riding you have nice forward lean when you tour you get a little extra room on your stride right now we added. An extra this is the second ride mode, so we have ride stride this. Second ride mode is kind of easier setting so this is either going to be set at a eleven degrees or zero degrees and then you can set the regular setting anywhere from zero to twenty-two degrees whatever you prefer it's for me as a snowboarder. The perfect forward lean adjustment we could have gone with just a traditional tool-less forward lean but. This is just with the two settings it's by far the easiest to go between your. Rowdy and aggressive you know baked slalom like really in turns aggressive forward lean setting and your more mellow just kind of cruising around the hill not burning your ankles out setting you can adjust this while your foot strapped into the bindings so just lean forward and flip it to the other set in and now you've changed your forward lean and you're good to go. So yeah those are the features of our. Prime x mining the prime x is weighing. It six hundred and fifty grams so maybe. Eighty grams lighter than last year's prime now self.