ROME · Hype Snowboard
Hype Snowboard
- Colour
- Red · White · Black
- Design
- Illustration
- Sizes
- 139 · 143 · 147 · 151 cm
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23/24 season review
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The Rome Hype is a women's park board putting a true twin on Fusion Camber. Good pop and switch riding plus forgiving landings make it good for building tricks, and its weight makes it surprisingly stable on rutted snow.
On the other hand it isn't suited to powder or high-speed carving. Ranked 9th of 18 women's freestyle boards (84.2/100), it suits park-focused riders as either a main or second board.
A closer look
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Board profile
The profile describes the curve of the board when viewed from the side.
Hybrid camber
Rome's Fusion Camber — a hybrid that is mostly camber with micro rocker at the tips. A true twin shape with an extruded (Impact) base.
How stiff is it?Closer to 10 means stiffer. It does not mean better performance.
A medium-soft flex (4/10). Pop is definite, spins are easy to enter and landings are forgiving. It's agile at low speed with quick transitions.
Terrain suggested in the review
Rider levels suggested in the review
Intermediate · Advanced
A park board that doesn't punish mistakes, fitting intermediates to advanced riders building up tricks. It's for freestyle-focused riders willing to give up powder.
What the review liked
- ✓Switch riding is very good (4.5/5)
- ✓Turns and slashes are good with excellent low-speed agility (4.5/5)
- ✓Jumps, jibbing and spins all rate an even 4/5
- ✓Its weight makes it surprisingly stable on rutted snow
What the review found lacking
- —Your back leg burns in deep powder (2.5/5)
- —The edge pushes out in high-speed carving (carving 3/5)
- —The wide contact area makes spin rotation on the slow side
- —Not suited to large jumps with speed behind them
