YES · Women's Rival Snowboard
Women's Rival Snowboard
25/26 season
Colour
Color makeup
Multicolour
Design
Illustration
Expert reviews 1
The Yes Women's Rival is an aggressive women's freestyle board that combines full camber with Midbite technology to provide fast turn responsiveness and powerful ice edge hold. It performs outstandingly in groomer carving, on steeps and on medium-to-large park features and in the halfpipe, suiting advanced to expert riders who pursue speed and technical riding. It's an aggressive, technique-oriented board not recommended for powder, playful riding or beginners.
Base shape (camber)
Camber
A full camber profile where positive camber is maintained out to the contact points beyond the bindings. With no early rise it feels fully in contact with the snow, storing energy in the board and returning it with snap.
StiffnessHigher means stiffer
A flex of 6 out of 10, quite stiff for a freestyle board. Stiffness is felt especially lengthwise (tip to tail) while torsional flex is comparatively supple. Playful moves such as buttering take extra effort, and it excels in snap and responsiveness at speed and on big jumps.
Where it shines
Who it suits
Not suited to beginners in the park; it's a board you step up to once you've built some experience. It's optimised for advanced to expert riders who prefer speed and aggressive riding.
Good
- ✓Midbite (sidecut disruption) provides fast edge-to-edge transitions and ice edge hold
- ✓High energy return and snap from full camber deliver excellent performance on large jumps and in the halfpipe
- ✓The true twin construction makes switch riding as natural as regular
- ✓It delivers stable, powerful performance on steeps and in groomer carving
Not so good
- —Performance degrades at low speed and it tends to demand high speed at all times
- —High longitudinal stiffness makes control somewhat difficult in bumps and off-piste
- —The full camber true twin construction leaves powder float lacking
- —Playful moves such as buttering need extra force, making it unsuitable for beginners or playful riders
