Recently I was testing boards.  I got  to ride a Never Summer Infinity, Ride OMG, K2 Fling, Arbor Cadence, Rome Detail, Roxy Emminence, Roxy Ollie Pop and K2 Wolfpack.  I was trying to hunt down a nice park board to replace my broken K2 Airdu.  

All the boards were good in their own way. The never summer infinity was great for carving on the groomers, but as a rail board it was a fight as it always wanted to jump onto edge and carve away.  I love boards that are happy to run flat base and turn when you want them to.  The k2 fling was a lot of fun, but lacked pop, the Ride OMG was fantastic as a big jump board but I found it stiff torsionally and not as easy on rails.  The Arbor Cadence was ok, nothing really spectacular, the Rome Detail was great fun on rails but lacked the stiffness for bigger jumps.  The roxy Emminence is perfect for what its made for....Pipe.  It is such an aggressive board that holds an edge, but is not super stiff.  It also has heaps of pop.  The K2 wolfpack is the best womens board I have ridden as a freeride/freestyle machine.  It is flatline, but heaps of pop, it makes a great big jump board or powder machine.  It is the Ferrari of womens boards.  Leanne Pelosi knows how to design great boards thats for sure.  The problem is its way to slick to use as a park board and ride rails on.  The Roxy Ollie pop is another great ride.  It has pop, it locks into rails and as a jump board I have not been dissapointed yet. I went down to a 145 cm and was worried about bigger jumps but the board is awsome.  For a little board it so far has handled everything perfect.  It carves well with the magna traction, it runs flatbase like a camber with its C2 Banana technology.  

I was lucky to ride every board that I was keen to check out.  I ended up choosing the Roxy Ollie pop and also the K2 wolfpack to shred on for the season.  I dont think I will be wanting to give the wolfpack back at the end of it and my little 145cm ollie pop will be joining the 151cm ollie pop I have in Austria.  Roxy/Lib Tech/ Gnu are sick boards also K2 have never dissapointed me either with their womens range.

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