Korua Pocket Rocket 129 // Can quiver boards get more extreme than this?
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I was given the chance to hop on a Korua Pocket Rocket 129, and sure enough, I took it!
Boards like this one here push the extremes of what's rideable, and of course the rider has to adjust to the board quite a bit. But that can also be the fun part about it! Every board wants to be ridden in a certain way, and after all you learn whether you can do it, whether you find out what you need to change about your riding to make it work, whether this might inspire your riding on your 'normal' boards.... If you pay attention, you will find out what you really need to perform at your best.
"Happiness lies in the process of finding your matching shape. In this process there is no right or wrong nor a goal, since every character has different forms and every form has different characters. May you never find your perfect shape."
Best thing ever printed onto a snowboard!
I love my Rocket. Mine has a full channel so I can ride it with any stance angle and width. It’s the 2.0 version. It’s great on smooth groomers, fresh powder, and the slush. It’s fun on ice if you like to slide around super lose. Bumps are not the greatest. It’s great in the park as well. Small to medium jumps and boxes. Rails are interesting with beveled base. O and everyone in the lift line will talk to you. Cheers. Thanks for all the great content 💯🤙💯
Still laying it over on a tiny full rocker board!! Very impressive!
Next on the list is an offcut of OSB plank that Lars found laying around in his basement that has some leather straps for bindings and still manages to do them "Euro carves"! 😂
😂😂 Great idea! I need you for content suggestions!
@@Justaride-Snowboard-Channel Dunno about content suggestions, but I've got a question, seeing as I'm really new to snowboarding, what would you say is the better way to go about learning to carve, down-unweighted or up-unweighted on the edge change? Or that is a completely irrelevant? 🙂
@@nemaemanema3940 Up unweighted!! It is much more useful and will be used much more often in non carve scenarios as well. It is an important movement to learn in general. Down unweighted is very much an advanced carving technique. I hardly ever use it, although it has its benefits and purpose. I apply a mixed version. up unweighted at the edge change, then bend the knees before fall line, then extend the knees through the fall line into an up unweighted edge change.... It has elements of both techniques in it.
For now you certainly may have other things to worry about :-)
@@Justaride-Snowboard-Channel Much obligated. Good thing that the up-unwighted comes easier to me.
Lol Lars, you make it look easy! I think I'll give that board a miss for my carving camp 🤣🤣
You don't think 95cm effective edge makes a good carving board? Common now! Hahahaha...
Loved this board, granted I was on the new one with edges and flat base from side to side. I'm typically in the same realm as Lars, as far as board preference, but this one was a hoot. Surprisingly intuitive and competent right off the bat - better than you think. Wouldn't want it on hardpack, but so fun in any soft snow/slush.
This one had edges. Just not very long ones… 😅
Yeah, on hard pack you’re on your own!! It was pretty soft today.
WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF THIS IS ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC. HISTORY IS MADE
Hahahaha…. I wouldn’t go quite that far… 😂
That was great, it does show when you can snowboard you can ride anything.
Wish it wasnt filmed in tiktok mode tho
Yeah, I know.... It was meant to be super short... Reel format.... But then turned out to be what it is. I need to be more aware of that! I hate the format, too!!
Thanks for the compliment! Everything about that board says "carve challenge", hahaha...
Your turns looked great on this board!
Thank you very much! The idea of this video was to point out that it’s often ‘despite the board’ and not ‘because of the board’. It was challenging to make this work, as I explain on the chair lift. It’s not a great board for carving - obviously. It was my curiosity going ‘I wonder whether I can make this work.’ 😅
I built a couple rocker to flat 139s and they're a ton of fun! Different shapes ride so differently; it's well worth the time to try as mqny as you can. Not sure why you'd bevel the edges outside of the tip as edge grip is so essential, but sounds fun for a few runs.
I'll have to take a look, might be worth modifying the design
I think the bevel is to improve the edge transition (which is needed because of the width I guess). and / or for more play, imagine you could ride it like a skimboard. Would love to try one some day
@@rutgerros9514 it definitely makes the board 'roll over' onto the new edge. The issue with that base shape is that moment of no control. You gotta be very intentional changing edges and work your lower joints rapidly - then it works.
OMG Just the video I was looking for! Thank you
Hahaha… 😂 In what way?!
@@Justaride-Snowboard-Channel well I was super curious about this board but there wasn't much info on how it rides. Now a carving specialist has tried it and a put a short video review on it and I can't feel luckier 🙏
@@henryouyang well.... rest assured..... it is NOT a carving board! Hahahah....
If you already own six boards and ride a ton and want that fun, weird, crazy flavour somewhere in your quiver, this is a cool little toy. If you expect an all mountain ride for most days, you won't be getting your lift pass's worth out of the experience on the board. It is so fun, and it also has so many limitations!
@@Justaride-Snowboard-Channel certainly looks fun! Might pop back up as an impulse buy someday
Great video. I’ve been waiting to see someone carve the PR. Where can I find JJ’s toe side turn?
ruclips.net/video/edYSL913rHI/видео.html
@@Justaride-Snowboard-Channel thank you. 😊
You’re so good at carving
Nah, it’s all the board! 😅
Thank you!!
It's my only trick.... the turn...
My girlfriend also has a”pocket rocket 🚀 “. It’s a little different than yours homie. 😂. Great video
😂😂😂
that looks SO FUN
It was a mix of fear and giggling. 😅
@@Justaride-Snowboard-Channel 😂
So, next week on the Banana Hammock?! 😜
Hahahaha, this is funny: I sat on the lift with a friend the day after, and he said "what else is crazy that you could try to carve on?", and I was like "well.... there's always the Banana Hammock... but that's just not possible..."
Hahaha....
Lars, I love your content
I think that dreamers of the perfect turn should should get on a board with no bindings and descend a hill and learn how to turn
This can be done anywhere there is a hill with a smidge of snow on it
Be humble and learn great things in your back yard
I wish I could justify buying myself one of these. This looks like crazy silly fun. But when only riding 10 days a year it would probably be a bit of a waste.
Oh man……. I’d say pointless!!
This is a fun little board, but it would be somewhere between number five and eight on the list of boards for a quiver. It’s an absolute luxury to buy one of those. I wouldn’t want to spend more than a morning on it, maybe four days per season… It’s just not enough of anything. But definitely fun.
Can you link to the Nicholas Wolken? I couldn't find that...
Sorry, no link here. It was n their social media when the board came out. Just google Korua Nose Rider Nicholas Wolken. You'll find something...
Does this thing have edges or not? I saw someone say it doesn't have steel?
It does now. This one here has edges, too. The first ones didn't have any.
To have a proper quiver, you need one novelty board. This one is going to be mine.
Good luck and all the best! 😅👍
So if I'm doing some 30 days a year in the mountain and have two other boards that I love (Biru and customx), and don't really need another board, and have buddies that are happy to share the cost, would you recommend it? 😊
It's not a performance snowboard in any way. It's simply fun to ride it, because it is so weird... I think they made the base flat now and not beveled. That would make the board much more useful, while also making it a little harder to get it up on edge.
We're all different. It might be the right addition for you. It wouldn't be for me.
@@Justaride-Snowboard-Channel according to the one and only review I found of newest version it still has spoon. Review was by a russian guy who was basically laughing all the time riding it, so that's why I was thinking it could be a cool party thing to share with the guy. Definitely not a day to day ride.
Crazy the effective edge of the cheater is longer than the Korua board
Hahaha, yes!! I have a Cheater 200 with an EE over 170cm…. 😂
can you link the mentioned Jeremy's video part?
Should be right here:
ruclips.net/video/edYSL913rHI/видео.html
pocket rocket best snowboard
More like a snow skateboard… 😅
Short Board - Maximal Turns
Depends… 😉
ruclips.net/video/yCHZtKEZU3s/видео.htmlsi=FGXjdWpo--P05a20
@@Justaride-Snowboard-Channel I "know" 😉 (Thx for your Videos)
I wouldn't recommend that little thing on ice.
Um…. NO!!! 😂