YES Warca Review
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- Full review at oldguysriptoo.com
Every season, Chris and I get to test a fair number of boards and sometimes we get lucky and test an incredible board. The YES. UNIC Warca is one of those incredible boards and very quickly earned my award for the best board of the season. Most of the time, it takes me at least a few runs to figure out a board and how to really make it work before deciding where it performs best and how to really make it excel.There have even been times it ends up being a board that I just don’t end up loving. After two turns on the Warca, I was ready to charge. The Warca is just an all around easy rider and I have yet to find a condition I don’t like it in or where it doesn’t perform.
I was immediately drawn to the shape of the Warca. The YES. Warca is a volume shifted board, so it is shorter and wider. It has a crescent moon shaped nose, a bat tail and tapered midbite. Tapered midbite looks bizarre on a snowboard but is highly functional and reminds me of an 80’s skateboard shape. It has a stepped sidecut between the bindings, making the waist narrower and providing an amazing edge to edge response. The nose and tail are wider to allow for float and stability. Technically, this board is designed to hold solid in all conditions.
I was very intrigued by the Tapered Midbite and have ended up really liking it. It holds an edge really well and allows a short/wide board to be really quick edge to edge. From laydown carves to quick turns through trees, the Warca can handle them all with ease. It snaps in and out of turns and just wants to go. It was so much fun to play on groomers and to really feel it respond. The Warca was stable at high speed and damp enough to absorb chatter. It butters with a little effort, being on the stiffer side. Riding switch was easy and surprisingly fun due to the midbite technology.
YES. uses Poplar, Bamboo and Paulownia for the core of the Warca. Two bamboo stringers run the length of the board for pop and responsiveness. This combined with the camber profile give the board plenty of pop. It felt great off small to large jumps. I ran through the park a few times and took it off a backcountry jump. With the wide tip and tail, I found the board very stable on landings.
The only place I didn’t love the Warca was in really deep powder. We had a huge storm hit Grand Targhee, dumping 53” over four days. As it piled up, I found it a little tough to stay on top. But I’ve ridden the Warca in one to two feet of powder and it handled that with ease. The amount of snow we got was unreal and really required a board designed exclusively for deep powder.
Overall impressions
The YES. Warca is an all mountain destroyer. If you are looking for an everyday rider, look at the Warca. Nimble, stable, quick edge to edge, this board was a blast to ride. JP Solberg and YES. did an amazing job on this board. The Warca is a truly unique board and you should not find much overlap in your quiver of boards.
Did you move your bindings back in the really deep stuff?
Definitely, being a shorter board, I did on really deep days but the big nose handles pow really well.
Great board l. I really love it in the trees... having a blast with it out at Brighton.
Such a great board 🤙🏻
Thanks for the review mate! Cheers
Hi good sir. Thanks for your hard work. Warca or Korua Otto for a daily driver?
That’s a tough one! I really like both of these boards and you can’t go wrong with either. The Otto is a little softer so it probably depends on what you like to ride. If you ride park, I’d probably go with the Otto. If you are riding big mountain steeps, I’d lean towards the Warca.
@@oldguysriptoo which one is easier to ride you think? I'm 40 and status post both knees ACL repair
@@dretjoe both are easy riders but I feel like the chatter from a softer board might bother your knees. I was comfortable on the Warca in just a few turns.