Staff Review
Dave here at The House, talking about my favorite women’s snowboard, the
Rossignol Diva Mag snowboard. Mag in the name stands for magnetraction which is a technology that you license from Lib Tech and Gnu. It is hard to see when you are looking like this, but there is a gentle wobbling of the side cut, and on a traditional snowboard you are going to have plenty of contact, right here, and right here with even pressure in between. When you are really, really fast the even pressure can slip out a little bit easier, so what the magnetraction does is it gives you seven biting points of contact.
This is super good if you are on East Coast or in the Midwest where you ride icy hard pack conditions 90% of the time. This is the best edge grip technology on the market hands down, there is nothing really even close. Our receptionist Laura Bitson is going to be riding this snowboard, give her a good shout out there, so it is good if you ride in it. You have a full length wood core, very, very lightweight and very proppy, very resilient as far as holding its flex. You have some carbon stringers that you can see in the clear windows there, it is going to help stiffen the snowboard up a little bit, reduce the weight, this one is definitely going to be for that intermediate to advanced rider. It can be ridden anywhere in the mountain but definitely works so in the park or in anywhere doing freestyle maneuvers, things of that nature and such. It has have got a 4x2 insert pattern, really good stand to width adjustment, you can even bang out a definitely a wider stance in this one. The Rossignol Diva Mag snowboard has a slightly directional shape barely set back to just over a centimeter, and can definitely be ridden twinned out.
Graphic on this one is really sweet, you have got some matt glass detail drawn through here, you can get the clear see through windows that I already mentioned, and some really glossy top sheet. That rolls into a really nice sidewall, it is going to be very protective of the construction of the snowboard. It is going to hold better on icy hard pack terrain. When that combined with the magnetraction the snowboard is definitely have by far the best group of any other women’s snowboards I have. The base on this one, you are looking a high end sintered base, really cool. You can see through to the snowboard construction, you can see the inserts. There is a die cut and really poppy bright graphics on this one.
Really fast base, you have got to wax it a little bit more, but the speed payoff is definitely there. When you do that, they only get faster, throughout the life, the more you wax them to, yet another cool thing there for sure. Other than that, just a really solid snowboard, really good cosmetic details going on to it. If you ride on East Coast, or Midwest, and you have been riding for a second, definitely a snowboard you should check out for sure.
The
Rossignol Diva Mag snowboard.
Description
Rossignol Diva Mag Snowboard 152
The Rossignol Diva Mag Snowboard directional twin tip all-mountain board has already won both the Good Wood and Future Snowboard MVP awards. What more do you want? How about a Deep Progressive Radius, Directional Twin Tipped, Magnetraction, Sintered 4400 Stone Ground Base and a Wood CK Core, if that's not enough to please, no man ever will either. Now you can focus on jibing your favorite feature rather than whether or not your board can handle getting through the chop. And just forget about the boys, who cares about them anyway?
Key Features of the Rossignol Diva Mag Snowboard:
- Deep Progressive Radius (4 to 8m)
- Directional Twin
- Magnetraction
- Sintered 4400 Stone Ground Base
- Wood CK Core
- Length: 152
- Flex: 6/10
Diva Mag
