Burton Whammy Bar. Which is kind of interesting they named it the Whammy Bar, because there’s a bunch of vinyl records. Every time I see vinyl records I think of turntable-ism, DJ’s and scratching, and not, not a Whammy Bar. But anyway, this is the Burton Whammy Bar. This will make you do power ballads throughout the whole park. It has a lot of great extra features. If you want to learn how to step it up; if you’re already like an intermediate level rider, and you need technology, or you need a board to get you up another notch, this is going to be it.
So this isn’t really for the entry-level rider, this is for that park rider that’s already out there five to seven days a week, grinding. It’s part of the Hi-Speed Quad Tier program that Burton has, and it has a feel rating of a 3. It’s going to be a little bit softer, and it does have the V-rocker in it.
It has continuous rocker shape with V-rocker in the middle. Rocker on the tip, rocker on the tail, and underneath the bindings it does have Frostbite – edges that actually stick out, but just a touch.
The shape is a twin shape, and it does have a twin shape flex. It has a Super Fly Burton core, so there’s hard and soft wood laminates from tip to tail, and it also has Dualzone EDG. Dualzone EDG transitions and changes the wood grain to go perpendicular with the regular laminate wood core. It also has a negative profile.
Now from my previous explanations of a negative profile, it’s a little bit different, I’m saying you’re right. Negative profile: the wood in the core is going to be a little bit thicker underneath the bindings. It’s going to be a little bit thinner in between the bindings, and thinner on the nose and the tail. It gives it a nice, smooth transitional flex no matter where you’re at. If you’re flexing that nose, flexing the tail, or trying to flex the middle, it’s going to give it a nice smooth flex.
It has a dual density Biax fiberglass; so they beefed up the fiberglass. They still have saved weight because they’re using Biax fiberglass, and the fiberglass strands run 90 degrees and zero degrees throughout the whole board, that sandwich the wood core.
It does have a super-fast, porous sintered base. You’re going to want to wax this thing up every once it a while to keep it very moist and keep it fast. The edges are rail-ready; the edges have already been beveled. You don’t need to de-tune these things whatsoever. Not only do these things have rail-ready edges, they also have the 1040 indestructible sidewalls. They’re two different angled sidewalls that are virtually bomb-proof. Osama Bin Laden was actually in his mansion surrounded by 1040 sidewalls and, you know, he got bombed a lot, and nothing happened to him until a sniper went inside and like shot him in the head. So these are pretty much indestructible.
As for the extras: it does have Mid Spoon, it has Scoop, it does have Ellip-Kick, Pro Tip and Infinite Ride. The Infinite Ride is a process in which Burton breaks in your board for you. Burton puts your board in a machine and it does what I just did for hours and hours on end. So when you get on hill, you don’t have to break it in, Burton already did it for you because they like you that much!
It also has Pro Tip, which means the material in the tip and the tail has been reduced and minimized to reduce swing weight, and for a lighter board.
The lip kicks are a flat process on the nose and the tail, which give you a nice solid flat ollie pop, whether it be off a jump, setting up for a rail, or even in powder. Like I said before, it also has the Spoon system, so the contact points of the board on the nose and on the tail where the effective edges end, and a little bit on the nose, actually spoon up.
Do you guys remember that old Morrow spoon board? I do, I had that in ’90, ’94 I think – great board. This one’s even better, and it also has Mid Spoon as well. So that means that this Burton Whammy Bar‘s edges in between have actually been rocked up just a little bit. So when you’re squirreling around on the bottom of the hill, you won’t catch up because of the Mid Spoon, the regular spoon, and everything else that this board has to offer.
That was a long video, but this is well worth it, because this is the Burton Whammy Bar!
