Salomon Assassin 159

Assassin: a ride-anything solution

Wolle Nyvelt takes no prisoners with the Assassin strapped to his feet. A cross between Salomon's most progressive powder and freestyle board constructions—Featuring ABC Green Roll, EQ Rad, Rock Out Camber, and Popster Eco Booster, in one ride-anything package. The Assassin is built with an arsenal of technology to destroy anything in its path.

Riding Style
The Assassin was designed as a high-performance all-round weapon. Improve your abilities in the park, or slash high-speed turns on hardpack or powder, this board offers the required versatility.

Shape
Freestyle specific True Twin: Identical tip/tail lengths and shapes, symmetrical core profiling, flex and a centred binding stance. Spin, stomp, and butter with a greater balance of freestyle mobility and cat-like stability no matter which way you point it. The Quadralizer sidecut is an explosive combination of Equalizer and Quadratic sidecuts, which allows high-speed carving and offers superior edge control in tight spots.

Profile
The Rock Out Camber features a flat section between your bindings for stability, camber near the feet for response and a rocker on the tip/tail for press ability.

Flex
Happy in the medium, perfect for shredding everything, stable enough to go fast and big, yet flexible enough to press and butter.

Construction
The Sintered EG Base is engineered for a super fast glide in everything from fresh pow to sticky spring snow. Sintered material provides superior wax retention, Gallium strengthens impact resistance and the Electra finish gives a turbocharged glide. Maximise the natural snap and powerful pop of wood with Popster’s shaped core profile. Feels like your skateboard kicktail finally connected with your snowboard. Add carbon stringers to the standard Popster and you get all the energy from under your feet radiating on the tip/tail maximising pop. Popster Eco Booster plus Bamboo rods provides the best in eco pop and performance. Eco Powered Pop, the snap of bamboo, the comfortable ride of cork sidewalls and the bomb-proof strength of basalt - ABC Green Roll (Advanced Bamboo Construction) blends natural materials into a supernatural snowboard. More pop, less plastic. At the Aspen SLCT core, every single FSC certified wood strip is hand selected to ensure unparalleled core quality and lightness. Protect the planet and your edges with Royal Cork Rails. An eco version of Royal Rubber. Freestyle Edge Bevel means detuning the tip and tail to a 2-degree edge holding tune throughout the key parts of the sidecut, back to a 3-degree bevel between the feet. This delivers the complete blend of edge hold and park shred.

This board is also available in 'Wide' version. These are wider than normal boards and developed especially for snowboarders with large feet (EU size 44+) to avoid too much overhang of the boots. Wider boards also give you better float in powder.