Hi!

Never tested one... but my opinion (please take it as someone completely ignorant on the subject 🤣 🤣 🤣 ) is that different hardware forces you to learn different techniques to achieve the desired goal, but it doesn't necessarily make it easier in 100% of cases. JJA in the question videos said there is too many ways to develop asym boards that i think actually no one knows if a specific way of asym can give you benefits or not for your specific type of riding.

The flex pattern of the tail of this board seems to me quite difficult to understand... :):):)

Anyhow, it´s beatifful and i´ll love to test one :):):)

Regards.

These are my "Thoughts on ASYM"...

I think it's fantastic for high performance boards, for carving in particular.   There's tons of untapped potential here but I think they got it backwards in the 90s; they shifted the sidecuts in the wrong direction.   Yes, the heels are further back in a posi posi stance, but the rider pressures the board closer to the nose on heelside than on toeside.   So it becomes an empirical question and we're treating it as such (by testing).

There's a lot to test for sure.  Last year's ASYMs were very popular amongst the riders.  @slayermtb said it was his favourite, and it was mine too.  I told @parkcityguy that I wouldn't part with it until I got the next proto (which turned out to be the Symmetrical G5 168, but I mailed the ASYM anyway).   Jasey played with a quite a few elements on Vino and Oceano (2025 ASYM protos), but each element was subtle and they both rode well goofy and regular.   Jasey rode them both ways!  That guy is just on another level...

The design objective with these ASYMs is to reduce the amount of fore-aft motion, and other movements which might prove extraneous, to just make the ride smooth and effortless, or at least to make look that way.

https://youtube.com/shorts/ibuvW5GV79M?si=Qj3JD_BBMTDnyQ7D

They often put a tighter sidecut on the heelside to help people make those turns.  This was backwards to me... as a posi-posi rider I always had a tigher heelside because the hip shift was easier (and indeed had more nose pressure to get the turn started).

Posted by: @wild-cherry

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There's tons of untapped potential here but I think they got it backwards in the 90s; they shifted the sidecuts in the wrong direction.   Yes, the heels are further back in a posi posi stance, but the rider pressures the board closer to the nose on heelside than on toeside

The Apollo pictured above is goofy... and yeah, still seems backwards to me.