Bataleon Snowboards

10/03/2010 - tomas Strooband
This year i bought a goliath 153. I love it. Its stable when carving and so fun to play whit on low speed :).

08/03/2010 - yeah4it
this year i bought a funkink, it was my first bataleon and it has been the best board ive ever owned! TBT has helped me improve so much this year and now its the only brand of board ill ride. gettin a riot forshure next year. TBT 4 LIFE

05/03/2010 - Johan Nilsson
Its the second season im riding the Goliath, I love it. Im getting a Fun.Kink for next season. Gah, such a long wait. You need to post some videos where someone is riding the 10/11 Fun.Kink! I want to see it in action! =)

04/03/2010 - Toha
Beginners seek advice from riders with experience. But sometimes experienced riders may be blinded by their own skill level to make a great beginner board suggestion. I am currently a beginner, and let me just say that I feel your pain, n00bs. So here's a piece of advice to beginners, from a beginner: Get a Bataleon board. I have ridden a flat board several times and just switched to a Goliath and took it for a spin twice already. What a difference! Even as a beginner, who isn't supposed to know the difference between boards (so I was told), I noticed how much faster this board is, and best of all FAR LESS EDGE CATCHING. Both straight lining and carving is a lot smoother and a lot more forgiving. It really creates a better learning environment than a flat board. So forget cheap rentals or $100 crap sticks at your local sport shops. Get a Bataleon with TBT and you will keep it for a while, both to learn on and go hard on. Even though I'm a beginner now, I don't see myself growing out of this board even as I improve my riding. I love my board. I love TBT. YEAH 4 IT!

03/03/2010 - simon cockerham
ive just recieved this years airobic, i have been mourning the death of my evil twin (or mortal wounding due to a service by snow and rock uk) it was a board which has given me the confidence to hit the piste/off piste alike, hard and confidence to start doing small jumps and stuff, grinds are easy, im normally a free rider, thanks to bataleon ive decided to hit the park this year! Thanks for all the good work!

03/03/2010 - Ian Adique
i just got the airobic today and rode at a local hill....and this thing is the shit!!!! ionno what im going to do with my gnu chb.....

01/03/2010 - Melody
Love the technology! Only problem is your smallest board (143) is still slightly big for me. Is bataleon going to come out with a slightly smaller size? maybe a 137 or 136 or something?

28/02/2010 - George
I like it real good!

26/02/2010 - youbet
I've been riding a Jam 161W for the last two years and for the life of me can't understand why this isn't the only board available. I have season pass in the UP of MI Indian Head Mountain and use it every weekend. 180" fresh stuff this year so far. This board does it all, from jumping, woods, powder, groomed, lunch and back to jumping. Tossed it in to get waxed last week and the tech's have never seen one. Hope this changes. TBT For the long run.

24/02/2010 - Paul
I got a enemy 161 last week and am amazed at the tbt! It is a rocket ship and is very stable at speed. I just ordered the airobic and can't wait for that to get here tomorrow, so I can have both ends of the flex spectrum! Yeah for it!

23/02/2010 - Bennnnnnnnnnn
TBT... what can't I say about TBT! It makes for one of the best boards I have ever ridden. I have owned B****n boards for over a dozen years. Some kits costing as much as 2 grand. However, this year was different. A new shop opened up in my city, selling brands that no one else carries... Bataleon, being one of them. So I picked myself up a 155 ET artist edition and WOW!!!! took a day to really get used to it after a decade of flat base riding. The thing rips like a bat out of hell... the edge transition is lightning quick... you wished every other board rode this good after floating down a pow line. oh yeah, it butters like the dirty offspring of two spoons and a hunk of plywood's drunken sex romp. But seriously, everything Bataleon claims it does, IT DOES. Just be prepared to wax more often as edge burn is a daily occurance, maybe from going so fast :P YEAH4IT

22/02/2010 - Vipe
tbt isn't better than sex but I'm fucking sure tbt gets the second place on the list of the greatest things in life

21/02/2010 - TBT Believer!!!
Preface: I am an ok park rider & intermediate-advanced all mountain rider. I am not a professional reviewer, but I thought I would share this anyway. I currently have the green and black 07-08 Evil Twin 159/Union setup that I have ridden for 3 years. It is awesome and I love the board. The 59 is a little long for me, so Im sizing down for next year. I had never ridden a rocker type board before today and wanted to check out first hand what all the BS is about. Here is my review of Mervin BTX vs Burton Vrocker vs Burton Camber vs TBT. Today I rode a 57 Lib TRS BTX, 57 Burton X8 with v-rocker, and 58 Easy Livin (cambered version); 2 weeks ago I did a Bataleon Airobic 155 demo. I wanted to demo an Easy Livin Flyin V but I couldnt find one anywhere. The Lib was fun. Poppy, easy to butter, a little unstable at speed though. Pop was great and the BTX was very pronounced. Also, the WW was too narrow for me. Pass... The X8 Vrocker was extremely fun but very very soft. A little too soft for me I think. Softer than the Airobic for sure which is very flexy. A bad ass Burton Pro named Stefan Maurer pushes this thing around "like wo" in the pirates film Jolly Roger. Chorlton is a "pirate", so all you Bataleon fans should watch it for his footy anyway... The Burton 58 Easy Livin was my least favorite of all these. Good pop, stiff tail, twin shape, good response to binding movement, but felt heavy. I wanted to hit a couple of the med-to-big jump lines today, but the damn visibility was like 10 feet and it just wasn't safe. It actually felt quite a bit heavier than the X8 and the Lib. Maybe due to the size, maybe b/c I was getting tired. I really wanted to demo a Flyin V version of this board to compare, but they are elusive I guess. After this demo day,I will never go back to a regular flat based board ever again!!! I am leaning toward a 2011 Bataleon Airobic 55 (great work Bataleon graphic's department)/Union Contact kit for next year. The 55 Airobic is a PERFECT park board IMO. For SoCal mtns, it is all I could ever ask for. I will prob also get a Riot for when I am ready to step it up a notch... I was concerned about the Airobic base speed wise, but I was flying past other riders all day. I loved the weight, flex, and playfulness. The Airobic was "jibaliscious" and "buttertastic" (not my words, but true nonetheless). If you have not tried a Bataleon, go find one and do it. TBT is a totally different feel vs all other flat based boards. I actually saw a kid with the 2011 Artist Edition (must be a team rider I guess) who was killing it at Bear Mtn... For all those haters out there, dont open your mouth if you have never ridden a Bataleon. GO FIND ONE TO RIDE AND YOU WILL BE A CONVERT!!! Anyway, these were my thoughts from today. Thought Id share...

19/02/2010 - Owain ap Gruffydd
Its snowing heavily here in Livigno, Italy. Free day tomorrow OH WHAT JOY. Will be snowboarding on my new ET all day in fresh powder, just cant wait.

18/02/2010 - Alex Zartman
I bought a 2009 Goliath 161. I have used it now for 7 days in Utah, Colorado and Vermont. All I can say is this is the fastest, best handling board I have ever ridden. It turns super fast, it rides even faster...perfect for those long flats when traversing the mountains on the cat tracks. I used all temp rub on wax after every session. This board seems bullet proof. I plan on sticking with TBT for a long time coming. Yeah for it!

18/02/2010 - kevdog
TBT is like Christopher Columbus. Before him, people actually thought flat was for real. Yeah for it, for real, yo.

17/02/2010 - kris hawkins
Bataleon is awesome, i have been demoing the riot 151 last years model. i ride on the northstar snowboard team, thanks for sending them to Brandon and Ryan for us to use them. tbt rocks

17/02/2010 - CaseyZ
Just came back from a week high up in the Alps on my Jam 164W....wooooaaaah what a board for flying down pistes stable and in control, driving the board through the turns and sailing through deep powder!! Yeah 4 it!!

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