The 159 now has a 263mm waist – which is wider than the 2017 159W, which had a 258mm waist. In terms of waist width the 156cm that I rode in the 2018 model had a 258mm waist width and the 2017 model 156cm had a 250mm waist width – so this increased quite a bit. But with that wider waist width, you can ride a shorter board if you want. There are no longer any wide sizes but the regular sizes are wider. There were a few changes between the 2017 & 2018 model.įirstly, the sizings changed. There were more major changes between the 20 models (see below). Otherwise it's the same but this is a nice improvement. The one change is that the 2019 model has a lighter core. Only change is that there is the new size. The 2020 YES Standard, from what I can see is the same as the 2019 model. The 2021 YES Standard, from what I can tell is the same as the 2020 model, bar the graphic. The 2022 YES Standard, from what I can tell is the same as the 2021 model, bar the graphic. The 2023 YES Standard, from what I can tell is the same as the 2022 model, bar the graphic. The 2024 YES Standard, from what I can tell is the same as the 2023 model, bar the graphic. It’s also centered and virtually a true twin with a good swing feel. It’s got enough stiffness, has good edge hold in hard snow and has a decent amount of camber between the feet to help drive between the walls. Though I didn’t ride it in a pipe I think it would be a really good pipe board. It's perhaps a little softer tip and tail than it is in the middle. Easier than I expected with the flex that it has. It’s not something that frightened the daylights out of me when approaching jibs like some boards can (or make me skip the jib line altogether!)Īctually a really easy/nice board to butter. Jibbing/Butteringĭefinitely doable – it’s not going to match it with freestyle or jib specialist boards or get close to them, but it can jib OK. It wouldn’t be as comfortable riding switch in the slam back stance position but centered it’s a great board for riding and landing switch. It’s basically a true twin and that shows when you’re riding switch. It’s got an even swing feel and with that centered stance feels really comfortable with spins.Īnd now that it has a lighter core (new for the 2019 model), it makes it even snappier and easier to pop and spin. It’s got that camber between the feet that really helps with pop and it’s got great stability for landings. This board is super fun on jumps and doing spins. Uneven TerrainĪs with pretty much everything this board tries to do, it is good in uneven terrain. It’s not going to be the speed demon that a freeride board is – but it’s certainly no slouch, especially for a twin. This board can handle the speed and it feels stable even when bombing. You can definitely get away with skidded turns and it’s not catchy at all.įlex-wise YES rate this a 7/10 but I’d say more like 6/10. Carving & TurningĮven though there is plenty of rocker in the tip and tail of this board, it drives a carve nicely.Īnd for basic turns it’s nice and it’s quite forgiving. You notice this in powder but not on groomers – so it’s essentially a true twin on groomers. It has a good bit of rocker in tip and tail (so riding the pow switch is also fine) and it’s also has something that YES call a “directional volume twin” – which means it’s essentially a true twin except that the tail has a little less material in there (it’s the same width and length as the nose). Now, I was also demoing for other characteristics and I wanted to test it in it’s normal stance, which is centered, but if you had a powder day you could slam it back and it would be worth it if you were going to be surfing the powder all day. The reason? It was good enough in powder when it was centered so I didn’t feel the need. But I was too lazy to do it, even though I had plenty of fresh powder to play with. If you were to set it back (and it has some extra “slam back” inserts where you can setup with a decent setback if you want) it would be even better. This is mostly based on the 2018 model, when I had more powder to test in. PowderĮven when centered, this board rides the powder well. Given the width of the board, it’s quite light for per cm. *based on a small sample size of 24 boards that I weighed. So, goes without saying 100% vis.Īverage Weight per cm: 18.21grams/cm* (so it’s really close to average) Icy patches decreased and soft patches increased as the day went on. Demo Infoīoard: YES Standard 2019, 156cm (258mm waist)Ĭonditions: Icy in a lot of places, especially first thing but even first thing there were some softer patches. let’s take a more detailed look at what the Standard is capable of.
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