FLAX NOT GLASS
What is under the hood of a Jumalauta?
-Well a superb, cream of the crop all Finnish Pure heart Tech wooden core obviously. A working snowboard is still a bit more than just the core. The reinforcement fabric that we use for the composite lay-up in all our boards is flax ( thats pellava in Finnish ). We do care about tomorrow and the beautiful bi-axially woven Amplitex flax mat from the Swiss visionary Bcomp helps us in our goals.
The flax mat is not just some small strips here and there, we cover the whole board, head to toe, top and bottom with this fabric. Glassfiber, about 5%, is found only just in the kicker areas to keep the nose and tail in check.
The benefits of this, for your riding pleasure, are:
1. The boards are damp. Like jumalauta damp! The flax virtually sucks up the vibration and chunder under your board making you almost forget the crappy piste under feet. Letting you concentrate on what´s important. The ride it self. Keep that edge, cut that groove or just stay on the run in. It´s a lot easier to keep your focus when the board does´nt resonate all over the place.
2. Flax is not dead stiff like glass when combined with epoxy resin to make a composite (this is also why we put the effort in a truly working core). It’s more like Dracula dead stiff. When on easy load (sleeping) it lets life flow by, and lets you have your fun and your butters. But when you add speed and charge towards that black diamond slope, bigger jump or pipe transition it smells blood and grabs on to the core like going for the throat, and keeps the grip as long as you need.
3. The combination of an carefully laid out core and the bi-axial flax results in an unique flex ratio hard to match. You know how boards are given a flex rate with one number, ex. 6? -cause of our build method mentioned above, we can give our boards a progressive flex rate of 5-8, and how cool is that? The Jumalauta is there when you need it to be. It gives you an almost effortless nice butter, but also that support you want at those bigger lips.
4. Sustainability. We do not take anybody for a sap, so let it be said. -anything laid up with epoxy resin isn’t exactly bio degradable no longer. What counts though is how, and what’s the co2 impact of each individual raw material being produced.
Even if the most bio based resins are used, glass fiber never really checks out as that green product of the year. That’s one reason we strive to do things a bit differently.
We do want to ride even tomorrow.
That is why we do it like this
