Hi everyone,
I am lucky enough to have been able to ride my swoard board 3 weeks ago in Verbier.
I was stunned. Amazed. This board is like no other boards I have ridden before. And I have tested many alpine boards during the last 10 years.
Contact with the snow is amazing. The board is flexible yet super nervous and precise. So precise. Once the edge bites the snow you are on a rail and nothing can alter the turn. On 'regular' alpine boards, mainly the ones shaped for racing, the snow must be perfectly groomed to allow extreme carving. A small bump and the edge slips. You end up sliding on the snow. Not with Swoard boards. The master mind behind this concept, Mr. Jacque Rillet, has succeeded in building a board that absorbs terrain irregularities yet be extremely stable when you are on the edge. In fact that's what Swoard boards like. To be on the edge.
They are nervous as well. You can change edges faster than you think. They accelerate faster. Put your board flat and you feel the acceleration.
In brief this board is a dense concentrate of fun. No mater what slopes you are on (groomed, bumpy, hard snow, soft snow, etc..) you can ride 100%.
Now you can V-turn frontside and backside everywhere, not only on the perfectly groomed runs that are so few in ski resorts.
My friend Nils told me that once I ride a Swoard board I will never go back to my old board. I didn't believe him.
Now I do.
Cheers
Polo
First contact with my Swoard board
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Re: First contact with my Swoard board
I'm happy to read so many compliments and enthusiastic posts 
It's great that everybody can now benefit from Jacques genius! I felt a bit alone during all these years of developments and tests
My friends didn't really believe me when I told them that my prototypes were amazing, with no comparison with the boards of the market. They thought that my technique explained how I was able to extremecarve. But actually I needed the perfect tool: it's name is Swoard 
-Patrice Fivat
It's great that everybody can now benefit from Jacques genius! I felt a bit alone during all these years of developments and tests
My friends didn't really believe me when I told them that my prototypes were amazing, with no comparison with the boards of the market. They thought that my technique explained how I was able to extremecarve. But actually I needed the perfect tool: it's name is Swoard Welcome Polo!polo wrote:My friend Nils told me that once I ride a Swoard board I will never go back to my old board. I didn't believe him.
Now I do.
-Patrice Fivat
