does anyone can tell me something about Jagaball?

[kurtsk8]

i was looking for a new cheap board and on the site ebay.at i could see this board at 200 €
http://www.jagaball.de/race.html

does anyone know something about this board?

thanks a lot

Giordi

[joemzl]

Hi giordi,

is it possible to build a good board for 200 Euros?
I have some doubts.
I think better choice is to buy a used board from the well known manufacturers via eBay.
If you don´t get what you expect, you can sell it for nearly the same price.
Are you sure you can do that with a new board?

[nils]

incredible!
i think one has to try the board to see what is inside... and how it behaves too...i wonder how much the prod cost is !!

N

[kurtsk8]

is it possible to build a good board for 200 Euros?

i don't know if it is possible

Are you sure you can do that with a new board?

i think that it would be difficult selling a board that is not so popular at a price similar to the new one

[rilliet]

Made in China?

Jacques

[kurtsk8]

i don't know

on the web site there is this note talkin about the board

"While normal mass products are glued by machine in approx. 5 minutes, we take the liberty for this procedure up to 30 minutes per board, so that a durability and a firmness arise perfect as a result of the even gluing!"

[nils]

5 mins??? did they ever visited a factory???? heating the resin takes at least 15 !

[Felix]

It's made in Germany or Austria depending on modell year. I still own a 1993/94 Jagaball freeride board that is in use as a rockboard. (meaning when its so rocky that you get 5-10 scratches a run - having some better rockboards).

Jagaballs are beginner boards, not really bad quality but nothing special at all. Just like a F2 Freecarve or older boards. Don't buy except for your very first bird for which purpose it should be good enough. Markus Ebner (german racer - scored some world championships medall long ago= who was once sponsored by them rode a F2 speedster RS and I think Oxxess Slalom while Jagaball claimed that he rode their boards and scored the podium on their board (but this was a lie). (Seen the F2 under his feet with my own eyes at the snowboard world championships in Styria (2002???)).

There's only one producer I know of (Voigt - VR, former Germina) who outputs really good quality for that price to end consumers (well 300€ - but their raceboard was only available directly at the factory in Eastern Germany) but they stopped snowboard production some years ago and only do skis only by now (alpine, jumping and nordic). Their raceboard was very very good built quality, but without good shape etc... I ride some of their slalom racing skis, that don't let me down compared to race stock slalom skis from the big names. (race stock means not sold in normal shops but primarily for ski clubs and semi-professional racers).

[kurtsk8]

very intresting
so if a friend would like to begin with carving it would be a good board

thanks

Giordi

[Vitaly]

In the last season my friend had this board.
Too much stiffer and very fragile...
Has quickly broken...

[Felix]

Uh - broken. That sounds bad. They were once produced at Oxygen/Atomic (my rockboard) come from there, and the build quality was better than the F2/Duotones at that time that badly suffered from ripping caps (worst on freeride modells). I heard Völkl produced some too at a time. As they are a cheap brand only with no production, the might have changed to some really bad producer, who knows?

[nils]

at this price there is one only place it can be made in europe > pale

N.