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Signal's Omni Series is all things to all mountain riders! Rocker and camber blended together create Wavelength technology, exclusive to Signal. You will never bury your nose in powder again. The Omni has camber between your feet and rocker from your feet out to the tip and tail. The rocker keeps your nose up in powder while the camber provides edge control while you carve. The two meet at a transition point, providing an additional contact point that engages even before the edge. And the fact that the rocker starts at your bindings means that you have less surface area on the snow and, therefore, a faster board!
The Omni is both a directional and a twin board. It’s directional in the sense that the nose is longer than the tail. And it’s twin in the sense that the tip and tail widths are identical as well as the fact that the radial sidecut meets at the center of the board. These boards — a 152, 156, 159 and 162— are built with full-length poplar cores with Triaxial glass on both the top and bottom, Durasurf sintered base material, matte urethane 4160 tops, and carbon torsion bars.
Ride the Wavelength!
- Silk Screened Top sheet
- Sintered Base Material
- Poplar Core
- Twin Tip
- Standard Core Profile
- Wavelength Technology
- Carbon Stringers
- Triaxail Glass
- Dual-Independant side cut
- Moutain Board
Wavelength Technology
Wavelength Technology is camber between your feet and Rocker Technology from your feet out to the tip and tail. The Rocker keeps your nose up in powder while the camber provides edge control with you carve. The two meet at a transition point, providing an additional contact point that engages even before the edge. And the fact that the Rocker begins at your bindings means that you have less surface area on the snow and, therefore, a faster board.
Silk Screened Top sheet
Silk screening is a process of layering color on top of color, one coat at a time. We screen the art on the underside of our clear top sheets. This protects the ink from any scratching. We separate the layers of colors, mix the inks and pull one color at a time. This process allows us to leave windows open to the core, create one-of-a-kind color ways, and produce graphics with rich, saturated color.
Sintered Material
Sintered base material is inherently faster than extruded base material. It is harder and, therefore, harder to hurt than extruded but it is also more of a process to repair. The pores in sintered material are small and deep. Regular waxing sends the wax deeper into the pores.
Poplar Core
Signal's wood comes from the Great Lakes area. In this region, wood grows slow due to the cold weather. Because of this, the trees grow with a very tight grain and that gives the trees their strength. They bring this Great Lakes Poplar and Aspen to the Core Shop where they glue the wood into blocks, alternating the grains within the block to give each core even more strength. Any finger joint—shorter pieces of wood that are glued together— in a core creates a stress concentration point. Signal uses only full-length pieces of wood. There are no finger joints in their cores.
Standard Core Profile
The Standard Profile is used in boards with any variation of Rocker Technology. The Standard Profile is a regularly tapered core that is thicker between your feet and tapers out as it reaches the nose and tail. There is no need for extra tapering as the nose and tail are already in the air because of the Rocker.
Dual-Independant side cut
Essentially, the sidecut is divided into two radii that are centered on the inserts and meet at the waist. The deeper sidecut sits towards the tail and automatically follows through once the larger sidecut is engaged.
Triaxail Glass with Carbon Stringers
Different glass weaves will enhance the flex, stability and durability of your ride. There are different weights of fiberglass and throughout Signal's board lines they find the best combination and grade of Biaxle and Triaxle glass weaves dependent on specific terrain. In addition, Carbon or Kevlar stringers may be added on the top or bottom of a glass weave to add more pop or torsional flex to a particular model. Anyone in the world can get these great materials, but it is how they are utilized in the lay up process that makes a board ride the way it does. And having our own factory gives us the home court advantage!
Twin Tip
A true twin board has symmetrical and centered geometry: the sidecut, inserts and tip and tails. It rides the exact same way both frontwards and backwards. This board is a little different, check out the description for more explaination.
Moutain Board
This category accounts for all boards that are not specifically built for the park. They are the directional boards, the stiffer boards and the longer boards in our lines. They are built with sintered bases for speed on long tree runs and torsional stiffness for responsiveness.
March 11th, 2010
This board does everything excellent. amazing all mountain, powder in park, hands down the best all around board i've ever been on. I'm currently riding a 152 horrorscope from capita, and i would trade it in a heartbeat for the 150 omni from signal. the wavelength technology is no gimmick, i rode the 150 and the 153. the 150 was a little more park specific feeling than the '53. all in all, if you want a board that does it all, this is the one.
Sam
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Snowboard Specs - What Do All Those Numbers Mean?
Overall Length
Overall length is the full length of the snowboard from tip to tail measured in centimeters (cm). When you hear that a board is a 155 or '55, it simply means that the overall length of the board is 155 cm.
Running Length
Running length is the length of the snowboard that is actually in contact with the snow. This is measured as a straight line from the nose contact point (where the flat base ends and the nose begins) to the tail contact point. A freestyle board may have a longer running length than a freeride board of the same overall length, this is because the freeride board has a longer nose length.
Effective Edge
The effective edge measures the length of edge between the nose and tail of the board that is in contact with the snow. It is similar to running length, but measured along the curved edge rather than in a straight line, making it a slightly higher number.
Sidecut Radius
Imagine a giant circle overlapping the edge of the snowboard. Depending on the radius of the circle, the sidecut will be tighter or more mellow. A higher number is typically less aggressive and more stable, while a smaller radius is more performance driven. Some companies have 'progressive' sidecuts which is a combination of more than one radius. This allows the board to have the characteristics of one radius to initiate the turn and another radius to complete the turn.
Waist Width
The waist width is the width of the snowboard at its most narrow point. It is basically the width at the middle of the board.
Stance Width
The stance width refers to the range of stances available on a particular snowboard. Here are some tips for determining your stance.
Snowboard Insert Patterns
Insert patterns can be (1) a slider system, (2) a proprietary system such as the Burton 3-hole pattern, (3) a 4x2 pattern or (4) a 4x4 pattern.
The slider system provides nearly unlimited stance options. The bindings are mounted to a track system and can be slid forward or backward to dial in the perfect stance width.
Burton uses its own 3-hole pattern. In the past, you had to use Burton bindings, but today many binding companies provide a disc that is compatible with the Burton insert pattern.
4x4 was the standard for several years with 4x2 becoming more common. They both use a 4-hole disc, but the 4x2 pattern offers more stance options because the inserts are closer together.
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Freeride vs. Freestyle - What's the difference?
It is important to note that while each style is unique, there is overlap between each style, and often no visible difference. The most common styles today are freeride, freestyle, and freecarve/race.
Freeride
The freeride style is the most common and easily accessible style of snowboarding. It involves, in the most simple terms, riding down any terrain available. This could include the beginner's first time down the bunny slope, or riding down a 60° slope in the backcountry. All the while freeriders may include aerial tricks and jib tricks borrowed from freestyle, utilizing whatever natural terrain they may encounter.
The freeride equipment usually used is a soft boot with a directional twin snowboard. Since the freeride style may encounter many different types of snow conditions, from ice to deep powder, the freeride snowboard is usually longer and has stiffer overall flex. A good example of a binding stance used is the forward stance with both leading and trailing feet in positive degree of arc ranges e.g. +9°/+15°.
Freestyle
This style incorporates the rider with man-made terrain features such as rails, boxes, handrails, jumps, half pipes, quarter pipes and a myriad of other features. The intent of freestyle is to use these terrain features to perform a number of aerial or jib tricks.
The equipment used in freestyle is usually a soft boot with a twin tipped board, though freeride equipment is often used successfully. The most common binding stance used in freestyle is called "duck foot" which the trailing foot has a negative degree of arc setup while the leading foot is in the positive range i.e. -9°/+12°. Freestyle riders who specialize in jibbing often use boards that are shorter than usual, ones that have additional flex and ones that have filed down edges between both feet.
The majority of snowboard competitions concern this style of snowboarding.
Freecarve / Race
This often overlooked style of snowboarding focuses on carving and racing. Sometimes called alpine snowboarding, or the 'euro-carve', freecarving takes place on hard-pack or groomed runs and focuses on the ultimate carving turn. Little or no jumping takes place in this discipline. Freecarve equipment is a hard boot and plate binding system with a true directional snowboard that is usually very stiff and narrow to facilitate fast and responsive turns.
