K2 Playback Snowboard

More flat or zero camber from K2. This to us seems very much like a lower cost version of the old K2 Believer but it’s a little softer and more freestyle focused. Flat camber is hard to do right and while we found the K2 Protohype, K2 Slayblade and K2 Lifelike to perform well we found the Playback and many of the more all mountain freestyle focused boards to be missing something important.  We would of rather seen K2 make this board with All Mountain Rocker or one of their other flat/rocker designs. On the positive side Playback is stable and easy to make quick turns.  Something is off when it comes to wide radius turns.  It is not like camber or any other hybrid or flat/rocker shape.  Most of us found this to be not our style but we can’t say for sure that you wont.  If you know you like flat camber and are on a budget this might not be a bad call.