APO Supreme Snowboard Review & Buying Advice

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List Price $499 (USD)

Summary

The APO Supreme is an interesting board. To start off I think someone filed down the edges because we have never experienced so little edge hold. It was to the point where it was a bit scary. Hopefully, this was not how the board really rides because there are some snap and pop to it.

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Riding Style	All Mountain Freestyle
Riding Level	Intermediate - Expert
Fits Boot size (US)	8-10, 10-12, > 12
Manufactured in	Austria by GST
Shape	Directional Twin
Camber Profile	Flat to Rocker
Stance	Setback -5mm
Approx. Weight	Feels Normal
Split	No

Powder Average
Base Glide Good
Carving Poor
Speed Average
Uneven Terrain Average
Switch Great
Jumps Great
Jibbing Great
Pipe Poor

On Snow Feel	Stable
Turn Initiation	Medium/Slow
Skidded Turns	Easy

Flex	Medium/Soft
Buttering	Easy
Edge Hold	Soft Snow

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APO Supreme 2014 Review by The Good Ride

Ethics Statement: We don’t get paid by the manufacturer to write these reviews. No one is perfect and we do make money from the “Where To Buy” links below, but this is our best attempt at an honest and objective review from an average riders’ perspective.
How This Review Happened: We had a couple of laps at a frantic manic demo day so take it with a grain of salt.

Size: 160
Days: 1
Conditions: Some patches with loose snow and some hard snowment patches as well.
Riders: James, Peter
Boots: Burton Ion, Nike Kaiju
Bindings: Union Factory
Set Up: Centered about 23″ wide 15 front -15 back

On Snow Feel: Felt stable between the feet and felt lively under foot but it was hard to get over the complete lack of edge hold.

Powder: No Powder but it seems like it will plane well.

Turn Initiation and Carving: Didn’t even try to carve. Just tried to survive till we got to the bottom of the run. Even simple edge to edge transitioning was difficult because of the lack of edge hold. It was pretty much a slide to the bottom of the hill while thinking about what we were going to ride next.

Speed: Didn’t really go fast because we wanted to stop in less than 100 yards.

Uneven Terrain: Seemed like it

Edge Hold: horrible and scary. Someone must of had a long smelly brain fart with the file in hand when they were de-tuning it. It felt like the edges were round.

Flex: Nice snappy Medium to medium soft flex that was easy to butter but still felt like it could handle some mountain speed.

Switch: Felt the same either way.

Jibbing: Seemed like it could be a good jibber.

Pipe: Didn’t even think about stopping in the pipe.

Jumps: Great snap and it felt really lively. It’s also pretty stable approaching kickers.

Basically neither Peter and I felt like we want to ride this again with a board right out of the wrapper to see if the edge hold is truly this bad. Hopefully it isn’t. If the edge hold was middle ground we would of really liked this board.