YES All In XTRM Snowboard Review

An In-Depth Breakdown of the YES All In XTRM Review by The Good Ride

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How The YES All In XTRM Was Tested:

I borrowed the YES All In XTRM for an extended demo and sent it back.

Size:158
Days: 4 this season and 5+ in the past
Conditions: Pretty good groomers, hard uneven snow with a thin smooth layer of pow on the top, and pretty good pow.
Riders: James (Size 9, 5’10”, 185-195lbs). I’ve tested and compared 800+ boards and close to 1,000 if you count different versions of the same Model over the years.
Boots: Nitro Team TLS, Ride Deadbolt, Bataleon Acid BOA, Ride Torrent, Ride Fuse, Nidecker Rift Lace, Burton Ion
Insoles: Footprint Kingfoam Orthotic Elite
Bindings: Union Force
Redundancy: Strapins in case boots or bindings break.
Jacket: Skyline Fuse 3L Jacket, Skyline Fuse Light 3L Jacket
Pant: Burton AK Gore-Tex Pro 3L Hover Pant, Skyline Faze Pant
Helmet: Smith Method, Smith Scout, Smith Maze
Goggle: Smith 4D Mag
Gloves: Burton AK Clutch Mitt, Burton AK Tech Leather Glove, Drop Tahoma Mitt,

James’s Set Up

21.5” Wide. Stance Angles +18/-3, +18/+3, +24/+6, +27/+9 back, +18/-9, +15/-15. Close to Reference on groomers and Set all the way back in powder.

Similar Boards We Like (but not the same):

Nidecker Megalight, Burton Counterbalance, Amplid Souly Grail, K2 Alchemist, United Shapes Cadet, United Shapes Cadet Limited, Jones Flagship Pro, Stranda Descender, Stranda Descender Evo, YES Pick Your Line,  Weston Gnarnia, Korua Otto, Ride Moderator, Yes Standard Uninc, Nitro Alternator, United Shapes Horizon, Gnu Antigravity, Lib Tech Dynamo, K2 Commonwealth, YES Standard Xtrm, and YES Standard.

Compared Against

I also compared it against the All In, the Standard, the Standard Uninc, the Yes, Pick Your Line, and Pick Your Line XTRM. If you want to see those in-depth comparisons, check out our reviews onPatreon for paid members only.

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Construction / Durability / Weight

YES makes a pretty good board, and the All In Xtrm is no exception. Its top sheet can be prone to scuffing, but everything else is pretty durable. The balance between weight and (We don’t put in the exact weight because with wood cores, there is no consistency in a board’s weight)

Sizing

I liked last year’s 58 a little better than this year’s 58, just because of the stiffer flex. But let’s put it this way, this flex works great for my 185 to 195 pounds, about 190 at the time I was reviewing this. But it does not work that well for my size nine boots.

And as you get to the width over the inserts, it’s much wider than the waist width suggests. So this is best for size ten and up. I’d say the ideal size is 10.5 to 11 for this 58. That’s where this really shines. And with the stiffer flex, I couldn’t twist and engage it. I think it’s okay to go over the recommended weight range, especially with this new flex. It’s much stiffer and can handle a bigger rider better than it could in the past.

YES’s specs on their site are all screwed up this year, so it’s best not to follow them. They aren’t publishing the width over the inserts anymore, which is super important for sizing a board, but they have a lot of specs wrong.

The Good Ride’s Conservative / Safe Boot Size Recommendation

These are sizes that will keep you from booting out (super bad) or be too wide to turn quickly in critical situations.

148: 7-8
150: 8-9
154: 9-10
158: 10-11
162: 11-12
155w: 11-12
160w: 11.5-12.5
164w: 12-13

There is often more than one size that will work for your specs and how you like to ride. Size down for more control and size up for more speed/stability/carving power.. If it comes down to boot size or weight, I would ensure it fits your boot first and then your weight a close second.

Shape / Set Back

This is tapered and directional. There is six millimeters of taper. Directional twins don’t have taper, but this does have a somewhat directional twin feel to it. It doesn’t feel as tapered and directional as it looks.

If you go to the reference stance on the board at 22.5in, you’re centered on the sidecut. However, if you’re talking set back on board versus set back on side cut, you’re looking at 1.25in back from the center of the board. So there is a little more nose happening than tail when you’re riding on reference. Unlike the standard and the standard XTRM, if you’re feeling more directional or you just want to set it all the way back for a powder day, which is mainly what the setback inserts are for, you can get 3.5in back from the center of the board at a 22.5in stance as well. I love that the setback matches the reference, so you can really put yourself in a lot of different places on this board and get a different feel each time.

It would be great if they did a 21.5 reference stance like they do with the standard and the standard Uninc. I think that’s better for most riders out there, including myself these days. The free the Taint days are long over, and while baggy pants are back, I’m not seeing the wide stance yet. And that’s just bad on your joints too. It messes up your hips, your knees, and your ankles, so do what you want with baggy pants, but stay away from that wide stance.

Camber / On Snow Feel

And when it comes to camber profile, you have a decent amount of camber. There’s a lot more camber here than the All-In and the standard. This is more like the standard XTRM. It has camber well past the inserts, but there still is a good bit of early rise before the nose and tail. So it doesn’t have that ultra technical locked-in feel like full camber does. I think intermediates on up to experts can ride this. I’d say it leans a little more on the committed intermediate side just because the stiffer flex this year makes it harder to twist the board and initiate a turn as easy. But overall, it’s not that hard to get a turn if you get off your game.

And it doesn’t feel like it has a lot of effective edge. They’re saying 118.1cm, but they’re not really counting the early rise. They’re saying the same thing for the YES All In XTRM, which has a lot more early rise. So it just goes to show you specs don’t always give you the accurate picture.

Edge Hold

There is an aggressive indentation on the front foot. This just grips so well if you weight off your front foot in hard snow.

The back has a much milder indentation that’s similar to the standard and standard XTRM, but the standard XTRM has the same indentation on each side, so you can center weight, front foot, and back foot weight in hard snow, and it works fine. This really washes out in harder snow, but when the snow softens up, it doesn’t. So if you front-foot weight it and see a lot of hard snow, this could be a great fit.

Flex Personality

It’s a good bit stiffer than the All Out that it replaced. Down in the tail, it’s pretty stiff. The nose is a little softer, but still on the stiffer side. Overall, it’s got a good pop to it. It takes a little more work than the All In, but if you put that work in, you’ll get more back.

Butters & Ollies

It’s a fun board for Ollie and to launch off stuff. The buttering in the tail definitely takes a little more work, but the buttering in the nose is a little easier.

Switch / Park

This ride’s switch really well if you really like ride and switch, but if you want a one-board quiver to set back to, you probably like the standard XTRM better. But with six mil of taper, this rides switch incredibly well.

This would be a great pipe board, especially for those who really engage their front foot and really like to drive wall to wall and boost out. But this will also carve the walls pretty well as long as you’re specked correctly for the board. Not a jib board, but a great jump board.

This is really easy to micro-adjust for those weird side hits that often have uneven snow that you might have to weave in and out of to get to that little hit. This does it fine, again, if you’re specked correctly, not like me. But if you’re going into small to big tickers in the park, this can handle them all really well.

Not a jib board, but a great jump board.

Uneven Snow

This is better in soft, uneven snow than the all-out from last year and the Pyzel from the year before. The only differentiator between this and the two past models is it’s a little stiffer. This does very well in hard, uneven snow too. I’m pretty impressed with this as an all-day ride.

Turning / Carving

This initiates a turn pretty easily if you’re the right size boot. Like I said, this works really well for size ten-up riders, and they can initiate a turn pretty easily. For me, it felt a little slow. It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be, thanks to this indentation in the waist, which helps it turn faster than it would with a normal side cut.

When I got it on edge, I found that this 7.7m side cut was really balanced and could do a little bit of everything. You can see there’s a pretty easy entry point before it gets a little more aggressive between the feet, and it allows you to straight-line better. Feels really stable doing so. Medium-radius turns across the groomer to circle-carve turns all work very well with this, and that’s something I’ve always loved about YES boards. They never give you a side cut that is just one kind of thing. YES really knows how to compromise less across the turning radius world.

Turning in harder snow requires front-foot weighting in your turns, and that’s where this board shines. It’s best for a front foot weight turner, but in medium to soft snow, you can weight your turns any way you please, and you never feel that tapered, washy feel once you get past hard snow and into medium to medium soft. The spring out of the turn is really solid. It’s not the pop-iest or drive-iest of boards, but this stiffer flex really lets you hold the carve longer. When you put more speed and more strength, you really bend your knees, really flex this board into the carve. It really springs out well. Average riders like me would still have fun carving this, and it was very satisfying for me.

Speed

This stiffer flex, along with this easy entry into the side cut, really allows for good straight line.

Base Glide

The base glide is pretty good. If you gash it in the die cut, it’s not going to look pretty, but it keeps its speed pretty well. It’s not quite the fastest of fast, but it’s definitely upper tier.

Powder

If you’re using the setback inserts here, you’re getting that extra setback on board of -3.5in at a 22.5in stance —and you get pretty easy directional float. That’s like most traditional freeride boards. I like the past models with the softer flex because you could lean into that tail and wheelie up a little bit easier. Even with this extra camber, it floats so much easier than the all in when set all the way back. When on reference, the all in floats a little bit better. If you like a more centered ride in powder, you might like that. But if you like more pop and drive, and you know how to operate a full camber board in powder, this camber with a little bit of early risers might be even more fun.

I was surprised that the YES standard with all that early rise, even though it has a good bit less set back on board, had an easier float. I think it was just because of that early rise, less camber, and a softer flex. It was easier to lean back and get the board to tilt up without putting a lot of stress on your rear leg. Personally, with my smaller boot size, I preferred the previous models—the all out and the Pyzel with that softer flex—but I think most people will actually prefer this stiffer flex. This flex finally matches YES’s flex rating. It’s much closer now where before they always overrated their flex and the boards are always softer. It made people unsure about purchasing it. Now you know what you’re getting.

Final Thoughts

Overall, this is a really fun all-mountain to freeride board. It does a lot more than your average freeride board in terms of riding centered and getting more of an aggressive mountain freestyle feel, but then it feels just like a normal freeride board when you set it all the way back. So you got a lot of versatility here. I wouldn’t mind more symmetry in the indention and the edge hold. That more aggressive and then more mild indentation here isn’t for me. I would like more consistency. But if you’re a front foot weighted turner, you’re going to love this YES All In XTRM.