The United Shapes Cadet

The Cadet is a lively personality, catalyzing highly active riding: its deep sidecut enables efficient and effortless carving, and its traditional camber pairs with a gentle, early-rise nose to keep you composed, precise, agile and powerful. This board inspires confidence across all terrain. By blending a FreeRide nature with a Freestyle soul, the Cadet is a shape that loves to turn and is ready to soar on command.

Rocker / Camber:

Early Rise Nose + traditional camber, for the perfect blend of high performance edge hold, easy turn initiation, and float in soft snow.

Core:

Classic Core is a strong, high-caliber construction. Found in the Horizon and Cadet shapes, the Classic Core utilizes Poplar and Paulownia for a lightweight, lively, and durable foundation. Ash stringers are strategically placed adding a high performance backbone. All together, the Classic Core delivers a smoother ride in variable snow, and absorption on deep landings.

Wooden Core:

Sustainably harvested, lightweight  Poplar and Paulownia wood with carbon layers. This magic blend of Poplar and Paulownia and carbon inlays creates a feather-light, float-centric, responsive core—for nimble handling and optimal powder performance. 

Carbon Stringer:

Woven carbon stringers run from front insert outward into nose for increased nose rigidity and responsive handling.

Unilateral Carbon Center Stringer. Center carbon stringer runs tip to tail providing playful backbone and increased stability while keeping overall shape torsionally maneuverable. Carbon Binding Reinforcement. Added layer of carbon weave placed at binding impact zones for added strength and durability.

Sustainability:

United Shapes is working with production partners to eliminate material waste. They now mix base, sidewall and topsheet material scraps back into the raw material used for production, reducing carbon emissions while ensuring the same level of quality & durability.

As a fun fact, by integrating recycled materials into United Shapes snowboard bases, they reduce the ecological impact of their bases by 75%. In an effort to reduce the impact of United Shapes supply chain, they strive to source materials from European companies that are based near their factories.

Wood cores are sourced from the forests that are growing near the European factories, eliminating the carbon cost of transporting raw materials across great distances. The forests from which the wood is sourced are managed in a way to support environmental and societal sustainability.

This snowboard uses an environmentally-conscious, bio-based resin that has 35% of its molecular range derived from plant material. It has the same structural properties as resin derived solely from petrochemical products.

Construction:

A construction that places strips of protective material along the sides of each core, between the edge and the topsheet. Sidewalls provide the best possible edge hold and stability when the board is engaged in a turn as well as protecting the woodcore, edges and topsheet from impact and outside damage.

Elliptical Sidecut, longer radius underfoot for long, stable arcs and shorter radius in the tip and tail for awesome versatility, effortless turn initiation.

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