While some companies like to re-hash technology, like "inventing" boards with tracks with sliding mounting inserts (which were first introduced in 1997,) Signal Snowboards has broken away and CREATED something drastically different and ACTUALLY effective. The Park Rocker, as the name suggests, uses the wildly popular "rocker" or reverse camber tech that has taken over the industry in the last 2 years, but has a very freestyle/jib specific design. It employes an awesome and very visible 3 stage rocker, which works like this:
Stage One is continuous contact. This creates a level board through the bindings. It allows you to hold an edge without catching one. Stage One acts as a small board when you stand flat over this section. Stage Two rolls up ten degrees into Stage Three, the ‘flat spot’. Stage Two creates a pivot point when transferring from the level— or flat—area between the bindings and the ‘flat spot’ of Stage Three. Stage Two also acts as a secondary contact point when you are carving. These stages are engineered to give you more confidence when hitting rails and boxes. You will sit on presses like never before!
The Park Rocker has an aspen core, an Exel PMU 4060 urethane top, an IS4400 extruded base and new this year, triaxial glass to give it more pop. This year, the Rocker comes in five sizes— a 148, 152, 154, 156 and 158— and three color ways—black, red and alpine white. The bases rotate the three color combinations of red, white and black.
This quote from Transworld Snow Mag sums it up quite nicely:
"I have ridden a lot of reverse camber decks and thought they were the best thing since buttered bread; however this deck takes the cake when it comes to sublime jib offerings."
Kyle Martin, Transworld Snowboarding