2027 Capita Snowboard Lineup Overview

CAPiTA has made some fairly substantial moves for its 2027 snowboard lineup.

The overall range grows from 31 snowboard models to 36, with eight new boards arriving and three retiring. Most of that growth comes from an expanded youth collection, but there are also some interesting additions at the adult end of the lineup.

The Sidewinder gives CAPiTA a new mellow freeride board, Mia Brookes has her first pro model and the new Matriarch is built with and inspired by Torstein Horgmo. The women’s range also expands with the freeride-oriented Artemis.

CAPiTA has completely reorganized its youth collection too. The outgoing Jess Kimura Mini and Scott Stevens Mini have been replaced by separate Glow Up and Youth Brigade families, each offered in regular youth and Mini versions.

Most returning adult boards remain unchanged outside of their graphics, but the Black Snowboard of Death gets a notable construction update and the Kazu Kokubo Pro receives an additional wide size.

New Capita Snowboards and Retiring Models 

All three outgoing models come from CAPiTA’s youth range, but the category isn’t being reduced. In fact, CAPiTA increases its youth lineup from five boards to six.

The Youth Brigade takes over much of the Children of the Gnar’s progression-focused resort and park role, while the Youth Brigade Mini effectively replaces the Scott Stevens Mini. The Glow Up and Glow Up Mini provide corresponding options aimed specifically at younger female riders, replacing and expanding on the position previously occupied by the Jess Kimura Mini.

These aren’t simple graphic changes or straightforward renames. The new boards use different size ranges and more camber-focused profiles than the outgoing youth models, giving the redesigned collection a somewhat more performance-oriented foundation.
The Children of the Pow and Micro Mini both remain in the lineup.

See below the next section for more on the new boards coming in. 

Capita Snowboards 2027 Full Lineup By Category

The categories I place Capita's 2027 lineup in below is according to how we at SnowboardingProfiles.com categorize and not how Capita themselves categorize them. 

We have a neutral stance and are completely independent of any snowboard brand. So, our categories have nothing to do with marketing the boards. They are based purely on what we think the best use of each board is. 

We have included a beginner category below as well, but note that all boards in the beginner category will also be included in one of the other categories (the category that the board is most relevant for, according to our categorization).  

CAPiTA BEGINNER SNOWBOARDS

CAPiTA FREESTYLE SNOWBOARDS

CAPiTA ALL-MOUNTAIN-FREESTYLE SNOWBOARDS

CAPiTA ALL-MOUNTAIN SNOWBOARDS

CAPiTA AGGRESSIVE ALL-MOUNTAIN SNOWBOARDS

CAPiTA MELLOW FREERIDE SNOWBOARDS

CAPiTA FREERIDE SNOWBOARDS

CAPiTA SPLIT BOARDS

CAPiTA YOUTH/KIDS SNOWBOARDS

> Children of the Pow

> The Glow Up

> Youth Brigade

> The Glow Up Mini

> Youth Brigade Mini

> Micro Mini

Details of New Models

Capita are releasing 8 new models, including 2 new women's specific models and 4 new youth/kids models. 

Capita Sidewinder

Its combination of traditional camber, a directional outline, 15mm of taper and a particularly tight progressive sidecut should give it a considerably more turn-focused personality than most of CAPiTA’s existing directional boards.

For comparison, the 156 has a 6.8/6.4m sidecut. That is significantly tighter than the longer sidecuts found on boards such as the Mercury, Aeronaut and Matriarch and should allow the Sidewinder to make quick, deep turns without requiring huge amounts of speed or space (which I certainly found to be the case).

CAPiTA has given it a relatively moderate 5.5/10 flex*, a Dual Core, two carbon-aramid boosters and a Quantum Drive base.

*we felt it a little softer at a 4.5/10 flex.

Capita Mia Brookes Pro

That makes the Mia Brookes Pro something like a higher-spec Birds of a Feather rather than a completely unrelated freestyle board.

It retains the same 5.5 flex rating, true-twin outline and Resort V1 profile, which combines positive camber through the main section of the board with short zero and reverse-camber zones toward the contact points.

CAPiTA places the board in its freestyle collection, but it has enough camber, flex and resort versatility to fit better into our all-mountain-freestyle category. It should suit riders looking for the balanced, versatile personality of the Birds of a Feather in a lighter and faster package.

Capita The Matriarch

It isn’t excessively tapered or dramatically set back. The Matriarch has only 4mm of taper and a relatively modest 0.8” (20mm) setback.

It’s positioned as board for advanced riders who want to take a powerful freestyle approach into natural terrain and variable conditions, rather than riders looking for a surfy or particularly mellow directional board.

And that’s pretty much how we found it to be. You could certainly argue that it belongs in our aggressive all-mountain category, but we felt it was directional enough that it fit slightly better in our freeride category.

Capita Artemis

That said, we found it to be more powerful and felt it at more of a 6.5/10 flex. It’s still got some forgiveness, but we felt it on the more powerful/aggressive side for women’s freeride boards – not to the extent of something like the Jones Women’s Flagship or Never Summer Women’s Proto T3 FR, but more so than the likes of the Capita Equalizer, Women’s Navigator or something like the Jones Dream Weaver, which felt more mellow to us. 

The Resort V2 Directional profile uses camber through the inserts, reverse camber toward the nose and tail and CAPiTA’s Flat Kick shaping. 

Construction includes a Hover Core, four 30mm Technora-flax amplifiers, Tri/Bi HolySheet fiberglass and a Hyperdrive base.

We found it to be Capita’s most powerful women’s specific board to date – but not something that’s oppressively unforgiving or anything. It’s still not so demanding that you can’t ride it more casual when you’re looking to mellow things out – but we found it could handle an aggressive touch the best.

Capita The Glow Up (Youth)

The result should be more stable and energetic than the old Jess Kimura Mini, particularly for riders beginning to ride faster, carve more confidently or hit larger park features.

The Select 2.0 Core, Special Blend fiberglass and extruded base keep the construction straightforward, durable and relatively affordable. Its 3.5 flex should remain forgiving enough for developing riders while providing more support than a very soft beginner board.

Capita Youth Brigade (Youth)

It fills much of the space previously occupied by the Children of the Gnar, but it isn’t a direct continuation of that model.

The outgoing Children of the Gnar used CAPiTA’s Resort V1 hybrid-camber profile and was available in 137, 141, 145 and 149 sizes.

The new Youth Brigade is slightly smaller overall and uses the more camber-dominant Park V1 profile. It should feel more precise and poppy, but potentially a little less automatically forgiving than its predecessor.

The Glow Up Mini (Kids)

The board has a 3/10 flex, lightweight Select 2.0 Core, Micro-Glass construction and an extruded base.

It replaces much of the role previously handled by the Jess Kimura Mini, but adds a new 110 size and removes the old 135. It also moves away from the outgoing model’s reverse-camber profile.

The Youth Brigade Mini (Kids)

Changes to Returning Models

The Black Snowboard of Death

The Black Snowboard of Death receives the most meaningful update of any returning CAPiTA model.

Its shape, flex, camber profile, dimensions and size range remain unchanged, but several construction components have been revised.

For 2026, the board used:
• Carbon Fleece Power Shields
• Four 25mm CarbonFlax amplifiers
• A PLT topsheet with screen printing and gloss/matte print
• Moonshot Omni-Tune base finishing

For 2027, it receives:
• Four 20mm Fairmat carbon amplifiers
• A new die-cut matte-and-gloss topsheet with silkscreen printing
• The same Thermopolymer Hover Core
• The same Tri/Triax HolySheet fiberglass
• The same Hyperdrive ADV XT base

The Carbon Fleece Power Shields are no longer listed, and Moonshot Omni-Tune has also disappeared from the specification panel.

This appears to be a genuine construction change rather than a catalog rating adjustment. However, with its geometry, core, flex and profile staying the same, it should remain recognizably the Black Snowboard of Death rather than becoming an entirely different board.

And our experience with the Black Snowboard of Death confirmed that. The 2027 model felt to us very much like it has for a good while now. So, not an overly significant change in practice, from our experience with it.

Space Metal

The Space Metal Fantasy appears to have been renamed the Space Metal for 2027. But it’s just a name change and nothing else appears to have changed, besides dropping some sizes.

The three wide sizes have been removed:
• 145W
• 149W
• 153W

The standard 139 through 153 sizes return with the same dimensions and construction. Outside of the shorter name, new graphic and reduced size range, it appears unchanged.

This means riders needing a wider women’s freestyle board will now have to look toward models such as the new Mia Brookes Pro, which comes in 148W and 150W sizes.

Kazu Kokubo Pro

The Kazu Kokubo Pro receives a new 164W size.

That expands the range to:
151, 154, 157, 160, 155W, 158W, 161W and 164W

Dark Horse

The Dark Horse’s carbon-aramid boosters are listed as two 20mm boosters for 2027, compared with two 30mm boosters in the 2026 catalog.

Its shape, sizes, flex, camber, core, fiberglass and base all remain unchanged.

The narrower boosters could create a minor difference in response, but the change is small enough that it may simply be a catalog correction or specification typo rather than a meaningful redesign. There doesn’t appear to be enough here to consider the 2027 Dark Horse a substantially different board.

Summary of Capita 2027 Snowboards Lineup Changes

CAPiTA’s 2027 lineup is larger and more varied, but most of the growth is concentrated in a few specific areas.

The new Sidewinder introduces a new mellow freeride offering, adding to Capita’s already strong presence in this area.

The Matriarch is arguably the most significant high-performance addition. It gives Torstein Horgmo a directional freeride model that blends traditional camber and premium construction with a relatively balanced, freestyle-influenced shape.

The Mia Brookes Pro and Artemis also strengthen CAPiTA’s women-specific range. The Mia Brookes Pro provides a premium true-twin alternative to the Birds of a Feather, while the Artemis adds another high-quality directional board and provides what we think is the most powerful of their women-specific models.

The youth range receives the biggest structural change. The Children of the Gnar, Jess Kimura Mini and Scott Stevens Mini are gone, but four new Glow Up and Youth Brigade models take their place. The new boards create clearer progression paths for both smaller children and tween-sized riders, while moving CAPiTA’s youth range toward more camber dominant profiles.

Most returning models are unchanged beyond their graphics. The Black Snowboard of Death is the main exception, receiving a new carbon layout and topsheet construction – though in practice is very similar to previous iterations, based on our experience. The Space Metal loses its wide sizes (and its “Fantasy”), the Kazu gets a 164W and the Dark Horse shows a minor carbon-booster specification change (though this might be a typo?).