Burton Feelgood Snowboard Review

Overview of the Feelgood's Specs

Check out the tables for the Feelgood’s specs and available sizes.

Specs

Who is the Feelgood Most Suited To?

The Feelgood is best suited to those who like to bomb hard and want a board that will stay stable at high speeds, crush through messy snow with ease and be able to lock in an edge and carve with the best of them. If you're a physically strong person, you're also more likely to get on well with this board, than a smaller or less physically strong person. 

Definitely not for beginners and I wouldn't even recommend it to intermediate riders. This is for advanced to expert riders only, IMO. 

The Feelgood in More Detail

O.k. let’s take a more detailed look at what the Feelgood is capable of.

Demo Info

Board: Burton Feelgood 2025, 149cm (242mm waist width)

Date: February 7, 2024

Turning

Ease of Turning/Slashing: It takes a fair bit of effort and concentration to initiate turns on this board. You can slash out the tail, but again, it takes effort and concentration. This board prefers to lock into an edge, rather than slash. 

Maneuverability at slow speeds: Slow speed agility with this board wasn't great, as the board is very tortionally stiff and doesn't like to bend for slow short turns. 

Catchiness: I felt like there was quite a high risk of catching an edge with this board. Though when riding it faster it feels less catchy. Most catchy at slower speeds. 

Carving

The Feelgood loves to carve! It holds an edge really well and just loves to lock into an edge. And because it's so smooth and damp feeling, it carves well even in less than smooth conditions, with minimal chatter. 

Speed

As you would expect from the comment in the paragraph above, the Feelgood is very good at speed. This is where I found it preferred to be, as much as possible. It felt really stable, even when really opening it out and had minimal chatter. 

Uneven Terrain

Crud/Chunder: The fact that I ended the last two paragraphs with "minimal chatter" should be a good clue as to how well this board rides in crud. I found that the Feelgood smashed through rough snow without breaking a sweat, seeming to say "what do you mean it was rough back there, I didn't notice!". 

Trees/Bumps: It's quite an effort when trying to weave between tight obstacles, and I found it quite fatiguing in the trees. It didn't like to have to go slow and turn sharp.

Powder 

We didn't have any powder on the day, but based on the feel of the board and its specs, I don't think it would do great in deep powder. If it was just a little bit of powder, it would be fine, but would be a decent amount of work in deeper snow, I would say. 

Jumps

My overall impression of jumping with this board is that it was difficult to access itspop, stiff in the landing and unforgiving of mistakes when landing.

But it was also super stable on approach and riding out after landing, regardless of how smooth or messy the take off or landing was - and when you did make the effort to extract its pop, it had a ton of it. And it could really stomp a landing when you got it right. A little tail heavy was fine too, as that stiffness in the tail meant you weren't going to over-flex it. 

My guess is that, if you're a seasoned jumper and a physically strong person, you'll likely think this board is sick for jumps and wonder why I didn't score it higher. 

If you're new to jumping and/or have less physical power, you may think of this board as a daunting task to jump with, and wonder why I didn't score it lower!

Switch

Riding switch wasn't too dissimilar to riding it nose-first. However, because of the challenging nature of this board, those challenges were only increased riding switch (if you're one of the rare talents out there who rides switch as well as their typical direction, then you'll be fine, but for most of us riding switch is more challenging).

Transitions felt a bit sketchy - had a feeling of a high risk of catching an edge.  

Spins

Setups felt a bit catchy and same with under-rotations. Definitely doesn't over-rotate after landing, as you could imagine. The weighty/damp feeling made it feel more of an effort to rotate the board as well. 

Jibbing

Not for me. I found rails and boxes difficult with this board as it was difficult to pop on and off of features and harder to throw around with its weightier feeling. And lacked maneuverability approaching jibs.

If you're a physically stronger person and very confident/experienced with jibs, you may like it more than me, but even then, you're not likely to find it the best for jibbing. 

Butters

If you're able to provide the force needed to get the Feelgood to press enough to lock in, it locks in well, but it took a lot of effort to get it there. Tip and tail felt really stiff. With a big effort I could get it there, but it would be energy sapping to do it a lot in a day. For rotations on butters, it was on the catchy side, so not ideal there either. 

Score Breakdown and Final Verdict

Check out the breakdown of the score in the table below.

The Feelgood is all about bombing, carving and smashing through whatever thinks it might slow this board down, let alone knock it off its stride.

I found it an effort to ride slowly/casually, but with some speed under it, it really came into its own and felt right at home. 

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