Yes Halldor Snowboard Review

The YES Halldor is a fun, but not powerful snowboard that is best described as loose and playful. 

If you want to push speed limits and carve trenches, this isn't the board for you. But if you want to get creative and get really playful and fun at slower speeds, then it's likely a match made in heaven. 

In this review, I will take a look at the Halldor as a freestyle snowboard.

As per tradition here at SnowboardingProfiles.com I will give the Halldor a score out of 100 (based on several factors) and see how it compares with other freestyle snowboards.

Overall Rating

Board: Yes Halldor 2025

Price: $499

Style: Freestyle

Flex Rating: Medium (5/10)

Flex Feel on Snow: Soft (3/10)

Rating Score: 87.5/100

Compared to other Men’s Freestyle Boards

Overview of the Halldor’ Specs

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

Who is the Halldor Most Suited To?

The Halldor is best suited to someone who wants to ride a creative, playful freestyle style of riding and isn't too concerned about stability at speed. The ideal rider for this board would spend most of their time in the park and when on groomers would prefer to duck through trees, hit side-hits and butter around the place. 

For me this wouldn't be a one-board-quiver, but would be a fun addition to the quiver for soft-pack days when riding with slower riders, so you can have heaps of fun with playing around with tricks and not have to think about anything or put any effort into your riding - and of course days when you want to spend most of it in the park or want to learn a new trick. 

While it's certainly an easy turner and probably the most catch-free board I've ridden and that side of things would be great for a beginner, but it's too loose to be ideal for beginners, IMO. It takes a bit to get used to and control, with how quick it turns and how spinny it can feel. Particularly for one-footing off the chairlift, beginners might have a hard time. 

TEST/REVIEW DetailS FOR THE Halldor

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

Demo Info

Board: Yes Halldor 2025, 155cm (256mm waist width)

Date: February 14, 2024

Powder

Probably decent but not great. I didn’t have the conditions to really get a feel for it. 

But specs suggest it would be average at best. It's a true twin and no rocker in the profile. But it does have that upturned base, which should help with float and you could set it back a bit on a pow day. 

Carving

I found it started to wash out at even moderate speeds. When I drew the carves out longer it was a little better as long as I didn’t try to power it too much. But it was prone to wanting to rip tighter carves, but as soon as that happened at anything moderately fast, it couldn't hold on. 

Turning

Ease of Turning/Slashing: Super easy to initiate turns and it lives to slash. It’s also ultra quick from edge-to-edge at slow speed, which makes it feel really agile and nimble.

Maneuverability at slow speeds: Mentioned this already above, but to reiterate, it’s soft and loose and just so easy to do whatever you want at slow speeds.

Catchiness: Zero catch and I mean zero catch. Super loose and playful. This thing might just be the definition of catch-free. The 3D shaping in the base certainly helps, I'm sure. 

Speed

Not a board for breaking speed records. Starts to feel loose and wobbly pretty quickly.

Uneven Terrain

Crud/Chunder: It gets thrown around pretty easy in messy snow, especially if you ramp up the speed. If you like the idea of riding a bucking bronco, then you might enjoy it. But maybe wear a mouth guard to contain all that teeth chattering! The one saving grace is that it is easy to correct, speed check and maneuver.   

Trees/Bumps: Riding bumps was really fun because it has such good board feel and agility. Where it lacks in crud and chunder it makes up for in terms of weaving between trees. It's super agile and can turn on a dime. 

Jumps

It’s slightly more suited to jibs than jumps, but it’s kind of splitting hairs to say that. It’s not super stable, so big hits aren’t a strength, but overall a fun board to catch air on.

Pop: Ultra easy to access its pop. Total pop isn't huge, but it's still good, but don't expect it to give much more for extra effort. Most of what's there will come out without having to wind it up too much. 

Approach: Does great (when you need maneuverability and speed checks and the likes)  until you need a fast run-in, and then it can get wobbly.

Landing:  Similar comments to the approach. It gets loose and wobbly on bigger landings and riding out of them at speed, but it’s easy to adjust/speed check quickly when needed. 

Side-hits: Side hits are super fun on this board, as long as you keep them on the small side. It’s a quick board that makes it easy to dodge around and find hits all over the mountain.

Small jumps/Big jumps: Small are its forte. But fine for medium. Any bigger and you start to feel that like of stability. 

Switch

Super easy, catch-free transitions and it felt just as loose and slashy as riding forward.

Spins

Easy to set up, easy to get spin around and zero catchiness. If you under-rotate it's super easy to finish the rotation on the snow and ride out. To a point that it almost felt best to under-rotate a little on purpose as it was prone to over-rotate after landing, so by under-rotating, it kind of just naturally came around straight. 

Jibbing

It feels pretty loose, and you can use that to your advantage to get creative on a variety of features. We’ve already mentioned the ease of pop, and I find that a real strength for playing on boxes and rails. And the zero catch feeling inspires confidence to try things too. 

Butters

The soft flex of the Halldor extends to its tip and tail and makes this board super easy to butter. The nose and tail felt identical to each other too. You've got to press it deep to lock it in but it does lock in. While I did feel I could over-press it if I really tried, it didn't feel like it would easily over-press. 

Score Breakdown and Final Verdict

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

Ride the Halldor for what it’s built for and you’ll love it. It’s playful, poppy, catch-free and easy riding but not great for deep carves and high speed. It could also be a good choice to beginners who are aiming to make the terrain park a regular destination as they improve.

Perhaps its worst attribute was how it handled icy conditions. The resort had some hard, icy patches that it didn't get along well with. In soft pack it’s super fun. I would plan to get a late start on those cool spring mornings and let the sun soften things up before you head out.

It's the kind of board that does a lot of the work for you. Once you become accustomed to how easily and quickly it turns and spins, you can take advantage of that and it makes learning new tricks effortless.