Description

Welcome to the Juice Evolution. As the name suggest this multi-discipline twin tip series is an evolution of 10 years worth of knowledge and experience dating back to the very beginnings of the sport.

 

Making a board that appeals to all riders is not the easiest of tasks, but Juice feel that a truly exceptional board should do nothing less. Whether you are taking your first steps into the sport or loading up to critical bite levels as an expert, the Juice Evolution has been tuned to win your trust.

 

Your board should be responsible for cutting through the background white noise of your session, bringing you only the feedback that is constructive to your technique. The aim is to free up your concentration, forgiving minor mistakes and brushing off the inconsistencies of challenging conditions to leave you free to concentrate on riding. If you don't have to manhandle your board, the extra concentration it releases can be put to far better use elsewhere.

 

In addition the board needs to achieve what the rider demands, and in this the Juice Evolution will take all you care to throw at it!

 

From the most aggressive styles to the most inclement conditions, there is a wealth of technology, history and prototyping to make sure that it both encourages progression and never holds back aggression.

 

The Evolution comes in three sizes and three different flex patterns, all specifically aimed at different sized riders. Width is key; it is the absolute measure of a board's size, for length tells very little to the seasoned rider. Whilst there are overlaps for riders who kite with extremely low and high power usage, Juice offer the following guide.

 

Juice Evolution: 130x40 - ideal weight range under 73kg
Juice Evolution: 132x42 - ideal weight range 73-85kg
Juice Evolution: 134x44 - ideal weight range over 85kg

 

The Juice Philosophy:

Over the years Juice have spoken to a lot of different people about a lot of different boards. Highly positive reactions are what riders strive for; there is nothing more infectious than taking big steps forward in your riding whenever you touch the water.

 

That positive reaction depends on a number of different variables, depending on experience, style and conditions. It's fair to say that if you are a pro-level rider your needs and preferences will be considerably different to the mainstream kiteboarder. Yet the core of riders, the overwhelming majority in the centre of the sport, rarely share the same research and devleopment potential and rewards as pro-level athletes.

 

While it's absolutely necessary to push the upper limits of the sport, the technological advances that result need re-engineering to bring a performance edge to the mainstream. In addition to this Juice needed to push research and development in new directions that develop new technologies and design suited specifically for the real world.

 

Herein lies the key philosophy of Juice; The perfection of technology and design to create the tools needed for those who live in the real world.

 

Generally speaking, mainstream kiteboarding conditions are the most demanding of all. While the world's best push boundaries as a career they enjoy the fortune of riding in some very special locations. For most of us this is a luxury rarely experienced; constraints on our time and location will often push us to conditions that many Pro Level riders would dismiss. It is here that our equipment needs to shine. This is our playground, and this is where Juice's research and development is done. It's easy to design a board in perfect conditions, but a truly good board is one that soaks up the worst of days without complaint. A board that allows you to concentrate on your riding without demanding your constant attention, upsetting your natural stance or physically weakening your fitness. Juice strive to bring you a fantastic session on the water, no matter how the conditions change.

 

Balance Concept:
If you talk to any high end athletes they will all have something to say about being centred. Through virtually all athletic sports there is a universal consensus that you can’t effectively move forwards until you have a stable, trusted and comfortable core. Unless you have consistent balance, every move away from your core stability will be destined to be off balance before you even start.

 

Your kiteboard is the singular tool with which you apply power to the environment around you. Without the controllable ability to wield this power you will struggle to progress.

 

Juice’s balance concept is a partnership between engineering and core balance. Every aspect of the separate design elements are designed to bring you as much balance as possible. A far greater sense of stability and trust to inspire you, not only push your riding standard further, but also to bring confidence to difficult conditions. Equipment designed to take care of the details so you can concentrate on your session, not on your board.

 

Asymmetric Tune:
Is it better to have power or control? It’s a traditional kiteboarding dilemma, but what’s wrong with having both?

 

It’s natural that our toeside stance is weaker than our heelside. Sure footed, a heelside stance is powerful, with toeside being a contorted control stance for most, needing stability when your stance is twisted. To solve this Juice use a different outline on the toeside to the heelside. It does not look radical to the eye, but makes a significant improvement to the stance you use.

 

The Evolution has gone beyond the compromise; asymmetric tune offers a perfect match to each stance; different outlines on toe and heel side edges to make the most of our asymmetric stance. It’s essentially two boards in one and what’s even better is that neither characteristic has any effect on the other.

 

Core Construction:

The Evolution is built with a proven construction finely honed and tested in the kiteboarding industry. A derivative of snowboard construction; the wood core, ABS sidewall and deck laminates not only allow for precise control of flex, but also give huge strength and impact resistance.

There have been kiteboards built from many different core constructions. Fashions come and go but one fact endures throughout, not only the kiteboard industry, but also in the snowboarding industry. Wood cores have the highest strength to weight ratio you can get. Juice boards are made with a wood core for this very reason. There have been many synthetic materials engineered to surpass certain functions of wood; whether it be weight, reflex response or stiffness, yet nature has spent a long time balancing strength, weight and longevity. Wood is still the most effective material currently available.

 

Outer Skin:
The outer skins of the Evolution are an ABS sheeting. Incredibly strong as well as flexible by nature, this skin is capable of taking a huge amount of abuse. The graphics are not painted on the top; they are impregnated into the plastic and as such are impossible to scratch off, even through deep gouges. Through flexion and abrasion the structural and graphical integrity is industry leading. The deck of the board uses a weaved top sheet, giving a signature deck finish with added adhesion for bare feet. The base of the board is a matt hydrophilic finish, which gives, hydrodynamically speaking, the most efficient glide through the water. It attracts a boundary layer of water, which noticeably decreases the board's physical resistance when riding.

 

Stress Reinforcement:
All fin sections are lined with ABS, making it a completely sealed and strengthened load bearing area. Protecting against damage as well as providing more support to the fin areas under heavy load, it is a proven technology that has seen countless seasons of testing. All inserts are stainless euro fixings that are heavily reinforced. All 3D mouldings are carefully engineered to avoid straight lines along critical areas of possible hyperfexion. We have an almost zero warranty rate.

 

Stance Levelling:
The Evolution has a specific stance levelling mechanism built into the overall flex pattern of the board. In lightwinds and low loads the overall rocker of the board starts relatively flat, this offers drive, bite and efficiency in a balanced stance. When you push more power into the board the stance levelling geometry causes the rocker-line to shift with less force than traditional control flex would allow.

 

The effect is to maintain the same feel between lower and higher power usage. The advantage is two fold; the board has far more range (powering up much earlier and enjoying the same high power handling ability as any high rockered board), whilst your stance stays constant throughout.

 

There is a second tier of flex underneath the Stance Levelling that deals with load spikes; this is the flex technology common to all high end kiteboards and deals with a multitude of the higher power flex interactions, like chop and landing impacts, yet central to the flex engineering of the board is this overall levelling flex that gives the Evolution such a huge range with flawless poise throughout.

 

Lockdown Outline:

Have you ever ridden a board that seemed uncomfortable, unsettled and nervous underfoot? A board that never quite tells you how it wants to be ridden, just seems to have a mind of it’s own? These kinds of boards eventually end up being ridden by force; that is, you lock into a stance and demand that it follows your instructions. It's an uncomfortable and demanding way to ride.

 

The Juice Evolution is very different; within the outline is a section of rail that is flattened to help the board track straight. This section works with all broad stance positions and brings a latent stability to it's track when you loose concentration. As such it's a relaxing board to ride, freeing your concentration to deal with where you are going, not how you are going to get there! Far from being glued in place like a large surf fin this outline still encourages some essential freedom of movement underfoot, a characteristic needed to aid stance changes immediately proceeding aggressive and complex manoeuvres. It's more of a stable balance. The Lockdown Outline will bring you the ability to trust your board to drive in a straight line while your concentration is free to be monopolised elsewhere.

Fin Technology:
Fins are incredibly important to how a board rides. They not only control aspects of the boards stance in the water but they offer different levels of grip and carving potential. As such Juice developed the Evolution with a specific style of fin called JD5, suited not only to it's rockerline, flex and shape but also it's intended multidisipline use. All Juice boards are supplied with the JD5 fin as standard.

 

All fins are milled from the highest quality solid G10 composite that offers superior strength and accurate finishing. The foils are thin and exact, ensuring that they have as little drag as possible. In order to achieve this thin profile, Juice only use the most expensive materials and construction methods available, for these fins represent the cutting edge of design and construction.

The JD5 gives the board a higher stance in the water, lifting flatter rockerlines, whilst still retaining a very efficient profile. The swept leading edge and hooked trailing edge makes for a very grippy fin, resistant to spinning out as well as making it highly manoeuverable. Fantastic in the carve, it is also extremely stable in high load situations and rough chop. Made with a thin foil in high density G10, it uses a metric (euro) thread of a 5mm diameter (M5).

 

3D Deck Moulding:
All Juice boards use 3D deck and hull moulds. The first part of the 3D design is the hull, or shape of the underside of the kiteboard. All Juice boards are shaped not only with curvature from tip to tip but also rail to rail. This single concave is an essential tool in increasing the windrange and central core stiffness of the board. Without it the board would have far too much core flex, leading to buckling as the tips of the boards are forced away from the rider under high load. This leads to total failure in rocker flex, making the board stick and refuse to carve cave whilst exponentially increasing drag. To offset the increased core flex in a 2D board - extra laminates and core thickness is needed, which takes away feel and increases weight. The Concave also changes the rocker of the board between centreline and rail giving a flatter rocker when the board is upright and increased rocker when canted onto it's rail. This is a fundamental principal of controlling and harnessing snowboard technology in freeride kiteboards.

 

The second advantage to a 3D mould is seen on the deck profile in the form of flex control. It allows precise and correct placement of flex at the tips, which provides the control to allow you to channel more drive into the stiffer central core. Continuous moulds do not have the radical steps needed to control the flexion of the tips required to fully utilise the snowboard technology's radical flex capability. All steps in the deck mould are continaully curved in every plane ensuring that there are no inherent weak spots or points of stress in the moulding. This flex brings a great deal of stability, comfort and balance to the board that is central to the feel and performance of modern kiteboards.

 

With the largest Evolution, the 134 x 44, Juice found that the same top mould used for the 130 and 132 was not working as well. With the 134 having more leverage, and suiting heavier riders Juice engineered a new specific top mould for the board; making it stiffer than the other boards in the range. This is far from a common occurrence in the industry, infact it's very rare, and means that whatever your weight, your ideal board size is tuned for you.

 

Ergo or Pro Binding System?:
The Juice Ergo Pad and strap set are designed for a variety of different uses from mainstream freeride through to freestyle. It retains the same philosphy as the pro pad in terms of comfort, ease of use and versatility to bring a more price focused pad to the Juice range.

Secure, comfortable, fully adjustable, designed to lock you in whilst still giving you the ability to shed the board when you need to.

 

The Juice Pro Pad is aimed at the more demanding kiteboarder. A footplate that will give you additional bite, customisation and feel.

 

Designed to excel in more aggressive freeride applications on all boards, it will give greater confidence, more support, feel and grip. It is rare to find a concensus on the perfect pad, but with a high level of customisation we like to think that the Pro Pad is as close as you can get!

 

 

Who is the board designed for:
Forgiving minor mistakes and brushing off the inconsistencies of challenging conditions to leave you free to concentrate on riding.

 

The Juice Evolution achieves what the rider demands, and with this the Juice Evolution will take all you care to throw at it!

 

Juice Evolution: 130 x 40 - ideal weight range under 73kg
Juice Evolution: 132 x 42 - ideal weight range 73-85kg
Juice Evolution: 134 x 44 - ideal weight range over 85kg

 

**Price includes Ergo or Pro footstraps, footbeds, fins and grab handle**

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Juice Evolution with ERGO Pads - £349.00 130 x 40: £349.00 132 x 42: £349.00 134 x 44: £349.00	Juice Evolution with PRO Pads - £379.00 130 x 40: £379.00 132 x 42: £379.00 134 x 44: £379.00

Specs

Length	Width	Core Technology	Inserts	Stance Width	Fin Size	Fin Material
130	40	Wood Core	M6	46-51cm	55mm	G-10 Epoxy
132	42	Wood Core	M6	46-51cm	55mm	G-10 Epoxy
134	44	Wood Core	M6	46-51cm	55mm	G-10 Epoxy

 

Features

Juice Kiteboarding Evolution Technical Features:

 

Balance Concept:
If you talk to any high end athletes they will all have something to say about being centered. Through virtually all athletic sports there is a universal consensus that you can’t effectively move forwards until you have a stable, trusted and comfortable core. Unless you have consistent balance, every move away from your core stability will be destined to be off balance before you even start.

 

Your kiteboard is the singular tool with which you apply power to the environment around you. Without the controllable ability to wield this power you will struggle to progress.

 

Juice’s balance concept is a partnership between engineering and core balance. Every aspect of the separate design elements are designed to bring you as much balance as possible. A far greater sense of stability and trust to inspire you, not only push your riding standard further, but also to bring confidence to difficult conditions. Equipment designed to take care of the details so you can concentrate on your session, not on your board.

 

Asymmetric Tune:
Is it better to have power or control? It’s a traditional kiteboarding dilemma, but what’s wrong with having both?

 

It’s natural that our toeside stance is weaker than our heelside. Sure footed, a heelside stance is powerful, with toeside being a contorted control stance for most, needing stability when your stance is twisted. To solve this Juice use a different outline on the toeside to the heelside. It does not look radical to the eye, but makes a significant improvement to the stance you use.

 

The Evolution has gone beyond the compromise; asymmetric tune offers a perfect match to each stance; different outlines on toe and heel side edges to make the most of our asymmetric stance. It’s essentially two boards in one and what’s even better is that neither characteristic has any effect on the other.

 

Core Construction:

The Evolution is built with a proven construction finely honed and tested in the kiteboarding industry. A derivative of snowboard construction; the wood core, ABS sidewall and deck laminates not only allow for precise control of flex, but also give huge strength and impact resistance.

There have been kiteboards built from many different core constructions. Fashions come and go but one fact endures throughout, not only the kiteboard industry, but also in the snowboarding industry. Wood cores have the highest strength to weight ratio you can get. Juice boards are made with a wood core for this very reason. There have been many synthetic materials engineered to surpass certain functions of wood; whether it be weight, reflex response or stiffness, yet nature has spent a long time balancing strength, weight and longevity. Wood is still the most effective material currently available.

 

Outer Skin:
The outer skins of the Evolution are an ABS sheeting. Incredibly strong as well as flexible by nature, this skin is capable of taking a huge amount of abuse. The graphics are not painted on the top; they are impregnated into the plastic and as such are impossible to scratch off, even through deep gouges. Through flexion and abrasion the structural and graphical integrity is industry leading. The deck of the board uses a weaved top sheet, giving a signature deck finish with added adhesion for bare feet. The base of the board is a matt hydrophilic finish, which gives, hydrodynamically speaking, the most efficient glide through the water. It attracts a boundary layer of water, which noticeably decreases the board's physical resistance when riding.

 

Stress Reinforcement:
All fin sections are lined with ABS, making it a completely sealed and strengthened load bearing area. Protecting against damage as well as providing more support to the fin areas under heavy load, it is a proven technology that has seen countless seasons of testing. All inserts are stainless euro fixings that are heavily reinforced. All 3D mouldings are carefully engineered to avoid straight lines along critical areas of possible hyperfexion. We have an almost zero warranty rate.

 

Stance Levelling:
The Evoltion has a specific stance levelling mechanism built into the overall flex pattern of the board. In lightwinds and low loads the overall rocker of the board starts relatively flat, this offers drive, bite and efficiency in a balanced stance. When you push more power into the board the stance levelling geometry causes the rocker-line to shift with less force than traditional control flex would allow.

 

The effect is to maintain the same feel between lower and higher power usage. The advantage is two fold; the board has far more range (powering up much earlier and enjoying the same high power handling ability as any high rockered board), whilst your stance stays constant throughout.

There is a second tier of flex underneath the Stance Levelling that deals with load spikes; this is the flex technology common to all high end kiteboards and deals with a multitude of the higher power flex interactions, like chop and landing impacts, yet central to the flex engineering of the board is this overall levelling flex that gives the Evoltuion such a huge range with flawless poise throughout.

 

Lockdown Outline:

Have you ever ridden a board that seemed uncomfortable, unsettled and nervous underfoot? A board that never quite tells you how it wants to be ridden, just seems to have a mind of it’s own? These kinds of boards eventually end up being ridden by force; that is, you lock into a stance and demand that it follows your instructions. It's an uncomfortable and demanding way to ride.

 

The Juice Evolution is very different; within the outline is a section of rail that is flattened to help the board track straight. This section works with all broad stance positions and brings a latent stability to it's track when you loose concentration. As such it's a relaxing board to ride, freeing your concentration to deal with where you are going, not how you are going to get there! Far from being glued in place like a large surf fin this outline still encourages some essential freedom of movement underfoot, a characteristic needed to aid stance changes immediately proceeding aggressive and complex manoeuvres. It's more of a stable balance. The Lockdown Outline will bring you the ability to trust your board to drive in a straight line while your concentration is free to be monopolised elsewhere.

Fin Technology:
Fins are incredibly important to how a board rides. They not only control aspects of the boards stance in the water but they offer different levels of grip and carving potential. As such Juice developed the Evolution with a specific style of fin called JD5, suited not only to it's rockerline, flex and shape but also it's intended multidisipline use. All Juice boards are supplied with the JD5 fin as standard.

 

All fins are milled from the highest quality solid G10 composite that offers superior strength and accurate finishing. The foils are thin and exact, ensuring that they have as little drag as possible. In order to achieve this thin profile we only use the most expensive materials and construction methods available, for these fins represent the cutting edge of design and construction.

The JD5 gives the board a higher stance in the water, lifting flatter rockerlines, whilst still retaining a very efficient profile. The swept leading edge and hooked trailing edge makes for a very grippy fin, resistant to spinning out as well as making it highly manoeuverable. Fantastic in the carve, it is also extremely stable in high load situations and rough chop. Made with a thin foil in high density G10, it uses a metric (euro) thread of a 5mm diameter (M5).

 

3D Deck Moulding:
All Juice boards use 3D deck and hull moulds. The first part of the 3D design is the hull, or shape of the underside of the kiteboard. All Juice boards are shaped not only with curvature from tip to tip but also rail to rail. This single concave is an essential tool in increasing the windrange and central core stiffness of the board. Without it the board would have far too much core flex, leading to buckling as the tips of the boards are forced away from the rider under high load. This leads to total failure in rocker flex, making the board stick and refuse to carve cave whilst exponentially increasing drag. To offset the increased core flex in a 2D board - extra laminates and core thickness is needed, which takes away feel and increases weight. The Concave also changes the rocker of the board between centreline and rail giving a flatter rocker when the board is upright and increased rocker when canted onto it's rail. This is a fundamental principal of controlling and harnessing snowboard technology in freeride kiteboards.

 

The second advantage to a 3D mould is seen on the deck profile in the form of flex control. It allows precise and correct placement of flex at the tips, which provides the control to allow you to channel more drive into the stiffer central core. Continuous moulds do not have the radical steps needed to control the flexion of the tips required to fully utilise the snowboard technology's radical flex capability. All steps in the deck mould are continaully curved in every plane ensuring that there are no inherent weak spots or points of stress in the moulding. This flex brings a great deal of stability, comfort and balance to the board that is central to the feel and performance of modern kiteboards.

 

With the largest Evolution, the 134 x 44, Juice found that the same top mould used for the 130 and 132 was not working as well. With the 134 having more leverage, and suiting heavier riders Juice engineered a new specific top mould for the board; making it stiffer than the other boards in the range. This is far from a common occurrence in the industry, infact it's very rare, and means that whatever your weight, your ideal board size is tuned for you.

 

Ergo or Pro Binding System?:
The Juice Ergo Pad and strap set are designed for a variety of different uses from mainstream freeride through to freestyle. It retains the same philosphy as the pro pad in terms of comfort, ease of use and versatility to bring a more price focused pad to the Juice range.

Secure, comfortable, fully adjustable, designed to lock you in whilst still giving you the ability to shed the board when you need to.

 

The Juice Pro Pad is aimed at the more demanding kiteboarder. A footplate that will give you additional bite, customisation and feel.

 

Designed to excel in more aggressive freeride applications on all boards, it will give greater confidence, more support, feel and grip. It is rare to find a concensus on the perfect pad, but with a high level of customisation we like to think that the Pro Pad is as close as you can get!

 

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