Initiating a turn barely takes any weight shift at all on the Rome Royal Snowboard. A genuinely soft flex means less physical effort goes into every edge change, so a rider spends less energy fighting the board and more energy actually learning to ride it. Twin Diamond 3D shaping in the nose and tail keeps that same edge from catching unexpectedly, and a Tri-Radial sidecut blends three turn radii into one curve that keeps making sense as a rider's confidence builds. It's a board built to get out of the way early, then stay useful once a rider no longer needs it to. What Our Gearhead(R) Experts Are Saying:"I braced for the usual fight to get an edge to engage, and it just tipped over into the turn before I finished shifting my weight. That surprised me more than anything else about the first run."