Magic Carpet

The Magic Carpet is a really cool board. Just the concept alone is bad ass. I had a lot of fun on it, and in just couple inches of snow it starts to really light up and take advantage of the matching spoon ends. Its so easy to spin on, and if you're trying to learn switch, this would be a good board to start on. I liked it in a bit of powder, but it has one critical flaw in my opinion. I'm assuming that Bataleon needs to use an extruded base because of the 3BT, but the base on my board is a dog no matter how much love I give it on the tuning table. I think this board could be next level with a nice sintered base, but I took it out on a day with 12" fresh and it just lagged, and bc it lagged it didn't float all that well. If Bataleon can give this thing some speed - I'll take another look. But for now... I see this thing more as a wall hanging and fuck around stick.

Floats well in the powder, and very easy to ride switch on, which I expected. I was surprised how well this board handles the bumps.

I purchased this board after riding my girlfriends wet noodle level of flex park board on a powder day and ended up having an absolute blast. I really am surprised at how much I love the shape of this board. The lighter flex makes for a super playful ride but isn't wet noodle level of soft. If you have good edge control and aren't afraid to lean your board over this is surprisingly a great carver. The 3bt really reduced the fatigue in my knees and I didn't have any transition period to get used to it.. Obviously this board is great in powder as that's its primary focus. I'm 5'7" and 155lbs and ride a 151 Magic Carpet. It had no problems in multiple feet of powder at Mt. Hood.

That being said, on the backend I was surprised and very disappointed to find my board is made in the UAE, rather than Europe. On top of that this is a very expensive board and has an EXTRUDED base which is an absolute joke for something at this price point especially with the cheap labor in the UAE.

Loved it

This board is amazing! First things first this board is wider so I went smaller. I’m 6’1 190lbs and I bought a 154. This board can be used for anything: powder, park, groomers. Magic carpet is literally the perfect name for it.

I’ve rode arbor and more recently Burton Kilroy. This blows them out of the water. It really feels like surfing on snow. Ultra responsive, flex is crazy, you can carve like butter and float anywhere. It holds its edge no matter what. Glad I made the switch to bataleon!