Pantheon Seed
Pantheon Seed
Super super super limited and rare. Only 35 have been made. And there were a few protos and blems. This is a Seed without the urethane walls, and comes from Hop's personal collection of boards. We order Seeds and they sold immediately, but Hop wanted one. He called Pantheon and was sent one of the factory proto/blems. A Seed but without the urethane sidewalls. How many boards can Hop skate? Not that many. This board has been sitting in storage the last two years, it should be skated, so we are putting it up for sale.
The Seed is a fiberglass composite with a snowboard style top and bottom sheet. The core of the board is made from machined solid maple, wrapped in a urethane shell. This board is layered and pressed with a top and bottom fibreglass sheet. Performance is the same, it was probably a proto for a new manufacturing technique.
The first thing you’ll notice is the spoon nose. The Seed has a tapered, surf-style nose. This is not only aesthetically appealing, but it also feeds your foot into a proper downhill stance. An angled front foot helps open up the hips and puts less strain on your joints, allowing you to put your body into a more aerodynamic tuck, more ergonomically. This open stance favours the heel-side of the deck, and will naturally put your front foot a little more heel-side on the board. To compensate leverage for this, because slalom decks are so front truck dominant, we spoon the nose to increase leverage at the toe side of the deck near the front. Balancing the toe and heel-side of the board improves control, and an added side benefit of greater wheel clearance is also achieved as well as allowing the opportunity for cleaner-looking lines, benefitting the aesthetic appeal.
The tail is designed so that the ball of the foot fits right at the base of the tail crease, just like you’re putting a foam wedge on the deck. If you still feel inclined to put a wedge on it, do it! The goal of this deck is to make a perfect skate deck right out of the box. It is expected riders will adjust the front truck placement according to their stance, based on the rear foot sitting right in that position. Additional rear mounting options help refine the wheelbase and offer further freedom for adjusting your rear foot’s leverage over the trucks. The new wedge makes the Seed feel much more like a classic slalom deck!
Finally, there is a W bubble leading into the tail that peaks right at the base of the tail crease. This is a feature that literally no other board shape has replicated. What this does is automatically align your rear foot so that you don’t have to look down, and it places the ball of your foot in a gentle, 3-sided pocket between the rail, the tail wedge, and the W concave. You’ve got all the leverage in the world in this position, and the W concave vanishes into the tail as the wedge lifts up, just like it was never there. You won’t feel the W on your heel, but it is right on the inside of the ball of your foot where you need it. Riders will notice little to zero shiftings between heel and toeside turns and slides with this feature, and it is subtle enough to still feel very ready to take on cones!
Specs
Length: 32.5 inch
Width 9.3 inch
Construction: Composite wood and fibre deck