You’ve watched Zeb Powell ride the longest snowboards imaginable since he was a teenager riding for Nitro. Now, you can ride one yourself.
The Burton Super Ultra Blossom is here. There are three sizes available: 155 cm, 185 cm, and 205 cm. There’s a limited number of boards dropping at 5 p.m. during a livestream at X Games.
X Games partnered up with Burton Snowboards for a surprise live show hosted by Slush the Magazine’s Stan Leveille for a question-and-answer session with Powell from his condo in Aspen. Burton is fielding questions from the public for the session on the company’s Instagram story.
“After years of everyone asking, the wait is over: Zeb Powell’s Super Ultra Blossom will finally be available to ride yourself,” Burton said in an Instagram post. “This custom snowboard is a larger-than-life version of the Blossom, with a rad swallowtail and a one-of-a-kind comic strip by Khary Randolph.”
The announcement comes just ahead of X Games Aspen 2025. Powell is set to compete in his signature event, the Knuckle Huck, on January 24, 2025. The event starts at 11:15 AM MT and features Dusty Henricksen, Marcus Kleveland, Patrick Hofmann, and the reigning champion Liam Brearley.
Powell finished in second place in last year’s Knuckle Huck. He missed the podium in 2022 with a fourth-place finish, and won it in his X Games debut in 2020 with a run that wowed judges, fans, and commentators alike.
Powell will also compete in snowboard street style, along with Benny Milam, Henricksen, Brearley, Nate Haust, and reigning champion Pat Fava.
Powell has made the extra-long board synonymous with his style. When he joined Burton, it wasn’t long before a competitor to “Big Pink,” as his signature board with Nitro was affectionately named, was designed.
Powell broke the internet back in August 2020 when he posted a video of himself throwing a double cork off of a kicker at Mount Hood in Oregon on Big Pink.
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“I love that board,” Powell said on The Bomb Hole back in 2022. “I think that was the hardest thing to leave on Nitro. I was losing big. That's definitely a staple to my career now and, yeah, I had no idea that was going to happen.”
Soon enough, Zeb was breaking it out everywhere from meet-and-greets at local ski areas to the drop-in ramp at X Games in 2022. He can spin it around with ease, and he has no issue popping off rails, boxes, and side-hits with it.
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