Black Diamond Drop Zone Review

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Black diamond drop zone review.

This mid sized pad s taco style fold offers a clean continuous surface and easy padding over variable landings while the quick closure mesh flap. The black diamond drop zone is a lightweight pad weighing in just shy of 10 pounds. The black diamond drop zone crash pad has been redesigned with even tougher material improved more durable easier to use buckles on its quick closure elastic mesh flap a new suspension system for better transport redesigned square corners for better coverage when paired with other pads and updated graphics. The black diamond drop zone is our suggestion to check out for the most similar pad with a secure flap and also the same center handle.

Likely the most significant downside to the black diamond drop zone is the foam thickness. The drop zone is black diamond s only taco style pad in their lineup. An ideal daily driver for the dedicated boulderer the black diamond drop zone features a redesigned premium multi density foam layup for durable impact protection from joe s valley to magic wood. 140 fit testers wore their street shoe size in the zone lv which seems to be sized more aggressively 1 4 to size smaller than other bd rock shoes.

While it isn t our favorite crash pad we tested it is very light for its surface area and did perform well on smaller problems. Testers remarked that a third grab handle would make it even easier to maneuver on the fly when trying to balance spotting a climber at the same time. With two grab handles on the sides it makes it easy to toss around at the base of boulders. At 3 5 inches this crash pad has the thinnest foam out of all the crash pads on this list.

Sure it s composed of 1 inch of closed cell pe foam on top and 2 5 inches of high compression pu foam on the bottom but it s still just not quite as thick. Black diamond drop zone crash pad one color one size visit the black diamond store. The black diamond zone lv msrp. 249 95 50 00 shipping.

The 10 best rock climbing crash pads. The black diamond drop zone is a mid sized crash pad that utilizes a taco style closure.