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PTO Verdict
“A pop-first women's park twin on the Birds chassis - upgraded with a lighter core and a faster sintered base, in Mia Brookes's name.”
Best for: Advanced-to-expert women who ride park and freestyle - jump lines, side hits, jibs. This is Mia Brookes's signature pro model, and the shared chassis is built around pop, so if airtime and features are the point of the day, this is where the board earns its price. Women who ride switch and want a genuine centered True Twin, and women who want camber-grade pop in a light, medium-flex twin. Riders who will actually use the sintered HyperDrive ADV base - ride fast, wax the board, and want fast, durable glide - since the base and core upgrades over the Birds are the reason to pay the premium.
Not for: Powder-first riders: this is a structural limit, not an opinion. A centered True Twin with zero taper and no setback cannot float, and the identical-geometry Birds and D.O.A. are both reviewed as poor in deep snow; the short women's lengths make it weaker still. If deep snow is your day, look at CAPiTA's women's freeride boards - The Navigator Wmn or the Artemis - and we will route you by category, not by a float promise. Beginners and first-season riders: the catalog calls it 'easy-to-ride', but the shared chassis is an advanced-freestyle platform that wants to be ridden on edge, not skidded; the reverse-camber Space Metal Fantasy is the more forgiving women's direction. Women who ride mostly hard, icy snow and want confident grip: it runs Blended Radial, not Death Grip, and CAPiTA builds no women's Death Grip board. Butter and press specialists: the stiff flat-kick tips fight the press, and the 5.5 flex is not a noodle. Value shoppers: this is CAPiTA's dearest women's freestyle board, and the premium is the build, not a bargain. Riders who never wax: the sintered base slows when it is neglected.
At a Glance
Terrain
Description
The CAPiTA Mia Brookes Pro is a women's park-and-freestyle True Twin snowboard, 23.8 cm at the waist on the 148, and Mia Brookes's first pro model. CAPiTA builds it on its podium-proven Birds and lists it, in its own words, as that chassis with two parts upgraded - the base and the core. Outline, camber, sidecut and the Twin 5.5 flex all carry over, so it behaves like that platform: pop first, quick off jumps and features, and even in either direction thanks to the centered twin shape.
The base is the headline: an upgraded HyperDrive ADV, which CAPiTA files in the sintered tier, one step up from the Birds' sintruded Quantum Drive base - fast, and quickest when it is kept waxed. The upgraded ultralight core adds easy, springy pop. What this outline will not do is float; with no taper and a centered stance it settles in deep snow, and because the sidecut is Blended Radial rather than Death Grip, grip loosens once the surface turns to ice. Read it as an advanced-to-expert park deck rather than a beginner or all-conditions board.
At $629.95 it is the priciest board in CAPiTA's women's freestyle range - $30 over the $599.95 Birds it is built on, and that gap buys the faster base and lighter core rather than a new shape. It is sold as a bare deck: CAPiTA makes no bindings, so a medium-to-stiff twin pairs well, and the shop mounts and sizes it to your boots. The run is 144, 146 and 148 standard and 148W and 150W Wide at one price; both are even-numbered and collide at 148, so the style code or the waist - not the length - tells the two apart.
Specs
- Rider Type: Freestyle
- Shape: True Twin
- Profile: Resort V1 + Flat Kick Tech
- Sidecut: Blended Radial
- Flex: Twin 5.5
- Topsheet Tech: PLT Technology • Digital + Screen Print • Metallic Underlay
- Base: UPGRADED HYPERDRIVE™ ADV • Sublimation
- Glass + Resin: HYBRID CARBON HOLYSHEET™ BI/BI MAGIC BEAN™ RESIN
- Core: UPGRADED HOVER CORE™
- Available Lengths: 144 · 146 · 148 · 148W · 150W cm
- Waist Width: 23.2 cm (144) · 23.5 cm (146) · 23.8 cm (148) · 24.4 cm (148W) · 24.6 cm (150W)
- Effective Edge: 1136 mm (144) · 1151 mm (146) · 1170 mm (148) · 1176 mm (148W) · 1191 mm (150W)
- Nose / Tail Width: 27.6 / 27.6 cm (144) · 27.9 / 27.9 cm (146) · 28.2 / 28.2 cm (148) · 28.7 / 28.7 cm (148W) · 28.9 / 28.9 cm (150W)
- Sidecut Radius: 7.0 m (144) · 7.2 m (146) · 7.4 m (148) · 7.6 m (148W) · 7.7 m (150W)
- Reference Stance (cm / in): 48.3 / 19.0 (144) · 50.8 / 20.0 (146) · 50.8 / 20.0 (148) · 50.8 / 20.0 (148W) · 53.3 / 21.0 (150W)
- Suggested Rider Weight (lb / kg): 95-145 / 43-66 (144) · 100-150 / 45-68 (146) · 105-155 / 47-70 (148) · 110-160 / 49-73 (148W) · 115-165 / 52-75 (150W)
Details
- Type
- Snowboard
- Vendor
- CAPiTA
- SKU
- 21041200-MSC-150
- UPC / GTIN
- 810161592029
150W
CAPiTA Mia Brookes Pro
By PTO Team, Brand new for 26/27. Read off CAPiTA's 26/27 catalog and order book, the brand's own tech pages, and the shared Birds chassis it is built on · Spec analysis
The take
“A pop-first women's park twin on the Birds chassis - upgraded with a lighter core and a faster sintered base, in Mia Brookes's name.”
The Mia Brookes Pro is Mia Brookes's first pro model and brand new for 26/27. By CAPiTA's own account it is built on the geometry and chassis of the Birds; read it that way. The ride character here is read from the geometrically identical Birds and D.O.A., not from reviews of the Mia herself. Shape, camber, sidecut and flex are shared; the base and the core are not.
What changes from the Birds is the base and the core, and CAPiTA names both. The base is an upgraded HyperDrive ADV, genuinely sintered - on CAPiTA's own base page the HyperDrive family sits under the sintered heading, a tier above the sintruded Quantum Drive the Birds runs. The core is an upgraded ultralight Hover Core, carbon with paulownia and poplar, where the Birds carries a P2 Superlight. At $629.95 this is CAPiTA's dearest women's freestyle board, $30 above the $599.95 Birds; that premium buys the sintered base, the lighter core and the pro signature, not a different ride.
Pop is the headline strength, the trait the shared chassis is built around: camber running under and past the inserts loads a stiff flat kick, in a light board, and springs off an ollie. The centered True Twin with zero taper rides and pops the same regular or switch, and the Resort V1 zero-and-reverse tips keep turn initiation predictable rather than catchy at speed. This is an advanced-to-expert park board that rewards riding on edge; a rider who still skids will fight the camber, and the catalog's 'easy-to-ride' line does not make it a beginner deck.
Where it gives ground is deep snow and hard ice. A centered twin with zero taper cannot float, and on short women's lengths that is weaker still - not a powder or a do-everything board. Its Blended Radial sidecut is not CAPiTA's Death Grip, the reverse-arc grip point that goes to boards like the men's Mercury, so grip loosens as the snow turns icy, and CAPiTA makes no women's Death Grip board to fix it in the line. The same stiff flat-kick tips that store the pop resist buttering and pressing; the 5.5 flex is medium, not a noodle.
Sizing repays a look. It comes in three standard lengths - 144, 146 and 148 - and two Wides, 148W and 150W, at the same price, and both runs are all-even, so unlike some CAPiTA twins the number alone will not separate a standard board from a Wide, and they overlap at 148. The style code, the W suffix or the wider waist tells them apart; the Wide is for larger boots, not more performance. Against the Birds, the honest split is simple: save $30 for a near-identical ride, or pay up for the faster sintered base and the lighter core.
Bindings we'd pair with it
Mount point: Centered True Twin - zero setback, symmetric regular or switch. Our pick: No official pairing - CAPiTA does not make bindings.
Sold as a bare deck. CAPiTA builds no bindings, so there is no factory pairing to name. A medium-to-stiff twin binding suits this platform; we mount and size it with you in the shop.
Common Questions
- Is the Mia Brookes Pro a powder board?
- No. It is a women's True Twin built for park and freestyle, with zero taper and a centered stance, so it cannot float in deep snow. CAPiTA builds it on the chassis of the Birds, which is reviewed as poor in powder, and the short women's lengths make float weaker still. Buy it for jumps, side hits and switch, not for deep days.
- Mia Brookes Pro or the Birds?
- Same ride, different base and core. The two boards share the True Twin shape, the Resort V1 camber, the Blended Radial sidecut and a Twin 5.5 flex rating, so they ride much alike. The Mia Brookes Pro adds a sintered HyperDrive ADV base, an upgraded ultralight Hover Core and the pro signature for $30 more. Save the $30 for a near-identical ride, or pay up for the faster base and the lighter core.
- Is it a beginner board?
- No. The catalog calls it 'easy-to-ride', but it is an advanced-to-expert park board on an advanced-freestyle chassis. Full camber under the feet wants to be ridden on edge, not skidded, and a rider who still skids will fight it. For an easier, more forgiving women's park board, look at the reverse-camber Space Metal Fantasy.
- Do I need the standard or the Wide?
- Your boot decides. The standard board runs 144, 146 and 148, and the Wide runs 148W and 150W with a wider waist for larger boots, at the same price. Both runs are all-even and meet at 148, so the number alone will not tell them apart - the style code, the W suffix or the waist does. Bring your boots and we will match the shell to the waist.