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Hey, Matt Guf here for The House Snowboard Shop. This is the brand new GNU Riders Choice
Snowboard. It was designed by all the GNU riders and [techs] up there, and this is what
they came up with. This is a sweet board. It’s a twin-tipped shape board with a C2
Banana Technology—the C2BTX Technology. It’s got a cool baseline shape. In between
your bindings you’re going to have a reverse camber shape. Underneath the bindings to the
nose and the tail, you’re actually going to have a cambered shape. This board is going
to be very playful at slow speeds and on jibs, but you’re not going to sacrifice the ollie
pump that you need to get off that lip or get on to that rail because of the cambered
shape that it has on both the nose and on the tail. So if you like ollying or nollying,
this is going to be a great freestyle board to go all over the place. Besides the Banana,
the C2BTX shape, it has the Magne-Traction as well. The Magne-Traction edge is a serrated
shape edge that has more contact with the snow than a regular sidecut radius edge. If
you ride ice, this is going to be a great board. Because this board has more contact,
it’s going to be bite better. And it’s not going to catch up and [power] or anything
like that, but the Magne-traction is one thing that’s really revolutionized the snowboard
industry, and we can thank GNU and Mervin Manufacturing for that. The sintered base,
of course, is going to be low maintenance, which is great, and the tip to tail wood core
is called AG1 Sustainable Wood Core. And what makes this thing as stiff as it is—it actually
has a flex rating between a 4.5 and a 6, depending on the size. The larger sizes will usually
be a little bit more stiff than smaller sizes. But the quasi glass runs in four different
directions—at 45 degrees, -45 degrees, at 0 degrees, and at 90 degrees, of course. This
is a great board. It’s a Riders Choice. It has big stance options. You can go from
20 ½ wide to about 25 inches wide. The graphics are pretty badass. They’re done by [Second
World] and Tim Karpinski. And definitely check this thing out. It’s the GNU Rider’s choice,
and I think it might be my choice this year. We’ll see.