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Niestety rzadko kiedy mamy możliwość przetestowania samemu danego modelu deski i sprawdzenia czy rzeczywiście takowa będzie nam pasowała i dobrze zainwestujemy swoje ciężko zarobione pieniądze.

Od wielu lat znany magazyn TransWorld Snowboarding przed sezonem robi niezależne testy desek snowboardowych Good Wood. Również w tym roku TWS wziął pod lupę deski na sezon 2007/08. Dwudziesto trzy osobowa ekipa dostała w swoje ręce ponad 150 desek z 25 firm i w Colorado na Copper Mountain poddali je wnikliwym testom.

Nowością w tym roku jest to, że osobnym testom poddano deski w pipe, a co z tego wyszło możecie dowiedzieć się czytając poniżej ( specjalnie nie tłumaczę krótkich opisów desek na polski, ponieważ nie oddałbym myśli testerów ) Zatem czytajcie chłopcy i dziewczęta w co warto zinwestować tej zimy.

Top Five Pipe Men’s Boards

Burton T6
Burton integrated its cushioning boot-derived technology (Smooth Ride) into a dampening role on the topsheet of the directional T6. The result is a board with an ability to go bigger and faster with less impact on your body.

Capita MHT
The redesigned directional twin has a radial sidecut but with a longer nose than tail-a perfect shape for the pipe. This design allows the board to enter and exit turns on the same arch with a smooth consistent turning radius, but the board is more versatile in varying conditions.

Gnu Danny Kass MTX (Dirty Habits)
This is Kass’ main ride-he’s a Magne-Traction addict. The wavy edges allow this board to hold an edge like a race board, but flex like a jib stick-it’s a best-of-both-worlds scenario. The board is directional with a speedy sintered 9900 base.

Lib Tech TRS MTX
The Travis Rice MTX (with Magne-Traction) comes in two shapes, the shorter boards (153 and 157) are in a park shape, while the two longer models will excel in the powder just like Travis thanks to the “pointier” pow-specific shape.

Palmer Andy Finch
Honeycomb in the nose and tail lightens up this board and reduces swing weight for faster spins, while carbon reinforcements in the nose and tail add pop, durability, and support in landing. You’ve seen Finch shred-this is the board that doesn’t break when he does.

Top Ten Men’s Park Boards Over $400

Burton X8
A new model equipped with the EST binding system for intimate board feel, dampening, and infinite stance options. A medium-flex, twin shape including Smooth Ride dampening and swing-weight reducing Pro Tip tapering on the tip and tail (Includes EST Burton binding compatible disc.)

Capita Indoor Survival
Two X-shaped carbon fiber beams in the center of this true twin board deliver plenty of torsional stiffness while still keeping the tip and tail flexy for jibbing. A smooth radial sidecut and centered stance complete the stick.

Forum Grudge
Proof that a directional board can perform super well in the park, this stunt comes with the highest-quality, lightweight and strong wood core and a super-fast sintered base-speed, strength, and durability from Forum.

Gnu Riders Choice MTX
A repeat finisher in the Good Wood test, this twin-shaped board features a directional sidecut for everywhere performance. The package is wrapped up with Magne-Traction edges and a slippery sintered 9900 base.

Nitro Eero
Eero Ettala’s pro model is built for park shredding. A solid core souped-up for the snappiest pop with a high-performance tri-progressive sidecut, which accelerates through the turns. Power through the park!

Omatic Wig Out
A full wood-core board with air channels to lighten things up and carbon fiber Xs near the tip and tail for strength and stiffening. A techie tri-radial sidecut adds precision steering capabilities to this board that was repeatedly summed up as “fun.”

Rome Mod
The newest trick stick in Rome’s line, the core of this true twin-tip was developed to be super poppy and lightweight for park and pow jumping. Finishing touches include impact edges that can withstand rail abuse and impact plates under the bindings to prevent focusing.

Salomon Arnie 5000
Scotty goes for it on this centered twin with an easy radial sidecut and a really fast base for clearing the super-kickers. It comes factory ready for rails with edge detuning on high-pressure zones.

Santa Cruz Jon Kooley
Kooley wanted a soft, buttery board for rails and powder landings. He put together this true twin with heel-side correcting Bi-O-metric sidecut-the radius of the heelside is cut deeper than the toeside for more effortless heelside turns.

Uninc
Romain, Gigi, Danny, JP, and a twin shape with a directional flex kitted out with the next-level board feel and stance options of EST. Mind the impact-absorbent geometry of the 10:45 sidewalls and tapered thickness of the tip and tail for quick spins.

Top Ten Men’s Park Boards Under $400
Flow Quantum, Forum Youngblood, K2 Darkstar, K2 WWW, Nitro T1, Nitro Team, Ride Agenda, Ride Kink, Rome Artifact, Technine Jib

Top Five Women’s Park Boards Over $400

Burton Stria
The only women’s board offered with the stance-freedom and responsiveness of the new EST binding system. This new true-twin model was built to deliver lots of pop and a mellow ride with a forgiving flex. (The EST disc is compatible with all Burton bindings.)

Forum Craft
A true-twin with a mid-flex pattern, the Craft features Grain Belt technology in the core, which involves 45-degree placement of the core along the toe and heel and vertical throughout for better overall carving performance.

Nitro Janna
All the technology you’d expect from Nitro built into an aggressive board for the girl who’s known for guinea-pigging the jump before the boys. Including a lightweight core strengthened by Dyneema laminates, a speedy sintered base, and tapered tip and tail for easier spinning.

Ride Fever
A true-twin shape with Ride’s own Slimewalls for added dampening and durability on the rails. The Cleave edges provide more ding-resistance against the rails-they’re 50-percent thicker than your average edge.

Sapient Seduction
A snappy nose and tail and a soft mid-flex ride all wrapped up in a true-twin shape. The edges come with a four-degree bevel, so it’s less catchy on the rails, but still edging on the slopes.

Top Five Women’s Park Boards Under $400

Forum Star
A straightforward directional board with a very soft flex-great for riders who want a board they can effortlessly control. Testers loved how this board performed on the rails.

Gnu B-Nice MTX
Built to be an all-mountain freestyle shredder, the twin shape’s centered sidecut, Magne-Traction edges, and soft flex were real tester pleasers. Dig the Starbucksy graphics.

K2 Va Va Voom
This is a true twin with a longer effective edge and a shorter nose and tail. K2 designers suggest you drop down 5 cm in size from what you normally ride (e.g., instead of a 148, go 143). The combination of a shorter length and thin tapered tip and tail will have you spinning dizzy.

Omatic Benatar
A soft and light twin with a two-centimeter setback stance. Air channels in the core give the board a featherweight feel, while softness comes from the specific women’s freeride flex pattern.

Venue Coral
A fancy directional board set back three-quarters of an inch. Described as a forgiving all-mountain board with a mellow radial sidecut and repeatedly described by testers as a “playful” ride.