Each year two snowboard tests come out from respective magazines, Future Snowboarding and Transworld Snowboarding Magazine.
These board tests are talked about and people do listen to them. I say with any board test or review, remember the people riding these boards are not you…you might interpret boards differently than a pro rider or test rider. Here’s my take on the list for 2009.
I just started hearing about boards that have been placed in the lists this year.
So here’s a heads up on the 2008-2009 Transworld Good Wood and Future Snowboarding’s board’s of the Year.
The Skate Banana in it’s 1st year submitted…won a Good Wood.
The TRS won it’s 4th consecutive Good Wood and won a Future Snowboarding test award.
Capita has 3 boards that won TWS Good Wood: The Stairmaster/Scaremaster and Saturnia. For the 2nd year in a row, the Food Court Gangsta (previously the MHT) got a top 5 TWS Pipe board Award.
GNU women’s boards placed this year with the B-nice winning Future’s $400 & under category and the B-pro BTX winning Future’s $400 & over category.
GNU women’s boards B-nice and B-pro BTX also placed in the good wood awards.
Never Summer SL placed in the Future Snowboarding’s Boards of the Year test.
Nitro Men’s Team in the Future top 10 and Women’s Runaway placed in the Future Test.
Nitro also won 3 good wood awards with the Wiig, Team and T1.
Burton’s new Hero (V rocker aka reverse camber) won a TWS Good Wood in the under $400 category.
The Burton Vapor won a TWS Good Wood in the (way) over $400 category.
The Burton Uninc won a TWS Good Wood in the over $400 category.
The Burton Women’s Blender walked away with a TWS Good Wood in the under $400 category
The Burton Women’s Stria also won a TWS Good Wood in the over $400 category.
The Smoking Superpark with magne traction placed in the Future Snowboarding’s Boards of the Year test.
hoon
August 22, 2008 at 2:26 pmhi shayboarder. that is all.
Anonymous
October 15, 2008 at 2:27 amwhy is the trs btx in the women’s category?
Shayboarder
October 15, 2008 at 2:29 pmI asked Annie Fast, the editor of TWS that and it was an accident that it got in under the women’s category. Lib doesn’t have a women’s board so they submitted it even though it’s not a women’s specific board.
Roland Cheung
December 15, 2008 at 4:34 pmThe Lib Tech TRS BTX also got a 2009 award from Future Snowboarding.
Shayboarder
December 15, 2008 at 5:42 pmThanks Roland…I’ll update that to the list.
Roland Cheung
December 29, 2008 at 1:30 amAlso making Future Snowboarding Magazine’s top 10 lists for 2009: Rossignol One Mag (Men’s under $400) and Rossignol Diva Mag (Women’s over $400).
Roland Cheung
January 20, 2009 at 12:16 amI’m just trying to compile a comprehensive list of award winners so here are additional 2009 Future Snowboarding board test winners:
Burton Deuce
Arbor Del Ray
Gnu Altered Genetics
K2 Zero