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Don’t call it a come back, actually were not sure what to call it but Lib Tech is celebrating 10 years of putting a weird shaped snowboard between peoples feet. The Lib Tech Skate Banana 10 Year anniversary is here.
I’m going to be fully up front here, the first time I tried a Lib Tech Skate Banana I had a serious love hate relationship with the snowboard. As much fun as spinning on the Skate Banana was off jumps and catwalks, I could never figure out how to stop the board from spinning. If you live someplace flat and like to shred park, well this board is the jam.
Lib Tech Skate Banana 10 Year Video
Camber is for skiers, just kidding.. Although that’s sort of how all this started, Mike Olson and Pete Saari started tinkering with Reverse Camber, around the same time Never Summer was! Snowboard politics and lawsuits aside this change in shapes and torsional response was something the snowboard industry needed and eagerly gobbled up.
Wayne Bolte locked in on a Lib Tech Skate Banana | Photo Mike Hardaker Mountain Weekly News
One good thing about a Skate Banana is the board is forgiving when learning new tricks, especially on and off rails and boxes and especially for practicing spins.
To celebrate 10 years of the Lib Tech Skate Banana, Mervin plans to re-release the original 10 year old model. For some snowboarders, this is like making Craig’s boards again, well not really but still pretty freaking sweet.
Lib Tech also makes possibly the best splitboard currently on the market. The T.Rice Goldmember!
Kudos to Mike, Pete, and all the weirdos that live, eat and breathe snowboarding up in Washington. Theses guys make some of the best boards on the market (Lib Tech, GNU) even skis… And they actually turned me into a huge fan of the Banana, well the Banana Magic that is..
Thanks guys! Stoked to see what another 10 years of progression will bring to the shred world.
Another board in the line that should be on everyone’s radar is the Lib Tech Hot Knife snowboard, especially if you live in the NW and like snowboarding deep pow.
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