2010 Good Wood Winners Announced
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- August 26 2009
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Carlsbad, CA—The October issue of TransWorld SNOWboarding magazine (twsnow.com), the world’s #1 snowboard magazine, reveals the 45 winning boards in the eleventh annual Good Wood Board Test. The results are broken down into categories including Top 10 Men’s And Women’s Under $399, Top 10 Men’s And Women’s Over $400, and Top 5 Best Pipe Boards.
“There isn’t a lot of good info available to riders looking to invest in a new snowboard,” said Annie Fast, TransWorld SNOWboarding’s editor-in-chief. “That’s why the Good Wood Test results are so important—we give our readers solid feedback on which boards ride the best, and we offer this info in price ranges available for every rider.”
Over 30 brands sent in a total of 450 boards to be tested last spring in Breckenridge, Colorado’s Park Lane Park, Freeway Superpipe, and the 2,400 vertical feet of all-mountain terrain on Peak 8. The 23 testers scored the boards based on characteristics that define a good board such as turning, flex, high-speed stability; and also those specific to park, pipe, or all-mountain boards.
The October issue features an overview on each winning board, tester comments, and complete tech stats. Readers will be able to use the Good Wood results to find the perfect board whether they’re down for park riding, all-mountain freeriding, or shredding the pipe.
Read more about Good Wood in the 2010 Gear Guide and the October issue, also go online to twsnow.com for videos, photo galleries, and individual tester bios.
TransWorld SNOWboarding’s Good Wood Winners Are:
Top Ten Women’s Under $399
Burton The Social
Capita Space Metal Fantasy
DC BFT
Endeavor Boyfriend Series
Gnu B-Nice BTX
K2 VaVaVoom Rocker
Rome Detail
Roxy Ollie Pop BTX
Signal Vita Park
Technine Women’s Jib
Top Ten Women’s Over $400
Arbor Cadence
Burton Lipstick (All-Mountain)
Gnu B-Pro BTX (All-Mountain)
K2 EcoPOP (All-Mountain)
Lib Tech Skate Banana
Nitro T1
Rome Lo-Fi 1985 (All-Mountain)
Roxy Eminence BTX (All-Mountain)
Salomon Gypsy
Technine One Love
Top Ten Men’s Under $399
Artec Gabe Taylor
Burton Blunt
Capita Horrorscope FK
Forum Youngblood Chillydog
K2 Darkstar
K2 WWW Rocker
Nitro Swindle
Omatic Extr-Eco Wigglestick
Salomon Drift
Rossignol Angus (All-Mountain)
Top Ten Men’s Over $400
Burton Easy Livin’
Burton Custom V-Rocker (All-Mountain)
Burton Joystick (All-Mountain)
Forum Destroyer Chillydog
Gnu Park Pickle
K2 Parkstar
K2 Slayblade (All-Mountain)
Lib Tech Skate Banana
Nitro Rook
Ride Machete
Pipe
Burton Vapor
Forum Seeker
Gnu Danny Kass BTX
Lib Tech TRS
Salomon Official
For more information on Good Wood, contact Editor-In-Chief Annie Fast at annie.fast@transworld.net. Thank
you to High Cascade Snowboard Camp for expertly running the board test and to Breckenridge, Colorado
for providing the very best testing terrain.
About TransWorld SNOWboarding
TransWorld SNOWboarding is the world’s number-one snowboard magazine with a print audience of 1.4-million. Found online at
transworldsnowboarding.com, TransWorld SNOWboarding is based in Carlsbad, California and published by TransWorld Media, a
division of Bonnier Corporation.
Bonnier Corporation (www.bonniercorp.com) is one of the largest consumer-publishing groups in America and the
leading media company serving passionate, highly engaged audiences through more than 40 special-interest magazines and related
multimedia projects and events.
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August 27th, 2009 at 7:26 am
damn!!!!! what happened to gnu's riders choice.
August 27th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
Eazy Livin' sickest board ever.
August 27th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
Wow… no shortage of Burton crap. Get that money Transworld!!!
August 27th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
i'm so sick of them putting that damn channel system on all their boards so you have to buy burton bindings. I ride Flows, I won't ride anything else. EST bindings - probly a good idea, the channel - retarded
August 28th, 2009 at 1:18 am
The boards with the channel system come with disks you you can use any bindings on them, and the channel is a pretty awesome idea.
August 28th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
transworld sold out!!!!!! burton are kidding me they took the top spots. buy American made snowboards and support independent snowboard company's.
p.s burton makes it's boards in china…….
August 28th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
yeah i wonder how de-verse the field of riders were, r they pros or just random people. Anyway K2 rocks.
August 28th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
did they even test romes?!
August 28th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
I agree i ride K2, even though i think there made in China to. Yet there is a real awesome small company in Chicago called GAG Snowboards. They were at a comp one time real nice boards. If i wasnt so hooked on K2 id ride with them.
August 29th, 2009 at 5:16 am
thats a crock of shit. burton does not make its boards in china. There is a factory in Vermont, but believe what you want idiot
August 30th, 2009 at 2:18 am
Never sumer!
August 30th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
womens over 400. lo-fi 1985 so obviously. and there not in there cause there just not that special. i mean my artifact was nice and so is my friends agent but theres better.
August 31st, 2009 at 12:52 am
JEENYUS!
August 31st, 2009 at 4:58 am
Dude Burton didn't take the top spot in everything…it's alphabetical
August 31st, 2009 at 2:51 pm
went bankrupt?
August 31st, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Burton is still rider owned… You can't say that about many companies, including ROME,
September 2nd, 2009 at 10:18 pm
is now O-Matic!
September 5th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
killed in the break up of 4star. wooo wooo.
September 8th, 2009 at 5:42 am
You can't use "any" bindings on the channel, but you can use non-EST Burton Bindings on them.
September 30th, 2009 at 7:48 am
word….i love burton i use to have a Burton Dragon 158……that was by far the best board i ever owned…and whats this $hit about china?i hope thats not true……..dont get me wrong i get the support your local independent thing,and thats cool but burton wasent started by NIKE
or any such corprate giant in disgise……it was started by a pioneer of the sport.Snowboarding is not that old lets not forget its roots…….long live burton
October 8th, 2009 at 5:36 am
what happened to BATALEON?
October 15th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
dang people read the posts, 30 brands, 450! boards, no shit they tested those boards but just because they didnt make their top ten doesnt mean there not dooopppee!!
October 28th, 2009 at 4:49 am
of course the Burton X8 didn't make it, cuz they priced it too high. good thing i get the hookup, half price!!
November 1st, 2009 at 10:29 pm
Burton sucks as a company. but unfortunately they make great boards… Everyone likes to claim they are maid in china, but any board that cost over 400 is maid in austria or vermont. If you want to support american maid boards you either have to buy burton or libtech/gnu… or neversummer but they suck. Ride & k2 China, Rome Capita Nitro and DC are all maid in austria.
P.S. Yeah burton is still rider owned but they dropped like half of their core team cause uninc wasn't selling. Kinda goes against everything uninc stands for.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
who try out the custom v rocker ? need feedback.