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| 2004 Snowboard Test: Harvesting The Good Wood By Annie Fast Thursday October 09, 2003- It's the same thing every fall, drooling in front of a wall of shiny boards trying to pick out the perfect one. You can handle them all you want–give it the flex test, stand on it, torque the torsional flex, eyeball the sidecut, listen to the shop guy’s spiel, but you know the only way to be sure that a board is going to ride well is to ride it. And that’s just what the board test is all about. We not only ride all of next year’s most popular models, but we take it to the next level–we do it unbiased by hiding the brand and graphic. Testers are ignorant to the variables of who’s on the team, whether they like the graphic, the details of the carbon-fiber-strung-torsion-fork-hybritech-construction jimmyjam, and just focus on how it rides in the park, pipe, rails, and freeriding. |
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| Mitch Nelson. Credit: James Cassimus |
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| K-Five Magic Carpet Slide By George Crosland Thursday October 23, 2003- |
| Rahm Klampert, switch Nose Press. Credit: George Crosland |
| Travis Kennedy impressing the crowd in the K5 parking lot. Encinitas, CA. Credit: Lee Crane |
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| The eagerness to carve some turns in snow is very strong in October. Come on, you all know what I mean; it has been a long time since you jibbed or carved anything white. Winter is almost here and all snowboarders are feeling the pull of mountains. Well K-Five is a board shop in Encinitas, CA that provided some lucky snow sliders with an outlet to fulfill their pre season urges. In the middle of their parking lot, K-Five built a little bootleg ledge and hired an ice company to bring in some snow. The "park" was about one story tall and the riders had one obstacle. A little 10 flat to 10 down hubba ledge, complete with a snow landing. I will not lie, it was pretty small but everyone was having a blast so who cares that it might not be seen in the Mack Dawgs next flick. Everyone dug it and that's what counts. JP Walker, Tara Dakides, Chris Englesman and other were hanging in the zone but failed to ride the ledge. A bunch of cool vendors had booths set up and K Five was having a sale so there was plenty to see. A nice crowd milled about to check the action. |
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