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The Lib Tech Skate Banana is my favorite reverse camber snowboard. This board was first sold for the 2007/2008 winter season under the Lib Experimental branch - the same people who brought you Magne-Traction a few years earlier. The 2008/2009 Skate Banana is the same as the previous years' board. Lib Tech's rocker is different from K2's; the reverse camber is between the bindings, and from the bindings to the tips, the board is flat.
Size Tested: 156 centimeters.
Pros: Perfect amount of reverse camber. This board carves well, is solid on jumps and in the pipe, and it presses really well - the best of all worlds! Most boards are either great for jibs because they're soft (sketchy on jumps) or great for jumps because they're stiffer (hard for jibs). This board does it all.
Magne-Traction holds really well in hard-pack, even if the edges are detuned for rails.
Cons: The Banana's metal edge doesn't wrap around the nose and tail; this makes the board easy to chip. I rode mine 20 to 30 days, and the tail split open (I sent it back to Lib Tech through my local shop, and in a few days a new one arrived at my house - Great warranty service!)
Overall Impression: Definitely my favorite snowboard. Great on rails, jumps and halfpipe. Perfect stiffness so it's solid on jumps, but still great on rails. If you like snowboarding and having fun, you'll like this board! (Just keep your receipt in case you have to warranty the board.)
Score: I give this board a 9 out of 10.
