Gnu Zoid 158 SNOWBOARD REVIEW 2016

TESTER: Josh Reid

BOARD: Gnu Zoid 158

OVERALL IMPRESSION FROM  1 TO 10:  3

OVERALL COMMENTS: Least favorite snowboard of the trip. Couldn’t figure out the sidecuts and flex of this board.

RATE THE SHAPE FROM 1 TO 5:     3

SHAPE COMMENT:

RATE THE FLEX FROM 1 TO 5:     3

FLEX COMMENT:

RATE STABILITY THROUGH TURNS:    2

STABILITY THROUGH TURNS: Heelside for this board was compromised by the short length of the edge for me. I leaned over the heelside nose of the board in a mogul area and fell over the nose of the board. In general, I couldn’t get a good feel of the heelside and the toeside didn’t pull into arcs as well as other boards in the test.

RATE THE GRAPHICS FROM 1 TO 5:    3

GRAPHICS COMMENT:

RATE THE POP/ PLAYFULNESS FROM 1 TO 5:    2

COMMENT ON PLAYFULNESS: Very dull feeling board.

RATE FLOAT IN POW IF AVAILABLE FROM 1 TO 5:   

COMMENT ON FLOAT IN POW: na