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Gnu Essential 2024 Snowboard

€ 333.29 € 424.96 You save 22 %

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1 Reviews (5.0)

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The Gnu Essential Service is designed for the perfect powder session and long days at the resort. Whether you're shredding a perfect pillow line, making long carves on the slopes or doing some park runs, the Essential lets you unleash your freestyle skills all over the mountain.

Part of the proceeds from this model will be donated to theserviceboard.org. This is an organisation dedicated to helping socially disadvantaged teenagers to meet personal and cultural challenges through outdoor adventure, environmental and social justice education and public service.

Riding style
The Essential Service is aimed at the intermediate and advanced rider who enjoys the powder and the whole mountain and is looking forward to a new riding experience.

Shape
The Directional Twin Shape is perfect for all-mountain with a touch of freestyle. The shape is symmetrical, but the bindings are slightly offset to the rear to give you more float in powder. The Magne-Traction® technology provides improved edge hold with serrated edges. Especially on icy slopes they unfold their full potential.

Profile
The C2 profile is a classic camber profile with a subtle rocker between the bindings. This provides precise edge control from nose to tail and maximum stability for high airs and landings. The rocker makes the board a bit more playful and offers more uplift than conventional camber profiles.

Flex
The medium flex ensures precise control and fast responsiveness of the board, but remains playful enough to bust out freestyle moves.

Construction
The G Lite 2 construction is environmentally friendly, robust and a lightweight construction design from Gnu. The core of aspen and paulownia wood is very light, sustainable, robust and poppy. Bi- and triaxial fibreglass surrounds the woodcore and provides the necessary stiffness and durability. The topsheet is made from eco-sublimated organic beans. The sintered base is very fast and stays that way if you take care of it.

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Snowboards are usually delivered ready-to-ride with a waxed base and sharpened edges. However, this so-called factory-tuning is not very durable and your new snowboard should be properly waxed after a few days and maintained on a regular basis.

Attributes

A blend of stability, agility and float
More float in powder and versatile all-mountain riding
Contains sustainable materials, such as organic or recycled materials
Manufactured in a more eco-friendly way

Article number: 709054
Base: Sintered
Extruded: low maintenance and extremely durable, ideal for jibbers and weekend shredders
Sintered: hard and fast, but a little higher maintenance, the best choice for powder
Premium: highest quality and speed with carbon/graphite additives
Core: aspen/paulownia
Compatibility: Standard Inserts
Riding Style: All Mountain
Riding Level:
- Advanced
- Intermediate
Stiffness: 6
Flex: Medium
Country of production: U.S.A.
Gender: Men
Eco:
- FSC® certified wood
- Recycled materials
- More sustainable

Features

All Mountain Board from Gnu
Directional Twin shape
C2 Hybrid Camber profile
Magne-Traction serrated edges
G Lite 2 Construction
Core of aspen and paulownia wood
UHMW sidewalls
Eco Sublimated Bio Beans topsheet
Bi-ax and Tri-ax fibreglass
Sintered base
Handmade in the USA

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(5.0)

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I chose this product because I mainly snowboard in the resorts. I am going to the mountains with a low altitude so I can go fast down the path. I am riding all-mountain freestyle boards because I prefer the medium stiffness of the boards. This specific model from GNU is Flex 6 and it is a hybrid camber, versatile, easy-riding one-board quiver. I am riding 153 and I tested at the outdoor resorts. I am 174hgt, 75kg and this board fits perfectly with my body shape.

I tested the board at the resort mountain somewhere in Austria.This board is perfect for riding the resorts, but you can also enjoy it in powder. The matterials are from renewable FSC certified Eco Woods, recycled plastic bottles. I enjoyed that I could land into the powder and come back up again very easily. I could carry a lot of speed while I was going down and this was also really enjoyable. It carves precisely so I would recommend to pick one for yourself.

This is the board I will keep for going into deep snow. I recommend this board to anyone who rides into powder and between trees. Easy to ride, it can be the board to go on. This board is best for variable conditions and I would recommend it to a person who rode a Hybrid camber in the past.

About me:

I am Antonios and have worked at Blue Tomato for 4 years. I am a Snowboarder with over 8 years of experience, mainly riding All-Mountain. I am 174 tall and I bought this product in size 153 .

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About Gnu

Gnu have been around since the birth of snowboarding, claiming weird, open minded experimentation to be their job. They have worked with mysterious materials, bizarre geometries, contours and board shapes, far out art and colors, odd terrain and freakish riders to create fantastic progressive snowboards that have helped take snowboarding to wild and magical places. A brand we are happy to call one of the family.