Danny Kass
$549.95 USD
$384.97 USD (30% off)
Magic carpet ride! Power freestyle twin C2-BTX banana!
NEW! Danny Kass is an American hero who’s Banana is pretty awesome! He spent years in the pipe refining it to perfection in an environment where carrying a fast line through the flat bottom is the difference between victory and defeat and controlled pop off the lip is the difference between victory and the hospital. The two time Olympic silver medalist and five time US Open champion’s mid wide twin C2 BTX with new Liquid Crystal Polymer is a high-tech smooth riding banana that will take you where ever you want to go. Camber at each end for pop and stability on landings, banana between your feet for float in powder and incredible edge-hold and carving control on hard pack and ice. Danny just wrapped up season five of Danny and the Dingo and will be floating over a mountain near you on his magic carpet.
- Sizes 153, 155, 158
- Wide Sizes
- Shape True Twin
- Contour C2 BTX
- About the Art
Graphic by San Francisco based artist and designer Jeremy Fish. Fish is a storyteller whose tales combine humor, social observations and personal experience through illustration, painting, screenprints, murals, and sculpture. He loves a cold Tecate and all things Lebowski. Sillypinkbunnies.com
Board Tech
Handbuilt in the USA
Every Gnu is handmade by snowboarders with jobs in the USA.
C2 BTX
C2 Floats the pow, kills the jumps and steeps and has the pop and tip to tail stability to stomp whatever you launch. Banana Tech Rocker between your feet, camber at the tips and tails. The perfect solution for aggressive power snowboarding.
Sintered Base
Compression hardened amorphous UHMW skived from the billet to create the toughest, fastest, best wax holding base material around. Slides best and fastest when waxed regularly to match local snow conditions.
Magne-Traction
“Turns ice into powder”
Serrated edges give great edge hold all over the mountain especially on hard pack and blue ice!
LCP – Liquid Crystal Polymer
Liquid crystallinity is achieved through the heating of a polymer past its melting point, during the cooling phase polymers form highly organized linearly aligned self- reinforcing structures resulting in incredible mechanical properties. Strength, chemical and fire resistance. Strength in a fiber allows us to use less material to achieve the desired physical performance translating into a lighter weight composite. LCP also has a very low vibration frequency and with 10 times the strength of titanium LCP was used as the foundation for interplanetary Mars lander tires. Built into a Gnu snowboard these strong light, damp aramid polyester fibers quiet chatter from rough terrain and create an incredibly smooth, poppy, lightweight ride.
True Twin Geometries
Twin (equal length and equal width) tip and tails combined with a centered radial sidecut. Rides equally well in both directions with a focus on freestyle. Park, powder, pipe: perfect.
Mervin AG2 Sustainable Woodcore
MERVIN AG2 SUSTAINABLE WOODCORE: ASPEN / ALT. GENETICS / EISS 9
- Lighter / Stronger. A perfect combination of Aspen, even more ultra lightweight genetically altered wood core and EISS 9. Perfect for freestyle domination.
Wood Core Weirdness!
The world’s fastest growing trees in the Gnu Eco Timber farm benefited from a combination of moist evenings, diffused daylight sunshine and being on the north American avian flyway…abundant natural nitrogen from goose and duck droppings resulted in a exceptional harvest of long fibered lightweight poppy woods that we call “nature’s fiberglass”. This very exceptional crop has been carefully seasoned and built into cores and is the light poppy center of our Gnu Snowboards.
Quasi Glass
4 way fiber orientation 0/45/45/90. Triaxial and biaxial glass combo for max pop and control.
Weird Cinema
Check out the video!- Experiment!
- Construction Standards and Oddities.
- Magne-Traction "Turns Ice Into Powder"
- Banana Tech.
- Wood Core
- Liquid Crystal Polymer
| Model Name |
Contact Length |
Side Cut |
Nose Width |
Waist Width |
Tail Width |
Stance* Min-Max / Set Back |
Flex 10 = Firm |
Weight Range (lbs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 153 | 113 | 8.1 | 29.4 | 25.2 | 29.4 | 20.25"-25"/0" | 6 | 110-180 + |
| 155 | 116 | 8.3 | 29.6 | 25.3 | 29.6 | 20.25"-25"/0" | 6.5 | 130-210 + |
| 158 | 119 | 8.5 | 30 | 26 | 30 | 20.25"-25"/0" | 7 | 140-240 + |
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Name: Danny Kass
Age: 29
Location: Radical dude... local of the world no homebase
Astrological sign: Vertigo
Cats name: Bloo aka B100 bloothecat
Gear Setup: DK 153-158 anything with that Banana c2x and other topsecret formulas
I know you go on alot of TRIPS, but what was your favorite TRIP this winter?
Favorite trip would be austria with gigi ruff eric jackson and wolfgang, brusti and and hostnik for the new absinthe film and Nike edit.
Do you like to get weird, if so why and what do you do, if not why not?
I like to get weird some think i am a nerd but really its just the way i get weird. I drink coffee in the shower, drive and skate on snow, cook naked wearing a grenade mitten.
What terrain is your preffered? I like sand boarding myself.
I have really enjoyed hiking pow terrain. I like catching me some airtime so really everything from pow to slush.
Whats an average day in your life right now?
Well the average day in my life would consist of waking up eating some food packing a lunch and heading to the hill for one really long run of hiking and building. Then off the mountain for a little apre maybe, then followed by a candle light dinner with my cat on skype.
Optimist / Pessimist? Realist? Weirdest?
I would have to go with a cross breed of weirdest/ radicalist so it would be a weirdicalist.
Do make a living off the snow?
Yes i have worked in the snow industry since i was 16 and i have been doing it on gnu snow toys since i was 12 years old.
What does Gnu mean to you?
It means the self expression of ones riding fun and getting the opportunity to be weird.
Besides Shredding, what do you enjoy doing? i enjoy canoeing on fool moons. you?
I like to build bird houses as a new hobby. I also enjoy skating at midnight and instagraming
What gets you out of bed in the morning, what inspires you?
Sunrises and music.
Favorite Gnu Board? and why?
Anything with the banana tech my favorite is my promodel.
Currently listening to?
Band of skulls bruises as i type.
Currently looking at?
My buddy ripzinger hanging in tokyo for a few days to drink the first legal monster in Japan getting ready to go skate.
Favorite website or blog? are you in INSTA-WEIRD, whats your user name?
@dannykass and grenadegloves.com
Thanks?
Thanks to everyone at Mervin the Pinski, Steezeach, Pete and Mike and all the snowboarders building boards at Mervin. Thanks for the toys boys.
