Board Tech

Handbuilt in the USA

Every Gnu is handmade by snowboarders with jobs in the USA.

BTX

All terrain rocker placed specifically between your feet where it belongs. Full tip-to-tail edge contact when you stand on your board for all terrain performance. Banana Tech is easy to ride, rips the hardpack and ice, kills the jibs and floats unbelievably. Bananas!

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!

Floaty Width / Profile and Shape

This design features long floaty tip and tail entry curves for high speed powder floatation in both directions, a short banana contact for unbelievable hard-pack, ice edge grip and tight terrain maneuver-ability, line adjustment, with mid-wide waist widths and a clean, catch-free, smooth riding shape.

Mervin AG1 Sustainable Woodcore

MERVIN AG1 SUSTAINABLE WOODCORE: ASPEN / ALT. GENETICS / EISS 9
- Lighter / Stronger. A perfect combination of Aspen, ultra lightweight genetically altered wood core and EISS 9.

Wood Core Weirdness!
In 2009 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 duckdroppings 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 2012 Gnu Snowboards.