I’ve pretty much broken every snowboard i’ve ever set foot on. This post is just a recap of all the boards i’ve killed since i started snowboarding in 1997.
I bought my 1st snowboard used, off some dude in the paper. This was before CraigsList so there was some serious effort required getting my hands on this thing. It was a old GNU Kinetic 168 with Elfgen 911 bindings. But holy shit i was stoked. I finally had my own snowboard (i didn’t count the Black Snow i got a few years earlier). I ended up breaking the bindings off 1st day, 1st run. My college roomates decided it would be a good idea to take a guy who’d never been on a lift to the top of Alpental. It was beyond repair. Total bummer….i didn’t end up riding again till the following winter 96/97 when i started working at Ski Acres in the rental shop. This is where the Trail of Death starts.
1. 1997: K2 HC 155 - Demise: landed on tail and the board exploded. I swear this was made out of a piece of plywood.
2. 1997: K2 HC 155 - Demise: landed on tail and the board exploded. Im positive this was made out of a piece of plywood.
3. 1998: Lib Tech Emma Peel - Demise: Grazed a rock, Delam. Sent back to Mervin, they ‘repaired’ board. Sold it off.
4. 1998: Rev Asym 163 - Demise: Grazed a rock, Delam explosion. Still have board in storage. Bought from J.McKay. Sic Board.
5. 1999: Rev ?? - Demise: Broke in half on icy jump at Ski Acres knocked myself out.
6. 1999: Lib Tech MC 157 - Demise: Browed from roomate Mitch. Road Kirkwood, hit rock and ripped a 6″ chunch of base and edge out. Bought board from Mitch.
7. 2000: Burton Canyon 162 #1 - Demise: landed on tail cracked board. Warranty.
8. 2000: Burton Canyon 162 #2 - Demise: landed in snow on Blow Down. cracked behind front binding. warranty.
9. 2000: Burton Canyon 162 #3 - Sold off.
10. 2001: Burton Johan 163 - Demise: dented in edge. Solf off to Thigpen. Haven’t ridden a Burton since.
11. 2001: Salomon 550 164 - Demise: Cracked behind back binder. Warrantied/sold off.
12. 2001: Salomon Fastback 163 - Demise Cracked Edge, delam. Warrantied/sold off.
13. 2002: Option Free + 165 - Demise: Cracked behind back binder from jumping. loved this board. Warranty.
14. 2003: Option Free + 163 - Demise: Cracked sidewall/delam traversing across Wildside. Sold to Cupp.
15. 2003: Nitro Supernatural 166 - Demise: Broke in half jumping. Warranty
16. 2004: Nitro Shogun 165 - Demise: Broke in half jumping. Warranty
17. 2004: Nitro Shogun 165 - Sold off.
18. 2004: Sansalone 165 #1 - Demise: Cracked behind back binder from jumping. Warranty.
19. 2005: Sansalone 165 #2 - Demise: Cracked behind back binder from jumping. Warranty.
20. 2006: Sansalone 165 #3 - Demise: Cracked edge. Warranty. Sold off.
21. 2007: Sansalone 165 #4 - Demise: Stipped out inserts. Warranty. Waiting on return.
22. 2007: Sanaslone 161 - Demise: Broken edge…still riding. holding up ok for now.
23. 2007: Ride Dose 162 - Demise: Cracked Nose landing on knuckle at Grenade Games. 4th Time riding it. Sick Board, bummer.
24. 2008: Option Franchise 165 - Demise: Mystery Break. Cracked in front of front binding.
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November 21st, 2007 at 10:59 pm
this is the greatest list ever written.
December 30th, 2007 at 12:44 am
time to buy a never summer. i’d be interested to see if you could break one of those…
January 18th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
that’s a fine list. here is mine over the years
gnu pharoh 155 #1
gnu pharoh 155 #2
gnu pharoh 155 #3
lib 172
crap 161 #1
crap 161 #2
crap 161 #3
crap 161 #4
harvest 168 (all time favorite board)
glissade wideload 162
glissade 175
glissade 185
burton malolo 166
January 19th, 2008 at 12:01 am
Peelers that is a fine list. I still have a harvest 168 the one with the harvest Moon on the bottom and black. That thing is a cadillac. Harvest boards were great the one with the bird on the bottom, was real fun too little more manuevarable.
January 19th, 2008 at 12:32 am
yeah b man!!! that’s the one. the one with the harvest moon winking on it! it’s broken but i hung on to that one for sentimental reasons. a cadillac is a good descrition. that thing was so dang stable at speed. the topsheet on those things were killer too huh? that ruberized stuff. yeah, that one with the bird graphic was sick too.
January 21st, 2008 at 12:40 am
im only kidding. (i havent broken anyboards and well…what the heck else was i gonna say)
January 21st, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Nitro 55 or so
Joyride 53
Joyride 53 #2
Crap 55
Crap 55
Harvest 57 or 58, don’t remember
Lib Jamie Lynn
Rossi Premier
Lib Travis Rice
The Harvest was also my greatest loss. I cried i think. I also was never able to find another one. The topsheet was sick, it was one big stomp pad.
January 21st, 2008 at 11:17 pm
burton seven 58 - snapped nose
forum destroyer 56 - cracked topsheet after freeriding baker opening day…
burton uninc 56 - just blew out sidewall today (after i got a switch front board to forward over the wall ride thing) claimin!!!!
impressive i know. 14 years snowboarding and 3broken boards in the last two seasons.
i guess jibby things shouldnt count though.
i suck.
January 22nd, 2008 at 1:08 am
Drex has broken more boards than Mr. Miyagi.
I don’t know what my problem is but I’ve put in 16 or 17 years and have not broken 1. Not sure if I’m not packin away enough burgers or just too smooth.
January 22nd, 2008 at 3:45 am
it was cool at first. now it’s just a pain in the buns. i have to roll with a backup all the time…never know when, how it’s gonna go down. i just know it will.
the craziest board break i’ve ever seen though was Clem at Stevens Ass. Somehow he broke the board (that rossi i think) down the middle, from tip to tail. Freakshow.
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Clem you forgot the NBN board. That was a sweet carving device.
Craziest brake I ever saw was clems arm after hitting a tree, gnarly x ray.
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Drex….yeah it was a rossi, travis rice i think. Add that to the llist, and the NBN. I can’t believe i rode that thing. I think they made those boards out of balsa wood, two layer balsa.
January 22nd, 2008 at 8:59 pm
if we can count ancient bindings, i’m up there with s.drex in the items broked category…if it’s only boards, then I have one old lib and one old option. pretty weakstyle.
January 24th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
some of you surfy types might get a kick out of this…. from snowboardseattle.com
i posted this:
peelers =======================================================================
TODAY…E WIND 5 TO 15 KT. WIND WAVES 1 OR 2 FT. W SWELL 4 FT AT 14 SECONDS
Work sucks. Wish i was at L.A. Push today.
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dude named surfwater_surfsnow replied with this:
surfwater_surfsnow ===============================================================
You mean LaPush smart guy, and if you knew anything about surfing you would know that surf report sux.
Yeah let’s go hit some blown out wind waves, with an on shore wind blowing out from the beach? Dude go play in the rip, let nature take its course. Maybe you will post something worth reading for a change instead of always being a dick on the forums.
Now Monday on the other hand, is going to be phenomenal. 15ft swell with a clean and low onshore breeze blowing in at 14 sec intervals. That’s a surf report worth posting.
Wanna go? Tell you what if you can even keep up and surf a wave I will buy you a corn dog Peelers.
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January 25th, 2008 at 12:34 am
haha…pure genius. I wish i could go on Monday to watch him rip up la push on a fifteen foot swell. I’ve been down in Portland all week w/o my surfboard. Big mistake, it looked really good the last couple days.
January 25th, 2008 at 4:41 am
yeah… i offered to drive him to lapush, pay gas, and ferry and bet him one thousand dollars he couldn’t even make it through the whitewater on 15ft swell.
dude said he didn’t want to take my money. i’m glad you found humor and that as well clem. i think i like the part about the nice onshore breeze blowing in at 14 seconds the best.
January 25th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
holy shizzle…what a fool. i’d like to see that ass paddle out in 8ft L.A.Push. that’s tough enough.
January 25th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
you ain’t lying. i pretty much suck at surfing but.. .jebus at least i can read a report.
January 26th, 2008 at 3:00 am
jebus? i dont even believe in jebus.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Really! Cool list of your snowboard list. You better take good care of your things and also take good care of your self dude..LOL
-Macky Bugay