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NAS lib-tech i love it!

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SMOOVE
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Is anyone psyched on the Lib-tech shit for next year?
IM Gon git me a pair or three.
Magna traction is how everything should be built!
Fo rilla!
Aug 1 2006 10:29PM
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leninlover
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i love how the lib tech skis are wavy
Aug 1 2006 10:37PM
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Ryno
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Apperently they skied like shit.
Aug 1 2006 10:46PM
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R.Fahey
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this thread makes me wanna kill myself.
Aug 1 2006 11:20PM
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FigmentFilmski
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what has the ski world come to
Aug 1 2006 11:23PM
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TWoods
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From what I have heard, the snowboards rode like shit. the only people who liked them were intermediate snowboarders, anyone good thought it was crap.

I have heard the same about the skis.
Aug 2 2006 1:22AM
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CooksCorner
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Thier graphics are amazing though.
Aug 2 2006 4:54AM
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Travapple.
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what exactly is a narrow ass snowboard?

Aug 2 2006 8:08AM
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iskindiana
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im not riding anything from a company who cant even make a straight line... come on lib tech, haven't u heard of rulers/straight edges?
Aug 2 2006 8:16AM
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CorkWormTurn
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http://www.lib-tech.com/rippers/travisRice/travisRice.html

i'm no snowboarding expert, but isn't this travice rice guy kinda good at it?
Aug 2 2006 8:26AM
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Charley.
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^^ BURN!!!!111
Aug 2 2006 9:03AM
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naftel
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naw they make good big mountain boards- boards longer than 160cm- sizes other companies won;t even touch. lots of people in the west have em.
Aug 2 2006 9:27AM
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doubleplanks16
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my friend has a lib tech with magni traction and he fucking loves it....ive seen him rip thru some nasty shit with it to
Aug 2 2006 9:29AM
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naftel
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yeah i just watched the travis rice vid from libtechs site- and he's fuckin sick.
Aug 2 2006 10:02AM
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dweezileast
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ive heard the magnetraction is good, but the skis feel like they are dead
Aug 2 2006 10:58AM
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negativenelly
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You summned it up perfectly.

Lib Tech is a great snowboard company but when they try to squeeze their way into skiing after bagging on it for so many years and then top it off by trying to call it a "snowboard" - i think it's pretty shitty.
Aug 2 2006 10:59AM
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bret
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if you have questions about how they ride, you can PM skimack.  He domoed a lot of companies' '07 skis in Mammoth this year, including lib-tech.  I think he said something about the geometry being really weird on them, and that the magne-traction made them very prone to randomly hooking into a turn when you wanted to go straight or slide.




Aug 2 2006 11:53AM
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asfffffffffdd
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not true, i rode them, and i don't like them that much for park, but they're sick for bigmountain, and steep lines with sketchy snow, cuz they can hold an edge on anything
Aug 2 2006 12:26PM
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bailer
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IT’S A JOKE PEOPLE, CALM YOURSELVES. THEY ARE NOT TRYING TO HATE ON SKIING OR BE ALL STEALTH ABOUT THINGS AND HOPE SNOWBOARDERS DONT NOTICE THAT THEY ARNT SNOWBOARDS, THEY ARE MAKING A JOKE. WOULD ANYONE REALY BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE SMALL SNOWBOARDS? NO THEY WOULDNT, SO IT’S A JOKE. Skiers need to lighten up a little, fuck.
Aug 2 2006 2:08PM
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timmi
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i agree its probably a joke, but then why cant i find them on the website?

Aug 2 2006 2:21PM
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MLB
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yeah....and two years ago he was on Rossignol snowboards........they don't give a shit about the gear, they give a shit about they paycheck.
Aug 2 2006 5:12PM
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mattster
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cause youre a dummy
Aug 2 2006 5:34PM
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CorkWormTurn
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i realize a paycheck is a paycheck, but my point is that if they really did suck, I doubt someone like travis rice would ride them day in day out. Especially him, at this point he could pretty much have any board sponsor he wanted.
Aug 2 2006 5:50PM
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SMOOVE
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OH to the haters.
Magni traction is some ill shit.
Zero edge maintenence, and they grip on cement, seriously, go try it.
MOst of the best snowboarders I know, including myself, think magnatraction is the dopeness. Lib tech is cool. I am cool. and i think i saw mike wilson on some last season. so hes cool too.
take that bitches!
Nov 9 2006 5:51PM
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saskskier
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i dunno, a buddy of mine owns a boardshop and is sponsered by nixon, dragon, technine, and he said they ride amazing. i'm pretty sure he's not intermediate.
Nov 9 2006 6:10PM
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Mex_LineJib^a
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holy shit, i'm gettin a pair then!
Nov 9 2006 6:16PM
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wolfmansbro
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dumbass of year
Nov 9 2006 6:19PM
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timoski
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yea anyone who is offended by this is the type of person who is also offended by borat
Nov 9 2006 6:19PM
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4frntSkier
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is anyone realy serious about buyin them
Nov 9 2006 6:23PM
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P.J.S.
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I am, but I might get some Elizabeths first. I've seen the N.A.S.'s around for $299 a ski. That's $600 a pair and that's about the going rate for a pair of new skis these days. I'm a transplant from the Midwest now skiing on the West coast and I can imagine how well the Magnetraction would work on the bulletproof snow of Minnesota as well as the deep stuff out here in Washington. I'm sure if there is this much interest/curiousity about these skis, Lib Tech will probably be making them for awhile, and maybe in a larger quanitity than they have for the past two years.
Nov 9 2006 6:52PM
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P.J.S.
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Evogear had some for $299 a piece a while back, and I think Porters still has them for $299 and possibly Backcountry.com or one of their other sites. For something like this, it would definitely not be in your best interest to buy at a local shop, with the money you'd save buying both skis online, you could get bindings, and a nice sack of weed.
Nov 9 2006 7:01PM
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MLB
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How about anybody who says zero edge maintenence is on crack. I don't care how many zig zags the skis have, edges are still made out of metal, they still dull out over time, they still need to be kept up if you want to turn.

Now Travis Rice is going to go where the money takes him. Unless he is owns/founded part of the company, well he probably just does not care. If you give me 6 boards a year, i have no input in the product, and you give me little money...well like im going to stay on that company team for long. Now....i think i feel the way most skiers do....call them skis, sell them in pairs. Its ok, the world is not going to end if you call them skis, and we don't like the whole ( narrow ass snowboards joke). I think that snowboard companys have bashed on us enough to not get our money.

Fuck em. I don't give a shit how good their product is, i support skier based/founded companies. Line,Armada,4FRNT, and 9thward have a hard enough getting by. they don't need any competiton from snowboard makers. They get no love from me.
Nov 9 2006 7:07PM
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e.will
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uh, well then your shop is outta your mind.
Nov 9 2006 7:15PM
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saskskier
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the guy i know who has a lib-tech board rounded the edges as much as he could on the lib-tech and tuned the edges of his other board and the lib-tech still held a better edge than the other one.
Nov 9 2006 7:35PM
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Ryanvdonk
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the ting about that is, that he wouldn't have to ride on a magnetraction board, libtech makes other boards, he rides that model by choice.
Nov 9 2006 10:25PM
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Ryanvdonk
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i know his promodel has it, but it's his choice to design hos snowboard that way instead of traditional edges.
Nov 9 2006 10:26PM
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SMOOVE
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hahahahahaah, there was a guy this weekend that had a pair. He looked like he was going buck hunting. good stuff.
Does anyone really tune their edges?
I get skis and detune the shit out of them, not like i use them, not like I want them. then again i live where there is real snow, so... no edges required.
Nov 13 2006 4:12PM
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STACKS
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you won't need three them shits are sick
Nov 13 2006 5:12PM
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wazzucrewskier
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haha, yeah i bet you carve a mean arc on those detuned edges.
Nov 13 2006 6:00PM
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SMOOVE
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fuckin eh son!
you dont need edges, you need leg and core strength.
hit the gym, remove your edges, skiing becomes a heavenly experience.
Nov 13 2006 6:07PM
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wazzucrewskier
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trust me i go to the gym.  i go 4 days a week at least, so i am in very good shape for skiing.  i bet i have an equal if not stronger core, and edges will still make a hell of a difference.  im just saying with detuned edges or this magne traction shit, it seems like it would be a heck of a lot harder to carve.
Nov 13 2006 6:11PM
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SMOOVE
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www.lib-tech.com.
go get some knowledge stupid.

edges are dumb.
I wish they were made of butter.
Nov 13 2006 6:13PM
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skibunnie
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stop saying you don't need edges. why would skis even have them if they werent needed? and what are you gonna do at COP when its sheer ice when you have no edges? you say you don't need to turn, but you still need to manoeuver your way to the jumps and stuff. and you need edges to stop.
Nov 13 2006 6:32PM
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SMOOVE
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puddles, ill just run into you.
have you ever seen me make a turn that didnt "turn" in to a slide?
hehehehe
Nov 13 2006 6:37PM
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skibunnie
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well great. im looking forward to that. maybe you can break my sternum again?

and yes i have seen you carve. dont lie.
Nov 13 2006 6:41PM
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SMOOVE
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i was just skiing soooooooooooo fast it looked like I was not going in a straight line. I had the speed wobbles.
no carving allowed.
and youre sternum breaking was your own fault.
dont want a broken chest, dont have 200 pounds of love fall on you.
ps how could you be broken with those airbags?
hahahaha
Nov 13 2006 6:42PM
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skibunnie
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you fell on me on purpose! i try to drag you down with me but when has it ever worked? don't worry though, i survived.

and umm there is no air there. you know that.
Nov 13 2006 6:46PM
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SMOOVE
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drag me down?
i lost.
it was your fault dood brah!
Nov 13 2006 6:50PM
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