Like someone already pointed to, check out the T-Rice. I have the new one with the c2 banana which might make a difference. It’s been tearing up the sketchy early season conditions in CO. Better than any other board I've used on ice.

i ride in wisconsin and there are some pretty icey slopes and itdoes fine

the skate banana can handle all mountain riding but its more of a park board, if you are looking for all mountain performance look at the Lib Tech Travis Rice

it has magnetraction, so you will get a good bit of bite into icy slopes. on high-speed groomers, i think handles decently, but only because i sized down (156 vs a 159 or so normally). you could always size the same as your cambered board - my guess is that it would ride fine. chris jones is correct, though, traditional camber is better for groomers.

Its not the best for icy groomers for sure. A traditional cambered board is the best for that junk. But you will love it in the pow, its all about the quiver man, you need a bunch of boards.

I have a TRS with mtx and when riding flat i get no pull, it feels just like standard edges, but the magne traction feels amazing when its an icy day.

well 152 will be great to jib but 156 would be good for powder..

if youre not riding powder all the time id say 152. hope this helps

i ride last yrs skate banana, actally just got it and im obssessed with rails, butters mostly urban shit in detroit and id say go with the 152!

its just the board breaking in i have a two year old burton custom that still cracks if you do a hard tail block

My 09/10 Lib Skate Banana does the same thing, even when I flex the tail. At first I was scared s**tless, but I'm glad to hear that everybody's is doing it. I was definately not putting too much pressure on it if its built to handle my 170lb chubby ass butters and presses. Hope that helps.

yes its called breaking it in half.....

That's normal for lib tech boards. They do that when they are new. You are good.

whats up, im 6ft. amd ive been riding for 9 yrs and ive ridin a lot of boards and sometimes depending on on flexible and durable the boards are i usually pick what size. i can ride between a 152-158 comfortably on rails and i would say that bananas have good cambering, so i would say 155-158

Hey,

I've ridden and owned the Skate Banana and other BTX boards from Lib and Gnu (love them), and the first thing anyone will tell is that you can size down 3cm. In my personal opinion I would get a rocker board in the same length you'd get a cambered board. The feature on a snowboard which makes it ride bigger is a longer effective edge no matter what the camber. A rocker/reverse camber board will float more, but it doesn't make your edge longer. Control in-between your feet? Definitely, Does it facilitate the need to get a smaller board? Not so much. Just my opinion, hope this helped.

yeah homey go with the 152 for sure. i defidently wouldnt go any smaller. im 157 and 5'8 and own a 156 nana' which is perfect.

considering you don't even know what size of a board you should rock out on, I'd save your dough and buy something a little less expensive, this board is tight but it won't make you an allstar and you can get the same fun out of something a lot cheaper, sorry to burst your bubble bro,
but you could rock out on '52 if you really want the bananer.

yo billy...For park riding size down and for pow size up...im going to assume you've never bought a board before...your 5/4 so i think the smallest size that they offer....also you might want to take a quick look at the sizing chart DF offers

I would get a 151 or 152. The reason being is that if your not purely into park riding, meaning you wanna go all mountain, your going to need a bigger board. The only problem is your weight vs boot size. You got a very big foot for your weight. I have the same problem. Im 5 6 120 and have size 11 boot. I ride a 150 and it fits me just fine. I ride the park pickle though. These boards are very similar. I would go with that for now. You should grow into it but 1 or 2 cm wont affect you greatly

I'm going to be all over the mountain but
mostly the park

what kind of riding do you plan on doing

Kayla, I have a size 9 Burton boot and just threw my binders on this board (156 standard width) the other day. It seems that there are gonna be NO problems with drag for me, and I assume your BF will be the same. Also, since board length is alot about preference and riding style as well as physical size and weight I would try to sneak a peek at his current board to see how long you want to get it (the size is often printed somewhere on the board top and will probably just be a number between 150-160). If everything goes wrong and he gets mad at you for getting him the wrong size and you live in the Salt Lake area then dump him and give me a call. A girl who gets me a new snowboard for my birthday couldnt get me the wrong size if they tried.

get the regular...if you get the narrow...your probably going to get toe drag with a 9.5 boot

How tall is he?

I have that same size foot and ride this board in the regular width in a 156cm which has a 255mm waist width on it. So he will be just fine on the regular width board.

i'm also 150 lbs and i rode the nana 152 last 2 years. take the 52 - rode it with the widest stance in pow. stiff enough for your weight to go on speed, and so much fun..

I would say youre good with a 156. If you look at recommended boards for the weight class LIB suggests a massive board. Im a little on the heavy side myself, 6 foot tall and 190 pounds, and my 156 is PERFECT. It has a little more flex than the smaller sizes which makes up for the weight. Your size 8 feet would get lost on the large boards.

The banana is the ATV of snowboards. Any terrain, any surface, it kills it. Groomers, even when its icy get destroyed by the magnetraction, and in pow, the banana butters straight through. I dumped my burton custom for a banana, and never been happier. Its a pretty flexible board, so if you are looking at tougher hardcore terrain, you should check out some stiffer boards, but generally, the skate banana works no matter where you shred.

get some unions probably either force or contact great bindings

Hey MJP...
I've ridden the banana at Jackson Hole on a good day and had a great time, but if you are planning on spending most of your time doing big mountain freeriding, I would suggest something a little stiffer.
The TRS and Travis Rice models excel in those areas and may be what you are looking for.
As for the Bindings, the Bent Metals are comfy, solid bindings that will provide you with the stiffness you need. Union has some killer bindings on the market designed for Banana and rocker boards that are worth checking out as well.
Let it snow!!

Mark,
Go for the 56 Wide!
the 52, while fun, you would probably break due to your weight, especially if you're getting nasty on some park features.
Having banana, the boards initiate turns much faster, so having a wide is no prob. I have a size 8.5 boot and prefer the mid-wides like the Travis Rice and the GNU Street Series.

my brother is 87 kg's and 6' 1 with a size 11 1/2 boots. I bought him this board for deep pow and easy park riding. I hooked him up with the 156 W. The Wide will work well with the boots and help you avoid drag and give you more options for stances, and the 156 is about as short as you can push it. Maybe throw on some burton custom L bindings on it.

i weigh 180 at 5'11" and i have size 12 feet also. I say if you duck out your bindings just enough you will be fine on toe drag. I would recommend to you a 153,154 forum destroyer

I'd say go for the 152 to 154 GNU Street series. It's a mid wide, mega fun deck!(25 to 25.4 waist) It'll be a little softer for the jibbing and your weight spec's.
It's also priced right!

definitely get a wider (265mm waist width) board so you don't have toe drag; that 156 wide skate banana would be sweet and last you a while if you take care of it. you could also try something like the MC Kink snowboard or the Burton Fix, Blunt, or Dominant. as for cheap bindings, well, with bindings you usually get what you pay for, but i've been impressed with flux bindings for the price.

09-10 Board. I got mine and it was the same but the bottom was inverted colors (yellow with the writing "Skate Banana" in black)

that is the 09-10 season board , just got it in the mail

e-bay boards will not be warrantied by the MFG. Get them from a reliable source.

hey luca,
i've listed a skate banana 152 on ebay. i'm from germany an can send it to you for a fair price..
cheers.

Get on live chat for that one lady.

im 6'2 200lbs with a size 12 foot and i ride the 159 any where and every where with no problems. park trees ive been in 2 feet of fresh and killed it.

You'll need the wide board to get those boots in there without overhang.... plus I think the 156 is a good size for a dude of your height if you wanna focus more on park!
Ch!

The Banana narrows were designed with girls in mind, but not specific to them. Lib tech does not make gender specific boards. See the good wood results for the TRS in the past.

you could also chech out gnu or roxy they are made by mervin just like the lib tech and alot of those have the reverse camber and magna traction

btx is just a rocker. plenty of other companies are now branching out into the rocker scene.

for a good girls board also check out the new capita lineup along with roxy

just because its marketed as a 'guys' board doesn't mean that you shouldn't look into one, besides, if anybody comments on you about that and disregards you for it, then their probably some gaper who doesn't know what he/she/it is talking about. And hopefully you might have the cajones to top them out on the mountain...

unless your looking for a really girly design it really doesnt matter if you get a guys board or girls. my mom rides a t6 and thats not exactly a girls board. that board should work pretty well

so lib tech doesnt make any girls boards but gnu and roxy boards are made by mervin too so theyll have the same banana tech in smaller sizes if thats what youre looking for

If you want bindings that go with the board, Mervin makes bindings called BENT METAL BINDER MACHINE that are coloured the same way as the lib tech boards. Their website isnt updated with a lot of the styles, but for example, you can get the bindings with the same toxic green pattern as you see on this years banana. They are a little rugged looking, but so far Mervin has earned themselves a good name making some of the best boards, so why not bindings.

http://bentmetal.com/

cartel's are a popular demand, those seem to do the most performance damage on any board

i use the salomon relay xlt bindings and love the hell out of them and i ride both park and pow

burton cartel bindings, best binding around just enough stiffness but not too much or too little perfect for what this board was made to do!!

well the tricky part is knowing what they ride more of... if they ride park then maybe the ride alpha or beta mvmt... thats what i ride on my banana... if they love the pow i hear that the burton c60's are pretty good... but ever since the companies started trying to cut cost they started cutting back on materials for bindings so I really dont know how reliable burton bindings may be... also you might want to check out the ride contraband... its new... its fresh... and it looks pretty sweeeettt.... good luck

It's not good.

with the banana tech they say you can rock it a size smaller but if your riding pow then i would stick with your normal size... trust me the banana technology in any size will let your rip through pow