http://www.shayboarder.com The World of Snowboarding Through Fembot Eyes Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:56:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.shayboarder.com/2011/09/shays-take-on-the-2012-good-wood.html http://www.shayboarder.com/2011/09/shays-take-on-the-2012-good-wood.html#comments Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:08:42 +0000 Shay http://www.shayboarder.com/?p=17805 In the grand scheme of snowboard tests, the Transworld Snowboarding Good Wood test is the longest running and the most well known test that defines a list of boards to consider each season.  I’ve tagged along with the Good Wood Test a couple times to see how they test each snowboard and got to see [...]]]> http://www.shayboarder.com/2011/09/shays-take-on-the-2012-good-wood.html/feed 21 http://www.shayboarder.com/2009/06/industry-profile-park-city-snowboard-team-coach-reid-persing.html http://www.shayboarder.com/2009/06/industry-profile-park-city-snowboard-team-coach-reid-persing.html#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:00:00 +0000 Shay http://shayboarder.plan81.com/2009/06/industry-profile-park-city-snowboard-team-coach-reid-persing.html Shay: So tell us about yourself? Reid: I’m 26. I grew up on the East coast with some pretty cool parents who used our local hill as a babysitter when I was a kid. I moved to Colorado in 2001 to go to college at the University of Colorado and met some amazing people who [...]]]> http://www.shayboarder.com/2009/06/industry-profile-park-city-snowboard-team-coach-reid-persing.html/feed 4 http://www.shayboarder.com/2009/04/behind-transworld-good-wood-test.html http://www.shayboarder.com/2009/04/behind-transworld-good-wood-test.html#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:01:00 +0000 Shay http://shayboarder.plan81.com/2009/04/behind-the-transworld-good-wood-test.html For the past 11 years, the Transworld Good Wood Test has set the standard for snowboarding board tests, consistently offering riders a glimpse into popular boards for the next season. While no test is perfect, the Good Wood has worked each year to dial it in and make improvements to the testing format. There have [...]]]> http://www.shayboarder.com/2009/04/behind-transworld-good-wood-test.html/feed 13 http://www.shayboarder.com/2008/09/shays-take-on-09-good-wood.html http://www.shayboarder.com/2008/09/shays-take-on-09-good-wood.html#comments Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:56:00 +0000 Shay http://shayboarder.plan81.com/2008/09/shays-take-on-the-09-good-wood.html So when I started hearing some of the winners back in May when the companies found out, I wasn’t surprised by the results. Usually there’s a couple boards in the Good Wood List that I’m surprised by, like how the hell did that board make it to the top of the lists? I don’t always [...]]]> http://www.shayboarder.com/2008/09/shays-take-on-09-good-wood.html/feed 6 http://www.shayboarder.com/2008/05/2008-2009-futuregood-wood-snowboard.html http://www.shayboarder.com/2008/05/2008-2009-futuregood-wood-snowboard.html#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 17:26:00 +0000 Shay http://shayboarder.plan81.com/2008/05/2008-2009-tws-good-woodfuture-snowboarding-boards-tests.html Each year two snowboard tests come out from respective magazines, Future Snowboarding and Transworld Snowboarding Magazine. These board tests are talked about and people do listen to them. I say with any board test or review, remember the people riding these boards are not you…you might interpret boards differently than a pro rider or test [...]]]> http://www.shayboarder.com/2008/05/2008-2009-futuregood-wood-snowboard.html/feed 7