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		<title>Shay&#8217;s Take on the 2012 Platinum Picks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Each year the snowboard magazines decide their top snowboard choices by designing boards tests built around various methodologies.   Snowboard Magazine  has their Platinum Pick describes as the &#8220;best of the best.  Here you find out our choices for best jib boards, best powder boards and just plain best things&#8230;&#8221; Despite discussing methodology in previous Platinum Pick tests, Snowboard Magazine decided to go without explaining methodology in this round of winners.  The methodology they give you is, &#8220;we put dozens of boards under heavy scrutiny.&#8221;  To me, this isn&#8217;t much info on the testers, how many boards/brands were involved or the locations/conditions to even know if the results are actual results.  The test ignores women&#8217;s boards completely and you have to read through a long paragraph on each board to decipher what it&#8217;s good for.  The test speaks of the different best of boards (jib, powder, etc) but never clarifies which.  I was really frustrated to see Snowboard Magazine not only lose traction with the test and rather than make improvements, they ended up backwards. Of the ten winning boards, I&#8217;ve ridden six of them (some in previous years).  When I compare the results to last year&#8217;s test 8 out [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Shay&#8217;s take on the 2011 Platinum Pick</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve gone through the Good Wood and the Best Of which means it&#8217;s onto the final test brought to you by Snowboard Magazine with their annual Platinum Pick.  The Platinum Pick test took three of Snowboard Magazine&#8217;s editors as the testers (1 female Tawyna Schultz and 2 males, Nate Deschenes and Chris Owen) who ride different terrain to judge the boards to find winners.  The result is the best of the best according to Snowboard Mag. The Platinum Pick methology is unclear in the article so you don&#8217;t know how many boards were brought to the table or what the conditions are. I did find it funny that when I read the article they mention 15 boards but only 14 winners were listed so not sure what happened there or if i&#8217;m missing something.  You have a better understanding of who the testers than previous years but no preferences/stats/info about them.  The addition of women&#8217;s boards in the test is two thumbs up in my book, excited to see Tawyna test and take the lead on bringing out women&#8217;s boards into the limelight. [singlepic id=6296 w=227 h=205 float=] I&#8217;ve ridden 6 of the 14 boards so far and would definitely [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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