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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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