zeekman

C2 POWER BANANA Wins Innovation of the Year Award! - Action Sports - ESPN

basically wat never summer has + btx???

MunkySpunk

Closer to say it's what NS has.

zeekman

soo lib gets an award for wat neversummer has had?

killclimbz

Typical. It would be interesting to see if Neversummer has put in a patent for their design...

Method

Wouldn't really matter, even with patents they can be copied after a certain amount of time. This is the wonderful anti-monopoly rule.

MunkySpunk

I was talkign to the NS rep about this (very briefly) at the NS Demo day this year. Apparently all you really need to do is change an angle or a radius just a twitch and it's fair game.

As for why Lib Tech got the award and NS didn't.... beats me.

danmyersmn

It's actually the Canadians' fault. I read it somewhere. Honest.

arsenic0

Because Mervin has better marketing, NS is still a relatively small company.
I give them 3 years and everyone will look at Mervin like they do Burton now...they already are the "Burton" of park boards..every rat out there has a 'nana...

It is pretty shitty that they gave Innovation of the year away to a copied design, it would be nice for the smaller guys to get prop's once in awhile.
Either way, NS has proven themselves to me with my SL-R so ill do what I can to continue to support them and buy their products...

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BurtonAvenger

That's what the article states.

It's patented.

Correct hell just change the terminology and you can patent it.

Lets put it this way if Quiksilver hadn't paid off Mervins debt they'd be gone.

So basically this is what I was told from the owners of NS. Mike Olson came over to NS at SIA and said good job on what you're doing. He then went on to even say that he wanted to do Banana C2 for the last few years but the other designers kept saying no it won't work it won't do this blah blah blah blah. Then NS launched the R.C technology and slayed Banana's. That was when the other designers finally decided to go along with what he was saying.

Now the people that awarded the award are fucking stupid ass skiers that have no clue about anything in the snowboard world.

As far as better marketing perhaps, but NS will have their spin in ads for next year and getting their just desserts. The thing that's going to bite Mervin in the ass is how much marketing they put into traditional Banana technology and how everything else is crap. They pigeon holed themselves and now they're tripping over what they've previously said. It doesn't look good when you take a rider of T. Rice's stature and he's basically saying C2 is just way better it's what I ride, when he only had a banana board.

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arsenic0

When you say that i cant help but think of Bataleon. I know TBT is the shit, but they have so much extreme marketing about how TBT is the best thing since edges on a snowboard that if they or someone else comes up with a better version of it they look like idiots.

Mervin is already on the offensive though so they dont look like idiots..they will probably call it the "Next Evolution" of Banana tech..even though its nothing like it..

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