This just baffles me (Board Core Material)
 

Why on earth arent more board companies switching to Bamboo cores in stead of the more expensive, more brittle poplar?

The reason i ask is because i just came across these





I can say for sure that this will be my next park board.

Because Bamboo has to be done right otherwise you crush it.

Seems like it would be worth it to invest the time/money to figure out how to do it right. Unless companies just dont care because they want kids to buy a new board every year, which also makes a lot of sense.

Bamboo has a different feel to it and Id suggest you demo one before you plop 500 on a fastplant ... I loved they way it flexed/ollied but BA did not...

how does it feel different? ill try to demo one next season if they have them

my buddy just picked one up, felt sort of clunky and dead compared to my turbo dream. the pop was there but it just didn't feel very lively. i don't know, it felt like riding a piece of wood without much more technology than that... hard to explain, i would definitely demo one before buying.

Two words Organic Flex

organic flex sounds like it would be a good thing. I guess ill just have to try it out for myself.

It's different strokes for different folks it doesn't have the snap you'd think it will have which is why I'm riding a Raygun over a Fastplant.

I guess Arbor did it right with respect to using Bamboo. Instead of making the full core bamboo like the fastplant, they still use a wood core but use bamboo as a replacement to carbon stringers. That is if I understand their explanation of their boards correctly