 the liptek box knife snowboard review. Hey what's up guys it's josh here today i want to do a little review on the liptek box knife. This model is a few years old but i think as far as i know liptek has not changed one thing that they do on this board so if you get this board in the future it will probably be the exact same construction and built the same way as this board so although it is an older model it is still a relevant review. This board was pretty much like the first board i really really fell in love with. When i first got into snowboarding we live here in southern california like we only get maybe up until late march or april to snowboard and i remember that i bought one board at the beginning of the season i bought one board in the middle of the season and i bought this board near the end of the season i went a bunch of times with it i even wrote it a lot next season too so it's got a few different things that make it unique and really just give it a unique ride that kind of was on a liptek kind of craze in the beginning and this in my opinion is probably the best liptek park board for a few reasons liptek and ganu are the same company so they have a lot a lot of the same tech that banana c2 and c3 ganu has it and lip has it so they both end up doing it all of them have magnet traction all the board so those two things kind of give it a unique feel but on top of that this board has pretty much a unique feel that you're not going to get from any other liptek board or any other ganu board for that reason so i'm about 200 pounds and i'm about six foot three and ended up getting the 154 i kind of was on a craze of getting short boards tiny boards for park just so they're you know maneuverable and not heavy and all that kind of stuff this board i probably would have gotten in a 157 if i could redo it for a few reasons i think naturally if i would have put in my stats i should be riding a 159 or maybe a 161 but i actually started off with a 161 wide and absolutely hated it and then i went to a 158 swiss knife when swiss knife is kind of overkill so i was like looking for something smaller but after riding this board a lot i think a 157 would be really great because this board rides very small it's got a little bit of a thinner waist width versus the usual board so if i were to go to a 157 it would probably be 0.1 centimeter wider so that's almost like nothing because it would be a 57 it would probably be three centimeters longer so that's almost nothing the things that make this board unique there's actually quite a bit i was going over the c3 and the magnet traction earlier but basically every board from libtek has at least some rocker i prefer camber so c3 is the closest thing they have to camber but there is a little bit of a rocker probably can't see it but there's a tiny little bit of a rocker in the cambered section so going back from full camber back onto the libtek you could really feel that c3 it's way less catchy it does spin a lot faster you know under the foot and then also the magnet traction is like really really grippy you're really just not going to catch much of an edge because of that c3 it just swivels so easy and then the magnet traction it just grips so easy but the thing about this board that makes it unique to almost any other board and any other libtek board and any other canoe board is the tiny tiny contact length i don't think i've ever seen a board with this small the contact point number one it's a lot easier to butter so it's almost like a cam rocker this part the initial curve initiates a lot sooner so a lot of times with camber boards the very very tips right here can be catchy so you're going to get literally almost no catch because this board doesn't really go out far at all it's a very very short riding board and that's again why i could probably get a 157 because the 157 will have a tiny tiny contact length same as this i mean way smaller than any other board like i don't think i've seen any board anywhere near as close as low of a contact length as this box knife it makes it really really a fun board to use because you could butter it so easy the short contact length is going to give it more nose and more nose is better for powdery conditions so usually camber isn't is kind of like i would say the worst for powder but because of the c3 makes it better for powder and then also the early rise makes it very good for powder as well so it's just a really really unique board that does a lot of things so the pros is that it's extremely easy to move around for a camber board camber basically means aggressive and quick in my opinion but the problem is that it could be catchy you're not going to catch at all with this and then also with the c3 you could swivel the board at really really low speeds and not get catchy and you have a really full camber board you need a little bit of speed to throw it around you don't really have that problem with this one so it's extremely easy to move around and that's probably why i wanted a size bigger personally because it's going to be just as easy probably to throw around and i'll have a little bit more width and a little more stability the contact length means no edge catch it's going to be better for powder and it's going to be way easier to butter and maneuver around so that's really what makes this board unique the last pro of this is that it has a centered base i actually have some negative things to say about liptek when it comes to the base i'll save that for the cons but liptek makes a tnt base and they make a centered base and centered bases are much faster normally much faster usually more expensive boards all of them are going to have a centered base sometimes liptek's will have a more expensive board with a tnt base which is technically the worst base so this board is actually very affordable and very cheap i think it's the cheapest board option that they offer at five hundred dollars it has liptek has three different kinds of construction except for the climax they have three this is the cheapest one so this kind of threw me off when i was buying it you know it's like i don't know if i want to buy the cheapest one but it does have the faster centered base which basically means it holds more wax so you're gonna have to kind of take care of it more but when you do wax it will be faster that's kind of like the pros of this board does a lot of stuff a lot of unique stuff but the main thing is that contact length giving it a very very unique feel and for me i would almost go right down the middle with a sizing on this one not too big and not too small that's just me personally the first con and it's weird that i was just saying that the centered base was so good the first con is that it does not have a race base now i don't know how much you have tried you know bases personally but i have two boards that are closer to a race base and let me tell you one thing it is night and day to be honest with a liptek boards if you have enough snow you could get going as fast as as you need to go a hundred percent but if you're in the slow part or you're going up to a feature and you might not have enough speed the race base is unbelievable it's probably 10 to 15 percent faster and there was times where i actually fell down on this because i was lining up my board expecting to get speed but i was getting like little to no speed you know what i mean you will get speed if you like let yourself go down the hill but like if you just like start sliding for a little bit you get so so little speed with this i don't really want to say it's too much of a negative because like i said if you have enough snow you'll be fine it was it was unbelievable how little i could do and i also we we go to mountain high mountain high is a very very small mountain so there's this little spot on the left near the end where the slopes actually really easy you could practice like switch and butters on it so i was over there trying to switch and butters and i was noticing that like i would have to ride a lot of the snow to get the speed to be able to maneuver around versus when i had the race base i mean you just get going and you're fine if you start moving you're just you're going so quick that you can start maneuvering real quick and also too when i was hitting features i'm used to how much speed i'm getting from a race base so when i had to go over this it was like i had to redo the speed on all the features because this board is so so much slower but i don't want to say it's really this board's fault it's more of like liptek and mervin i love race base i have it on the nitro beast i have it on the capita simulator i don't know if that's a full race base but it is so so fast compared to this so that's really the main con then the other con is that it has that small contact length and so it's going to be a tiny bit less stable but i mean really tiny overall this board is probably one of the best blends of camber to maneuverability that you could have i mean it's really just like easy mode especially with the libs and like when i hopped from my nitro beast over to my libboards with the c3 it felt just like easy mode it didn't even feel like camber you still have most of the aggressive but it's really really easy so the two cons is that it has a non-race base it's not as stable but it's really really stable at the same time it's just not as stable as it would be if it was a little bit longer had to put that in the cons but it's really like nothing this was the first board that i fell in love with and then i switched over to the simulator a little bit later again the main thing that sold me on the simulator was how much faster the base was i could start at the same feature the same length up on the snow i'll put to a feature and you know with the simulator i'd have plenty of speed with this i would need to go even farther back to who i recommend this for i would recommend this board for absolutely anybody i mean technically you see camber and c3 is the most aggressive they say like not for beginners more for advanced but this board is just so easy to use i would really recommend this for any style of rider the only style of rider i would not recommend this for is if you're somebody who just wants to go fast and you don't want to do anything else but go fast maybe you'd find you'd want something else although this board is probably a little bit closer to the aggressive side it's a little bit closer to the faster side this board is just meant to maneuver around to butter to have a lot of fun on and um yeah i just would recommend this to absolutely anybody i wish this was the first leptake board that i bought and again i would go with your your recommended weight or a tiny bit lower for this one and it's going to ride like a small board even if you got like like let's say you got the 161 it's still going to ride like a small board because the contact length is so so short and then also to my last thing what i rode this with my i wore this with my thraxis boots and size 11 that were recommended to me by the angry snowboard the angry snowboard also recommended this board and it is a one and then i rode this also mainly with my union foul course i did try out the bet metal logics on this one more recently but i actually tried this board out two or three days ago and i went back to the foul core so my setup for this one was foul cores thraxis and this is a 154 i'm 6 foot 3 200 pounds so again i would have won the 157 for this board personally so anyways guys long video let me know what you think of the leptake box knife let me know what snowboard you got what let me know what snowboard is your favorite most fun board i'll be very interested to see down below this board really blew my mind and this was my first board that i absolutely just loved under all circumstances gotta give it props but anyways guys we're on the road of 25 000 subscribers and i couldn't do it any of you guys hope you guys are the best i'm having a great day out here hopefully i'm gonna great day at home see you all in the next video peace