Jamie Lynn On Banana Tech
“I was riding a ‘56 Banana following Temple into The Rascal at Baker, I rode the ‘56 one day, executed a line down that was super smooth, had control in and out of the sketchy sections, dropped the cliff, the nose stayed up, you know, didn’t drop the nose and go over the bars, I was able to float on top of these little pillows on this like 15-20 foot drop. It was insane. Went back there the next day on a 160, trying to do the same thing. On a conventional 160. And just sketch, sketch getting into it, the thing was too big, too heavy, went off onto the pillow, nose so heavy, it brought my nose down, so the trajectory off the pillow was totally nose down and like ready to eat shit. And pretty much floundered my way down the run that just skipped down, like I was, you know... whatever on this board (Banana ‘56) just the day earlier, pretty much the same conditions.
So that incident made me a little bit more of a believer. And then I was able to get a 159 [banana], it wasn’t my board, but it was just a ‘59 with my graphics, a little bit stiffer, Pos had made for me, and I’ve been riding it ever since. Rode it over in Japan, like I rode it in the park over in Japan with Tyler Flannagen and Zach Stone. And it worked killer. Killer off table tops, rails, whatever. Good overall board and then I thought, if it’s this good in this kind of conditions, fuck, I wonder how it’s gonna be like in powder like at Baldface. And I went up to Baldface and fuckin’ had no problem... like the deeper the snow, the better it turns. I was able to do things and put that board into some situations and ride in ways, that I’ve never ridden any other board before. And it got the attention, not only of the guides up there, that see a bunch of different boards come through, and they were all kind of riding like Mullets, either Mullets or fish, Burton fish. So they were really into that back powder stand, full nose type of fish/mullet design.
And there I was like on a conventional twin tip, you know, board, but just it was fuckin Banana, doing the same fuckin thing. You know, as good or better than these guys that had like fuckin 3 inches of tail and like 15 inches of nose... So I was able to freestyle it, you know, because I had a full board to work with. And they were trippin on that. It was so much fun. You can do so much shit, you can jam tight little turns on a cat track and then just go up and hook into the biggest like off the lip type turn on the cat track, so fun. So, yea, I’ve been loving my banana. [laughs]. [...]”
~Jamie Lynn
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