{"id":3225,"date":"2008-12-15T08:53:34","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T16:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3225"},"modified":"2008-12-15T08:53:38","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T16:53:38","slug":"boardistan-disses-this-whip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3225","title":{"rendered":"Boardistan Disses This Whip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/10570-15120842334.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/10570-15120842334.jpg','popup','width=640,height=425,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/10570-15120842334-tm.jpg\" height=\"285\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"10570 15120842334\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We thought misguided design engineers would <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3154\" target=\"_blank\">stick to skateboarding<\/a><\/strong>, but snowboarding isn&#8217;t so lucky this year. This monstrosity, <strong>The Whip<\/strong>, is reportedly from a company called <strong>Cheeta Ultra Sports<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Whip promises improvements in pretty much every element of snowboard riding including a better fit, a faster, more stable and smoother ride, superior edge holding and sensitivity, plus higher jumps, softer landings and quicker turns. The only caveat &#8211; its not designed for deep powder.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You&#8217;d think that before designing a new product these designers would actually ride a snowboard at least once. Then they&#8217;d know that anything that increases the distance from the foot to the board is almost always bad. But it appears they didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/the-whip-promises-a-revolution-in-snowboard-design\/10570\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gizmag<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We thought misguided design engineers would stick to skateboarding, but snowboarding isn&#8217;t so lucky this year. This monstrosity, The Whip, is reportedly from a company called Cheeta Ultra Sports. The Whip promises improvements in pretty much every element of snowboard riding including a better fit, a faster, more stable and smoother ride, superior edge holding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3226,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions\/3226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}