GNU · Finest
Finest
25/26 season
Colour
Color makeup
Multicolour
Design
Illustration
Expert reviews 1
A soft park/jib-specialised board with a C2X hybrid camber profile, delivering excellent performance in buttering and rail jibbing. Damping is excellent for such a soft flex and carving is better than expected, but the speed limit on stability and its hooky character work against it. It's a board suited to intermediate freestyle riders who enjoy creative riding and small park features.
Base shape (camber)
Hybrid rocker
GNU's C2X camber profile: a hybrid construction with a short reverse camber (rocker) between the feet and longer camber zones under the front and back feet. It provides underfoot stability while making spins and micro-adjustments easy and improving float performance.
StiffnessHigher means stiffer
A flex softer than medium, closer in feel to a jib board, but with appropriate snap that returns energy during nose and tail presses. It isn't like a wet noodle, and the long camber zone underfoot makes pop possible even base-flat.
Where it shines
Who it suits
A soft flex and easy nose and tail presses suit intermediates enjoying park jibbing and buttering. Limits in high-speed stability make it insufficient for advanced riders, and its hooking character makes it hard to recommend to complete beginners either.
Good
- ✓Easy nose and tail presses optimised for jibbing and buttering — the nose comes up easily with almost no effort
- ✓Very good damping for such a soft flex, keeping it relatively stable even at speed
- ✓The asymmetric construction and Magnetraction deliver better carving performance than expected
- ✓It has snap, providing sufficient pop and landing stability even on small jumps
Not so good
- —A feeling of the nose and tail flapping at speed means there's a speed limit
- —The edges feel somewhat hooky, which can be awkward approaching rails and carving (solvable by detuning)
- —The asymmetric construction creates a difference in heelside and toeside edge feel, which can bother some riders
- —Not suited to medium-to-large jumps or high-speed carving, limiting its use to park and freestyle
