A new snowboard review has been posted on the site by db.

SNOWBOARD:
Dupraz: D1

The review can be found here:

http://www.snowjapan.com/e/gear-reviews/snowboard-review-004-dupraz.html

Discuss it here...

Great review Spud, D1 looks realy tempting.
Did you get the 164 that you were talking about?

Interesting looking board that, db, never seen that before.

I have a 164 on order, they are yet to ship. Will be a very interesting board, possibly even a dud.

I realy look forward to read your review on that.

Me too. Good reviews folks, looking forward to reading more.

Nice stick and very nice review Spud. Can't go wrong with a Dupraz.

I am waiting for the first dough boy review in this section.

I'm keeping an open mind for the 164 deck. The length is such a reduction from the D1 winning formula that I can't really see it as being the same board, just shorter. I think it will be a unique board in its own right. It may also be not so great as I am guessing that it will not have the testing and development history that the 6 foot model has had. I am in two minds: if you don't want a 6 foot D1, then buy another style of board, don't just scale it down. There are plenty of good powder boards at 164cm.

But no matter what, it will make a good powder gun for my girlfriend for deep days when I ride my full sized D1.

D1 marketing vid

A Swiss guy came 7th in the Verbier Extreme last season, he is a Dupraz team rider, but I don't know if he rode the D1 on Bec-des-Rosses.

That looks pretty sweet spud. Looks like it rides very differently to a standard board. I wouldn't mind trying that out

I will be putting the banana to it this season.

The new 06/07 short Dupraz has been released. Take a good hard look at this baby. Oh god, I'm excited.

Dupraz 165cm

Looks SICCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK db.

That does look good.

Hey, stinkfoot, a name change for you.

The short white D1 does look very nice. Mine is on order, none have shipped yet.

Good review. I was looking for other reviews on the web for this and did consulted the google (!) with dupraz d1 review - and this came up top!

Thanks d-stick. I really do like the board and the concept.

Dear SnowJapan, regarding google results: I kind of wish that didn't happen. It makes me uncomfortable. I am just a humble intermediate snowboarder using a D1, I'm not a global authority on it. Popping up as a google number 1 result gives my little opinion way too much focus and weight. I don't mind my words and thoughts being online in the google index, but I don't like that headline type of attention at all.

And reviews hitting number 1 on the google results list so fast makes me feel like the personal efforts to contribute are too quickly recycled into promotional google fodder.

Is it SJ.com property? Can I paste it into my own gear talk section on my website?

Hi All.

I'm actually in Washington State, USA not Japan but I did live in Nagasaki for 3 years in the 1990's...

Like Dumbstick above, I stumbled on this thread via google when looking for info on the new Dupraz models. You might want to know about the new D1+ which will be stiffer, especially in the nose.

I rode a bright red D1 all season last year here in Washington. The D1 got about 20 of my 38 days of riding and was used on everything from our maritime 'heavy pow' to refrozen 'Cascade concrete'. It's definitely a winner! The only time I wished for something else was in tight, steep trees. However that is probably more an indication of my skills (lack of) than the board. Other boards used were a RadAir Tanker 200, LibTech SnowMullet 160 and a custom alpine board made by Happy Monkey Snowboards with hardboots.

If my wallet can stand it, I'm planning on a new D1+ and maybe the D15'5" for 06/07.

Y'all should check out the extensive D1 review and video over on the Handbooter.com site:

http://www.hardbooter.com/video/dupraz.php

Best,

T.

Welcome onto the forum thomas.
Dupraz, Rad-air, Libtech... Quite a quiver you got there (do not know Happy Monkey). The gear review section just started a couple of weeks ago on this forum, I think we could do with a Libtech review to add to the collection
Where in WA do you usually ride?

LOL, my wife thinks I'm insane...

Here's a recent 'family quiver' shot. We've actually added a second Fish 150cm since this was taken for my 12yr old daughter (who charges and scares the crap out of me). And then there's the Steepwater 170 that's loaned to a friend...

http://www.crowmountain.net/Snowboard/quiver.jpg

Happy Monkey is a local one-man shop custom builder. The one he built me is a wide all-mtn alpine board. For this season, he's building me a slightly shorter/fatter freeride board modeled on the Pogo Longboard template. It's a sickness...

http://www.happymonkeysnowboards.com/

I'll post my thoughts on the Snow Mullet as the Tanker 200 as I have owned both a 2002 model and currently the 06/07.

We have passes to Summit at Snowqualmie, spending most of our daylight riding at Alpental and Hyak. We also hit West/Central a couple nights a week. When the snow's good, we usually hit either Crystal Mountain or Mt Baker, occasionally Stevens Pass. Planning on doing a lot more splitboarding and lift accessed slackcountry this season.

Currently working on a trip back to visit the inlaws in the Winter rather than our normal Summer sweatfest in Nagasaki. I need to swing north for some pow in trees without death-trap treewells to worry about!

T.

And I was thinking the only sick pow stick this man does not have is a pogo, turns out you got a custom Happy Monkey based on a Pogo shape . I think Pogo has got the longest pow boards at 213 or 215.

I could not stop laughing when I saw you quiver, you've got 11 boards in there! Dude I think your wife is right!

The Happy Monkeys sound cool although only 10 boards per year. Maybe I should get a Rad-air type board massively wider under foot from them.

Would love to hear your comments on the rad-air 200 and the libtech.

Most of the resorts you mentionned are unknown to me unfortunately although I have heard good things of Mount Baker.

Come back and visit us on the SJ forum when you have a chance. Looks like the Japanese season is gonna start early again this year.