The K2 Fastplant
This thing is almost unbelievable, honestly. So many cool features, so much great stuff, besides how rad it looks. The graphic was done by a great skateboard and snowboard artist named Don Pendleton. This board is going to be top-notch this year. Snowboarders Best-Of-Test, 2011, also Snowboard Magazine’s Platinum Pick. This K2 snowboard has a 5 year core warranty because of the new Bambooyah Core.
Let’s get into it. It has the jib-lined shape. It’s got 20 percent rocker on the nose and the tail, it’s got 80 percent flat in between. The construction is hyper-taper. What that means is, it’s going to be a little bit thicker, or normal size, in the middle, and it’s going to gradually taper off.
K2 decided to take a little bit of material out of the nose and the tail to make it a little bit lighter, make the swing-weight a little bit less, and help you get on your day.It has a twin hyper-progressive side-cut radius. If you’re going to be going fast, this thing’s going to hold an edge. If you’re going to be jimmying around at the bottom of the hill, this thing’s going to help you have a lot of fun. It has a centered stance. And like I said before, it has a Bambooyah WH4 Core. So this thing has bamboo laminate core, kind of like a skate deck. It also has Urethane-skinned honeycomb cells in three spots, one right by the front rail, the back rail, and then of course, in the center.
One of the other cool things about it is, it has the Triaxial fiberglass and ICG glass in it, which means that there’s carbon fiber stringers basically in the glass right here. This thing is sandwiched by three layers of fiberglass, unstoppable. One of my favorite features about this board is the carbon web that it has. K2 decided to put a spiderweb-looking stringer on the nose and in the tail for a little bit more snap, getting onto boxes, getting off of booters, et cetera. Besides that, they made it even more poppy.
Yeah, it is a rocker board. A lot of people out there think, “Rocker boards don’t have a lot of snap.” Well, K2 did 
something else that’s pretty rad, it’s called an ollie-bar. Ollie-bar is a carbon and Kevlar mixture that goes in between your feet. 
That thing is going to make you go at least 25 percent higher than you normally would. If you can ollie, you’re going to be able to ollie really, really high with this.
It has a 4,000 center base. It’s going to hold a lot of wax, it’s going to be a lot faster than your average sled, and it’s got a 1 degree base-bevel.
Yep, this is going to be it, this is going to be the K2 Fastplant. Again, artist series by Don Pendleton, Snowboarder Magazine’s Best-Of-Test, Snowboard Magazine Platinum Pick, and it has a 5 year Bambooyah core. Definitely check this one out!”
Hey, I’m Brian with K2, and we’re taking a look at the K2 Fastplant Snowboard. The Fastplant is the highest end progression board in the K2 line. It is a true twin freestyle-orientated board, good for anywhere from the peaks to the parks. It offers our Gib-rocker so it’s totally flat between the bindings, giving you a lot of stability underneath foot and a lot of good hard snow performance. And then it’s rockered under the very tip of the tail just making that board nice and fun, very forgiving and still offering a lot of edge hold when that board’s up on edge in a turn. The fun new thing about the Fastplant is that it offers our Bambooyah core. It is a bamboo construction on the core, and we are offering a five-year warranty for breaks in the core while riding. This puppy is almost indestructible. It’s a very fun, smooth board. And like I said, it works from the peak to the parks to all-around mountain freestyle; this is the K2 Fastplant.
