GNU Ladies Choice Snowboard Review

The GNU Ladies Choice just feels so good to ride and seems to adapt to everything you want to do. When you want to dial it in and get more precise, it obliges. When you want to get slashy, surfy or playful, it's like its able to change its whole personality to suit. 

In this review, I will take a look at the Ladies Choice as an all-mountain-freestyle snowboard, which we define as the versatile all-round snowboard that leans more towards the freestyle end of the spectrum. 

As per tradition here at SnowboardingProfiles.com I will give the Ladies Choice a score out of 100 (based on several factors) and see how it compares with other women's all-mountain-freestyle snowboards.

Overall Rating

Board: GNU Ladies Choice 2026

Price: $629

Style: All-Mountain-Freestyle

Flex Rating: Medium (5/10)

Flex Feel on Snow: Medium (6/10)

Rating Score: 91.0/100

Compared to other Women’s All-Mountain-Freestyle Boards

Overview of the Ladies Choice’S Specs

Check out the tables for the Ladies Choice’s specs and available sizes.

Who is the Ladies Choice Most Suited To?

The Ladies Choice is best suited to diverse riders who want one board that can take them anywhere and do any type of riding - carving up the groomers, getting some decent speed and staying stable, getting air, spins, just cruising, exploring trees. 

Given it's versatility, it's naturally a good option as a one-board-quiver.

Though if you ride in powder a fair bit, particularly deeper powder, or even if you don't ride powder that often, but want to make the most of it when you do, then having this alongside a more powder specialized board in a quiver would be its best place. If you like to ride the park a fair bit, this will cover you for sure, but if you wanted a softer, more playful park board, this would also pair well one of those in a quiver. 

While its fairly easy going, it's not suitable for beginners, IMO. 

Ladies Choice DetailS

O.k. let’s take a more detailed look at what the Ladies Choice is capable of.

Demo Info

Board: GNU Ladies Choice 2026, 148.5cm (242mm waist width)

Date: March 2, 2025

Carving

I felt the Ladies Choice really liked being on edge and smoothly held that edge through carves. Could hold on through moderately high speed carves well (but had a limit) and was also good for both short radius and long radius carves but slightly better for shorter sharper radius carves. 

Turning

Ease of Turning/Slashing: Was really fun to slash turns on this board and turn initiation while not effortless, was pretty easy. 

Maneuverability at slow speeds: It made short sharp turns pretty quickly getting from edge-to-edge and while not completely effortless, was low-effort.

Catchiness: Very little too no catchy feeling.

Speed

The Ladies Choice felt pretty fast and was nice and stable up to moderately fast speeds. Started to get wobbly at proper fast speeds, so was not a bombing beast or anything, but could go decently fast without feeling like it was getting too shaky to control properly. Being quite damp, it didn't have too much issue with how much chatter I felt either. 

Uneven Terrain

Crud/Chunder: That dampness of course also helped with rough, uneven snow. And being quite stable and with enough stiffness, it stayed its course pretty well through the rough stuff. Got bounced around a little but pretty good holding itself steady. 

Trees/Bumps: One of those fairly rare boards that manages to be damp but also quite snappy and quick turning. This really helped it in the trees and helped to make it a board that I really enjoyed taking through the tree line - even in not so good off-groomer conditions. Should be OK in powder in trees, but will likely be a little sinky and hard work for the back leg in deeper powder. 

Powder

Speaking of powder, we saw nothing on the day to really test it in but for how it felt and by its specs, I would say it would be middle of the road. 

It's got enough rocker to help it be average, but not much else that will help it float. 

Jumps

Pop: The pop was easy to access and had a good bit more when really winding it up. I wouldn't say epic total pop, but decent and a good amount of it was accessible without too much effort. So a really good balance there, I think. 

Approach: I found it easy to adjust speed and positioning on approaches to jumps and it held nice and stable too. A great mix of both stability and maneuverability - right in that sweet spot.

Landing: Super solid landings, easy to stomp but also easy to correct off-kilter landings. Great for landing forward or switch. Overall just a very good feel on landings.

Side-hits: Overall a great board for side-hits. Easy to approach and pop off any hit you want to and go big or small on and have confidence in your landing.

Switch

I found the Ladies Choice very easy to ride switch. It had a nice evenly weighted feel between tip and tail and smooth transitions in and out of switch.

Spins

Like a lot of things with this board, it's just really good across everything you want for good spinning.

Decently easy pop and decent total pop to give you enough air to complete your spins, whether large or small tricks. It made me feel confident for take-offs, whether from switch or my normal stance and while not the lightest board on the planet, it also didn't feel heavy (either in general or for swing weight). 

It doesn't have a tendency to over-spin after landing and it's low-catch feel helps it to be easy to correct under-rotations or reverts. 

Jibbing

Solid enough board for jibs.  Pretty easy to speed check on approach. Stable balanced feeling on and off. Solid stable landings and easy enough pop for popping on and off features. 

Butters

The nose and tail pressed fairly easily and locked in nicely. It did require some effort to get your weight shifted enough to get the tail/tip pressing, but not a huge amount. That low-catch feel also helped with rotating butters. 

Nice even feel between the tip and tail. 

Score Breakdown and Final Verdict

Check out the breakdown of the score in the table below.

The Ladies Choice has that great mix of being solid and stable and able to handle aggressive riding pretty well, while also being maneuverable and having the ability to get playful when you want it to. 

Good for a variety of conditions and areas of the mountain too - feels at home in the trees, in the park, in icy conditions, in chunky/uneven snow and on smooth groomers.