BTX (Banana Tech) - BTX is a great concept of reversed camber (a banana underneath your feet), so when you stand on your board, you have a perfect distribution of pressure, so your carves are always evenly distributing sidewall on every turn. Thinking about turning, BAM, you begin turning. Extremely responsive, which is complemented GREATLY by MTX. Its easier to understand by going to the lib tech website, and clicking on the little animation they have for the BTX.

MTX (Magne Traction) - Aha, My favorite feature of my Lib Tech babies! Instead of a conventional sidewall, with the edges in a seamless unassuming arc, its the principle of multiple points of contact for each turn. The technology envelopes 7 grooves along the sidewall, making a serrated edge of each side. These 7 points of contact allow for maximum performance in ANY type of weather condition. When you add BTX and MTX together, imagine.. power steering and all wheel drive for your snowboard.

The Banana Magic is a pretty bad ass board, but for $30 less I opted for the stiffer Dark Series. The only difference I can see in the 2 boards is this.. Banana Magic is True Twin directional (great if you ride switch often) and it has horsepower technology, which basically means, if you decided to step on it, your going to feel like your opening up a throttle. I chose the Dark Series over that because I don't ride switch enough to care anymore, and the Dark Series already has riser plates built in, so the throttle control is still there, just not labeled the same. Its your choice, but since Ive began to love backcountry more and more each year, a stiffer all mountain board that's slightly biased in favor of backcountry was my clear choice. The Banana Magic is truly the embodiment of a balanced ALL MOUNTAIN BOARD. Hope some of this helps!