Tai

It was similar to a type of board I used to get made all the time on the Goldie, for those northerly days when it’s two foot and you still wanna go surfing. It had such a similar feel and look to it that I was drawn to it. Riding it, it wasn’t quite as loose as I’d thought, but in the punchy lefts we were riding it felt nice – it had a lot more ability to handle the punch. It held nicely off the bottom and turned smoothly in the pocket. It had a bit of width under the front foot so it got a lot of speed, but without sticking. It’d get up and go, but in turns it wouldn’t catch or anything like that. The tail’s a bit pulled in and hippy so that probably helped the balance. I like boards that are shorter and wider, especially in the Bali beachbreaks, which aren’t always as powerful as the Goldie.

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Steve Del Rosso
Gold Coast, QLD

Steve’s call: “I got a bit of influence off the pros who have gone shorter like KS, but with this one I wanted more of a performance version of the Dumpster style. I wanted it to go well in small waves, but not to be too fishy – like a lot of those style of boards are really chunky out through the tail and I didn’t want that. I’m sure it can be a tricky job coming down in length from making the normal high-performance board, but I wouldn’t say this was too much hard work because being a 1980’s grommet I come from a time of shorter lengths and wider noses and tails. They were the best small-wave boards I’ve ever known, so I tried to bring a bit of that into this one.