Chris

This was a longer board, bigger than I usually ride, and because we were in such small waves on the day I rode it that was emphasised a bit more. So for my bodyweight you needed to get the set waves to make it work well. But all round it was smooth and solid.

Nick

I didn’t have a close enough look at this board before riding it, so it took a little time to adjust to what I was feeling. It’s quite a wide roundtail with subtle rocker curves and a fairly straight outline to the midpoint, and a trippy little concave right between the fins. Thus it really wanted, almost demanded, that you engage the whole back half in every turn. I worked hard on it until I thought, no, wait for the set waves, which were about four foot that day. When I did that and treated the board in a really positive way, trusting it and using all the rail, the thing started taking off, going really fast and covering heaps of ground, almost like a six-channel in speed terms. Would’ve been awesome to surf in 6’+ Ulus, and given more time I’d have taken advantage of the fin system and tried it with a small quad set as well.

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Paul Gravelle
Penong, SA

PAUL’s call: “This is shaped off one I’ve been surfing, and it does go well as a quad. It’s a bit of a convertible really. If you’re new to a quad and you want the option then it’s there. I use a roundtail because a quad likes some width and wide swallows don’t like three fins as much. The concave, I hadn’t seen it before, but I’d been shaping singles and single to doubles and thinking I wish you could get the best of both somehow – and that feels a bit like what this does. More advanced surfers seem to handle singles OK, but this is a nice alternative. It will ride bigger and it’s probably more directed at a mid-range but experienced surfer – if you give it its head it’ll take you where you want it to go.”