Nick

Tyler wrestled with this board a bit. She cited the rail just up from the fins as giving her problems. I must have heard her and adjusted before even surfing it because once I got on it I felt a lot of freedom and snap in turns, especially off the tail outline curve. Whenever anyone sees one of these outlines they immediately think of that KS board and think they’ll surf like Kelly on it, but what I’ve often noticed about Simon’s boards is that it can take two or three surfs to get used to them. They’re more complex than they look and they want you to work a bit and find their high points, and once you do that the board starts going mental. This thing’s a sleeping giant. Whoever gets it after the Test is gonna love it.

Adam

I’d never ridden a Simon and I was really keen because it felt amazing under the arm. Everyone was frothing on it. It felt like it really needed good waves to go to its full potential. It didn’t like some of the mushier two-foot waves I caught, but when waves stood up a bit and I could get right on that tail in the pocket it felt great.

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Simon Anderson
Narrabeen, NSW

Simon’s call: “This is one of my longstanding models, which has evolved into something designed for good surf. It’s not quite the same as the one Kelly had a few years back; all boards are linked, but this one has some subtle variations. There’s a little bit more belly rocker with a smoothed-out nose rocker to compensate, and the round tail makes it versatile. That said it’d go in similar conditions, good waves, maybe backhand more so, and good for tuberiding. I don’t surf all my models all the time, but I do try boards a lot and I have a couple of these from about six months ago; they felt good then. I’m starting to get interested in five-fin plug set-ups lately, to design a board that will give people a choice of what fin set-up they use. I think there’s a rekindled interest in that now with guys like Kelly trying quads and five-fins and all sorts of combos.”