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Anyone tried the thunderbolt technology that tolhurst uses?

They look like the modern progressed version of tuflite.
People ride them well.
A bit light in weight for me but good in the right conditions.

I actually surfed a tuflite over Easter weekend.
Way over volumed I know.
I could turn it though.
I had fun getting through flat sections in the 2ft clean grovelly waves.
I just wouldn’t buy it to keep.
It’s not a feeling of hatred that they are terrible.
I just don’t want one.

I even hated the feel of the tuflite mal I rode back then. Think it was a BIC. I'm just about to get a local lesser known but accomplished shaper to start making my boards, so that I can have a closer involvement in the process. Something that I'm quite excited about. PU all day every day. Nice. I ...

I can ride over and under volumed boards of other constructions and they’ve still felt nice.
Tuflites don’t, I’m sorry cranked.

I even hated the feel of the tuflite mal I rode back then. Think it was a BIC. I'm just about to get a local lesser known but accomplished shaper to start making my boards, so that I can have a closer involvement in the process. Something that I'm quite excited about. PU all day every day. Nice. I ...

And I’m talking specifically about tuflites.
Haven’t rode those alohas.
They look like they’d be nicer than tuflite.

Everyone tried them because they thought they might be able to get a one-off forever board.

But then they didn’t want to be stuck with a corky dog for life.

I even hated the feel of the tuflite mal I rode back then.
Think it was a BIC.

Anyway, to each their own. I and many others think they feel like shit under foot and perform funny, obviously you and others don’t have a problem.
Big deal.

I never owned one and after surfing a few around 2004 never had any desire to.

There was a denigration campaign?
Most punters just don’t like the way they ride.

steve shearer wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 18, 2023 5:30 am

Yeah, SUP's as a fad kind of died out too.

Or morphed into a less surf-centric activity.

What’s with the goat boat revival up here?
I’m seeing a few less sups but bloody heaps more goat boats.

You guys are torturing yourselves

Only contest i ever go in is morning of the mo and I’m always well and truly beyond tipsy by the time of my heat and then it’s usually 1-2ft NE windswell on a single fin.

I understood your original question beans and I made no point about that, I just clarified a point for you regarding you saying he hasn't met them, which he was only referring specifically to realsurfers. I can't tell if you're being deliberately obtuse in trolling me or just a complete fucking idio...

Yeh and you asked if the realsurfers here that have been are in that category and he said, he hasn’t met them so can’t say. Fuck, beans what don’t you understand?

He said he hasn’t met the realsurfers that have surfed the pool.

If you want a Victorian destination beany, point impossible would suit you to a t.