post your modern day sickness

[el rancho]

Looks like heaps of nose rocker

It'd go good in indo/reef breaks but probably not so hot in oz

[Hatchnam]

sandon point, voodoo, and possibly some of the shellharbour and south coast reefs, but that's about it.

that's why i mostly don't bother with super hi-perf boards. there's plenty of other boards out there that 'perform highly' without having to go to that extreme

[Natho]

that side shot looks nice. Is it just the photo or does it have really nice refined rails (rolled from the deck)?. That sort of profile gives me wood.

[Hatchnam]

Yep. Rolled deck and super refined rails. It's a "natho" board thru and thru.

And for me, they're the type of boards that simply bog and stick and push water and lack drive and just pretty much suck in all but the most perfect hollow grinding conditions. Like I love those boards, but for me, they're just not practical 99% of the time

[Natho]

Yep. Those hang ups though are often more to do with the rocker than rail profile.

[el rancho]

6'1 x 18 x 2 1/4 murray bourton picked up from the dump shop this morning

rockered out early nineties thing, looks insane, still in decent nick.

[Natho]

ok another board review. Just picked up a new stick.

Pyzel - The Flash Model
5'11 x 18 1/2 x 2 3/16 rounded square
single to double, 25L

Took the board out last night in 2 - 3 foot wind swell that was slightly fat.

the first thing I noticed about the board on the very first wave was that it broke its line into a quick directional change with no delay or resistance while maintaining plenty of drive and speed. To me this is one sign I'm looking for in a board for peaky beach breaks. A board that goes where you want it to without having to push it too hard and while keeping momentum. Tick

The board didn't feel super fast or slow. Just a nice neutral feeling to it. Not too much or too little of anything. Again a good sign, esp as a competition board. Tick

Overall the board felt super responsive. I certainly would not want any less foam, and could probably afford to go a bees dick more foam on the next one given how responsive the board feels. The board is very refined with little margin for error. Certainly straight out of the pro mould.

I need to surf the board more as I really only got 4 or 5 waves on it and most of em were junk. The sort of things I am asking myself is will this board be twitchy and too loose in better more powerful waves given how sensitive it is? Time will tell. So far so good though with big ticks in some key characteristics I'm looking for in this sort of board and the purpose it is to be used for.

[PeepeelaPew]

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[Hatchnam]

6'1 x 18 x 2 1/4 murray bourton picked up from the dump shop this morning

rockered out early nineties thing, looks insane, still in decent nick.

Have you taken this thing out yet ? If so, how goes it ? Genuinely curious on your take on how it goes ..

(( as for all the prior shit slagging I've done on hugely rockered boards I know they have their place, and they go nuts at pretty much the entire coolongatta stretch on low tide ))

[Natho]

^^^ have you suddenly changed your tune like others because Kelly is now revisiting the whole rockered out board thing? Just interested, not accusing.
I'm expecting that if Kelly starts riding more of them people will start calling them the ants pants again?.. Like the quad fad

[el rancho]

not yet, swell has been weak. waiting to at least get some pocket to work with.
I don't ride anything like it and actually rarely even ride thrusters so it'll be comical until I get the hang of it.

[Hatchnam]

Of course I have not changed my tune. I already said in a prior thread that I think those boards are narrow in their application. Although great in some conditions. Hollow punchy waves that grind start to finish they go great . After all I did grow up spending considerable time surfing those highly rockered boards and in SEQ, and know first hand what they are great at and suck at.

so my question directed at elrancho was to get his GenY and well rounded view on how the board goes for him, considering the wide range of boards I believe he rides, and available to him in this great age of boards of all variety.
And the prospect of me following any mass trend set by KS is next to zero percent.

[Hatchnam]

I have seen Some of the very best and hopelessly worst surfing on those wafer thin rockered boards of the early nineties. Some of the cats on those things on the Gold Coast points absolutely shredded on them. Frenzied top to bottom hacking tearing the shit out of it. But if the wave fattens out, it's game over in an instant.

[el rancho]

aw shit yeah, it definitely wouldn't be my first choice for a point break. it'll go good behind the rock but that's where all the power is.

[steve shearer]

probably fun at debacle.

hated those potato chips. then and now.

[Hatchnam]

/\ Same. I think the smallest I ever went with dims was 6'0 x 18 1/4 x 2 1/4 . A newline shape by rob Webster. Stack of rocker, no foam up front whatsoever. It went great about 5% of the time

[el rancho]

yeah this is 18 wide. don't even own a board narrower than 19 & 1/4

[PeepeelaPew]

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