Would love for someone to compare Lightbender vs. Twinsman. Maybe when aruka gets some more sessions on his.
The other day, I happened to listen to the Twinsman podcast above. they were generally discussing the standard swallowtail Twinsman... but DLS had only surfed the roundpin version- which I have also and would imagine surfs very differently- so a lot of his impressions didn’t seem very applicable. Or his complaints would’ve been solved on the swallowtail.
My first impression, based on 3 sessions on the Twinsman:
Twinsman is more snappy and pivotal feeling. Better in the pocket. Makes sense with that wing in the outline.
Lightbender feels like it gets into waves a split second sooner, skates over flat spots and carries speed onto open face better.
Twinsman feels more like a HP twin. Not terribly dissimilar from my Rusty twin.
Lightbender feels more like a narrow fish. It carries more foam forward so it has a bit more glide when weighted forward.
They do feel fairly similar in some ways and definitely overlap as far as the type of waves they would work in. Neither one is the most grovelly board ever but they will do okay in decent small waves.