Anymore more ride reports on these?
Morning, honestly have had two recent outings, local beach break, where it seemed like a different board, I must have been coming off big groveler and pushing it too hard, I seemed to be surfing it on the quads alone, felt weird, but it was me I am sure, because I have had great rides on it in the past, so not ditching the board by any means and the great debate of whether it should come to Indo continues: as it is a super versatile board.
And I ain't no 'engineer' type surfer so all the tech, double bat tail, beveled rails, step down tail, no idea what all that shxt does, but when connected with it, it's feels 'safe', like Hawaiian lineage handed down to you.
-According to AIPA my width = 20.75", really should be seen as 19.25" due to the beveled rails.
-Also, volume is stated as 39.9L, hardly feels like that, feels more like 35/36ish.
-And based on my dims and whether it is suitable for bigger stuff, I reached out to AIPA, and they emailed me back:
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Stoked your digging the board!
Usually people will order this board 2" shorter than their height and surf it in up to head high surf.
We have surfers in places like Hawaii that go the other way and order it as a shorter midlength, and surf it in double over head.
Compared to your height/weight, your 6'0" Wrecking Ball can handle that size. ( thats almost a step up size board for someone your height)
I'd surf it as a thruster for bigger surf with open face for more carving and as a quad for down the line surfing when you need speed."
My board dims are 6'0" x 20.75"x 2.9375" = 39.9L, PU construction, super light.
Maybe you have seen these, you get a good look at it and some explanations about the tech, and Duke seems like quite the character.