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@freeride76 LFT was a weak build in my opinion as well, but the FST builds before it were super solid. I have a dominator in FST that is going on 6 years old and has no heel dents... and still its yellow, but not more yellow than a 6 year old XTR board I have. I guarantee that you would have less heal dents on the deck of a Firewire board than you would on the deck of a standard 4x4 POLY? Would you agree?
I've only owned one FW- a stock Cymatic in LFT.
rode it hard for 6-8ths, including a trip to Indo.
It was pretty trashed and yellow by then, fin box ripped out on the rocks here, expensive repair.
After that I handed it over to a mate for $50.
tbh, it wasn't far off being ready for landfill.
by contrast, a stock Pyzel Ghost is still going strong.