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Anyone ridden a MOTE Fiji?
- Thread starter rgruber
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kook-strap hat! love it.
wonder if he's also a recent shingles survivor
boar looked alright
He share's his father's (Richard Cram) DNA that is for sure.
rgruber be interested to hear how you get on with the Mid6? I find it's easy to cruise on by standing forward a little but if you want just put your back foot over the fin cluster and it will do shortboard turns and those channels help it drive through them with speed.
I've got a 6'7" MOTE Fiji on order. They were not taking orders for a while but are now taking them again. It's gonna cost me around $1100-1200 shipped here to So SoCal. No idea when I'll get it...pretty excited.
Will see how it goes up against my 7' Townsend that I LOVE.
Will see how it goes up against my 7' Townsend that I LOVE.
I am not sure I could handle that
The wait would not kill me it would be the shipping "hayden erbb story" and stress if it arrives in one piece
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I know Gaz is about as popular as a turd floating in the line up on this forum but his “Two” model has been transcendent for me. Ordered as a midlength twin but plays the role equally as well as a cheater/big guy shortboard or step up. Apart from the length & width that’s where the similarities end compared to your average mid twin. Healthy amount of nose & tail rocker, both thinned out and pulled in, super foiled rails and generally a shortboard type foil throughout. Cruise it or rip on it. Only mid I’ve seen in person surfed as hp is a couple of shorter chilli midstrengths ridden by very good surfers.
3 years later and it’s still in regular rotation, in fact most surfs lately I take out a shorty only to head in mid sesh and grab the McNeill. Paddles heaps better, I catch twice the waves and doesn’t feel like I have to sacrifice all that much in the way of performance so why the f not.
3 years later and it’s still in regular rotation, in fact most surfs lately I take out a shorty only to head in mid sesh and grab the McNeill. Paddles heaps better, I catch twice the waves and doesn’t feel like I have to sacrifice all that much in the way of performance so why the f not.
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I have a 6’6 Fiji. Its definitely not a groveller. Likes lined up waves with a bit of push. For me its the perfect good wave board.
Long Phish has a wider range but is a very different ride. Beau Cram muscles that board into doing what he wants.
Long Phish has a wider range but is a very different ride. Beau Cram muscles that board into doing what he wants.
I owned a 6'6 MOTE Fiji here in Bali for about 6 months and eventually sold it. I likes hollow waves. Very effective at Dessert Point, but just ok around Ulu, Impossibles, and Bingin. Surprisingly, my 6'2 Christenson Nautilus catches waves earlier, generates more speed, and turns just as well.
I've said quite a bit about it on the Mid Length thread, but I'll second Havoc's words: surprisingly versatile (big range). I've ridden mine as a super groveler in knee high waves, and had one of my best surfs of 2022 in pumping 12ft faces.
Odd looking board, but it just goes.
The Facebook group had a field day when you sold that thing last month aye... I'm surprised to hear it didn't like Ulu. I would have loved to have tried that board at Outside Corner when it's coming in
It likes the wave to be steep at 2’ or 10’ and anywhere in between. I had a long phish previously but sold it. I have another on order in Bali for a trip in a couple of months. Both great boards but very different. The LP has incredible range and rides more like a mid length.
I have both a quad and a twin. The twin is incredible in big open faces. I use the quad in hollow sketchy surf, where I have to make quick changes.
I don’t really like fish (or quads) so the nautilus is out.
Rode My friends Mid 6 today in decent sized, head high-ish beach break. Went pretty well but not what I’m looking for. Too much rocker and too performance oriented. Looking for a lower rockered board where the turns are more deliberate.
The one thing I really dug about the DocTur Twin was the wide-ish low rockered channel bottom tail. Turns felt really good.
The Fiji looks to have a similar wider, low rockered tail so imagine that feeling would be similar. Lot of the other boards like the mid strength look like they go with a narrower tail with more rocker to facilitate release rather than hold.
Rode My friends Mid 6 today in decent sized, head high-ish beach break. Went pretty well but not what I’m looking for. Too much rocker and too performance oriented. Looking for a lower rockered board where the turns are more deliberate.
The one thing I really dug about the DocTur Twin was the wide-ish low rockered channel bottom tail. Turns felt really good.
The Fiji looks to have a similar wider, low rockered tail so imagine that feeling would be similar. Lot of the other boards like the mid strength look like they go with a narrower tail with more rocker to facilitate release rather than hold.
MC bonzer egg maybe with alpha omega bottom and set up sounds like what you want or even modfied Russ Short
Interesting about the Mid6. That board is at the top of my list, but I'm not looking for a lot of rocker either. I like free speed!
It's nose and tail rocker doesn't mean it lacks "free speed". Any board that isn't fast along a wave gets the boot out of my quiver in short order.
I like my Ledge a lot but talk to them about thickness and be careful just YOLOing one. The deck is super flat and chunky.
That makes it super fun in some conditions but my doesn't seem to love super critical sections.
Definitely considering a Nautilus or Long Phish for this upcoming big wave season. I know Beau Cram is a serious ripper but that was some inspiring stuff.