How do you size your mini-guns and guns?

[kool-aid]

Guns with outline curve. Meeks Mothership:

http://instagr.am/p/B_Gz5g-HYbT/
http://instagr.am/p/B9Nk_4wn0PO/
http://instagr.am/p/CqwiZZtrXQj/

The last ig post is insane

 

[Maz]

Healey is a beast

 

[stringcheese]

The last ig post is insane

the seasons greetings?

 

[Maz]

Anybody else get all gooey over this one?

http://instagr.am/p/C2yujNgLsbJ/
Disclaimer: I have zero Mavericks ambitions!

 

[freeride76]

Strong Greenough influence there.

Looks t!ts.

 

[sh3]

Honestly, an edge board would scare me out there. Don't want a rail to engage, and then another rail to engage. I've never ridden one, but... I'd want something super vanilla that I can trust.

 

[therarebirdshow]

Would be a total power move to surf an edge board for the first time the first time you surf Mavs.

 

[Maz]

Best big wave take off I've ever seen. Twig's two stroke at Mavs on an edge gun.

http://instagr.am/p/CdYgxi4lU9d/

 

[Retropete]

Best big wave take off I've ever seen. Twig's two stroke at Mavs on an edge gun.

http://instagr.am/p/CdYgxi4lU9d/

He's just sat there and waited for that wave to come to him. Spin and go. That would take nerves of steel alone.

 

[freeride76]

Phenomenal.

 

[Maz]

Nerves of steel and impeccable timing/positioning.

 

[doc_flavonoid]

Honestly, an edge board would scare me out there. Don't want a rail to engage, and then another rail to engage. I've never ridden one, but... I'd want something super vanilla that I can trust.

Anybody else get all gooey over this one?

http://instagr.am/p/C2yujNgLsbJ/
Disclaimer: I have zero Mavericks ambitions!

marc showed some prototypes he was working on last couple times i was by his place and honestly i wouldnt want to try one in waves of consequence.

im probably biased because everytime i see an edge board ridden in the wild by an average surfer they look tentative and un-intuitive under foot.

dont get me wrong. marc is the ultimate craftsman and like all his boards they are beautiful. those guns are trippy for sure but they do make sense.

still charging, esp. at my pedestrian level, is such a head game. 100% not interested mavericks and the bigger wave spots i do hit up, its only on simple designs i have full confidence in.

that take off btw was all twiggy putting himself on the spot. was surprised how high in the water the board rode for the design. mike, the guy who designed that gun, was a protege of marcs when i met him. they have been working on those edge guns with various fin configurations for at least the last 5 years. marc loves his singles married to the edge bottom. i wonder how that twiggy gun was finned.

 

[money4coffeeman]

Nerves of steel and impeccable timing/positioning.

Casual late spin and go semi air drop like he's goofing off on a 2' shorebreak.
Incredible poise

 

[stringcheese]

what’s an edge gun?

 

[Maz]

http://instagr.am/p/CmC_DxAPbgQ/
http://instagr.am/p/Cg-WnjWPqAO/

 

[stringcheese]

http://instagr.am/p/CmC_DxAPbgQ/
http://instagr.am/p/Cg-WnjWPqAO/

ah, none of my concern then

 

[Bob Dobbalina]

Does anyone use foiled quads in their stup ups/mini guns?

 

[bluengreen]

Like 60/40?

I use 60/40 rears from Tue Ames in my 7'2.

Also Hess quad set in my 8'6.

 

[Bob Dobbalina]

Like 60/40?

I use 60/40 rears from Tue Ames in my 7'2.

What's in the front?

 

[Bob Dobbalina]

THere's a pair of these in my neighborhood for $75 at the moment.
Trying to talk myself out of it.

Tyler Warren Quad - Futures Compatible (Solid Fiberglass)

Futures Compatible After experimenting with quads for 7 years this is what I found works best for me. These fins have a loose fluid drive that allows for effortless speed and drive. The front fins are single foil and back fins are 80 / 20 foil.

www.trueames.com

Sidenote: I walked past the Hess shop yesterday. Looking at the tails of his guns makes the size of his fins make much more sense now.