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I used to see a guy up in Monmouth county here and there ripping on what I think was a pendo rubber ducky, it was a fish with the rubber all the way up to the nose. Looked like it worked very well
Pendo "Wibulated" a non-fish kneeboard I had back in the mid-90s. It was a great board that met an untimely death in Port Hueneme on a glorious Santa Ana day.
Shoot, might have been. Where did we meet? Yeah it was fun, but pretty squirrelly for stand-up surfing, with the thick foam on the deck. I used it at Steamer Lane a few times, and other westside spots that shall not be named.
Do you think it would have been any better if you just did the tail end and not the whole thing?Years ago I had a custom Burch Peanut that I didn’t really dig as much as other boards I’ve gotten from him. So I had Steve do his thing to the entire deck. Only took him half a day as I hung out and watched him convert it. Great guy that’s full of stock, but unfortunately it didn’t make the board any better. It ended up quite heavy, therefore it wasn’t any more fun to surf, it actually felt old and dead. And the foam/rubber material was so slippery I was worried about tearing my ACL again. Sure I could’ve waxed the rubber foam, but it really would’ve turned into an anchor. I have pics of the entire tedious process that he told me not to share, but I’ll include a couple that don’t show his secrets. It’s a lot more than just placing a different material on the deck. YMMV… but I wouldn’t do it again. I believe the board is with TK Chas in Japan, he’s ended up with a few of my non-keepers
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Yeah the Pendo retrofit Steve did to my Vanguard was incredible. I would do it again, especially to the more rectangular Tomo designs with wider/thicker tails. The Pendoflex sensation is wild. You can almost dig your foot into the tail and manipulate the torsional flex of the board like a gas pedal. I felt like it added propulsion down the line, back foot felt more connected to the water and somehow felt like it increased the board's turning radius. Some may think it's sacrilegious to put a pad and wax on a Pendo... but it worked for me. The kick I put together did start to slightly peel up one time, so I used a flexible super glue made for foam to seal it. No peel up issues afterwards.
Maybe….maybe not. The end product definitely would’ve been lighter had I just done the tail portion. But I wanted to do the entire deck if I was going to do it. I wanted to feel the flex properties to its fullest. The flex was there, but I wouldn’t trade that for the added weight of slippery rubber foam. Another thing I didn’t mention earlier was the responsiveness of the board changed. The timing of what my legs were doing to be translated through the rubber foam to the bottom of the board was delayed, if that makes any sense.
Would that delay in timing be similar to that of an upper end soft top?
Yeah, similar. But with the Pendo deck it was even more exaggerated. The soft layer on those soft tops(Crime, HS, JS, JJF by Pyzel) is probably only a quarter the thickness of what Steve uses. And the stuff he uses is a different, significantly softer material
