Soooo….
what’s happening with all the eps boars you no longer want to ride?? Warehouse sale?
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September of 2022: What's your favorite board right now?
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what’s happening with all the eps boars you no longer want to ride?? Warehouse sale?
Super cool boards. I love the long red one. I see that they have stringers but do you know if he orders thinner stringers to compensate for the added stiffness of carbon? Sounds like they're hand laminated. Are they any lighter than a pu/poly?
Thanks kool-aid! The smaller ones have 1/8in. stringers and the red 6’8 has a 3/16in. stringer. Only rode the red one once so far, but it was in real fun HH+ swell last week and it went very well. I wanted a sleeper cheater board that will paddle circles around the new crowds and handle winter swells, so Andy left it 3in thick at the stringer and blended that thickness nicely to a regular shaped rail.
He’s a 1 man show, shapes AND laminates his boards. These weren’t vacuum bagged, but he bags his foil boards.
The weight is about the same as a poly/pu, if not slightly lighter. They definitely surf as smooth and buttery as traditional poly boards do
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The ones that weren’t posted in the classifieds here were sold in “off-market” transactions. Some buyers purchasing multiple boards
what do you play?All I'm using at the moment.
Going through the biggest surf-slump I've ever had. Zero motivation for it, when I do, I don't enjoy it in the slightest and it worries me how little it worries me
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I’m pretty sure every session in September and October I rode my poly RNF96. No pad. No color. Couple kinda open dings. Griffin reshaped EN twin fins in futures, no trailer. Works in everything and I’m having a poly phase.
Should try getting a serious injury that will get you frothing again. adding a yolo for extra stoke is also a good idea to bring back the spark.All I'm using at the moment.
Going through the biggest surf-slump I've ever had. Zero motivation for it, when I do, I don't enjoy it in the slightest and it worries me how little it worries me
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umm. you saw the post where he's dealing with a serious vision issue, right?
I am pretty sure this is why team stretch uses bamboo for stringer "cft" or bagged for non stringer "dft" instead of carbon. I have seen stretch boards with carbon around fin boxes.
I follow same pad placement on twins I use the back of fin "twin cluster" to line up start of my kick give or take 1/2"As a major stickler for details, the tailpad placement is off. Didn’t notice it until I looked closely at the tail patch lines, now I can‘t unsee it. But damn that board looks good…the shape AND color are- Varial did right on the colors, correct? Looks like a keeper Chase!
I was thinking about foot placement on twins recently. I noticed on my Plasmic I usually surf with my back foot over the fins and it feels drivey that way. There have been instances where my foot gets behind them and the board seems to pivot better but lacks drive. Not sure if there is an optimal foot placement (pad kick placement) or if it just depends on what you’re trying to do. Given where my back foot usually lands my pad should be further up…but then again that may just explain why my turns suck.I follow same pad placement on twins I use the back of fin "twin cluster" to line up start of my kick give or take 1/2"
I sacrificed 2x pads now for my Alpha Omega find ultimate pad placement. Found the Astrodick Christian Fletcher wide covers fin cluster good and started kick about 1/2" from back of finsI was thinking about foot placement on twins recently. I noticed on my Plasmic I usually surf with my back foot over the fins and it feels drivey that way. There have been instances where my foot gets behind them and the board seems to pivot better but lacks drive. Not sure if there is an optimal foot placement (pad kick placement) or if it just depends on what you’re trying to do. Given where my back foot usually lands my pad should be further up…but then again that may just explain why my turns suck.
In all seriousness, can you post a pic of the pad placement on your AO? I've thought about putting one on my AO since I don't ride it that often and feel like I need to re-learn where to place my backfoot every time I ride itI sacrificed 2x pads now for my Alpha Omega find ultimate pad placement. Found the Astrodick Christian Fletcher wide covers fin cluster good and started kick about 1/2" from back of fins
I am not sure when I well get a chance may be some time
but easy answer is your back foot is going to want to be right over fin cluster so with AD CF wide pad gives plenty coverage from rail to rail. I made amark on both sides where back of fin was and took a measurement from tail.then made another mark on stringer to line up my kick. I set down kick about 1/2" back from line and then with rest of pad still in wrap lined up with about 1/2" space between kick and installed. I found if you step back foot behind back of fin its a syicide run and AO spins out specially back side
The pad really helps with foot placement and gives you nice leverage on backside turns.
And juts like that - surfing's on the menu again and I'm stocked
YOLO'd an eye operation yesterday, and boom, single vision again this morning and I'm loving being outside again.
Hard to describe the loss of depth perception does to you, because it made me feel like my body's position in the world around me wasn't "right" (on top of the shittiness of the doubled vision), but straight away it feels great being outside again. 2 weeks until I can surf again
Been surfing my Stamps Blindspot when there are waves and my GMM2 to grovel. all thrusters, all the time!
