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So, I bought a Thai board...
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Their factory is in California. All the boards I have ordered from them came from California 
for you big dudes:
Surfboard - 5’8” Super Fling model - $260 (Encinitas)
Surfboard - 5’8” Super Fling model - $260 (Encinitas)
Surfboard - 5’8” Super Fling model - sporting goods - by owner - sale
5’8” Super Fling Model - 5’8” x 20 ½ x 2 ¾ 35.8 L - good shape, great board for summer but too...
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Switched it up today and ran the Fling as a thruster. I think I might be a Fling thruster guy now. Didn't lose much of the speed, but found a better pivot point. Seemed to go more vertical. AM Large fronts and Reactor Small rear.
I took your advise and rode it with a Large AM Quad set. Went great on the few surfs I had with it. Doubt I will switch it up any time soon.
The Flaming Pony on the other hand is going to be a while of fin experimentation to try and get it right. That board does some weird sh!t when I push it. It gets out of control, well, like a Flaming Pony would I guess.
I tried mine as a quad (KA L front and Reactor medium quad rears) this past Saturday (the last day we had fun waves out front) and definitely prefer mine as a thruster. I don't like having to keep the board so flat on the water during forehand cutbacks and I was sliding more on my backhand top turns than I do on my twin. I generally overextend my backside top turns to get the tail loose or fins out and as a quad it was too squirrelly for my liking just getting to that pivot-point.
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what is a reactor small rear equivalent to in old FCS?
am large + m3 rear was my go to setup on wide-tailed boar gravel-thrusting, before i discovered roberts large in futures.
Another day on the Fling as a Thruster. Damn, it's better than quad. In small waves any way.
Havoc was right all along? Unpossible.
Btw, where the hell is that guy? I miss him.
Btw, where the hell is that guy? I miss him.
Havoc just got lucky. He only had two choices.
I heard he's over on the Peloton forum now.
Well, he's still alive. Still posting on instagram occasionally. Mostly workout and family stuff. Living a happy life away from the forums. What a loser.Havoc just got lucky. He only had two choices.
I heard he's over on the Peloton forum now.
I was wrong. I apologize for calling you guys thruster nerds.
A 3rd session on the Fling as a thruster and it's better than a quad.
It's even more fun now.
I rode my fling as a quad past 4 days in a row. I think the Super L quad set is my favorite for this board so far.
I would have been ripping so much harder on a thruster but I like to handicap myself so I don't make everyone feel bad.
But for real I need to give it another shot as a thruster if only to honor our long lost friend havoc. I hope he is living a happy and prosperous life with his loving family and his amazingly ripped thighs.
I would have been ripping so much harder on a thruster but I like to handicap myself so I don't make everyone feel bad.
But for real I need to give it another shot as a thruster if only to honor our long lost friend havoc. I hope he is living a happy and prosperous life with his loving family and his amazingly ripped thighs.
I can only dream of the happiness Havoc is experiencing off of this forum with his meaty thighs.
I am way overdue for a quarantine project so I'm planning to shape myself my best impression of a 5'6 Fling...it looks like such a fun board. I build a few boards a year for myself in the garage and it's time to get dusty again. After reading this thread planned build is 5'6 x 20 1/4 x 2 1/2 - thruster only...PU/PE with S cloth. Have any of you measured the rocker on your fling in that size range? I have a rough idea in my head of what it should look like but I'd be stoked to know if I'm headed in the right direction. Thanks in advance.
My wife and I took the opportunity last weekend to get out of town while our 13 year old daughter went to Palm Springs with her BF and her family. We scored ridiculously low rates at Estancia Resort & Spa which is a five minute walk to the paved trail head at Blacks. The Torrey Pines Gliderport trailhead is a 8 minute walk.
I brought the Fling and at the last minute, changed from my KA larges to AM Aircores before throwing it in the car. There was a little combo swell and some really fun head high+ peaks Friday evening with just a sea breeze. Saturday still had some size, but NW wind was on it, still fun though. We stayed a third night due to all the craziness in LA we were reading about, so I ended up getting out four times at Blacks. The wind was on it every session other than Friday evening, but it was pretty clean on the face with some fun barrels.
I really preferred the slightly more raked AM's to the KA's. I had more drive and felt like it was the perfect combination of hold through turns and release in the lip. In retrospect, I probably would have preferred my Fever or NB2 for the wave size. I thought my wife and I would maybe do a La Jolla Shores day, so I wasn't expecting to hit Blacks, but she was pool bound the entire trip and it was just easier to run out of the hotel with my board rather than getting in the car to hit the reefs. I'm purposely a little over-volumed with the Fling, as I bought it (used) for under waist high waves, but was surprised how well it performed with some size and push. There was the small issue with getting the rail to sink/bite off the bottom without it pushing back more than I like, but I was able to go further out onto the shoulder and redirect with more speed than I'm used to when coming around to rebound of the lip.
My best wave was Sunday morning. I had four good waves early in the session, some mediocre ones and two shockers where I airdropped due to fairly strong NW wind that was blowing into the lefts and the explosion where the lip was hitting the flat-water got under my outside rail and flung me on my Fling a couple feet up in the air. After those embarrassments, I was going in on whatever wave would at least let me get a pump or two down the line.
A decent chest high wave came through just off the edge of the rapidly increasing rip and I got two fin free snaps, a really extended roundhouse with a decent tag on the oncoming section and when I came back around the wave was growing and hollowing-out. I got a relatively long barrel with just a slight shampoo at the end and bellied in. I looked up and there was a lifeguard under an Easy-Up next to his truck. He gave me a thumbs-up, held up nine fingers, then waved his arms as if to say "no". He then tilted his head, put his index finger to his temple for a second and held up his hands giving me a 10. I was buzzing the whole walk back to the hotel.
I brought the Fling and at the last minute, changed from my KA larges to AM Aircores before throwing it in the car. There was a little combo swell and some really fun head high+ peaks Friday evening with just a sea breeze. Saturday still had some size, but NW wind was on it, still fun though. We stayed a third night due to all the craziness in LA we were reading about, so I ended up getting out four times at Blacks. The wind was on it every session other than Friday evening, but it was pretty clean on the face with some fun barrels.
I really preferred the slightly more raked AM's to the KA's. I had more drive and felt like it was the perfect combination of hold through turns and release in the lip. In retrospect, I probably would have preferred my Fever or NB2 for the wave size. I thought my wife and I would maybe do a La Jolla Shores day, so I wasn't expecting to hit Blacks, but she was pool bound the entire trip and it was just easier to run out of the hotel with my board rather than getting in the car to hit the reefs. I'm purposely a little over-volumed with the Fling, as I bought it (used) for under waist high waves, but was surprised how well it performed with some size and push. There was the small issue with getting the rail to sink/bite off the bottom without it pushing back more than I like, but I was able to go further out onto the shoulder and redirect with more speed than I'm used to when coming around to rebound of the lip.
My best wave was Sunday morning. I had four good waves early in the session, some mediocre ones and two shockers where I airdropped due to fairly strong NW wind that was blowing into the lefts and the explosion where the lip was hitting the flat-water got under my outside rail and flung me on my Fling a couple feet up in the air. After those embarrassments, I was going in on whatever wave would at least let me get a pump or two down the line.
A decent chest high wave came through just off the edge of the rapidly increasing rip and I got two fin free snaps, a really extended roundhouse with a decent tag on the oncoming section and when I came back around the wave was growing and hollowing-out. I got a relatively long barrel with just a slight shampoo at the end and bellied in. I looked up and there was a lifeguard under an Easy-Up next to his truck. He gave me a thumbs-up, held up nine fingers, then waved his arms as if to say "no". He then tilted his head, put his index finger to his temple for a second and held up his hands giving me a 10. I was buzzing the whole walk back to the hotel.
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