Did you guys see this! Wow! Board looks fire for Hawaii waves! Da Hawaiian boys gonna love this one.
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Tokoro Houdini model by Slater Designs
- Thread starter deforestcooper
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pic is trash cant see nothing and ur ravin how good it looks. how much $$$ is Fireturd tossin u to spam here? ubeen to hawaii?Did you guys see this! Wow! Board looks fire for Hawaii waves! Da Hawaiian boys gonna love this one.
I want to be stoked that some of these long time shapers like tokoro, akila, etc. are getting a pay day but it's hard because I strongly feel that overall this is a negative thing for the surfboard industry.
Because the materials are shoddy and these boards are built in Thailand? Or is there another negative aspect I'm missing?
good wave boards made in LFT makes zero sense to me, unless they have modified the density of the EPS core or changed up the lam.
I looked on IG they haven’t debut this board. Maybe Ezra jumped the gun. I’m going to delete my posts.
The FW boards are definitely shoddy but aside from that I'd rather give my money to the people actually doing the work of building boards. The shapers, glassers and sanders, not marketeer wankers and shareholders who don't actually create anything.
I think that these shapers have an opportunity of a lifetime to reach a global market by releasing a board with Firewire. Not only will the shaper make money... they will reach thousands of people who would not have otherwise had access to these shapes. I think its a win win. I bet the Aipa boards are going to do really well too... So will these Tokoro boards.
I don't like where Wade puts his quad trailers, but other than that - shape looks good and I'm sure the rockers are money. Wade probably the best Pipe surfer/shaper out there.
I'd buy a Tokoro but there is no way in hell I'd buy a Slater Designs anything.
I posted a reply when this thread first popped up then I looked on the FW and Slater Design IG and they haven’t put anything up so I deleted my reply. Looks like Ezra deleted it off his IG too.
Maybe they’re going to feature it when Kelly surfs his heat at Haleiwa.
I had been asking Wade about his involvement with SD since he started making boards for Kelly last year. He told me it wasnt a secret that he was going to release a model with them.
I have mixed feelings which Wade knows. Happy he’s going to have boards available in places they’re not and any marketing it comes with. But I support local surfer made boards 100%.
Wade showed me the first production board they sent him to ok. It was a really light 6’3 off the file from the board Kelly rides at good size Pipe.
It’s basically the Tokoro 4 VC. Except in FW/SD construction.
The 4VC is one of the most successful designs in Triple Crown history. Sunny won 6 TC overall titles on the SG 4 which is the same bottom with Sunny’s rail.
SD came up with the new name from Kelly’s Pipe Master wave he fell in the barrel onto his board and stood back up. The commentators were calling him”Houdini.”
They were saying it a lot during Kellys heat at Teapuhoo when he fell behind Jack Freestone. He’s going to pull a Houdini and find a pit. He lost. Haha. They jinxed him.
Personally I won’t get one. Just have Wade and his team make me one.
Going for a surf. Been writing this waiting for the sun to pop up. Waves look fun. Going ride my 6’2 Tokoro 4X.
If there's one thing most FW riders don't have but need it's a board like Kelly Slater rides at good sized Pipe.