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"Just on the hugeness of the day, so it's Longboarding so design is far more individual than the shortboard world tour, there are more surfer shapers, design is evolving faster, and there are two paths you can take - traditional, or performance."

Jeez, you reckon ?

How is design evolving faster?

The LWWT is massively favouring trad long boarding and boards reflect that.

Finally…blue give a nearly floater re entry.

I love it…it looks cool imo

do you longboard, @RK?

anyone heard how Ramzi's going?

basesix wrote:

do you longboard, @RK?

Yep..I surf a range of boards. I usually ride a 6.2 mashup…have a Chris Garrett 8 which is glassed too heavy so has to be perfect waves for it to be pulled out. Have a TJ Gem 9.2. Also have a 7.2 bossup.

nice. I've always had a range around 6' - 7' since teenhood and a heavy 7+ mini-mal from Greg Reynolds in beachport that's fun, taught the kids on it and a foamie when they were little.. started hitting the waves with a handplane as of a couple years ago (so as not to 'waste' shitty days, or teeny windows by not getting wet), last 12 months I have gotten a 5'+ fish, an 8' red dingo (thanks @seeds), and a frigging 10' gravelle rhino I've been trying to use as a glider and to lengthen my paddle strokes till I get my fitness up to use it on a bommie down here. No idea what I'm doing, haha. I just feel my window of possibilities closing in, and the kids have half flown the coop, so I can do whatever I want for the first time in two decades.. I always keep a super light delta dream 7' quad in the back of the ute.

anyone catch why @john.calhoun's ex-compadre Sam Bleakley was in the booth?

Been a pretty regular part of the commentary team for LWT for years B6.

cheers, @fr. assume that's longboard world tour.
an unfamiliar world for me. I really enjoyed that today.

Roadkill wrote:

basesix wrote:

do you longboard, @RK?

Yep..I surf a range of boards. I usually ride a 6.2 mashup…have a Chris Garrett 8 which is glassed too heavy so has to be perfect waves for it to be pulled out. Have a TJ Gem 9.2. Also have a 7.2 bossup.

RK what are your thoughts on the Bossup...any good?

simba wrote:

Roadkill wrote:

basesix wrote:

do you longboard, @RK?

Yep..I surf a range of boards. I usually ride a 6.2 mashup…have a Chris Garrett 8 which is glassed too heavy so has to be perfect waves for it to be pulled out. Have a TJ Gem 9.2. Also have a 7.2 bossup.

RK what are your thoughts on the Bossup...any good?

Easy to paddle, the tail lets it turn off the bottom really fast, with your back foot in the right spot it digs in nicely (still working this out). I’m still new to it so anything following my bottom turn is a bit average. I can’t throw it around like others can…I have bogged a bit but I think I keep my weight too far back in the top turns. Down the line it’s pretty fast when pumping but I still need to work on that.
2ft / 3 ft Burleigh point a few weeks back it was just magic…bumpy and messy I struggled.
K
Will only get better with use and when it clicks it won’t hold me back getting it to do more.

I’m an average surfer but imagine a better surfer will work it out better than me.

freeride76 wrote:

"Just on the hugeness of the day, so it's Longboarding so design is far more individual than the shortboard world tour, there are more surfer shapers, design is evolving faster, and there are two paths you can take - traditional, or performance."

Jeez, you reckon ?

How is design evolving faster?

The LWWT is massively favouring trad long boarding and boards reflect that.

Yes I reckon. Far more variety of shapes being surfed at the pointy end. Not just a 6'0" rounded pin. Or every half decade, Kelly uses a quad. More variety in the LB dimensions too.

Design is evolving faster because of the conundrum "how do I keep this traditional with traditional aspects and make it work better?" The biggest hint of this today was Delperro - his board is the answer. In the meantime they are trying all sorts of things, I saw Ben C surfing the Involvement shape last year and it didn't seem to answer the question for mine, this year they are doing these chiseled wide squarish tails, rails are changing as I mentioned above, others are just going with the wide traditional noseriders. They will search around more and more but not really find a solution so long as they keep it traditional. The LWWT has set the rules to look for the impossible, it creates maximum evolution seeking an answer. Eduard's board had it all comp, hence I was going for Delperro.