I feel there's a lot I have not seen yet. ![]() I'm looking forward to give it more water time on smaller fins and in flat conditions. Super easy to control, once you get used to it reacting on stance shifts. The board goes around the corner without losing speed. If you stay on the edge with equal stance, you will experience knee buckling G forces in long carves. Strapped it's like a fast snowboard, and it holds an amazing edge. Would not have been able to ride it strapless that day, I don't have that skill. I also took it out with straps on a 25-40kn day, helluva gusty wind and nasty chop. It ollies well and pops out of the water nicely, but I feel the fins are too big for trickery, they are ideal for carving. I still have too much fin on it, I'll have to try it smaller fins. You can also load a Blank previously designed with Shape3d (or Aku shaper). The mapping can be duplicated on the bottom. The mapping on the deck can stop at the apex, or the rail, or at a defined distance from the apex. The board reacts a lot to shifting the stance, it takes a while to get used to this, but after half an hour I had it dialled and really enjoyed having 3 boards in one: a skim-like feeling when driving it off the back foot, a loose surf board like feeling when riding it upright with a bit more back foot than front foot, and a solid fast board smoothing out the chop when you ride it with equal stance on the edge. The 3D mode allows mapping images on the board. Carving about, it feels exactly like a snowboard in powder, you can slide the tail by shifting the stance just a bit to the rear, or carve solid using the edge in equal stance. It goes upwind very well, holds a nice edge, just right, and has a nice skatey feeling once you get off the edge. First I got it out strapless on two 20kn days with little chop. This week I had a couple of sessions, after a long windless time, being able to ride the Ghetto Shark with and without straps in various conditions. hi, i am trying to make a surfboard template. ![]() The best range of paints, tints and tapes to complete your dream board. ![]() Shop our comprehensive range of foam blanks, CNC pre cuts, shaping & sanding tools and materials, fin systems and glassing supplies. Anyway, I'll shoot the guys a mail and come back on this one. Melbourne's home for surfboard manufacturing, DIY surfboard courses, board repair, restorations and ding repairs. Hi ice, I was just trying your pic on my version of AKUshaper when I found out that my version of AKUshaper isn't working anymore.
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