This board has my G-10 fins and will be reviewed by Lefthander.
I will be posting many boards in the future with customers reviewing them and answering questions.
Mr Griffin,
Tell us why you designed the board the way you did?
Regards
Wouter
Tasty, very tasty!
Can you tell me a little about the tail. It looks like the back fin is 3 1/2 " up from the “butt crack” and not from the tip of the swallow adding more foam behind the fins. What I mean is, is the idea to add the swallow tips onto a squash design, or did you take a squash design and cut a v into it? Would adding foam behind the fins make the equivalent board a little more directional than the same board in a squash?
When your rider gives the review, can we get dimensions? How wide are the swallow tips? V in the tail?
Am I the only one who can’t see the pictures ?
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very nice
Great lookin board ! If it was 7’ x 20 1/2 it’d be , it’d be … yeah baby !
p.s. I cpied the url’s, without either [IMG] symbol , into the insert image box.
It would be nice if these photos could load up properly.
oh well, this one is based off of the 1st thruster that Greg made me last year which was scaled at 6’0" x 19" x 2 5/16". I’m 5’9" x 185lbs and the new dims Greg recommended for me on this new one are just so damn electric. I’m finding that everything I’ve ever heard about how narrow a board should be is going out the window. This thruster is by far the driviest, loosest and best holding thruster I’ve ever had. Those characteristics are what I call, as well as my friends will call, “magic” characteristics. Greg’s drivey is truly in another totally different dimension to what we are all used to. I say this having ridden all of the “Big 3’s” driviest/fastest boards out in the market. For me , the comparison to the big 3’s latest greatest updated pro model to what Greg is making is the only way I can scale just how well his whole entire line-up matches up with those companies’ designs. In my mind it’s the big 3 + 1 (being Greg).
The amount of running speed in this board is so pronounced that you can drop straight down on a flatter faced wave and hit the lip and then come off of that and do it again without having to pump, rather just square back up off of the bottom and hit the lip again.
What’s interesting for me to note is that you don’t ever get to a point where you feel like the board is shutting down and or wanting to bog and that would be the best way for me to describe what that running speed is or could better be explained as carry. Another very distinct and sole Griffin trait to me is the the driving up into and through the lip when I come up out of my bottom turn when I’m going to do a turn. The fins are basically redirecting all of the drive up the face and not peetering out on the way up going into your turn.
This is my 6th board this year from Greg and I’ve found that every single one of his other designs(the 5 fin mod fish, the twin fin, the quad, thruster, and longboard) perform with these same charactersitics but with their own personalities. Please feel free to ask me any specific questions in regards to the thruster listed above as well as any of Greg’s other designs. I just wanted to note that I am a paying customer and not a paid rider…there’s a difference there.