Reverb posted a vid from this site on the ‘non thruster’ thread -
You’ve gotta check these out
Sway’s approved;
experimental design
alternative tech
flex engineered
made in the U.S.
(no sarcasm intended gentlemen [and women]).
I’d like one,I could surf between the flags then.
only $230…not bad for an entry level board for a kid.
Know a few guys that have them and they all are in love with them.
Quads seem to work and the 9’ seen in action is amazing, killer noserides.
I have the 4’6’’ “The One” and it is pretty fun in the shore pound.
Also nice finding a soft board that is made local…
“Go Soft or Go Home!”
Its got a place, its all got a place, and “Y”'s got impeccable credentials.
Josh
I’ll see the sticker crew tomorrow. I haven’t forgotten about it. But they are slooowwww. Thank god they don’t make surfboards.
Hey Cuttle,
Still nobody knows what we are talking about! Could be incendiary, could be espionagic, could be…
Oooh, yes, I could have made a board quicker than that…
Josh
…yes, in that clip I really liked the easy going projection of the board between the bottom turn and the curl or top of the waves (as seen in SOME of the waves in the clip)
very smooth
i have a 6’0" twin (i’m 6’3" and 180#) and finally got it out in some decent SH-HH surf. works really well and is quite fast when ridden correctly. it does require some figuring out (tail specifically) and i don’t quite have it dialed in yet. flexes a lot so that must be taken into account. the board holds really well in long walls and projects bottom to top very nicely.
it doesn’t work very well (for me, yet) in mushy stuff, but perhaps that’s just me.
…hello Enframed,
very interesting
-how is your stand position? forward?
-low gravity center?
-surf with both feet or more back foot oriented surfer?
-more or less how far your back foot from the tips?
-what type of rocker in the last 1/3 of the board?
-the flex is a controlled one or is crap like the softboards have?
-and may be a comparison to surfing with a fish
thanks
i usually ride a 5’10" steve brom fish so my style, i’m sure, is a direct result of that.
-my stand position is more forward, back foot over the (brom) fins. on the Y my tendency is to place it in front of the fins*
-center of gravity could be lower; i’m not very flexible
-front-footed suits me better
-rocker isn’t much in it’s neutral position but with the flex the rocker changes as you ride
-flex is controlled, you can feel the board load and unload, but not so much as on my 6’0" pleskunas wibbulator, which has a more smooth and controlled flex.
coming off the brom i really have to think about foot placement and loading the board. i think the key, for me, to surfing the y-twin in smaller, mushy waves is to keep my back foot on the fins (not in front), thereby keeping the rocker in the back third to a minimum, and, surfing it more back-footed in small surf.
…thanks,
very good equipment you ve got there
I never seen one of those Pleskunas´ in person
I think that the outline is more pulled in overall than lot of fishes…
does EVA sucks water after a session like the bboards made with that? or is there resin on top of it?
I make all the fishes ultra thin (like no one) in the last inches
thinking in the flex and for the back foot forward due to the swallow and the concept of the design
the equipment is far better than i am.
the eva works really well, doesn’t seem to hold much water
i really had trouble deciding whether to get the y-twin or quad. i’m sure the quad would more easily go vertical but i’m not much of a vertical surfer so the twin is just fine. i just like to go fast.