another question about my new Merrick 5’10 epoxy flyer. since the epoxy board is so much lighter and faster than the fiberglass, can i get air easily? or am i missing something that makes it impossible to get air on epoxy. thanks for your replies.
go surfing and you tell us…!@#$%^&**&^$%#$@ (ET)
Ha ha aha hahahahah hehehe hehehe, you are such a nerd!!!
Don’t mind MKIA, He’s just a wanna be kook who works in podunk surf shop (McKevlins) in a podunk town in SC. The best sales tool they can muster is bad mouthing what is going on across the street. You go in there and they have this better than thou attitude that totally backfires on anyone that knows anything. Unfortuately most of the buying public is unaware that these “experts” are just one wrung up from them but have significantly less class and even less creativity. Epoxies are as easy or even easier to get air on.
thanks to the work and perserverence of greg loehr and other visionaries epoxy is here to stay. if you read his other post you’ll understand why. point is, epoxy makes a great air board. john holeman told me last week that he test rode kech’s surftech tufflite prototype (same material and construction as your flyer) at sebastian inlet well over a year ago, and he said it worked great. that’s all john “air 360” holeman rides is epoxy. has so for years. historically, matt and john are to aerial surfing what orville and wilber were to aviation. al merrick is a great shaper. enjoy your flyer. i wrote a long post earlier and trashed it, but in it i said, i was there when, and i saw, and heard randy fench pick-up and learn the vocabulary for epoxy marketing from greg loehr. joe, thanks for the heads up on mkia. small wonder they are so angry in sc. my cuzn lived in mb sc for a few years and he said there was no surf. i remember one time a few years ago i was in jax during a hurricane swell. i checked all the surfline cams and beach reports on the east coast from a computer in a mall while my car ws getting fixed at sears. they were all 12’+ and out of control, while folly beach was 4’ and mushy.
Your board can be too light. (Inertia) is the key. Trade that roto-mold in for a board that has a bit more weight.
MKIA, who cares what that racist punk has to say. Come bring that attitude to Hawaii. I geev you one punch! At least we now know where you make your KKK surfboards.
Don’t mean to bash, so don’t take this wrong, it is just this anal technical side that I some times exhibit. Epoxy boards also use fiberglass in the skin that provides the stregth for the sandwich structure. The difference in the skin is the resin. So please when you are refering to a traditional board, refer to it as a polyester board (due to the polyester resin that is used instead of epoxy). If you had an epoxy board with no fiberglass (or other reinforcement) it would have no strength. Thanks, Matthew