Anyone see the G-Deck surfboard in the latest Surfing Mag??? Interesting concept. Board has a wakeboard type shape in the deck. Gives it a kick in the tail and a slightly concave deck center but thicker in the side area. Supposed to give more leverage at the back foot and be overall stronger due to the already tensioned deck glass in the concave. Concept seems sound. Looks like a Bi@#h to glass. Upside down Penguin? No! Definitely worth taking a look at for those with high flying trick tendancies! Krokus
I brought this up a few weeks ago with little response. Really interested to try one. I wakeskate and wakeskates with concave decks give you so much more board control. I don’t really shape yet, I’ve got my first order of blanks on the way. Definitly like to attempt one in the future. Interested to hear some responses from those with some more board knowledge as myself.
It looks cool but I have to question the practicality. If the main intention of the design is leverage, wouldn’t a pair of kick tail traction pads,one in the tradional rear location and the other placed under the front foot but with the flip foward,accomplish the same thing. I think proper foiling and thickiness could equal its stiffness and ease of paddleing.I’m just not convinced of the merits of the design yet. Skip
Yeah, I was just checking out one of of those boards a couple of days, a grom I know brought one by. He really likes it… but one thing to remember is the problem with removing the harder foam on the deck of a blank. Putting that concave into the deck of a shortboard blank gets pretty deep… major problems. The board I looked at was worked. The kid had put his heals through it aready a couple of times… and it was bucked in 2 places… basically I would say, NOT holding up. As for the kick tail, if you ask me, putting a tail pad on the deck would have made for a more radical “kick.” But over all it was a pretty neat concept… I have a diffrent board that has a radically concave deck (modeled after a Greenough spoon [wink] and I have to say that it is a workable concept. -Carl