Ahhhh… the Jaws board. I remember a short write-up at the end of a Surfer’s Journal a while back about this board. It had a great photo of Steve bottom turning at Malibu with the shark mouth clearly visbile on the bottom of the board. Steve was aiming it down the line at a soon-to-be-victim that dared to drop in.
It’s a cool photo, I’ll see if I can find it. I think there’s a photo with it of Steve standing on the beach with his arm around the board too. From the bottom, the board looks just like the underside of a tiger shark… big blunt nose, gill slits, big mouth full’o pointy teeth.
Definitely interested in finding out more about these boards and the longer liddle designs boards for that matter. Very cool.
Just my opinion but I’ve picked up that “Jaws” board and I think it’s safe to say that 90% of the people that post on this forum would not be able to stand up on it, turn it and get down the line. Extreme barely starts to describe it.
no drop knee-just bent knees. he tends to drop down the face then cutback off the bottom of the wave-different than most as previously pointed out… we were talking about trying a 7’5" jaws, but still at 180 and a few decades of wear and tear, not sure. besides they are for the most primo of days with three specific waves in mind-malibu(of course), rincon and another up the coast a ways…hard to catch any of them in prime conditions and uncrowded. similar to greenough and velo-needed the best days to get the board up and running but it became too crowded to function…now, if you can get a similar type wave, uncrowded somewhere, it would well be worth having jaws in hand…
will someone explain again what these ‘extreme, bladed’ boards are going to do to performance? the super-thin rails likely mean more caught rails, on the negative side i’m thinking. and less float means maybe harder to paddle into waves.
The deck on that jaws#2 board doesn’t look it has much dome in it either – harder to do the thinner the board gets right?
Steve , in his prime wanted his boards to have a neutral float, and in the right conditions you can move forward and turn the board and sink the rail from nose to tail.
a friend of mine who rides potato chips was paddling out while i was riding in… back in the lineup he says to me " i think you need a bigger board". “why you say?”. “Your board is underwater when you’re BTing”
a friend of mine who rides potato chips was paddling out while i was riding in… back in the lineup he says to me " i think you need a bigger board". “why you say?”. “Your board is underwater when you’re BTing”
Nice pic QQ!
At least he noticed. You must be doing something right.
