X-OldHeader: From levb@yahoo.com-DeleteThis.com Thu Feb 12 11:45:31 2004 Return-Path: <levb@yahoo.com-DeleteThis.com> Received: from opus.labs.agilent.com (root@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com [130.29.244.179]) by jr.labs.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_25183+JAGae58098)/8.9.3 AgilentLabs Workstation) with ESMTP id LAA20544 for <wind_talk_ls@jr.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:45:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from msgbas1x.cos.agilent.com ([192.168.148.33]) by opus.labs.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_25183+JAGae58098)/8.9.3 AgilentLabs Workstation) with ESMTP id LAA11459 for <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:45:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from web41015.mail.yahoo.com (web41015.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.93.14]) by msgbas1x.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 05BF325341 for <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 12:45:30 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <20040212194529.79167.qmail@web41015.mail.yahoo.com-DeleteThis.com> Received: from [192.216.254.2] by web41015.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:45:29 PST Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:45:29 -0800 (PST) From: Lev Brouk <levb@yahoo.com-DeleteThis.com> Subject: Re: Board opinion To: wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com In-Reply-To: <20040212035131.33949.qmail@web60402.mail.yahoo.com-DeleteThis.com>
Never rode it, but saw it up and close many times... Even saw Antoine
Albeau on it in the french championship, riding 2-3 meter waves in
side-on conditions, quite impressive.
My guess would be that the wide tail would be a pain in the ass at
Crissy in particular, the chop will tire you out. But then, with that
comes a lot of stability for slogging out through the wind shadow, and
I bet it points really well and can take bigger fins than most
waveboards.
Me - I like narrow tails and small fins, so I would never want to get a
board like that. I rode one other board that had a similar outline, it
was a custom, but somewhat similar concept, real wave rocker, wide and
short, very thin. Was really sweet on a wave, super-easy to plane off,
but chop (especially on a bigger wave) was a problem. Wouldn't be my
choice.
Why not just get a more traditional wave board? 56-57 cm wide, 80-85
liters? Many of them are superfast these days. One board I would
consider for the mix of conditions you are describing is the Fanatic
Goya FreeWave 85. Never had that one, but the Goya boards are my
favorite of all production boards I've ever had/ridden.
- Lev
--- Leo Bragagnolo <leo_jb@yahoo.com-DeleteThis.com> wrote:
> It's time to retire my Mistral Screamer and I found a great deal on
> an '04 AHD Attitude wave 58. Seems like a good fit - bump and jump
> board for Crissy and occasional trip to the coast (I'm 5-10, 165)- ,
> but of course I'm a little reluctant to buy a board I've never
> ridden. One of the hazards of buying used boards via the web.
> Anyone out there care to venture an opinion?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Leo
>
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