The key thing with building boards for larger waves is experience and knowledge. It's just such a different playing field than average size waves.
It's so important to understand just how essential it is to have what's needed to get onto the wave in the first place, and then to make it down the face intact and be able to cover enough ground across large open faces quick enough before the lip karate chops you in half.
With a lifetime dedicated to pursuing the most challenging waves I could find, I have learned the hard way just how important these things are.
And this knowledge goes into every one of these that we build.
If you're needing a board for larger days, one of these is not going to disappoint you. Quite the opposite actually
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I've always loved building bigger boards for those days... when the ocean is roaring like a tiger! And the sets are marching in like herds of stampeding elephants.
Laying a 7' plus blank down onto the shaping stand and seeing a board for serious waves coming together, quickens my heart rate and makes me feel like I'm building Ferraris and Lamborghinis, ha!
I still love getting out on the bigger days, although I'm not as reckless as I used to be... the body doesn't bounce as good as it used to, ha!
And I love feeling the non stop evolution of these boards for bigger waves. The constantly improving handling, the higher speed capabilities and the improved drive and power that can be extracted from turns while actually becoming easier to turn.
It's a wonderful ongoing journey that i wouldn't trade for anything!
Jim
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