I really like the discussion about how fins and board work TOGETHER, and how there's variation in that, for this particular set up. So many boards out there now (trendy, maybe?) come with five boxes. There's lots to get into about how buying one board, along with two (or three?) sets of fins can change up performance in the water - plus there's ramifications for travel, etc. So yeah, more please!
I look forward to each episode and like the comments below, I learn more about surfing with each episode. Keep them coming! I really enjoyed the string tip from the leash episode. Such a simple change made changing strings my leash strings so much easier. Now I don't have to cut them off when they get old. Thanks.
Thanks Chris for another rad video! I can not even begin to describe how stoked I am that you managed to hook up the shred nation with this deal (even though I personally am not in the market for a board right now) and that your doing it with local shapers to promote them, hopefully yourself and help your viewers all at once! Thanks again Chris
Absolutely love your show! I've been away for awhile and I come back to a board VERY comparable to my Dewey Weber Feather Fastback - My favorite all-around board! The only thing I have been wanting is two tiny side fins for a little more grab on good days. Ta-da! This may work! Mahalo from Honolulu! BTW: LOVE!!! The special promo you've got going on with the boards featured! I hope that becomes a regular event. Perhaps you would also be able to give a line-up of coming boards to be featured so we have more than a week to save our pennies. LOL
just sent these guys an inquiry. would love to see more deals like this. I didn't even know about album until this episode and it's just what I was looking for. thanks!
Awesome Chris!! Yeew!! Thanks for featuring a board a bit similar to the Takayama Scorpion! I'd order that board, however, being in the other side of the world doesn't help. Lol keep them coming Chris!!
Thanks Shred Show , layering some info on the fins in great. Wondering if you could spend a little bit more time on the rails of the boards you review, if possible. Thanks!
Chris - Great show! I love it that you are now looking at less traditional shapes more often. The Darkness reminds me of one of my favorite boards - Huevo Ranchero by Fletcher Chouinard. Outline and bottom of the board are pretty similar only with less thickness. Mine is 7'0 but with 42 liters of volume (hand shaped epoxy). My HR has a smaller center fin and two side bites and you can easily transition from trimming to turning. It combines the ease of catching waves with a smooth "high performance" down and up and down. I have always been intrigued by the Takayama Scorpion. I would say it fall in a similar category to the Darkness or the Huevo Ranchero. It would be good if you can review.
Carlo Abastta This board sizes well from about 6'4 to 7'8, so you can actually get fairly shortboard-ish with it while having something much easier to surf than a shortboard. I think its better to get on your first shortboard too late rather than too soon, so something like this may be really fun for the next 6 - 12 months before you work up to a shortie.
I love seeing reviews on alternative shapes and retro style boards like this... Would be good to see one on a Takayama Scorpion or McTavish Sumo around the 6'4 mark.
I've be longboard for almost a year and I was wondering if I should go straight to a short board or if I could start out with that board and Work my way up to a short board.
Great description on the width of the tail suiting single or quad!! I recently picked up a similar board and found the quad to work better....but couldn't explain why. Love your show!
Love your reviews, definitely the best on the internet. I would love to see more about rockers as they are probably the single most important feature that determines how the board will surf. Maybe you could place a straight edge down the stringer and even give a couple of dimensions, also show if it's a continuous rocker or staged rocker etc. Anyway keep the reviews coming.
Sirius Surf Thank you I really appreciate your input on this. I go back and forth between getting detailed on rocker or just glazing over it because some viewers just want beans while others want the whole burrito. Subtle differences in rocker are challenging to get across visually on camera, but a straight edge does help, and you're right, it's where a lot of the magic happens.
Question on the futures quad rears: Howcome the RTM honeycomb rears have the symmetric foil, whereas the tech flex has flat inside foil? Step up types of boards that work well for powerful waves normally have the rear boxes closer together, which works well with symmetric foiled fins, so wouldn't you want those made of the stiffer texhflex materials? For what its worth I ride a 5'9" Roberts Dreamcatcher with WCT fronts and 4.0 honeycomb rears and it works great in hollow surf.
This is an awesome offer, great show as well. More fun shapes/mini mals would be sweet, I would like a little more technical review of how the shape/foil/concave/rails influence how this board would surf relative to other mini mal's or funboards and relative to a shortboard. For example, I'm not sure fully understand how a long single concave of this would be different than the double concave on the submoon...I think you hinted at a comparison, but more details would be very helpful. Keep up the great work!
Matt at Album Surfboards is cool and his boards are awesome! I have a 5'6" Fat SLX, and super fast 5'10" Quad VaVa, and a 6'1" step up! All float me nice and are very fast! Oh yea, and they look sweet too!
That board looks like a realistic replacement to an actual longboard and one of the more refined funboards I've seen. The fin options are rad. I thought the LayZBoy was the best I could get for little baby waves without a super long board but this looks even better. I say do more of the kooky boards :) I ride all kinds of boards to try to best match wave, conditions and my energy/stoke levels and I get more waves for doing so. I'd actually like to see a nose rider review. Thanks Chris and keep up the awesome!
Can you give us some info on how to choose the fin for a single fin? On the fin brands websites they all come together in the category "longboard" with all the sizes but how can we choose a fin for a board like that or for an HS cannon for example? Thanks
Loved this episode. I've been wanting to see an episode about a single fin style board. It would still be amazing if you did an episode on a Mandala Oracle though. You got two thumbs up from me on this one Chris.
is this board adapted for a 60 years old 70 kilos intermediate/beginner ? I surf mainly costa rica beach breaks. my paddle power is not explosive, and my pop up is slow ... I like carving and relax surfing, not into shortboard manoeuvres. thanks
Colby Riviere How good did that one look! Torrey B Its a nutty little shape with a concave deck that you surf about 6 inches shorter than your height. The resin job in that photo sure fit the name though.
FOR ALL OF YOU FOLLOWING SHRED SHOW AND WSL FANTASY SURFING, I HAVE CREATED A NEW PUBLIC GROUP CALLED SHRED NATION! IN HONOR OF THIS AMAZING SHOW. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE HOW WE ALL DO!
Come on no longboards on the shred show, sounds like your strugling to be the shred show, when you could easily be" the ultimate shred show"! Sounds alittle bit more precise thats just me though! Rooof
I love stumbling across old shred shows and finding them as relevant as ever 👽🤙😁
I really enjoy your channel man! Keep up the great work!
I've been drooling over Album boards for a while now and been looking for mid lengths... so tempted with the special offer!!
gnarly brah! can't wait to see more...of you ;)
Great review, love that you went less mainstream on a shaper, matts got some real cool boards
I really like the discussion about how fins and board work TOGETHER, and how there's variation in that, for this particular set up. So many boards out there now (trendy, maybe?) come with five boxes. There's lots to get into about how buying one board, along with two (or three?) sets of fins can change up performance in the water - plus there's ramifications for travel, etc. So yeah, more please!
I look forward to each episode and like the comments below, I learn more about surfing with each episode. Keep them coming! I really enjoyed the string tip from the leash episode. Such a simple change made changing strings my leash strings so much easier. Now I don't have to cut them off when they get old. Thanks.
aahhhhh yeeeaaaa I'm one of those comments on instagram. love the concept of these fun boards and mini nose riders. great review
yet another great episode , thanks!
Thanks Chris for another rad video! I can not even begin to describe how stoked I am that you managed to hook up the shred nation with this deal (even though I personally am not in the market for a board right now) and that your doing it with local shapers to promote them, hopefully yourself and help your viewers all at once! Thanks again Chris
Absolutely love your show! I've been away for awhile and I come back to a board VERY comparable to my Dewey Weber Feather Fastback - My favorite all-around board! The only thing I have been wanting is two tiny side fins for a little more grab on good days. Ta-da! This may work! Mahalo from Honolulu! BTW: LOVE!!! The special promo you've got going on with the boards featured! I hope that becomes a regular event. Perhaps you would also be able to give a line-up of coming boards to be featured so we have more than a week to save our pennies. LOL
just sent these guys an inquiry. would love to see more deals like this. I didn't even know about album until this episode and it's just what I was looking for. thanks!
What a beauty!!
yes please, more of those boards please. Rincon by McTavish, Mini Longboard by Proctor, Tri Plane Classic by Mandala. Thank you very much
Love the show.
Awesome Chris!! Yeew!! Thanks for featuring a board a bit similar to the Takayama Scorpion! I'd order that board, however, being in the other side of the world doesn't help. Lol keep them coming Chris!!
Thanks Shred Show , layering some info on the fins in great. Wondering if you could spend a little bit more time on the rails of the boards you review, if possible. Thanks!
Thanks for the upload, just came back from a session and was wondering was the difference in feel was like!
William Nielsen Thank you for watching!
yessss!!! fun boards are fun =]
Xcellent explanation
Chris - Great show! I love it that you are now looking at less traditional shapes more often. The Darkness reminds me of one of my favorite boards - Huevo Ranchero by Fletcher Chouinard. Outline and bottom of the board are pretty similar only with less thickness. Mine is 7'0 but with 42 liters of volume (hand shaped epoxy). My HR has a smaller center fin and two side bites and you can easily transition from trimming to turning. It combines the ease of catching waves with a smooth "high performance" down and up and down.
I have always been intrigued by the Takayama Scorpion. I would say it fall in a similar category to the Darkness or the Huevo Ranchero. It would be good if you can review.
Carlo Abastta This board sizes well from about 6'4 to 7'8, so you can actually get fairly shortboard-ish with it while having something much easier to surf than a shortboard. I think its better to get on your first shortboard too late rather than too soon, so something like this may be really fun for the next 6 - 12 months before you work up to a shortie.
looks like a fun big wave board.
I love seeing reviews on alternative shapes and retro style boards like this... Would be good to see one on a Takayama Scorpion or McTavish Sumo around the 6'4 mark.
I've be longboard for almost a year and I was wondering if I should go straight to a short board or if I could start out with that board and Work my way up to a short board.
just what i've been waiting for!
I have an advance firewire 7'0 as thruster and I'm so stoked with it
Wanna set quad and try bigger waves.
Love shred show, wish i was able to get a few of the boards. Can you do the Love Buzz soon by Hayden Shapes soon?
Great description on the width of the tail suiting single or quad!! I recently picked up a similar board and found the quad to work better....but couldn't explain why. Love your show!
Brian Fannin Thanks Brian!
again super showw!!!=) for me is fine these boards also!! there is any MINI simmons review?
Yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaa shredshow!!! :)
Love your reviews, definitely the best on the internet. I would love to see more about rockers as they are probably the single most important feature that determines how the board will surf. Maybe you could place a straight edge down the stringer and even give a couple of dimensions, also show if it's a continuous rocker or staged rocker etc. Anyway keep the reviews coming.
Sirius Surf Thank you I really appreciate your input on this. I go back and forth between getting detailed on rocker or just glazing over it because some viewers just want beans while others want the whole burrito. Subtle differences in rocker are challenging to get across visually on camera, but a straight edge does help, and you're right, it's where a lot of the magic happens.
Question on the futures quad rears: Howcome the RTM honeycomb rears have the symmetric foil, whereas the tech flex has flat inside foil? Step up types of boards that work well for powerful waves normally have the rear boxes closer together, which works well with symmetric foiled fins, so wouldn't you want those made of the stiffer texhflex materials? For what its worth I ride a 5'9" Roberts Dreamcatcher with WCT fronts and 4.0 honeycomb rears and it works great in hollow surf.
What was that single find u showed, am now think in about getting one
album and Matt Parker have some insane looking boards.......want a Swing , Balance and a Ledge Quad in the quiver!
This is an awesome offer, great show as well. More fun shapes/mini mals would be sweet, I would like a little more technical review of how the shape/foil/concave/rails influence how this board would surf relative to other mini mal's or funboards and relative to a shortboard. For example, I'm not sure fully understand how a long single concave of this would be different than the double concave on the submoon...I think you hinted at a comparison, but more details would be very helpful. Keep up the great work!
Matt at Album Surfboards is cool and his boards are awesome! I have a 5'6" Fat SLX, and super fast 5'10" Quad VaVa, and a 6'1" step up! All float me nice and are very fast! Oh yea, and they look sweet too!
Awesome episode! Do the fred stubble next! With comparison to the new flyer which seems quite similar.
Hi! Do you think this 7' fumboard would surf good with a old school D-fin ?
ridding footage!!! :)
That board looks like a realistic replacement to an actual longboard and one of the more refined funboards I've seen. The fin options are rad. I thought the LayZBoy was the best I could get for little baby waves without a super long board but this looks even better. I say do more of the kooky boards :) I ride all kinds of boards to try to best match wave, conditions and my energy/stoke levels and I get more waves for doing so. I'd actually like to see a nose rider review. Thanks Chris and keep up the awesome!
sick!
Can you give us some info on how to choose the fin for a single fin? On the fin brands websites they all come together in the category "longboard" with all the sizes but how can we choose a fin for a board like that or for an HS cannon for example? Thanks
For when the waves are bigger what large quad set would you recommend for this board?
The red and back one that Chris owns is like Shane Dorian's Jaws board
Please do a review on Pyzel. Either the slab or pyzalian
Channel Islands High5 next please!!!
hei chris, what would be your fin advise for single fin short egg (5,5) , what dims on the fin?
Loved this episode. I've been wanting to see an episode about a single fin style board. It would still be amazing if you did an episode on a Mandala Oracle though. You got two thumbs up from me on this one Chris.
Thank you @Brad Tremble will see about Mandala
shit! this board looks Amazing!!!!!!
Yes High 5 next
Would love to see a surf video of this board.. Please??
Hey man could you do a episode all about the Rusty Dwart and T Dwart?
Id love this board but Im pretty sure I can't afford it. Time for craigslist!
...Lost Weekend Warrior =D
smartest surf show on the web
surfing with quad set up in a board with a center fin box..does the empty fin box reduce the speed of the board?
My thoughts exactly I will let u know seeing I just got one like this if so then I will use clear water proof gorilla tape over the center fin
what about twin fin set up??? :) :) :) ;)
is this board adapted for a 60 years old 70 kilos intermediate/beginner ? I surf mainly costa rica beach breaks. my paddle power is not explosive, and my pop up is slow ... I like carving and relax surfing, not into shortboard manoeuvres. thanks
Awesome can I offer a deal to sell my boards?
My dude. Review the new Townsend by Matt pleaaaaase
Can you do a HAGE log grampa? Or a HAGE mini simmons?
Would love that Simms!
Please do some of Albums short boards! I am really interested in the xDOOMx shape he just posted on IG the other day looks insane
I'm pretty sure the DOOM shape just referred to the resin job, no ?
Colby Riviere How good did that one look! Torrey B Its a nutty little shape with a concave deck that you surf about 6 inches shorter than your height. The resin job in that photo sure fit the name though.
Oh interesting.. Looks incredible
Shred Show Please do it! I am super interested in that board!
NEED A REVIEW ON THE LOST PUDDLE JUMPER!!! YEWW
Dylan Thompson Settle for a Bean Bag in the meantime? That one's coming sooner.
Shred Show Its a start! Deff in the same family. Trying to key into the funnest small/mush/shitwave/NJ board.
Would rather surf it quad.
FOR ALL OF YOU FOLLOWING SHRED SHOW AND WSL FANTASY SURFING, I HAVE CREATED A NEW PUBLIC GROUP CALLED SHRED NATION! IN HONOR OF THIS AMAZING SHOW. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE HOW WE ALL DO!
This is awesome Esteban!
how do we join in brah
Charles - after you sign up, go to groups and look for SHRED NATION! And click on join. There are 2 different games (men's and women's).
Funny how a fun board now was a mainstream board fifty years ago.
Yeww
I ride a 6'8" egg (GH). Love me some eggs!! I am the egg man....
markhighfill I am the walrus!
More funboards, homie. Getting back into surfing after a ten year hiatus. Need more knowledge.
Come on no longboards on the shred show, sounds like your strugling to be the shred show, when you could easily be" the ultimate shred show"! Sounds alittle bit more precise thats just me though! Rooof