Great conditions yesterday - best for quite some time in Westernport. On my new 8'7" Flow.

Fun vid... looks like a great day!

Thanks For that. As much as i like the Speeed, it sounds like the Flow will suit me better.

Nice..

Tardy said..
Cool man ..more vertical moves next time please cantsupenough.

I'm trying

bobajob said..
Mate! Looks like a fun day. I recently had a day like that and it ended up a four and a bit hour surf. Talk about wrecked, and then went out for an hour late in the arvo of the same day. Slept well that night!
Question on the flow tho, can you pump it to generate speed down the line easily? I do like the fact that it has been said that it turns more from the middle.

The simple answer (I believe) is yes.

As you can see from my standard of surfing, I am not the world's expert, but I do try to pump it. Not that it was a good example in that vid, but that was what I was trying to do a couple of times when the wave closed out in front of me - I tried to get into the water ahead of the wash to pump and get past it. But those waves did not have much of a wall to work with after the initial bit of fun. But there have been other times when I have pumped to generate extra speed.

I think it is a great board. I like its shape, and I like that it is thin. It is a tiny bit wider, but for my level of surfing it does not matter and I need some buoyancy (90 kegs, 120 ltr board). I have no idea whether the Acid (or Soul) would be better, but the Flow suits me.

kitemantim said..
Great vid & comments, did you try the 8'10 flow against the similar speeed a comparison of stability etc, as only have chance to demo speeed but prefer more conventional lines and been able surf from the middle, comments would be welcomed as not much really has been said re flow

I must admit that I debated what size Flow I should buy and I did not try a bigger Flow or a smaller Speeed. I am glad I did decide to go smaller. STC wrote a very useful post about Speeed/Flow and it may have compared like-for-like, (and I think slugga did too), but I wanted the conventional shape and I figured it would also help if I went a bit shorter. I was feeling very confident on the 8'10" Speeed even in pretty messy conditions so I knew I could afford to go smaller and I had the Speeed to fall back on if the 8'7" Flow was too tippy. For me, the 8'7" is the right size. (90kg 6'3" 54yo)

You're right. Although today I was out again (incredible conditions for May) and I turned on the GoPro and tried to get vertical just for Tardy. Maybe next time

Hey, no problem at all I was just playing along. To be honest it would probably take more than a steep lip to get me vertical, but it is fun trying. One time today I almost sort of got vertical, the wave crashed down, I did a pretty fluky 180 degree turn back down the wave - it all almost looked like I intended it. I smiled at the GoPro just for you - just for fun - but the stupid batteries had gone flat.