nice leggie, beautifully matched. oh board looks great too

Nice board DJ.....

Just wondering how are you going to get all those board's down to this yr's Mambo?
To many to choose!!!!!!!!!!!
Which one to leave behind!

Boylos

Here's a few pics from today,
first up Oliver taking the drop,and setting up for the bottom turn



DJ on the new Naish.The new design Balin leggie looks to be working well.

Oliver's board going for a free surf



Fireman Dave on the C4.

Dave's brother John.




Cheers guy's ,great way to spend the morning,
Camo.

Really interested to know if its thick? It says 210L which I still think is a mistake but no one at Naish seems to have picked it up as they say the 11ft 4 is 180L??? How would it compare with the Whopper for thickness? Could you please take some more personal pics of its bits and its figure?? Cheers

Hey Benk,

Unless its the camera angle the volume in the nose, mid point and rails of the Mana appears to be quite significant.

At 32 wide with that sort of volume and plan shape it could easily be 210 L

That would make it approx 40l or 23% more volume than the 12ft Voldomort Gun in a 10 ft board.

If DJ is 85 ish kg this means the mass to volume ratio is 2.47

If DJ is 90 ish kg this means the mass to volume ratio is 2.33

With those ratios if the bottom shape is good it should be as stable as the rock of Gibralta

Phill

benk said...

Really interested to know if its thick? It says 210L which I still think is a mistake but no one at Naish seems to have picked it up as they say the 11ft 4 is 180L??? How would it compare with the Whopper for thickness? Could you please take some more personal pics of its bits and its figure?? Cheers

See, know thats FUNnice photos Cam.

camo hosk said...

Here's a few pics from today,
first up Oliver taking the drop,and setting up for the bottom turn



DJ on the new Naish.The new design Balin leggie looks to be working well.

Oliver's board going for a free surf



Fireman Dave on the C4.

Dave's brother John.




Cheers guy's ,great way to spend the morning,
Camo.

G'Day BP,
using the Panasonic Lumix.
The blurry spots on the pics are probably water droplets on the lens but it does a good enough job for what I'm after,
Camo.

how did you get the camera to take a photo of itself?

sam

When Robby Naish told me that there was a new 10' board coming that is even more stable than my big 11'6" AST I thought to myself.. yeah right.

Well.. when I first stood up on my new 10' Naish Mana I could see that he was right.. I'm not sure if it's the extra width or the wide nose and square tail.. or even the lower center of gravity because the board feels quite thin.. but then anything would feel thin compared to the big 11'6" AST.

Once standing I though jeez.. I think it would be impossible to fall off this thing.. It felt great.. I paddled out and about half way out I spotted a good size way that no one had caught and it was headed my way.. I turned to catch it and with just one stroke of the paddle I was around.. (My old 11'4" would have taken 3 or 4 strokes to turn it around).

I caught the wave with almost no board speed and it took off.. I put pressure on my heel and it turned left.. Wow.. I thought this board feels loose.. I was turning left and right with just the slightest foot pressure.. and no need to move my rear foot from rail to rail like I thought I would have to.

The other nice thing is that the board turns so well from forward up on the board.. When stepping back the board just got looser.. This is something that the 11' PSH board would not do last week.. It also didn't nose dive once.. again not like the PSH.

I paddled out 'up and over' white water better than I have ever done before.. This must be that 32" width working along with the wide nose.. I would not call this board a high performance board but for someone coming from a big board like the 11' boards and bigger but want to ride waves better without giving up any stability this board would be perfect.

I'm looking forward to trying it in bigger waves.

DJ

rollo90 said...

how did you get the camera to take a photo of itself?

sam

Sorry Rollo can't disclose this little trick of the trade,

Good review of the Mana DJ I'll have to take it for a paddle next time.

Hey DJ (I've always wanted to say that. )

Your review of the 10' Mana sounds a fair bit like the Whopper.

Did you notice anything about the glide or paddle speed of the Mana? (I found the Whopper to be noticably lacking in glide.)

Could you also pop the Mana on the bathroom scales? (The Whopper is 13kg.)

I can see I'm going to have to line up a demo of the 9'5" Mana.

How are the new leggies going DJ?
Do they work as well as hoped?
Jason

The new Balin leggies are brilliant.. Jonathan, Dave and I are using them and we often say to each other "how good are theses leggies"..

I thought the glide on the Mana was pretty good and paddled straight without yawing.

Jonathan and I will do a board comparo between the 10' Starboard Whopper and the 10' Naish Mana.. It should be interesting.

Here's some pictures of the new Naish board bag that comes free with the board.

It's now heavy duty canvas material with padding like a travel bag.. and two zip ends.. Waa-hoo!

DJ

Dj does ECO mean if you leave it long enough on the ground it will start to compost itself

It looks like a verry nice bag and part of the board purchase Cant go past that.