I ride a 9'6 Mac Fireball, its my first longboard so not sure if its total performance, but I rate it.

Have ridden a couple of mates other longboards and feel the fireball is the best at handling about every type of surf I have encountered. Beach and Reef.

Over head steep take off's, sharp turns (as sharp as can be expected), rail to rail turns. Have had some reasonably late take-offs and felt good. Have hit the lip and also had floaters (actually quite scary when Im falling with that size board under me!!)

Its also really fun for traditional fat wave surfing, only my skill and the type of wave stops me from hanging ten, can get to the nose easy enough. Good all rounder I reckon.

There is a new fireball coming - dont know all the facts yet other than the nose will be a bit more pulled in and possible square tail or similar. My personal opinion is that they should go back to the pre-evolution rocker (a bit flatter) pull in the nose quite a bit and add a squash tail and you would have an allround board that would kick ass in all conditions.

As for a performance 9'6 I would seriously look at a custom Laguna Bay Taylor Jensen model or if its serious high performance a Laguna Bay MSJ Super.

Souwester,by the look of things to come i won't be seeing any head high waves for a while.

BB you are a tree of knowlege what is the name of the last board you mentioned and who sells them on the goldy?

doggie,if i knew i was going to live this long i would have taken my youth years very easy.

the best 906 board i had was the epoxy tollhurst,i wish i still had it, and yes i did ride it single fin and all went well.

doggie said...

asea said...

BB you are a tree of knowlege what is the name of the last board you mentioned and who sells them on the goldy?

Na, he is just a tree

Na,he is just a stump or maybe he is log man

62mac said...

Weed


Seed

WTF

I think I know..................

Ok I am gunna go out on a limb here (tree of knowledge - get it I am a very funny bastard)

Laguna Bays are only really available via custom order. I can pm you their contact number if you wish. They are in Noosaville.

62mac said...

A little dusty today doggie my mad mate just returned from Bali last night baring presents,one was a bottle of rum which we got stuck into while the girls talked sh-t outside in the cold [}:)]

mmm ok then, it was strange.....