Spoken to a lot of guys who have surfed them. They say that its a real loose board but something that can still be nose ridden with a bit of ease. If you want to have a look, there is currently two at longboards scarbrough.

i really liked the look of them, was checking one out at the local repository when this spotty kid came up to spruik it... i asked him how come all his display models had flat bottoms, was there any chanc of seeing a concave or vee bottom, where upon he burst into some diatribe about how flat botoms preformed the best in the best conditions, i rebutted about the frequency of best conditions per percentage of of yearly surfs and my beliefs and experience of the benefits of bottom shapes, and he countered by saying that these boards had the morphastic ability to change their bottom shapes through flex depending upon turn and wave conditions....at this point i asked him to move away from me before i beach slapped him for being such a grubby little money sucking souless piece of sh1t.

they sure are finished nice but i would not waste my hard earned on one...
(not that its terribly hard to earn)

Fester,

I have riden one about a year ago now.

First impression was it looked too wide. Paddling out it had a "boaty" feel to it. Very easy to paddle onto the wave and nice and loose riding off the tail with an extremely light feel. But, the problem I had with it was up on the nose. Moving forward for nose riding the board would continually slip sideways out from under me. I don't know what would explain this although the board I was on did not appear to have enought size on the centre fin.

If you currently ride traditional glass longboards then these ultra light boards do have a very different feel and don't carry the same amount of momentum as you would expect. I have a 8'2" Sunova mini mal which I absolutely love but for the moment still prefer my glass 9'2" longboard for traditional longboarding.

Try giving John @ SOS a call as he had the Hangman that I demo'd.


http://www.sunovasurfboards.com/longboards_hangman_9_2.html

I got the 9'2 about 4m ago but have had little chance to surf it until recently the vagary of Perth swell being what it it is.

It is my 5th 9' Sunovas now....... so I think I can comment.

Those who have surfed a 9' Sunova will know that from the start they were a complete revelation in how light and high performance a longboard could be. I snapped the first one, keep one in Ireland and two here and sold a previous model that I felt was too thick. It has been interesting to see Bert refine the same shape over the past 10 or so years.

The current model has by far and away the thinnest rail of any and is more drawn-in in the tail. It also has marginally more tail rocker and overall is the grippiest and snappiest yet. It is also the first Thailand made board Ihave had and is marginally heavier than the balsa sandwich only boards that Bert made in Mandurah. The weight difference isn't much more but enough to notice when shouldering it on a bike across rotto!

Bert promises better strength and flex characcteristics, but I have to say I loved the spring in the balsa only boards and the lighter the better I say. The latest model has Divinacel [PVC] sandwich deck and bottom with an additional balsa veneer on the bottom only, hence the extra weight. The finish is awesome , They are pricey but stand it against a tufflite and you can see the quality with all those unique Bert features like sold impervious foam blocks nose and tail so it wont suck water if dinged and solid wood rails. Also hard wood blocks to hold the FCS plugs , you will definitely be snapping fins off and not pulling the plugs out

So how does it surf?

Well Last week I surfed it at 'Supertubes' a semi secret Right hand coral reef barrel about 30 nms W of Geraldton for 4 days stand up barrels on the trot. The grip is unbelievable on a wedging vertical face and with your weight positioned well back you never got that the rail is going to slide out feeling you can get on thicker mals when trying top make a barrel. It was quick to accelerate from take off and just as quick as a 6'6 down the line.

I definitely think its got an edge on the last one I got in serious waves. It also nose rides a bit better in slack waves prob because the thinner tail holds in the tail. All in all I love it, and can only say if you havent tried one......... do.

The construction is a testament to the skill of the countries if not the worlds most innovative and high tech board manufacturers how has always ignored bottom line manufacturing methods to create a product of pure class. Nev may have stolen some of Berts inventions to produce Fire wires but you can see who the true originator is when you see the new Sunovas

John Geyer at SOS sold me mine and has one himself that he is happy to demo so go try it

I got the 9'2 about 4m ago but have had little chance to surf it until recently the vagary of Perth swell being what it it is.

It is my 5th 9' Sunovas now....... so I think I can comment.

Those who have surfed a 9' Sunova will know that from the start they were a complete revelation in how light and high performance a longboard could be. I snapped the first one, keep one in Ireland and two here and sold a previous model that I felt was too thick. It has been interesting to see Bert refine the same shape over the past 10 or so years.

The current model has by far and away the thinnest rail of any and is more drawn-in in the tail. It also has marginally more tail rocker and overall is the grippiest and snappiest yet. It is also the first Thailand made board Ihave had and is marginally heavier than the balsa sandwich only boards that Bert made in Mandurah. The weight difference isn't much more but enough to notice when shouldering it on a bike across rotto!

Bert promises better strength and flex characcteristics, but I have to say I loved the spring in the balsa only boards and the lighter the better I say. The latest model has Divinacel [PVC] sandwich deck and bottom with an additional balsa veneer on the bottom only, hence the extra weight. The finish is awesome , They are pricey but stand it against a tufflite and you can see the quality with all those unique Bert features like sold impervious foam blocks nose and tail so it wont suck water if dinged and solid wood rails. Also hard wood blocks to hold the FCS plugs , you will definitely be snapping fins off and not pulling the plugs out

So how does it surf?

Well Last week I surfed it at 'Supertubes' a semi secret Right hand coral reef barrel about 30 nms W of Geraldton for 4 days stand up barrels on the trot. The grip is unbelievable on a wedging vertical face and with your weight positioned well back you never got that the rail is going to slide out feeling you can get on thicker mals when trying top make a barrel. It was quick to accelerate from take off and just as quick as a 6'6 down the line.

I definitely think its got an edge on the last one I got in serious waves. It also nose rides a bit better in slack waves prob because the thinner tail holds in the tail. All in all I love it, and can only say if you havent tried one......... do.

The construction is a testament to the skill of the countries if not the worlds most innovative and high tech board manufacturers how has always ignored bottom line manufacturing methods to create a product of pure class. Nev may have stolen some of Berts inventions to produce Fire wires but you can see who the true originator is when you see the new Sunovas

John Geyer at SOS sold me mine and has one himself that he is happy to demo so go try it