So you got the text as well Justin...

Unfortunately I was too busy painting the new house to get there today. Maybe over the weekend.

ohhh the board I wanted in the first place, that 93L wave has got my name on it.

That's mine with the handle on the nose!

Good to see that the graphics are even uglier than ever this year maybe they recruited from the Naish art department to help achieve this!

da vecta said...

Good to see that the graphics are even uglier than ever this year maybe they recruited from the Naish art department to help achieve this!

haha, dunno if they are uglier then last years, but they definately aren't any prettier. probably the ugliest graphics of all the major brands imo.

The '10 JP designs may be poor, but it's horny to see that many lined up in a row.

What's the go with the surf-fx website? Not much detail in there??

for those into numbers, i broke out the digital scales to weigh the 2010 and older gear i have. I was mainly interested in the weight of the new sail and mast. The new sail really is noticeably lighter. Laying them on top of each other they virtually the same surface area too, given the 2010 has a little more (5cm or so) sticking out running down the leech down near the boom and the 2009 has about 15cm more length in the luff at the top

2009 5.8m Alpha = 4.3kg

2010 5.8m Alpha = 3.7kg

2009 430 X6 Skinny Mast = 2.1kg

2006 430 Powerex Skinny Wave 85% = 1.9kg

2010 430 X9 Skinny = 1.7kg (the walls of the mast are thicker than the powerex too??)

2008 JP Freestyle Pro 99l with straps and fin = 6.9kg

2010 JP Freestyle Pro 98l with straps and fin = 6.9kg

the board and 2009 sail were. The board has gone, but if you are interested in the sail you can let me know if you like.

there's a bit of wind here so i'm gonna gor for a sail and see if it floats

great afternoon. wind was very good. did u get wind up there?

Have you considered willaus' freestyle 107 fws?

if anyone is interested, the new alpha really does feel great and i'm surprised just how nice it is. the wind was quite good so i don't know just how it will be for low low end grunt in marginal winds, but it feels very compact and noticeably lighter than last years, it's quiet in chop (no panel crunching noises), and has nice forward pull when the puffs hit. the shape doesn't move about at all, in fact when i first went out i had it so baggy almost the full length of the boom was touching the panel and it still felt good. it's a lot more like the 2008 alpha in overall feel and then lighter

might need a few more goes of the board before i can give honest opinion on that one. if there's one thing ni can say, you can jump on the rail when gybing and it bites in to carve, and the shorter nose is nice. maybe 2009 was like this too as the shapes really don't seem to look much different except for the funky heel dents??

About time we had some wind its been awhile.
c what tom brings

doodah said...

Bugga... I wouldn't mind a freestyle 100lish but can't justify a new one at the moment. Wind is picking up here too. Might even get a sail in. Next week looks good but I won't hold my breath the amount it's been changing.

My 2008 107lt Tabou 3S is for sale as well...

Here is an extract from the new JP brochure.

"For 2010 we changed the profile of each board. This took about 10 minutes. Then the real challenge was to develop some graphics that were even uglier than the year before. The team went to work and came up with some new concepts whist keeping with the JP tradition of meaningless patterns up and down the boards. Kauli was given almost free reign to develop his new twin colour designs using green and gold. However, no designs were remarkably ugly enough. At the eleventh hour Ricardo came running in literally frothing at the mouth after visiting the Neil Pryde sheds. In his hand was a off cut from one of the new NP sails, and, in that moment, we knew we could finally get the formula right - Purple! The team went to work night and day randomly inserting, overlaying and combining purple with our already existing ugly colours whilst fusing them with the traditional JP patterns. At last we had a full catalogue ugly enough to launch the 2010 JP range."

So ugly, that you have to love them!

Sorry guys (Will & aus) but I will need to sell off some of my gear first, so it may be a couple of months before I am in the market. Bit hard to get approval from the financial controller.

i'm sure i heard the men in shops say yes

speaking of graphics,

gotta love tabou's efforts.

also, if anyone wants to let a lumpy old man try a jp 2010 board my hand is up.. have really like the previous models.