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my new fish board XD

Postby naniekso » Fri Aug 21, 2009 7:59 pm

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Bruce Jones Surfboard 6'6" x 20" x 2.75"
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Re: my new fish board XD

Postby Manhattan Beach Grom » Fri Aug 21, 2009 11:32 pm

Nice, that's pretty cool looking! Let us know how it rides.
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Re: my new fish board XD

Postby IB_Surfer » Sat Aug 22, 2009 8:26 pm

Dude, awesome summer stick, enjoy!!!
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Re: my new fish board XD

Postby trifish » Sun Aug 23, 2009 5:00 am

Nice shape, should be fun as a twin. Im not sure what the thruster box is doing on there, seems placed really odd and close to the front fins. Anyone else seen the thruster fin moved up this high before?
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Re: my new fish board XD

Postby naniekso » Mon Aug 24, 2009 12:28 am

trifish wrote:Nice shape, should be fun as a twin. Im not sure what the thruster box is doing on there, seems placed really odd and close to the front fins. Anyone else seen the thruster fin moved up this high before?



I know right? I was guessing that its the front setup of a quad so that natural speed is built but i don't know yet lol

i took it out for a test spin today and its pretty sweet. i'm not that good though but its fast and fun. However, i bought it with the traction pads on the board, and i'm thinking that maybe they are in the wrong places
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Re: my new fish board XD

Postby LegendByDay » Tue Aug 25, 2009 4:04 pm

take off all those traction pads and give it some quick humps, the back one is placed completely weird!
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Re: my new fish board XD

Postby naniekso » Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:39 pm

LegendByDay wrote:take off all those traction pads and give it some quick humps, the back one is placed completely weird!


the stomp pad? isn't it too far forward?
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Re: my new fish board XD

Postby trifish » Thu Aug 27, 2009 3:58 pm

I dont see a reason for traction pads on a fish. Maybe its just me and the way I surf, but my feet will move all over the place when im on my fish. Trying to constrain myself to one spot is hard considering how much I slide forward or back depending on the wave. I mean sometimes Im almost noseriding the thing. Also I tend to use my fish in smaller surf that is less steep, so i tend to drag my feet up/forward on it more then if i was taking off on a steep wave where i would be landing ontop of it more from the steepness of the wave if that makes sense. I use traction pads on my shortboards because its nice to have that lip to duckdive with and pad to really pivot the nose around fast without loosing traction, but for a fish, you dont really surf it like that. Or I dont. That being said, setup your board for whatever works for you, just giving you my opinion on the matter :D . I dig the board though, really nice shape, i just question that back thruster box. Somebody must of been smoking something when they decided to try to fit that in there.
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Re: my new fish board XD

Postby naniekso » Thu Aug 27, 2009 11:45 pm

hahah it came with the traction pads wierd huh? :D

but this this is buff, i'm having alot of trouble duck diving it. i do feel like my feet will move all over the place, because i'm still a beginner though, and one time i was able to ride the whitewash cuz i found a sweet spot which im still searching for :O
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Re: my new fish board XD

Postby trifish » Fri Aug 28, 2009 9:26 pm

ducking a retro fish isnt a easy task for sure. Im around 175lbs and my 5'11" fish can wear me down pretty quick if I have to duck alot to make it out each time. Thats one reason why I go to my shortboards on the bigger choppy days when I know I will be duckdiving alot.
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