7'-8" Mini Mal

[teaweed]

This is a 7'-8" mini mal that I got from a local shaper here in Jacksonville Beach, FL. My previous board, had similar dimensions, but we talked about making something w/ the same outline, but more performance oriented. He suggested putting a round tail, more rocker, and asked me if I wanted to experiment w/ a quad-fin setup (previous board had a single fin), and here it is:











I can't wait to try this out, see how well it'll turn for a board of this type. Our waves here are uncooperative though.

[drowningbitbybit]

A quad mini-mal? Craziness!!

But, hey, you gotta try these things out

Looks sweet. Shame you have to put wax on such a pretty new board! Have fun, and let us know how you get on.

[isaluteyou]

looking good let us know how she rides never tried a quad minimal before should be interesting

[teaweed]

Hey, you only live once

This shaper's forte are 9'+ longboards, and most of them he makes w/ quad-fins... the one he rides himself are quad, so I figured, what the heck. I'll post an update of how it rides, as soon as we get some waves here.

[surfaMIKE]

My holy oath thats a shweet board!! Jelousy makes me nasty! haha

[LngBoardMiami]

Nice board. Looks fun.

[justloafing]

Pertty board. If you wanted a board with rocker, you got it. From a couple of your photos it looks like the nose is really turned up. How did it ride?

[justloafing]

Pertty board. If you wanted a board with rocker, you got it. From a couple of your photos it looks like the nose is really turned up. How did it ride?

[sardiniawaves]

Beautiful shape. Congratulations to the shaper ! If you do not bother, since you paid?

[IB_Surfer]

Hey, I ride a quad fish, no one says anything weird even though they all started as twin fins.

I like the idea of a quad mal, should have uber glide

[teaweed]

I haven't really had a chance to test it in the best of conditions to give a fair description, but it is pretty loose. I am used to putting a lot of effort into the bottom turn of my old single fin, and w/ this one, i crashed right into the face as i bottom turned.

Overall, I need to take it out on cleaner days to give a better description. It seemed a little too floaty and squirrelly, but maybe it's just because of the waves that day.

[oldgrom]

Dang brudda I like the quirk of makin a mal a quad,,,,, gunna do it now !! Sweet board dude love it !! on my quad shorts and on a quad log performance 9" I run some agresive fin sets that will help ya the most.