New stick- increase small wave count

[Tudeo]

I understand ur eager to try out the new board, just too bad the conditions aren't helping. It is just too much to adjust to a new board and deal with challenging conditions.

Just keep trying it and get familiar with all the differences it offers. I hope it all falls in place when the right conditions are on offer, then it's Stoke payday

[benjl]

Round 3- Success!!
I took a drive up to our east coast in the weekend despite a 2/10 surf forecast. It looked like it had a small swell coming in and I had a feeling it might be ok. The conditions were on shore wind with only a 6sec period swell, quite choppy ruffled waves with not a lot of power but still in the 1-2ft range. Dead low tide which might've helped with peaking the wave face up a bit.

After chatting to a dude in the carpark that painted a very grim picture of what the waves were offering up (he had a 6;4 magic mushroom), I thought i'd take out my trusty 7'2 torq first.
Surprisingly I was the only one out there on a minimal, everyone else was on little grovel boards like Hyptos. Safe to say I was getting twice as many waves as anyone.

About an hour later I thought I would head to the car and try out my 5'10 dominator in waves that it was probably meant for. I also decided to run it as a quad to get extra speed for the little wind-swept weak waves.
IT WAS AWESOME! It was soo light and manouverable compared with the minimal, just so agile. I always forgot just how light it is compared with other boards.
Immediately I was up and whipping turns. On one wave I managed to do a double cut back which is the first time ever. The board felt fast and agile. I didn't try a thruster in the same conditions so I dont have a variable for that but the quads felt good and more than able to turn, which i was surprised about.

It DEFINITELY doesn't catch 'everything' like it's marketed as, and I found I had to be right in the pocket in these particular waves to get them. Whereas the minimal would just get pushed along even on the shoulder or before the wave face properly peaked up.
It still didn't really feel like a 33.5L epoxy board. A couple of times I was stamping on the front so hard to try and get speed that the front sank.
An extra foot or two in wave height would've been perfect! This board loves a clean wave face, where it really excells.

Overall I was stoaked with it in the above conditions. It will be great to try it out again in our west coast conditions when the wave size is in the 2-3.5ft range.