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super Stoke to start off the season this
year with Quicksilver ceremonial taking
place in Chile this year we've got a
two-month waiting period which starts on
April 15th and goes through June 15th
the event takes place at punto Lobos
which is a huge left-hander sand bottom
you're only about probably 30 m 40 m
away from the Rocks when you take off so
uh you don't want to make any
mistakes wanted to run through quiver of
boards that I'm going to be taking down
there just the two of my favorites this
is uh an amazing board this is a board
that I was able to win Mavericks on it
was built for the movie Chasing
Mavericks it was a prop board I had Bob
Pearson who shaped J Mar's boards over
the years this one's
911 by 20 and 78 almost 21 in wide by 3
and 5/8 thick I haven't been riding Tri
fins lately and felt really good the
boys at Futures have done a great job at
building these fins the unique thing
about about it is the double foil you
can see how it has an asymmetric foil a
little bit flatter on this side bit more
domed on that side again lets the waterf
flow go by it really easily and then
there's the cup just so slight right in
the trailing edge of the fin and that
creates a little bit of lift and gives
it that speed lets the water kind of
skate off of it the thing I found about
the three fin that that I had forgotten
about on that really steep takeoff where
you take off really late with that
Center fin in the middle really does
point the board down and direct where
the quad doesn't really know which way
it wants to go until it gets enough
speed going where it engages the fins so
I found that the three Fin's really good
on those critical late drops and then
the other aspect that I found when you
punch a bottom turn or a top turn it
actually has a Thrust to it it actually
drives through the turn so kind of my
go-to board right now is going back to
something like this you know and I'm
bringing the forth in as well I would
ride this if it got if it got real
sizable the quads are good JC's been
shaping boards for me for years so I've
always kept this in the quiver it's
always a go-to board this one's 102 a
little bit narrower 20 and 3/4 um and a
little bit thinner too 3.75 the quads
tends to be a little bit faster off the
takeoff then at the very bottom of the
wave it actually has no top end so it
really fast and will outrun whitewash
and do some amazing things they're
pretty loose so they're kind of easy to
turn and I'll even give them both a try
before I uh step out hopefully get to
ride a few ways before the event starts
and uh find out which one's the magic
board so there you have it keep mels
quiver for the Quicksilver ceremony out
Chile
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