Hey I'm Jon from Surf FX and we're having a look at the new ozone infinity v2. Now this board from
ozone has come out as a... it's a little bit wider so it lends itself to a great beginner board and
as opposed to like the light wind boards of a lot of the other brands it's not a flat slab so
a lot of those are really low rockered and just completely flattened with a tiny bit of concave,
but this board is more of a nice really nice free ride freestyle board that they've added a bit of
width to to get a little bit, you know, just a more light wind wind range that also makes it a
fantastic beginner board because it's that kind of board you're not really going to outgrow it soon
because it does have that great freestyle free ride element to it. So what have they done to it,
so they made it a touch wider. So this board here is the 148 it's 48 wide there's also 144 which
is 47 wide, like fantastic boards for beginners because they can just get it start riding and it's
it's a bigger board to make it easier and to go in lighter winds but again without having
it as a big door. The ozone bindings quite nice they're just a simple design but they really fit
a large range of foot sizes and a super grippy footbed with a good tow ridge to grab hold of.
So they've got a full 3d shaped board they've got a little bit of a grab rail on the side
which is pretty cool makes it easier to just move around but the real action is on the base. So what
they've done with the base is they've added a really big double concave so much so that it's
actually got a quite a big v through the middle so what that does that helps break up the slap,
the chop and it the having a concave lets the board sit down in the water a little
bit better so it helps your grip. Helping grip means helping get up wind a lot easier and it
just makes it an all-around easier board to ride again particularly makes it great for beginners.
Going through the tips the v flattens out a little bit through about here and then you can feel it,
it starts to get flat but then you start to get to a channeled area so that you got deep channels
with the fins, so that's going to add a little bit more grip so anytime they add a channel to
a board like that, like the sharp crease, that makes it so it's almost like an extension of the
fin so it's like extra grip from almost like having extra fins. So having that
with the v just really helps for a nice smooth ride because sometimes on those big wide if it's
a really flat board they do kind of slap a lot in chop so having a bottom contour helps break
that up think of like the hull of a boat it just lets it ride through the rough water a lot easier.
Rocker wise it's not as crazy as you see unlike some of the freestyle, definitely not the wake
style boards, but it is a little bit more than real full dedicated flat water boards and that
just makes it a bit more versatile so again in rougher water, in the ocean you're not just
burying the nose or getting sprayed in the face all the time so really having a nice wide style
board not many companies do this they don't really have a wide style board that makes it... you know
a nice freeride board that makes it great for light wind and great for beginners, so good to see
it from ozone, well done guys it's nice to see you guys pushing a few new little developments in your
product range and again this is a pretty unique board and it's so far been selling like hot cakes
because it gives you that option of having a light wind board you can ride all the time.