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And with this link, you get 50% off retail.
http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/s...3&postcount=55
Got me the Rusty DI 7'6" for $335, not bad. My first "shortboard". They got some other nice looking sticks as well, if you can deal with being an epoxy riding kook.
Shortboard? Hmmmmm. My gun is 6ft10 ;)
I'm not sure a 7'6 is that much of a shortboard. I think the DI is a fun board shaped to look like a shortboard.
Did you not see these:
http://www.backcountryoutlet.com/out...urf-Board.html
I bought one of those on a drunken whim from Whiskeymilitia.Quote:
Originally Posted by supermodel159
Underwhelming boards, and even at 50% off, not worth it.
aaaa, the old drunken WM purchase, did you send it back?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hugh Conway
Yes. Didn't have the finish of a $800 board or, from my perspective, the refinement of shape. felt "off" For a longboard log surftech might be ok, for shortboards, meh.Quote:
Originally Posted by supermodel159
Man, some of you guys are too "smart" for my quotation marks.
you put it bestQuote:
Originally Posted by bossass
I got no problems with epoxy. I've had a 9-0 Surftech for years. Sam George told me to buy it. It surfs great and is durable as hell. I understand the romanticism of foam and all, but I don't think I'm surfing on a small and thin enough board to feel it. And with Clark foam done, well, just one more reason to move on to a cheaper and more durable board, or in my case stick with it. The only foam I ever surfed was a waterlogged 10-0, so I've never felt like I was missing anything. Maybe I am, but as few times as I make it out a year, $335 was justifiable whereas $600 would not be.
Really. My gun is an 8'4", my mini guns are 7'1" and 7'6".Quote:
Originally Posted by addict
I guess when I think of a "gun" it starts working at about double overhead and goes from there.
Less than that I am on a 6'5" or 6'7" shortboard.
All in all, it has a lot more to do with the shape of the board than the length. Squash, round,swallow and generally fat tails = short board. Pin, rounded pin, drawn-in square tail and generally narrow tails = gun.
Bossass - you ain't missing nuthin. I have been surfing for twenty plus years, so plenty of experience with polyester resin boards. They do have a nicer flex, which can spring your board, but only when you are really charging. 90% of the surfers out there will not bend the board.
And, if you really charge hard, the epoxy board will flex as well. Regardless - epoxy is way more durable, and now that I have three of my board shapes pinned, the next (and last) generation will be epoxy. I will pay $600 to have them custom built, but they will last forever. Don't really think Clark Foam going out of business changed anything - they weren't doing anything that could not be (and is being) replicated.
custom shaped epoxies aren't anything like a surftechQuote:
Originally Posted by Ottime