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« Reply #60 on: September 04, 2017, 10:16:53 AM »
Annabel is amazing and def class of the field racing an unfamiliar board.  Whether on an All Star or whatever.  On flat the Sprint should be better.  In chop the All Star should be better.  So getting a win racing the AS is that much more impressive over all those Sprints.  Leading is that much harder with the less efficient All Star.

You do after a while finally get used to that quick tip feeling paddling the 23 and 21.5 widths.  But best to check out firsthand as these race boards can be very tippy to those unaccustomed.  Annabel shows it is all about the paddler -> and very much less about the board.  Kudos.

All these full-on specialized race boards are def not for the faint of heart or those that cannot balance in them.  Very fast if you can stay dry and put full power down.  Otherwise slow to very slow for those that cannot.
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« Reply #61 on: September 04, 2017, 10:52:55 AM »
Annabel has such good endurance and balance she can do this headstand right after winning on her loaner All Star.  The footage is pretty good and would recommend watching the vid to get a few technique tips from the pros.  Always learn a lot.  ;)
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« Reply #62 on: September 04, 2017, 11:42:55 AM »
Casper apparently did not race in the 18 km like most other lads so he was not fatigued for his specialty.

No surprise the dugout Sprint garnered good results.  That shape is mega efficient for flatter conditions.

ukgm you must be stoked with that much speed increase.  ;)

I am. Particularly as I'm not even board fit at the moment (having been focused on competing at the cycling worlds in my age group until last week). I've now started building my board paddling fitness up again and hope to be firing again in that department in about 6-8 weeks time.

I hope to transfer that speed to results as this kind of speed gain would see me go from top 10 at our top events over here to top 5 comfortably and that's without the extra years development.
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« Reply #63 on: September 04, 2017, 11:48:05 AM »
As almost all the other races in the world align on 14' for racing I think it's only a matter of time before ISA goes with 14'.

Especially for any racer below the top 20 it is too expensive for them to have both 14' for all races and 12'6 for the worlds.

I'm guessing is that this is the last at 12'6.

I'm not so sure. I have the feeling that politics has been involved and trying to suppress this move. There are other complex issues too in that it's realistic that women could make a case that 12'6 is a better format for them. On that basis, I think the rule should be 'everything up to 14ft'.

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« Reply #64 on: September 06, 2017, 05:08:32 PM »
12'6 or 14 -> whatever.  Either is fine.  Anything up to 14 also is fine.  Use whatever the rules state or find something else to do.  Or make your own race -> and set your own rules.  ;D
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« Reply #65 on: September 07, 2017, 04:08:01 AM »

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« Reply #66 on: September 16, 2017, 08:25:51 AM »
Hey Yuval,
A friend of mine has paddled both the Bark Vapor and the 2018 Maliko and was telling me that the feel of the two boards was very similar. Which is a good thing as the Vapor has really good handling in chop/dw. He could not say about speed as he is not too interested by GPS :-) but just focus on having a good ride. He is on the heavier side a little bit over 200 pounds.
Not sure if you tried a Vapor ever for comparison.

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« Reply #67 on: September 16, 2017, 03:31:32 PM »
Hey Yuval,
A friend of mine has paddled both the Bark Vapor and the 2018 Maliko and was telling me that the feel of the two boards was very similar. Which is a good thing as the Vapor has really good handling in chop/dw. He could not say about speed as he is not too interested by GPS :-) but just focus on having a good ride. He is on the heavier side a little bit over 200 pounds.
Not sure if you tried a Vapor ever for comparison.

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It doesn't surprise me at all, the two are not far off volume wise and both has comfortable nose rocker. I had a short ride on the vapor a while ago
and while it felt comfortable the ride was too short to make anything of it.

The thing is that at 26" wide, any board I can recall felt comfortable but didn't necessarily translate as well to a 24". Boards like
One EVO, Sunova all-arounder, Bic C-TEC TRACER didn't work well for me.

Boards like the Maliko 2017, SB AS 2017 14x24.5, Blackfish 2017 14x23, Focus 14x23.5 kept good level of comfortability for me.

How would you have the Vapor look like as a 24"?



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« Reply #68 on: September 16, 2017, 05:55:32 PM »
I could not say. I am not big on very narrow boards. For some reason anything under 25" I am just not as comfortable even if stability is good. This is weird because I am light and average height at 170 pounds and 6' so should be OK but just do not gel. Sometime I am thinking that a 2017 Starboard Ace 27" could likely cater to almost all my needs. 
Did you order a Maliko 24" or 26"?
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« Reply #69 on: September 16, 2017, 08:18:31 PM »
I could not say. I am not big on very narrow boards. For some reason anything under 25" I am just not as comfortable even if stability is good. This is weird because I am light and average height at 170 pounds and 6' so should be OK but just do not gel. Sometime I am thinking that a 2017 Starboard Ace 27" could likely cater to almost all my needs. 
Did you order a Maliko 24" or 26"?

I don't go for the 24 to be comfortable but to be challenged and in certain conditions I am. I can see that my overall speed in long distance races
in mixed conditions is not much faster than my 12'6x27" so that tells me everything I need to know about narrow boards, I'll probably get one of those
14x23 to raise the stakes in training, but for races I'll go with a 25-26, especially the long distance.

Don't you already have an Ace? Maybe now you're ready for one of these dugout/flat deck hybrids like the NSP Sonic, Mistral EQUINOX Ocean or the 425 pro?
I'm going with this kind of shape for my next board, low volume (probably around 240L) dugout hybrid 16x25 with some steering mechanism and 4 fins of course ;)
This is what I have till now, still work in progress...
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« Reply #70 on: September 16, 2017, 08:29:18 PM »
I could not say. I am not big on very narrow boards. For some reason anything under 25" I am just not as comfortable even if stability is good. This is weird because I am light and average height at 170 pounds and 6' so should be OK but just do not gel. Sometime I am thinking that a 2017 Starboard Ace 27" could likely cater to almost all my needs. 
Did you order a Maliko 24" or 26"?

I don't go for the 24 to be comfortable but to be challenged and in certain conditions I am. I can see that my overall speed in long distance races
in mixed conditions is not much faster than my 12'6x27" so that tells me everything I need to know about narrow boards, I'll probably get one of those
14x23 to raise the stakes in training, but for races I'll go with a 25-26, especially the long distance.

Don't you already have an Ace? Maybe now you're ready for one of these dugout/flat deck hybrids like the NSP Sonic, Mistral EQUINOX Ocean or the 425 pro?
I'm going with this kind of shape for my next board, low volume (probably around 240L) dugout hybrid 16x25 with some steering mechanism and 4 fins of course ;)
This is what I have till now, still work in progress...

I do and love it except of course at 17.4 I am not always welcome in races :-) and it is a little bit of a problem for shuttle with friends or loading two boards on my car.
It was more of a rhetorical question to myself, like sometime thinking if I lost all my boards today, what would I buy tomorrow. The Maliko 2018 and/or the SB Ace 27" would be in my list as the backbone of a quiver. Unless the 2018 Blackfish to come prove itself as versatile than the Maliko.
Of course I would still look at many other boards anyway. The one board concept is not holding water :-)
I wanted to look at the Equinox very seriously but of course it is not distributed in North America so....the NSP here are still fairly expensive, only available back East and seems fairly heavy in similar width than other boards.
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« Reply #71 on: September 16, 2017, 10:17:39 PM »
I thought long and hard about getting the 2018 Maliko 14x26. This might be the board
that might hold water for the one board quiver concept and it would have been my choice
If I had to choose one board.

I'm taking all the elements I liked about this board and work them into my custom 16.
I think I'm done with with the shorter boards, they can make all the faces they want
at the races but I couldn't really care less, it's not like I'm collecting any the prizes anyway.
I'm just in it for the fun and we both know these long boards are fun ;)
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« Reply #72 on: September 16, 2017, 10:34:48 PM »
I thought long and hard about getting the 2018 Maliko 14x26. This might be the board
that might hold water for the one board quiver concept and it would have been my choice
If I had to choose one board.

I'm taking all the elements I liked about this board and work them into my custom 16.
I think I'm done with with the shorter boards, they can make all the faces they want
at the races but I couldn't really care less, it's not like I'm collecting any the prizes anyway.
I'm just in it for the fun and we both know these long boards are fun ;)

I think that 16' is kind of the magic number. Bringing together the advantages of both 14' and 17' in one package.
I think that Infinity could definitely make a custom like that i.e. a Blackfish-ist for everyday and a DownTown for DW.
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« Reply #73 on: September 17, 2017, 04:21:54 AM »
I thought long and hard about getting the 2018 Maliko 14x26. This might be the board
that might hold water for the one board quiver concept and it would have been my choice
If I had to choose one board.

I'm taking all the elements I liked about this board and work them into my custom 16.
I think I'm done with with the shorter boards, they can make all the faces they want
at the races but I couldn't really care less, it's not like I'm collecting any the prizes anyway.
I'm just in it for the fun and we both know these long boards are fun ;)

I think that 16' is kind of the magic number. Bringing together the advantages of both 14' and 17' in one package.
I think that Infinity could definitely make a custom like that i.e. a Blackfish-ist for everyday and a DownTown for DW.

I ran by Dave at the Carolina Cup, He wasn't up for a 16 yet and definitely no for the steering. It may come to him
at some point if there is enough demand but probably too much on his plate as it is these days. Too bad, it would have
been a sweet board.
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« Reply #74 on: September 17, 2017, 05:45:53 AM »
@DavidJohn

Just wanted to say that was a very attractive 9'5" Alana. Love the color scheme on it.
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