SIC Bayonet shape vs. Bullets?

[burchas]

I wonder if sic would go into dugout oneday?

You might see one when Mark will finish his contract with BIC and he is no longer with the
company (unless BIC decides to buy his Flying DutchMan brand to keep him on). As long as he
is making the call it's highly unlikely, you'd have to twist his hand to even do you a custom
dugout board.

I think maybe Kenny Keneko won in Hong Kong a couple of years ago on a SIC that was close to being a dugout?
https://sicmaui.com/blog/kenny-kaneko-wins-the-hong-kong-international-sup-championship-2016/

I think he made 2 of those as a pre prototype for the RS and nixed the idea early on. Wasn't
really a dugout though with open ended design like he did years back on F18.

[Area 10]

Yes. Depends on whether you call boards like the Sprint a dugout. Full-on clogs are not that popular with most of the top elite racers for general international traveling and racing, because of their drawbacks. So I don’t see why SIC should worry about not having one, too much. The market for raceboards is tiny. The market for clogs must be minuscule - would the average Joe occasional racers want one? I doubt it.

I’m sure the ICF would love everyone to have one though. If they get the Olympics it will probably be written into the regs!

I should think that Mark and BIC are more concerned about whether their inflatables can compete with the cheap Chinese offerings appearing on eBay etc. That’s where the sales are, worldwide. If race boards are mainly just marketing tools these days - maybe even loss-leaders - then dugouts do not look good in the marketing blurb. They look ungainly and make the rider look weird too. This isn’t going to work for marketing purposes. You need a *board*, in the surf, or in a pristine blue flat water environment, with a bikini-clad long-legged model on board. You are not going to want a pic of a girl standing inside a bath tub that makes it look like her legs are 1ft long

Clogs may be effective in some conditions. But they sure are UGLY in all conditions. It wouldn’t necessarily have to be that way, if UL designs were allowed. But they aren’t.