After seeing a pic of some new JP pros for next year, i thought i'd have a look at their range.

Has anyone paddled the 7"4 X 31 wide body??

I kinda recall a vid of Keahi riding one at bells.

anyone got any info on it??

looks fun

i surfed this board out the alley today. reasonably crowded.

what's really surprising is how easy it is to handle. paddling in the bumpy stuff is a piece of cake. paddling over foam is dead easy too which surprises me considering the nose width.

i planned to use this board in beach breaks but today has changed my mind. i can kick turn this board on a dime fast. so if a wave jumps up in front of me or some body falls off i'm on it in a flash and you can take off really late too

. i found i can comfortably weave through a crowd. if i miss a wave dodging traffic its easy to get out and away. i could see surfers were comfortable with my being there, well as much as possible for a standup paddler. i'm not one for getting in amongst it, but today you had to or no waves. i usually hang a bit wide inside then dash across when i see a inside 'grower'.

i do need to find some more go forward then what i'v got atm moment. turns anywhere thou and up and down surfing is there to be had

i ran into murry burton out there and saw him at the beach afterwards. he commented on the board having a really nice plane shape.

i asked him what i could do for some more go forward. he said swap the front fins to the back or get some bigger back fins- bigger than the existing front fins.

he showed me his short board setup yep- small front fins, bigger back fins- interesting .

i don't have bigger skeg fins but a mate lent me his dvs front skeg fins so i'll try it with big dvs fins all round and see how that goes


i will be on this board a lot because it handles so well in the water

cheers

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the sic is a cracker. rides way smaller than it's lenght. so with that in mind and wanting to get into some beachies around the place again instead of the alley all the time i decide to go short and went short alright- jp 7'4 x 31" 111 lts dvs skeg quad fins
surfed in the talley ck mouth for something different this morning. very small hardly breaking and hard to get. but boy it turns on a dime. cut backs, re-entrys etc all on a one ft wave. it doesn't seem right that you can do that[:)

paddles pretty good for its size and there was bump and a bit of wind to the water and a jet ski went passed me on the way into the surf. didn't fall off all session.

looking forward to hooking a few turns and smacking a few lips on some fun beachie waves without the worry or snapping or creasing my bigger boards