Hey AUS126,
That is definitely a from the top break.
were you landing from a jump or a floater or smaking a lip?

Surfingboye and dafish , good to hear your report on the Wham and I have to agree that at this stage of the game, whilst using traditional and even the latest sandwich construction techniches, there is a limit to how light a strong 'indestructable' surfboard can be made. With holding dropping off cliffs driving over with cars and using as your kids karate test I'd say this would be around 2.2kg sans fins for a normal shortboard.
As I have said I'm new to kite boards so my input must be limited to this side of the equation.

I can't dispute that the boards the pros ride are the bees knees of performance with their engineered flex and lightness, but for economics, dependability and longetivity you can't beat a good rock solid board at this stage. Most of which will be way heavier than 2.2 kgs.
If you take a look at a board from the 70s or 80s, often you'll see there is no golfballing dimples and apart from fading, onions, elbow dings, teeth marks and stress lines, the boards glass will ofter look flat and clean. Also, I can't recall hearing of or seeing a snapped surfboard until the late 80s/early 90s. I have a collection of MRs Christies Pacific Dreams and others to back this up. Now, however, isnapped boards are an every day occurrence. Some times, it's the 'first day' occurrence. Ouch.

Maybe some of the knee jarring of solid(not necessarily heavier) boards could be taken out with softer thicker traction?

Thanks fellas
Winds up now!
Cheers

Here's a pic of the answer to heel dents.




www.siroccosurf.co.nz/biggie-david-smithers/

any one ridden the Taj fire wire as a normal surfboard ?