On the way back from Noosa dropped into Andrew Allens demo at Sunny Coast , I paddled out through the bar on the 10-6 gun my fly weight mate took out the 8-0 WR. We were surfing a sloppy river mouth on an out going tide I was watching Adam on the 8-0 and he was rock solid in the chop. We swapped boards and as soon as I stood on it with my 93 kegs I was amazed it was floating me .Caught a couple of waves and was super impressed on the boards performance , in the 30 min session on it I didn't drop in once in the river mouth soup.
Grabbed the board again today on Goldie and surfed some really clean 2-3ft waves , again i was amazed how it floats me and punches through waves , the board just rips ,so easy to surf and super stable , it squeezes in turns on a dime.
Cut a long story short I'll be surfing it in the malfunction tomorrow and it has been added to my quiver
Give it a try you'll love it don't be scared of the 8-0 label.
