One of my mates has a Luke Egan board, it has no dimentions on it but Luke is a big bloke and I recon its spot on for me, its a 6,6 round pin. From memory Luke Egan is 6,3 or 4 and 100kgs so a 6,6 is small for a big guy.

doggie said...

One of my mates has a Luke Egan board, it has no dimentions on it but Luke is a big bloke and I recon its spot on for me, its a 6,6 round pin. From memory Luke Egan is 6,3 or 4 and 100kgs so a 6,6 is small for a big guy.

According to the JS website Luke is 180 cms and 90 kgs and rides predominantly a 6'4 x 19 1/8" x 2 1/2.

doggie said...


Im 80kgs and those dimentions would be perfect for me, almost the same as the FW.

Doggie for the last time,its time for a real board mateYou don't know what your missing out on

have a top day doggie

surferstu said...

How come it doesn't have the Balsa stringers on rails. I thought that the whole firewire concept

FUTURE SHAPES TECHNOLOGY
All Firewire Step Up guns and TAJ Pro Model boards include Springer technology. Like the leaf springs on a car's suspension, Springer's are layered underneath the high density deck skin, creating a slightly stiffer flex response, a subtle adjustment that Taj prefers. Springers are available in a number of FST boards.


http://www.firewiresurfboards.com/technology.php?techid=tech

If Taj has no vents I don't see what point that makes, most of the FW team have no vents in them. The factory I work from glasses many of the protos and custom team stuff including Taj's boards and they are just plain old EPS with d'cell sandwich outside.



point been the weight of the foam in his pro boards to the taj pro modle sold to all the punters out there .firewire states on there web site all boards made with 1lbs eps must be vented due to excess air in that light foam ,heaver foam dont gas as much or suffer from air build up from heat or air presure when tacken on air travle .

How come you run FCS and Futures?

First post on the surfing forum, Just to give some feedback. I have surfed since I was 11 years old, and am a very experienced surfer at 39. I bought a firewire alternator rapid fire. It has a bamboo deck, for heel dents for kiteboarding. I have also kitesurfed since 2003 and ride strapless boards mostly as well as freestyle. After 1 session on the 6'4 I loved it, both surfing and then kitesurfing whne the wind picked up. The next session I tried a small air backhand with my kite for an aid, an indy. due to the onshore conditions the board flew up a little quickly so protected my face with my palm about 8cm from the nose. AND IT creased, no love from Cottesloe, as the "boards were not designed for kitesurfing". Id totally understand if I did a huge unstrapped punt and landed hard and snapped it, but this is a joke. 1 foot waves in 18knots isnt extreme. I have 2 tuff-lites for that kind oof stuff.


so a $800 dollar board is going to cost me $200 to get repaired. Properly, reinforcing the rails, which all boards snap from. They might be a nice ride, but Ive had stronger foamies when I was a grom. Another Asian crap pop-out. $450 for 2 hours is not good enough.

I havent snapped a surfboard in 8 years, but have done 10 in my time, this particular model has no integrity to it. Id rather spend my money with Dave Smith from Katana, as he would have replaced it. . Palming a board whilst airbourne in 15-18 knots and it creases is utter crap. Id steer clear of this model at least. Not happy. Merry Chrissy everyone


Should I contact firewire directly?

Sad to say but have had 3 epoxy boards all of different construction (surftech style molded, fibreflex & FireWire) & have had issues with all of them (snappages, corky like performance etc ) Will never buy an epoxy again, you can't lose if you get a pu from a local shaper who knows the local conditions). People say pu doesn't last long, but have fab pu board I surfed in indo 11 years ago and still going strong.

^^^^Yes mate, as Ive said, Ive surfed for 25 plus years, and snapped many rusty, Jc surfborard, never snapped an Katana, Tools yes, after 10+ snappages I have learnt to bail out, hence surfing big waves, sometimes the lip would do the same job. I didnt buy this board for arial surfing I bought it for the surf feel. as my original post I have other tougher boards for that. I dont need to boost my cred here as I have a very solid surfing pedigree, A board that you palm so it doesnt hit your face should not crease.
As for photos, I dropped it off at len dibben, in Myaree, he knows his stuff.

Andobear said...

I have just had a similar experience with a Surftech Ultraflex (Simon Anderson DK)

Brand new board ($800) bought because I was told by shop and many people that they are way stronger than a PU board. After 20min of riding it already had pressure digs under front foot.

Are they selling lies?

They are EPS, dont see many in the water around these parts. Never seen a used one in the racks either, sorry.

I dropped it off at len dibben, in Myaree, he knows his stuff.

In my humble opinion, this guy's a muppet. Living in the past, expecting people to pay massive amounts of unquoted dollars on boards. Mate, you're competing against a pop-out market, you can't carry on like this Len! Just my hunble opinion to the contrary of yours.

On the topic of epoxy, I have an old, old NSP (I know, I know...waiting for the public flaming) and the thing is unbreakable. It was one of the first series that I saw here in W.A. It rides like a pig, is pretty heavy but my goodness, you can't break it!

PaddlePig said...

I dropped it off at len dibben, in Myaree, he knows his stuff.

In my humble opinion, this guy's a muppet. Living in the past, expecting people to pay massive amounts of unquoted dollars on boards. Mate, you're competing against a pop-out market, you can't carry on like this Len! Just my hunble opinion to the contrary of yours.

On the topic of epoxy, I have an old, old NS
P (I know, I know...waiting for the public flaming) and the thing is unbreakable. It was one of the first series that I saw here in W.A. It rides like a pig, is pretty heavy but my goodness, you can't break it!

Hey go easy on poor old Len, he's just trying to make a honest living. If you dont agree with the way he runs his business dont go there, no need slag off at him on a public forum.

PaddlePig said...

Just to add, I hate epoxy! Fibreglass is best. Love the stuff.

Hope Len knows a bit more about surfboards than you, all epoxy surfboards have fibreglass in them.

Maybe you meant epoxy/eps as opposed to poly/PU.

I have been surfing heavy glass jobs for the last 11 years. I pay too much for a board to have it snap. I am not a pro and I think an extra kilo in a board makes very little difference when my 88 kilos is on top, but it makes a big difference in the strength. I have friends who get light glass jobs and I surf better than them on my boards and when I surf theirs I find almost no difference in performance (making allowances for the fact that they often don't get enough foam in their boards because that is what someone younger, better, and lighter surfs in the mags). I get double 6 oz on the deck - sometimes with another six oz tail pad as I grew up in the eighties and it is all about the back foot in my surfing - and 6 oz on the bottom. It's not that I can't afford new boards - I average one every nine months for the last fifteen years or so - but that I want them to last and the performance differential is absolutely marginal for the aerage recreational surfer. It might matter if I was searching for an extra 5% to win a contest, or I was pulling airs and therefore unweighted, but even a fully vertical lip snap is a pretty weighted turn and the transition from back to front foot is the important point, not an extra bit of glass and resin.

And then I can go back to my pu shapers and refine the boards. I also do all my own repairs, bar fin placements. I really like being able to repair rails and noses in my shed for "free". Fins I leave to the professionals.