This little beauty has flown under my radar and I had not seen any info on it in the press but after seeing it in the flesh I pulled the trigger on the 8/3 a couple of months ago and just backed it up with the 8/6 for windy choppy days here in WA. if I had to design a new custom this ticks all the box's. The 8/3 is like a Swiss Army Knife and just seems to do everything really well and becoming my go to board for 80% of our local conditions. The boards are super light, sub 7 kg for the 8/3, sensible bit of nose rocker for late drops, stupidly stable yet turns remarkable, smooth on the bottom turns and releases nice off the lip, love it.
more to come
Great looking board ...it's like they've taken the older Surf Wide version (which is a great fun board) and tuned it right up and turbo charged it in all the right places. And at that weight it will feel so easy to flick around.
Yeah Slab really enjoying the 8/3 and the 8/6 will get an outing soon, hopefully similar to its little brother. In comparison to the old surf wide boards JP has increased the nose and tail rocker, thinned out the rails and reduced the width but kept the flatish deck which altogether seems to work great.
Hey Rossal my 8'3" is on the slow boat due Oct and will add to this thread then.
Just looked at the design online and knew that it was a well thought out intermediate shape worth a gamble. Well that and a recommendation from a board whore ;-).
I've decided to keep my 8'10" smik as a rough weather ride but look forward to your review of the 8'6" JP.
BTW notice no rail tape. Not a fan?
The 8/3 is taped just haven't hatime to get to the local and buy some 3m. Should get the 8/6 out this week.
