im looking at a manawa 10 footer which is a bit of allrounder i think.
cheers for the reply DJ
Paddled a couple of the waveboards with a friend.
Overall conclussion:
All of them are really eye candy with great looks but besides that we were not too impressed:
We paddle at the Northsea in slow but steep waves with a short waveperiod.
We both struggled with lots of nosedives due the very little (nose)rockerno matter what we tried and how quick we stepped back.
Serious anoying: the space between the pads to show the beautifull construction are exactly there where we wanna our feet, so lots of slips and F#cks in diverse variations!.
On the other side ive seen some really light guys ripping like hell with it at Fuerteventura so maybe its just that the bigger rider boards struggle with it but other brands like Naish, Starboard, Fanatic etc offer an imo better finnished and thought trough product.
I surfed the 10' Manawa a couple of times. It's 10' x 32" so it's plenty stable. It has fairly thin rails so it carves pretty good for a big board. I surfed it in head high waves with no problem of it feeling big and clumsy.
It's built strong and looks nice. Great one board does all really.
