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JohnnyMaya said...
As you pass that weight limit, your board will sink. Not a sink into the bottom of the ocean thing, but sink until the flotation from your own body starts becoming relevant and you start having "less weight on the board", if this makes any sense to you.

Exactly. Note that you must also add the weigth of the board / fins /paddle / wetsuit to your weight.

The extra "floatation" you can get by immersing parts of your body, and keeping your board moving, even a tiny bit, is quite real and well known to windsurfers slogging on boards with much less volume than their body+gear weight.

Whether you want to struggle so much is debatable... and depends on your age I guess... :-)

yea here to tell you Im a lazy surfer and paddler, give me something that is easy to surf and still has performance.

The idea of paddling around on a 1 to 1 board is simply not a fun thing to think about. There will always be blokes like Jackson etc that are freakishly good and should be applauded, my view has been always that this is not the benchmark to which others are measured they are the elite 1%.

Epic Jacko! Your ripping on the new boards!!

Yep, just realized im not good at SUP surfing.

Yup, humbled me too.

In my dreams I get a custom 95l beauty. The reality is I'm hooked on the glide from my
high volume boards, just want them to able to rip a turn too.

Great vid, really like the tail slide at 1:12 mark just to remind the longboarder that he still had something left for the wave.

Well done Piros .good surfing shows what the boards can do. Cheers

Faaaaaark, you'd have to be J.C just to get through that ****....why ya would even risk it

Because he can

I'm not commenting on the volume thing, but can give some feedback on comparisons between the JP 8' 6" and the Hokua.

Before I got the JP I had both the 8' 5" and the 9' 0" Naish's. Haven't jumped on the scales in a while but I am at least 90 kegs (in the States at present, eating US portions, so the scales are no doubt going up, too!) and have found the JP to be way more stable than the 8' 5" Hokua, and at least as stable as the 9'0", if not a little more. Whilst the JP has (on the specs) less volume than the 9'0" and perhaps less than the 8'5" as well, it would have more wetted surface area than the others. Definitely more area forward of centre than the Naish's, which adds to the stability. The JP is thinner throughout than the Naish's, but more area throughout the plan shape. Carbon SUP's also seem to have more float than equivalent glass models.

I'm definitely interested to try the 8' 2", so hopefully a demo model might find its way down to Vicco sometime.