Christened her this morning with a waist to shoulder high point swell. Was slightly cross wind and blowing hard so a nasty chop on the water made it pretty tricky, especially on the takeoffs... but gotta say, either i was surfing really well or this is THE best LB I have surfed.

1. Even with the pivot fin the bottom turn is AMAZING, managed some lovely smooth carving turns.
2. Paddled and caught everything, the sweet spot is soooooooo sweeeet
3. Handled late takeoff's WAY better than my 9'6" and nearly was well as the 7' fish. Took a few that would definitely not made on the old LB and just cruised into em super easy.
4. The holding on the wave is amazing. SDR talked about a concave that suck the board onto the wave and i was like, yeah, that'll work (sarcasm) and bloody hell it does. whilst I didn't manage a 10 i managed a few 5's and plenty of time on that front third and i'm sure that had it been cleaner i woulda nailed it STOOOOKED
full review to come but needless to say, i definitely made the right choice