I bought the 95l because I watched Matt Holder crank ridiculously tight cutbacks and nail huge stalled forwards on his Windtech last winter at Dutchies and recently at Scarborough.

I was intrigued by the longer length (245cm, 63 wide), the Active Trim Technology tail and blown away by the amazing quality of the construction of the first production boards.

I'm an older, average ability 80kg wavesailor and thought I'd give Scarborough a go with my new Windtech 95. Scarbs picks up a wave when the rest of Perth is flat, but it can be a pretty intense place to sail.

The extra board length, flat rocker with the tail un-flexed and unique fin setup combines to get planing super-quickly, so getting out against the current and fluky wind in the break was so much easier compared with my old Patrik 94.
The Windtech pops over white water easily and effortlessly glides through lulls.

First session saw 25kts+ out the back - with a 4.5m the board was super-controllable and easy to gybe - even though the sea-state was manic. Also easy to stay upwind - the fin setup (single with bonzer side fins) delivers heaps of lift.
Even in the messy onshore half-mast waves, I felt my bottom turns were more flowing and cutbacks tighter than I'm normally able to achieve - I could feel the tail flexing under back foot pressure increasing the rocker and tightening the turns. Awesome fun.

Second session the wind was even stronger. Borrowed the 85l (58 wide), with a 4.5m - even looser than the 95l (as expected) but still easily controllable and simple to ride. Crazy tight turns are just so easy.

The Magic Bullet - less rocker for early planing, speed, higher jumps and upwind ability, or more rocker for flowing turns - by changing the pressure on the tail plate. Magic.

I reckon Neil and Matt have nailed it with this design - awesome boards. JJ

He's a regular now!

A perfect day to evaluate the Active Trim Tech tail on the Windtech 64 SilverBullet - the ocean state was as crazy as it gets at Cottesloe today.

With no tail-flex, downwind runs over the meter high chop were on the edge of out-of-control - got launched and slapped multiple times.

With full tail-flex the handling was transformed, the chop felt half as big - the difference was amazing.
Could head downwind at full speed in full control and really enjoy the much smoother ride

Full tail-flex also helps the board fly upwind - it settles the board in the cross chop so you can keep the power on. Stoked

Any smaller versions in the pipeline 70-75. Cheers.

Hey Matt, I have an idea that may improve it, might not work at all but if interested msg me.