After along "delay" my Shox has arrived, looking at the forecast thisweekend I may get to try it out.
I will post my thoughts next week.

@ 250lb or roughly 430 aussie dollars it would want to be worth it.

Now who will be the first to copy?? let the race begin.....

You forgot that aussies get ripped off

I dont get what makes this one different to previous shock absorbing bases, all of which failed.

No one has bothered to copy the xt base, north might be on their own with this too.

With the speed increases everyone is claiming why aren't antoine, bjorn and finian using them already?

how about north harden the **** up and make an rdm xt base that works on extensions of less than 10cm?

Or is it too hard..

First real session on the Shox:

I had an afternoon session on a 2009 Warp rigged with normal base, and a 2010 Warp rigged with the Shox. Board a Carbon Art 62cm slalom, and a C3 40 Venom fin.Should have rigged the 09 sail on the shox.(I think-feel the 2010 is faster).
Overall, there is a difference with the Shox, hard to describe but first impressions follow:

Getting going the rig feels the same, as soon as you get into the straps and power up you start to notice the difference, no loss of mast foot pressure, if anything the feel is more solid. Across short chop the board feels to level out and no transfer of shock through the rig.(Non of the jarring from board slap through the rig) best way to describe the feel. (Full carbon hulls have that non forgiving ride).

I had a Gps on and checked data over a given distance and angle between both sail set ups and the shox was giving a 1.1.5 knot advantage.

It may be the sail, me, or whatever, but after a good 3 hours of trialing against a normal base, i think it may have some merit.

I was using it on the minimum setting of 60cm and am keen to try it on the maximum over rougher water.

Hope to try it out on bigger and smaler sails over the next few weeks.

Anyone else tried one I would be interested in their thoughts.