Has anybody tried one of these? Looks rather appealing considering the price, besides starting off with couple of things right (for me at least), having double screwed straps and US fin boxes. www.weone.at/en/serial-boards/we-wave

Cheers!

Flikka boards are only 60 euro more.

I see that they have lowered the price. It is now 1.687,50
But I would also prefer a Flikka

another recommendation for Flikka. i have the s glass hardcore thruster, and think i would have destroyed any production board by now!

I have AI translated the German Surf Magazine test here: (Some funny translations, but overall it makes sense what they think)

The We One We Wave 83 in test
The We One We Wave scores highly as an inexpensive and manoeuvrable waveboard - but also reveals weaknesses in the comparison test. Find out what they are here. The Austrian brand We One has put together an impressive range of boards in a very short space of time. This includes the We Wave model, which was designed as an all-round wave board.
On land:
At 83 litres, the We Wave model is nominally somewhat smaller within the test group, but in terms of width, the board is within the group average. The board is supplied with comfortable foot straps that are double-bolted at the back. Screwing the straps into matching plugs results in a very narrow stance. We recommend mounting the rear strap all the way to the back and pushing the centre fins to the rear third. With its grippy pads, two vent valves and appealing weight, this comparatively inexpensive board makes a good first impression. In the underwater hull, the designers have given the We Wave a pronounced V with double concaves and a moderate tail kick. Striking: The rounded edges extend all the way to the tail - actually atypical, as wave boards usually also have a hard tear-off edge in the tail area. The fin boxes are particularly long - this allows for plenty of tuning, but also means that a large part of the fin box always remains open in front of and behind the mounted fins. Speaking of fins: The board is delivered without fins, a quad setup is recommended.
On the water:
For testing, we gave the board fin sizes comparable to those of competitor products (centre fins: 14.5 to 15 cm; side fins 10-11 cm). So it can't have been due to the fin setup that the We One We Wave is noticeably delayed in planning. Only when we moved the centre fins to the rear third and closed the long boxes with plastic covers that we had cut to size ourselves did the ride resistance reduce somewhat. When powered up, the board pulled through the chop with halfway free planning and good damping. Tight jibes onto the wave are fluid and smooth, and the shape already shows its good turning potential here. Fortunately, this continues on the wave: In the bottom turn, the We Wave is easy to turn and variable, and with a little pressure you can carve really tight and radical turns. However, the fact that the We Wave only holds its speed moderately in unpressurised waves and sometimes starts to hop on the edge in rough conditions noticeably restricts its range of use.
We One We Wave - the conclusion:
The We Wave would be quite attractive as an inexpensive and manoeuvrable wave board - if it weren't for its below-average gliding properties. In our opinion, these result from the rounded edges in the tail area and the long fin boxes. Unfortunately, this limits the range of use to clean waves with sufficient thrust.

Full test of 2024 boards in German here:

www.surf-magazin.de/windsurfen/boards/wave/waveboards-2024-neun-neue-wave-allrounder-im-test/

These are actually useful reviews, thanks for translating! I like the honesty and bold recommendations on how to potentially improve the board

Ouch that review casts a long shadow on the brand. Soft rails at the rear of the board speaks volumes.

Its a wave board for riding waves. Do you need higher speeds from sharp rails at the rear. Would it be better to compare the board to that like Severne Nano and not the Pyro?

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PhilUK said..
Its a wave board for riding waves. Do you need higher speeds from sharp rails at the rear. Would it be better to compare the board to that like Severne Nano and not the Pyro?

In short all boards need sharp release in the tail regardless of whether they are wave boards or speed boards.

no boards have round rails in the tail. The nano doesn't nor does the pyro nor do surfboards or sups. Vintage logs do but they are displacement hulls.

If they want to design proper wave boards, they should start from scratch instead of offering cheaper rubbish. Not easy. Good luck.

The WeOne speed board collection looked promising, but not seen any one posting sessions on any of the gps platforms. I'm surprised to have not seen any sessions considering in Europe, they cost around 1000 euros less than most competitors. Maybe people are afraid of low second hand values or don't want to spend money on an unknown quantity? The brand isn't available in the UK, but if it was, at ?1800 I think I might've taken a chance on the speed 45 or 52.

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If they want to design proper wave boards, they should start from scratch instead of offering cheaper rubbish. Not easy. Good luck.

Made in Austria, so no expensive shipping from Asia to Europe. They sell direct, no importers/agents. No expensive team riders.
How much do you think that saves? A downside for me in the UK would be Brexit & import faff, plus having to deal with our Customs if I needed a warranty issue sorting out.
You can look on their website for their construction videos, hitting the board with a rubber mallet & extension.
The wave board might not be to people's liking, but they do custom boards.
Im not in the market for any new kit, but I would look into We One if I was. You dont see many full carbon freerace boards these days. The expensive brands no call their biaxial glass constructions 'LTD'. I remember when 'LTD' was limited edition full carbon.

Maybe one day I'll aspire having two vent plugs, not today tho

Have yet to see one on the water in the Netherlands.

The boards are now also distributed by Gun Sails, so maybe that will help....

gunsails.com/en/windsurf-boards

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sprayblaze said..
If they want to design proper wave boards, they should start from scratch instead of offering cheaper rubbish. Not easy. Good luck.

These austrian guys are very well respected in our european windsurf community - their customs are famous.

And the tests of the Surf-Magazin have been false before and many very good surfers in Germany do not believe them at all.

"offering cheaper rubbish" <= If I don't know everything about a topic, I'm not writing about it.

I sent Scharli the link to this thread.

Moin/Hey Boris...
I only know the two shapers from the German Surf Forum and Surf Magazine, unfortunately I haven't seen a board from Weone on the north German coast yet. The wave surf testers are known to most people here in the north are all consistently good surfers. The test took place here in the north and a waveboard has to glide well, be able to make short turns and there it probably has deficits... we'll see how Weone develops... it's almost recommended for big waves. The surf magazine Portraying them as bad testers isn't ok either... I know a lot of good surfers who trust the test and you can also ask the guys here on site about the tests. Greetings from the cold Baltic coast

there was a discussion of this surf-test in the small "time to surf forum" - directly with Scharli himself.
forum.timeto.surf/forum/thread/400-weone/?pageNo=2

And no, I don't have a lot of trust for the tests of the Surf-Magazin anymore. The rare tests, which I can do myself - slalom and now foil - there have been so many things, where I have to say - better read the french tests.

For wave - I'm not good enough to analyze anything.

But in this thread here on seabreeze there have been some sentences which are near to defamation:

for example "If they want to design proper wave boards, they should start from scratch instead of offering cheaper rubbish. Not easy. Good luck."

okay,
but this forum(time to Surf) doesn't reflect the opinion of the German or European surfing scene, hardly anyone knows that. Clearly the owner there isn't happy about the test and sees it differently. I think it's a bit strange with the four us box boxes, it seems like on a prototype and rounded edges all the way to the tail is very rare. I really wish the guys good luck and at some point I will see the first Weone Wave board here on the coast. The price is currently a bit lower than Mojo or Flikka... Windfl?chter is priced slightly higher.

why do not ask him directly? He answers in the TTS und the Surf-Forum, too.

The question is:
Why four US box boxes, it seems like on a prototype and rounded edges all the way to the tail is very rare?

Hello everyone!

I'm happy when our very young brand stimulates discussions. Let me first briefly introduce WE ONE and myself here. The WE ONE brand was re-founded in January 2023 after a lengthy development phase. As you can see on our homepage www.weone.at, our core team consists of 3 people. Ben van der Steen, who you may know from the racing sector, develops the shape of the boards from FREE RACE, RACE, RACE FOIL to SPEED boards and carries out the tests himself together with our team riders. The RACE and FOIL RACE boards are also already IFCA and PWA registered for 2024. Paul Simmerl is the head of marketing and sales. Of course, I also develop the WAVE, freestyle and freeride boards together with our riders. I am also responsible for the construction area and our production. Here I can bring my twenty years of experience in custom board construction into series production. We have built our own factory for the production of the series boards, which I personally control and monitor. Our series boards are all produced in CAD and CNC technology, which allows us maximum flexibility in development and quick implementation of changes.

I understand why our boards haven't reached all the spots in the world yet. No brand has ever achieved market penetration in just one year. We had organized more than 10 test events in Italy, Germany, Austria, Spain, France and Greece last year. The response from our testers, customers and team riders is extremely positive. Our high-quality and stable construction is currently quite unique on the market. We also get this from our team riders, who put a lot of strain on the boards. All boards in the WAVE and FREESTYLE range are constructed in a unique double sandwich construction on the deck. This allows maximum durability with low weight. The freeride and raceboards are constructed in full carbon construction.

I don't want to go into a specific discussion of tests. The testers of the test report always do an excellent job, and it is certainly not easy to compare the properties of different boards and to articulate them in an understandable way. Unfortunately, we made the mistake of not following the product selection rules when testing the waveboard. If we had asked where the waveboards were tested, we would have sent our WE FREEWAVE 84 to the test. This is much more suitable for North and Baltic Sea waves and is also designed for these types of waves. The WE WAVE is a radical waveboard for really hardcore conditions. But we are also happy about the tests and comparisons with other brands. We accept criticism openly, draw our conclusions immediately and implement them as quickly as possible.

The price of our boards is certainly unique on the market due to their construction. We achieve this comparatively very low price level not through savings in the selection of materials and construction of the boards, but through the low cost structure of our company and our own production facility for the boards.

We didn't found the new brand to make a lot of profit, but to make our passion for windsurfing affordable for everyone and to focus on the fun of the sport.

We would be happy if you followed us on Instagram.

From windsurfers to windsurfers!

WE are ONE!

Scharli