See this guy in the epic JD follow cam videos and that board is totally different from everything! Looks wide, flat, thin, low volume. Seems like its fully committed to planning and surface area vs displacement and float. Does he sinker start it? Many questions!

Good question about how he gets going on that little board but if you look through JD's older vids you will see him doing it.. In a recent one you see him fall and gets separated from his board due to no leash..

Pretty sure that board is a foiling boogie board that was once made by Naish.. I have one hanging on my wall..

I wondered that a while ago as well, but regarding his Instagram acount it is not an Naish but an custom:

www.instagram.com/mauiwiiing/

www.instagram.com/p/CSnxpeMrA-H/

It's Maui, where one could ride a lunch tray and it would work. Given the skill levels and wind there, I'm always a bit wary of the designes being ridden there and how practical they would be in the real world.

Ad to that that the guy is very light. I think I need to take of all my limbs to get such weight.
After trying a lot of shapes I found that for me personally slighter longer but smaller boards work better as shorther and wider.

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It's Maui, where one could ride a lunch tray and it would work. Given the skill levels and wind there, I'm always a bit wary of the designes being ridden there and how practical they would be in the real world.

Yup
I ride 85 liters religiously, fickle winds here.It has saved me from dozens of very long paddles back home.

James Casey himself had a vid talking about the need for liters if your conditions are unreliable.

Yeah, I'm 83kg and have 80l and 60l boards a Takuma and an Amos.
If I'm not powered the 60l is just hard work and makes a session not enjoyable whereas the 80l is fun whenever the winds up and down or a strong current. Once powered though and the winds building my 60l is more fun.
But if I'm in doubt at all I default to 80l.

Mike

For me I'd rather have some length and narrow width. But wind quality is low here in terms of gusts even on big days.