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andesandrew
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Re: FISHCUIT...
01/22/08 09:24 AM
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interesting thoughts on the mbm being neutral. maybe i need to try and think about surfing on my front foot more...i dunno...could be a good thing to think about when i go surfing. I guess on the M4 I was just going by the shaping bay videos on the website...he says its a popular front foot board.
i agree with HT about the V accepting front-foot input, i used it once on the east coast in basically unsurfable waves and it responded suprisingly well...
i remember the sean moody model being advertised as a front foot board too. funny to hear you found it a backfoot only dog...haha...i think your right about the marketing of some of the big companies being off...it seems like drawing an oversimplified distinction b/w front and back footers might actually convolute whats already a lot of variables at work.
another reason i might be wary of too front footed an approach (personally speaking) is because all too often i miss the sweet spot on the my board and end up standing a bit too far forward...which i think makes heavy front foot input [in that case] cause bogging..but if your in just that right spot on your board consistently, im sure being front footed works
its funny because on the fish level...i always found this front-foot bogging to be a problem...and i tried 3 or 4 fish templates, including the original CI Fish, before finding one that worked, and it worked perfect i felt off the backfoot, off the tail rail. (Zamora HP Fish @ 5'10)...wierdly, i sometimes feel i can push harder and with more backfoot power through a cutback or hack on the zamora than i even can on my shortboard...maybe as a result of the LB1/LB4's and the excellent design/outline just locking into the line of the turn and letting you really push.
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