Fredstem

I finally found a surfboard which turns exactly the way I like... This new '09 Naish Custom Global Wave 6'0'' fits "my style" perfectly. With all the boards I ride or try, I usually like the toe-side turns but I have never been completely comfortable with the heel-side turns.

I just want a board to smash the top of the wave the way I want (and can :-)); with some efficient grip but not too much so I can cut back smoothly into the wave. I now found it!

So as of today, if I don't attack the wave correctly, it won't be the board's fault, but just mine :-((

Thanks Dimiexter for catching this on pictures...

Here are a few of my new toys: 2009 Naish Thorn 130 FC & Custom Global Wave 6'0''.
I rode the Global wave 6'0'' today at 3rd Av. with my 2009 Cult 12m and what a blast!  The quad fin board is easy to ride, smooth at turns and very floaty. I am dying to use this beautiful surfboard on a small wave day at Scotts...

Old-style picture for an old-school move... but quite happy to now nail this toe-side to blind...

Cold, light and muddy session (even more for my photographer, Dimiexter) but quite stoked after seeing my little girl Fiona sweeping the podium again at her gymnastics competition...

There is simply nothing better than a sunny kitesurfing session at Scoots on a 25 knots wind with 6 foot waves. Too bad there is too often a bad-boy-wanna-be Caution rider to give you some local attitude...

Not recognizing you as part of his redneck tribe of regulars, he is always trying to convince you that you don't know anything about the local wave's etiquette. Seeing you as a foreigner riding a not-so-welcome brand, he just thinks that this localism could scare you enough so next time you would stay in the bay or maybe trade your beloved kites for figure skating shoes...

I am always amazed by his BS explanations because whatever you do or wherever you are on the wave, upwind, downwind, ahead, behind, it's always your fault. Because that's HIS wave...

Sometimes I just wish that those angry santa cruz so-called kitesurfers had picked up football, hockey or boxing (no offense guys) and not the beautiful sport I like so much.

But I have a bad news for you narrow-minded freestyle-incapable riders, this localism doesn't work with me neither with my dear friend JM and I do know and respect the waves etiquette. So see you on the coast very soon!

I knew it... This was the right timing for him and he well deserved to be the first to smash the 50 knots barrier.

Congrats Catman and thanks Tyrone (Rawlins) for giving me the info (live).