Slab o' foam

[Timmy!]

Nice! Throw some fins on it!

[Surfdad]

You read my mind Timmy! I have some 1/2" depth boxes and I want to try cutting down the 3/4" rail fins to fit. This would be a good place to try them.

[Timmy!]

So, that begs the question...is it a surfboard or a skimboard?

[Surfdad]

LOL - Slab style board!

[Timmy!]

Genius! You just created a whole new category to compete in! Surf, Skim and Slab divisions! Since the slab isn't mass produced, you guys will be the only ones competing in it!

[Surfdad]

No! Innovation is NOT allowed in wakesurfing. There are only two styles and everyone must exhibit those styles! Too funny.

I wanted to post a picture of me riding that slab o' foam.

[Surfdad]

When I was riding the slab style board, it wanted to rotate out and away from the wake. The tail was pushing forward through the wake, the nose was heading out and away pointing towards the flats and I was riding way on the inside rail. The "water flow" was against the rotation, completely. Except the wake isn't really flowing at all, it's just going UP and then down. There is some flow out towards shore and away from the peak. That sliding along the wake face is aligning the nose with how the water actually flows and the fall line of the wake - like traversing a ski slope.

[Iwndr]

Wake Slabbing

[Surfdad]

Slabbin'!

[NICKYPOO]

Great. Now all of out wakesurfers ate you.g to look like wakeboards.

I guess with those hard(ish?) straight rails and all that surface area in that square tail, its no wonder its fast. Puttin' the square inches down! It's like a big gas pedal.

Wow, I should read what my phone writes before submitting it.

-wakesurfers are going to look...

[Surfdad]

I kinda liked the "ate you.g to" What was that album????

OU812? Who recorded that, Van Halen or Hagar?

[Iwndr]

Van Hagar

[Surfdad]

LOLOL Thats right! Sammy was part of Van Halen for a few years. So funny that I got both parts but not the combo!

[wakemongrel]

Whadda think about wakesurfing this? It's unlaminated closed cell (probably XPS) foam. I'm digging the channels in the tail. I'm guessing it took all of 15 minutes to shape.

Needs little more rocker. I like the name of the board....."Yard Possum"...has a ring to it. I named my board "Swamp Donkey."

[Surfdad]

LOL yeah a little more rocker and a little less foam. Congrats Don on your new RZ2 have you folks been out on the new boat?