My Weirdo experience -

The board mezmerized me when I first set eyes on it. I knew I had to have one. I’ve been surfing retro twins and quads now for over ten years so I felt I needed a change of direction.

I’m 5’10″ 200 lbs and also need a little floatation so this ‘NEW’ board looked perfect. I ordered a 6’0″ 20 3/8″ X 2 3/4″ Weirdo w/ a lot of inside help from Ando, Big Scotty, and Dougy.

When i received the board it was amazing – Full acid splash resin tint – set up for quad or thruster. This thing felt unbelievable under my arm – Again perfect balance from tip to tail. But what intrigued me the most was the bottom of the board. The magic starts about midway back with the deep hulled channels that are super flowing w/ ‘V’ out the tail, and the tail rocker starting from the wings also out thru the tail. Beautiful, but again all pretty new to me as a whole.

My first go out was at Rincon w/ my buddy Steve ‘O’. In the beginning of that session I rode it to far forward, like I was still on my old boards… It was pushing water, not really working right. I started placing my foot farther back, and the farther back I went the more control I had. And the more it wanted to do exactly what I was thinking. It was unbelieveable. Now I’m practically stepping off the tail where I ride it best. Once you find that spot the board does whatever your thinking exactly when you think it. It’s not a second or two behind, I promise…
I’ve been riding it as a thruster because I wanted to surf top to bottom and back again, but as I get used to it and after watching Kelly and Dane surf those contests w/ it I think I’m going to set it quad for the next go out, and loosen it up a bit.

I want to say – Mahalo and Aloha to Channel Islands for being such great friends throughtout the years. It’s more like an Ohana. – THIS IS TO ALL YA ALL –

I really look forward to the next twenty years surfing on the best best boards and w/ all the great friends along this wonderous coastline of ours.

** dougy rules **

Lanzie