Just had a great surf with g skate today! My 3rd surf session with g skate today,catch a lot of waves,so easy to catch waves and get on the wave so early,board glides so well in any sections,made all the sections and the long ride! Such a fenomenal magic board!! My 2nd favourite board in my 30 years of surfing!🤙🤙
Updated and tweaked version of the The Pod. Rebranded with a retro-cool vibe, and hipster pitchmen (that are actually really good guys who rip). A+ concept. But the board does look super fun.
Well Tom can ride a toothpick and he actually does. He is about 5' tall and the G-Skate he is riding is shorter than him. The other two are very light too. Honestly the G-Skate looks too stiff because its widest point is way too far up toward the nose, so you have a VERY long rail tapering all the way to the tail. Okay on twin fins and in solid or hollow waves, but otherwise they struggle. And for bigger heavier guys who need litres you are yet again looking at 21" to 21.4" inches wide. All these top shapers can't shape for big heavy men. They ALL only cater to their lightweight pros, then go really wide as the boards get longer. They of course go far too wide, instead of going thicker and shaping the board throughout properly (no wafer tails).
Totally agree: G skate looks skatey wide and flat to make work for its short length. Designs are more like fashions these days. Looks cool, goes dodgy. The bigger guy problem: most board models simply blow out the width and add thickness without then redesigning the deck roll, concaves and rail profiles for the extra width and thickness. So at speed the board doesn't 'sit' in the water well and on a rail it lacks bite, or becomes hard to even get up on a rail because of crazy width. The 'better' shaper on this problem is JS and the Easy Rider range - the plus versions of models. BUT - even they get crazy wide at higher volumes.
WTF is with all the g skate content? They obviously made too many of these or something. Seems like a board for people who think buying crap will make them better surfers.
