As time has progressed and customers have received their boards and reactions have been the same it convinces me even more it’s not just a figment of my imagination.
I did find the limit though when I took the Hipster to Indo early in the season. It handled good size Nusa Dua pretty well (double overhead) which impressed me as it’s a wave which had previously shown me boards’ limitations with handling speed. But to be honest this was the point where I would have been either on a conventional thruster (gun) or a twin with less width and volume (I have yet to make a step-up twin).
We continued testing further up the coast when the swell jacked and this right hander was pumping with a lot of water moving around. To its credit the board handled pretty well for a fishy style outline and I totally got away with it, but I could definitely have used a more drawn out outline for this wave. But all things considered, I took one board to Indo which could handle anything from knee to waist high waves where creation of speed is required, to double over head heaving reef breaks where it was all about control and the containment of speed.
The Hipster was proving itself as a stable user-friendly board, with with a performance range over such a large spectrum of conditions. It ticks all the boxes for me and the learning curve has only just begun. SUP
