This is it, The Firewire Spitfire
Thanks to Surfshop Medusa in Bruges for the delivery! What is so special about Firewire Spitfire? Uhm well at first it's a board made out of
Firewire material Firewire Boards are Hybrid Boards
Which means they are not 100% handmade or shaped
But the material makes the boards more durable and stronger
Even more important is that they have a much bigger flex
which will stay during the entire lifecycle of the board
As you can see the upper side of the board is in B
amboo
That makes this Board the Rapidfire series This Bamboo layer makes the Board stronger
and gives it the necessary flex without using a stringer
If we turn the board you can see that there is no stringer used
In the early days of Firewire you could see some black stripes on this side of the board
which made the board extra strong like a stringer They are still inside the board, made in the
foam, so you don't see them anymore What is so special about the Spitfire model? Well this is if you lo
ok at it a shortboard
shape But it's not a normal high performance shortboard
but a fat and more wider shortboard for extra small days
it's made like a Dominator shape, so in the same familiy of Firewire boards
You can see that there is almost no rocker This makes the board very easy to paddle and
to catch waves very early So this shape is like the Dominator shape
but at the end you can see that the tail is made
different, somewhat more radical This is a diamond tail where the surface is
made sm
aller if you compare it to the normal Dominator roundhouse tail
and they added also a stepdown at the rails which make the rails sharper and less surface
when turning Don't know if you can see it on the video
but there's a part removed a both sides of the rails wich gives the board more grip in
the waves You can also get them in 2 fin systems, FCS
and Future Fin system, this is FCS Like all the Dominator boards you can also
change the fin settings and ride this board as a Thruster or as Quad
I'm
very curious how this board will perform in Northsea waves
Can't wait to take it for a surf Stay tuned, review will be posted on the Surfbuddha
http://surfbuddha.blogspot.com Ciao bye bye
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