Monthly Archives: November 2013

Konduit Kite Pro Review

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BOARD REVIEW: Konduit Kite Pro Model RIDER: BILLY ACKERMAN, CoreVac Team Rider, JAX BEACH FL MODEL: 5’10” Konduit KITE PRO Cannibal is now offering a Strapless Kitesurf construction in select models. The crew at Ocean Extreme Sports has been thoroughly testing these boards to fine tune the perfect strapless kitesurf weapon! My personal board of choice is the 5’10” Konduit Kite PRO. The Konduit Kite PRO edition is the perfect mixture between a groveler and a standard shortboard shape.  From light wind and small surf to overhead nuking conditions this board will take anything you have to throw its way! Featuring a slightly wider outline than your traditional shortboard, subtle single concave and channels throughout the tail, give the Konduit Kite surfboard a very fast stable feeling that provides smooth rail to rail transitions and quick pivot in the pocket. Comes with the new FCS2 fin boxes for a strong box that can match the Cannibal build! CoreVac technology is the lightest and toughest construction I have ever used. For our new Konduit kite PRO model we are adding fiberglass layers where needed yet still keeping the boards as light possible. On the Pro model we are adding a 2in carbon strip

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A.J. FINAN IN A VACUUM

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A.J. Finan is a 30-something shaper from Melbourne Beach, Florida. With twenty years of shaping experience to his name, and an engineering degree from the University Of Central Florida, A.J. and his label Cannibal surfboards have become a solid fixture in surf shops up and down the Eastern seaboard. In certain situations though, shaping can lend itself to a monotonous, industrial-like process—mowing foam to fill orders and nothing more. In 2006 A.J. began tinkering with new board constructions, as any curious mind constantly on hyper-drive tends to do. Most summers he loads a U-Haul trailer packed with boards and makes the trek up I-95, stopping at every one of his accounts. On this particular trip, when he arrived at the Surf Shack in Ship Bottom, New Jersey he emerged from humidity appearing to be hopped up on even more Red Bulls than normal, going a mile-a-minute about “vacuum bagging.” He had found a new vigor for shaping, as what began with one vacuum bagged board (actually a half carbon fiber, half polyester concoction), four years later has transformed his entire production over to vacuum bagging and away from polyurethane. The creation of his new vacuum bagging company, CoreVac, has moved

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Testimonials – New York

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Hi, I forgot your name but I met you at The Mainbeach truck-load sale and bought your 6’0″ Corvac swallow tail. This board rocks! Took it out on a couple of over- head days (because that’s about all we’ve had in a while) and I caught so many waves it was no joke. This boards held everything I threw at it like a walk in the freakin’ park. This board also does a really fine job in the slop (which is pretty much the case this fall).  Paddles so easily, duck dives like a razor blade, and because I’m constantly banging it walking threw doors or tossing it in to my car, the thing has not dinged yet. Thanks, Johnny Montauk, New F-ing York