Is this the most important surfboard for your quiver?
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- čas přidán 13. 08. 2023
- High performance surfboards are a category that many of us every day surfers struggle with. They're tighter, 'knifey' and require good waves to really come alive.
But they allow for potentially the highest level of surfing that many of us will get to demonstrate.
It's something I've always wrestled with. For too long I've relied on the effortlessness of a shorter, squashed board but then been limited substantially once the waves get good. This video is a first step toward exploring the realm of HPSBs a little more :)
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I see guys out with their HP boards daily in SoCal. They struggle to even pop up because the waves are too small, or flat mush, or whatever. I'm pissing them off on my midlength and fish board. They think I'm a kook, but I'm surfing while they speed bump it. HP is good for waves that deserve it.
The monsta looked like the most fun but the schooner is smooth and definitely the better travel board for top-bottom proper waves. Gotta love that round pin. Ripping yo
It's wild how much better you looked on the schooner compared to the other boards. Weirdly i was rooting for the schooner seeing your first couple of waves on it! Great choice. I wanna buy one!
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Love your vids Kale!
Great vid, super helpful, i'm JS guy through and through Lov'd section at end with few locals cruz'n right below ya...
Sick vid! Was looking at the schooner but ended up on the raging bull coz it's a bit more forgiving for my skill and variety of waves
Been looking into the schooner and I think I need it in my quiver
Love your vids man
I wish JS came back to the US. They were as popular as lost before the pandemic but now the supply chain is screwed. Great video
It’s difficult being a bigger guy that rides shorter boards! The typical HPSB is usually at lower volume limit, to get anything around around the volume range you’ve got so much rail in the water. A 6’2 on a recent trip felt so long, guess it’s a mental thing!!
Cool vid G, if your back in Anza this Jan might see you there.
Another cool vid with some great conditions in! What do you think of the xcel wetty? Mine lets water in straight away, but then stays warm anyway. Bit diff to the hyperfreak I had before!
Seems good!!
Kale ripping bro 🤙
If you’re not gonna take the monster could i borrow it? Nice vid as always, interesting to see the comparison of the top JS models, schooner looks epic
I would for sure paint forget-me-nots on that board🎨 really dig the schooner 👍⭐️
I got a forget me not, 5,11 with 24.8L. In 4 years of having it I got to surf it twice. Went down to a point break (Rodiles) on the last swell with 3m faces that session and that day just justified having the board for me. Stuck to the water like a knife as you bottom turn and turn of the top it sounds like a lightsaber just cutting through the water. Cant get over the fact that I could’ve had something less like a step up so I could have a board in between the Fmn and my Monsta box but it’s a beautiful board for a beautiful day.
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@@msalvs thats why i said 3m face not 3m. i do not care how you meassure waves, it was a 10ft swell, 3m faces on sets. Wanna sound sick go talk down to your boys
Luckily the waves are so bad where I live I don't have to worry about spending money on the HP side of my quiver.
Same here 2-3ft if I’m lucky 😂 I’ll just stick to my mid length fish board
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Great review with comparing those boards. I'd be interested to know any reason why you went with JS rather than other brands eg; Pyzel, DHD, Lost that do good HPSB
Kick backs / sponsorship
Great video Kale! I have always been a JS fan, but recently their prices in Europe have jumped a lot and I tried the Pyzel and they are amazing. How would you compare the Schooner vs the Ghost?
Interesting. Not a huge PYZEL fan :)
why not?
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God bless Jason Stevenson. When you go JS you never get disappointed
first! lets go! i love your vids so much
Thank you!!!
yesss thank you for replying
I love seeing people living the dream, so many more of us in groundhog day. Cheers for what you do.
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Anyone know where that first spot was the waves looked sick
Try medium fins in your pulled in tail step ups. Can feel a bit sticky with large fins
Large side fins medium rear works for me, but I’m 6’2 / 85kg’s
Loving the dolphins ❤❤❤
Ever since taking a Schooner to wet season Indonesia 🇮🇩, I am looking for a board that has the same knifieness, precision and drive but in smaller waves below 4ft while.
Any recommendations??
I can only agree… the Schooner is perfect!
Great review Kale! I was literally just about to pull the trigger on the Monsta 10….i love the look of the Schooner and would order one if there was more volume in the shorter sizes. I’d need to go 6’1/6’2 to get the vol I need but would want the board at 5’9/10…
Which Sharp Eye did you say the Monsta was comparable to? Was it the Inferno FT? Looks like the Monsta has a touch extra nose width?
It was the FT yeah! They’re similar boards imo !
Thanks for watching!
I’ve heard the FT can surf smaller waves with less push so sounds like the Monsta has a good range….but still super high performance…
They do customs
What’s the mid length board?
Can you share your mobility routine!! Would be much appreciated love your vids kale keep it up!!
It’s coming !
Love JS boards
i was looking for a board that is good for summer, it be pretty cool thing to do for a video
It's all about the paddle 🏓 early bird 🐦 gets the worm 🐛 🤙 love the content bro keep up the mission stoke
Dude. I surf. Pondi ace spot. Do you rate vacuum cleaner as well? Mine snapped
Love the dolphins at PB
Looking forward for a review of the Sharpeye synergy? 🤙🏽
Eventually!
did you have some kind of arrangement with JS for this video? - just wondering why you chose 3 boards from the same manufacturer. and you also linked to the JS website in the video description. good on you for getting some kind of personal benefit; the average consumer would benefit from some transparency, though
I reached out to them to make me some
HPSB for this video. That’s it.
@@KalesBroccolihow much did you pay for it, genius? You must disclose these type of things for transparency towards the general viewers who may actually believe any nonsense you come up with.
@@msalvsThe guy is making a living for himself doing what he loves. Give him a break, it’s quite inspiring if you don’t let your jealousy get in the way. If you don’t like, don’t watch. Kale gives his honest opinion which is all the transparency you could ask for
What kind of monster puts a board deck up on the ground???? DECK DOWN people! Treat the bottom like a god.
Someone that doesn’t pay full price for their boards
I did cringe a bit too, but if I has access to lots of boards like Kale I'd be a bit more lax as well.
😂😂 have never dinged or damaged a board in twenty years doing this.
If you put the board down gently it's not going to do anything. Give me a break. But hey....try an experiment...get two or three surfboards of the same model size etc....have a friend put a few random minor surface scratches on the bottom of one of them. Have your friend hand you off scratched/not scratched boards 40 times. You go surf them 20 times each without looking at or touching the bottoms. Make your guesses as to which is which. CZcams it so we can see if your cheating. Let's see if you can tell a difference between the two. If you can tell beyond a reasonable random guess level...say 75% of the time? Then maybe your point will have some value.
@@doublestrokeroll 2:24 the board taps the pavement nicely. To each their own though, no stress.
Me only having a Hype perfomance CI Happy 5´10 18 5/8 2 5/16 25.5 l for every surf 🤠
It looks to me like you were fighting the board when you rode the Monster. Maybe it was the bumpy conditions.
3:54 Your weight is back in the bottom turns, and you're not able to drive as hard. Maybe I'm wrong.
Enjoy your six month adventure!!!
Great review! Wish I could surf alone like this sometimes... Crowd is savage here in Brazil
I wouldn’t wanna surf where kale is surfing ahahaha sharks Fuken everywhere
@@Surfgod90 id rather prefer sharks than the unpolite animals we have here
Maybe the round tail version of the monster?
Cant wait for you to put out more tutorials. I dont really need any more surfboard ads tbh
Appreciate the shape analysis but JS boards ding that easily, not a great single travel board.
in the thumby, looks flat out there m8 lol ;)
there is no way the JS shoomer you had is 5'11 and 2 1/5 thick. i think there is a mistake
It’s a very thick board
2 1/2 (not 2 1/5 😉)
11:40 dolphins
Yeeww
Let's face it, if you don't live on the North Shore of Hawaii or target your surf trips for the heaviest swell/wave situations, or are under 30 with at least 12 twelve years surfing experience under your belt, 90% of your surfing will NOT need a " HPSB". I am 63 Now and stopped riding them in my mid 50's and even in my 20's - 40's gave up wave counts for the odd " power nugget" just to throw one turn. The late 80's and 90's set surfing backwards with an over emphasis on using HPSB's. At 6' /180lbs and in my " sunset performance" surfing years, I'm totally stoked on my 6'3" JS Black Baron 2.1, 6'8" JS Big Baron, and my 6'6" Sharpeye Disco Cheater. They all deliver the goods in groveling 2' to 6' power surfing here in Northern Cali - the real Norcal - North of the GGB. Had my best session of the year on the Big Baron in overhead hollow beachie runners! That board is SICK!
do youthink you could surf these waves using a squash tail ?
Of course !
what wavw is that ? talking from brasil here, tks
@@KalesBroccoli
so more travel vlogs incoming?
Yis Yis
The guy rips , someone have to tell this true
If I buy 3 boards my marriage is over😂😂😂
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Bro you're killing me by throwing those blades down on the pavement like that, yikes.
I didn’t throw them