surfer feedback 7
Throwing out turns on edge and pulling the board back under me felt effortless
Surfing Pitas last sunday on the SR71,
I could not believe the acceleration from that board.
Just one push and it was flying.
Fast, loose, and easy to ride.
All this extra speed led to me blasting hits
much harder than usual.
Throwing out turns on edge and pulling the board back under me felt effortless.
I was shocked at the way I was surfing this board.
I felt like someone much better
and that so much more was now possible.
Jeff Myron, Mar Vista, CA
Custom Flexible Epoxy SR-71: 6′4″ x 18 3/4″ x 2 1/4″ Rounded Squash/Roundpin (3 years old)
You are the BOARD MASTER
Todd, Charissa,
A few amateur pics of Kingston this week at the rip curl contest
If I forget to tell you THE NEW GREASED PIG IS AWESOME.
Surfed head high barrels in Newport River Jetty…The G4 is next…
You are the BOARD MASTER. THANKS
Kingston, 11, Newport Beach
G-4.f: 5′2″ x 16 3/4″ x 1 7/8″
Brian, Newport Beach
Greased Pig: 5′10″ x 19″ x 2 5/16″
Proxy epoxy with Kevlar compression patch
pulled a couple airs and I think I heard him say he loves you guys
Surfed overhead Lower Trestles on Sun..
AMAZING day..15 people in the water, couldn’t believe it..
Surfed 4 hrs. laughing about it the whole time..
Kingston pulled a couple airs
and I think I heard him
say he loves you guys,
hard to tell with all the screaming he was doing,
he slept with it
in his room Sunday..
Later, Brian
5’0″ x 17″ x 1 7/8″ Modulus F Air Board/Monsta
had been riding surftechs for the last 2 years, and I found this board way more lively, responsive, yet forgiving in the pocket and off the lip
Hey Todd,
I hope you’re well! I recently returned from the Mentawais, and I rode my custom flexible epoxy Tail Caves every day. The surf was small for most of the trip, but the board brought my backside surfing to a new level nevertheless.
I had been riding surftechs for the last 2 years, and I found this board way more lively, responsive, yet forgiving in the pocket and off the lip.
We caught overhead Rifles on the last day of the trip, and I caught the longest, fastest barrels of my life. Check out the pics!
Sincerely,
Jorge Fernandez, 32, Malibu, CA
6′0 1/2″ x 18 3/8″ x 2 3/16″ Tail Caves II Proctor Custom Epoxy “PROXY” Serie
Todd,
Just wanted to let you know that the Blackbird has been working insanely well for me on the small days here in the Mentawais (chest to well-overhead). Super fun, loose, and flexy when snapping of the lip. The board works great for fin throws, layback snaps, full roundhouses, barrels, etc. This board is a dream ripper…
I only wish I would have bought your stock 6-4 Ante-up, to use for the upcoming swell, as I think it would have worked great as a step-up for me in these kind of waves. Oh well, I’m sure I’ll be happier in the long run with an more all around custom Ante-up that hopefully would go sick in Indo as well as California, France, Puerto Rico, etc! I think that board will be my next order from you later this summer…
Take care!
Jorge
Custom Proctor Epoxy “PROXY” Surfboard: 6′0″ x 18 1/4″ x 2 3/16″
Blackbird Rounded Squash
surfboard review: custom epoxy shortboards
performance shortboard SR-71, taiwan
Hi Charissa,
BTW, the board went great!
See attached pictures; that’s me with SR 71.
Please send my regards to Todd; I’ll have order ready within few weeks.
Yours truly,
Jerry Yee, SOAK Inc., Taipei, Taiwan
6′5″ x 18 3/16″ x 2 3/16″ SR71
This board however banks turns at full speed easily and the turns are positive
Todd,
I picked up my new board from you a few weeks back. It’s a 6′2″ Proxy SR-71 with a two tone blue fade. I am always a skeptic when I try a new board out especially from a new shaper. When I got the board back to my house to check it out I found a curvier outline, more rocker, and less concave than my previous boards. I was thinking that it would be really manuverable but I was worried that it would be slow. Man was I wrong!
Once I started to figure the board out I was blown away by how sensetive it is rail to rail, and how I could use the extra manuverablity to generate even more speed.
My old boards have always been fast, But turning them at top speed was always the issue. They required full force which made the turn hard to control. This board however banks turns at full speed easily and the turns are positive. Plenty of projection. Not the type the tail starts to drift and with it goes all your speed for the next turn.
Also the board catches waves like a dream, I barely have to paddle.
With this being my first board from you I can only imagine what the next one will be like. For now I’m going to ride this one into the ground and try to find something about it that we can improve on for the next one. Thanks for giving me a board that is going to help me improve my surfing.
P.S. I bought some future compatable trulite fins from true ames. They work great on this board. Feels like glass ons.
Thanks, Mike Julian, 27, Southern California
Custom Surfboard: Proxy Epoxy construction: SR71 rounded squash tail
6′2″ x 18 3/4″ x 2 5/16″ Nose: 11 1/4″ Tail: 14 1/8″
Welcome to the next generation
The Proctor Flexible Epoxy boards are the best quality surf board I have ever ridden and the board Todd shaped is the sickest looking board in my quiver. Soon I will have an all Flex Epoxy Proctor quiver.
P.S. I think the epoxy feels better than the old school poly’s.
Welcome to the next generation. They may well be the most heavy duty premium board on the market.
Steven Meade , 26, Gulf Shores, AL
Custom Proctor Epoxy “PROXY” Surfboard: 6′10″ x 21″ x 3″ Big Chief Squash Tail
surfboard review: custom epoxy big guy shortboards, grovelers
it just seems to have soul, something that is lacking in many industries
Todd, Charissa and Crew,
Just wanted to thank you guys for the new board,
it really is a work of art.
Great job with the packing (it took me about 15 minutes to get it out) and once it was out I wasn’t sure if I should wax it or hang it on my wall as art, thankfully I didn’t choose the latter. The package came about an hour before I was headed to the jersey shore so it worked out well. As luck would have it the summer swells have been pretty decent here in jersey but this past weekend with new board in hand it was virtually flat. I was able to grab a couple knee high swells but obviously not enough to really get a feel for the board. What I can say is that
the thing really paddles great
in fact I found it just as, if not easier,
to catch a wave on my 7′ 2″ Big Chief
than on my 7′10″ funboard, very impressive
so I can only imagine how she will surf. Being a tradesman myself I can really appreciate the overall quality of the board and
it just seems to have soul,
something that is lacking in many industries.
Having gone through some difficult times as of late I look to embrace anything that puts a smile on my face, your board truly did, and I’m sure it will bring many more in the future.
Thanks again.
Best Wishes,
Daniel Eorio, 28, New Jersey
Proxy Epoxy Big Chief: 7′2″ x 21″ x 3″ swallow tail
Future 5 fin install
I don’t think I’ll ride anything but a flexible epoxy for a long time
Following up on the other email…
I don’t think I’ll ride anything but a flexible epoxy for a long time.
I had ridden an epoxy board before, a “ST”, made with the usual PVC sandwich. I actually liked the board, being lighter and stronger, but it was nothing like your board.
I think that you have really perfected it, having the durability and the light weight, but with a board that has some real spring.
I rode it every day in Cabo and within the first few rides I was just sitting there, thinking that this was the best board I’d ever ridden. I really noticed it through my turns.
The board would curve with the wave and then spring me through my turns as I came around. The flexible epoxy has made me a better surfer and much more fluid.
Out of the two models, I got the lighter board with more flex and it’s a lot like your standard high performance shortboard with 4 oz. glassing, but better. It flexes, making turns harder and faster… just think about a snap, the tail of the flexible epoxy tweaks back and then snaps forward. I felt so much better and smoother.
It was just sick, the way it climbs foam and the way it works with you, flexing and snapping.
Thanks a lot Todd, for getting me the board before my trip and that nasty spray job
-Blair Berger, Cockeyesville, Maryland
5′11″ x 18 1/2″ x 2 1/4″ Groveler IV.p ~ Proctor Custom Epoxy “PROXY” Series
A couple years later….
Hey Todd, i hope all is well in Ventura and with the board operations. I’ve had my hands full over the past few days with TS Ernesto-
we scored big and the flexible epoxy was there to get me through it.
I can’t believe the life this board has, it’s incredible. …. I have put that board through hell over the past two summers, just throwing it into the biggest and heaviest surf i could find, and it didnt disappoint. I will be talking with you in the near future about a new twig.
Thanks,
Blair Berger (MD)
the new era greased pig is the best board ever made
Todd, the new era greased pig is the best board ever made.
Did you hear it squealing at Malibu this morning?
It comes off the top insane carries a rail
and drives like no tomorrow.
Thanks for such a sick one, Rob Kenworthy
Custom New Era Technology Greased Pig
tribolic carbon reinforced stringers & carbon rail suspension system
5’10″ x 19″ x 2 1/4″ stinger swallow tail
has super positive drive out of the turns …. really responsive
I hope you have this board saved on the computer because it’s insane. I just got outta the water at the Strand
and the board’s super fast, and as soon
as I wanna lay it over on rail,
it redirects and holds….
and just has super positive drive out of the turns …. really responsive.
Rob Kenworthy, So Cal
Custom Proxy Epoxy Titanium Series Upgrade Option 1.0: Carbon-Hinged Flex Tail
G-4.E: 6′1″ x 18 5/8″ x 2 1/4″ thumbtail
after 30+yrs its in the top 3
Proctor,
wanted to let you know that my blackbird goes unreal, after 30+yrs its in the top 3,
Blackbird 4 ever!!!!!!!
P.S. Good Luck in Bali,
your friend from the Island…. Erik
Blackbird II 6′1″ x 18 1/2″ x 2 1/4″ rounded squash tail
Proxy custom flexible Epoxy technology
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