QUALITY SURFBOARDS BY JONNO COLE

DIRTY DANCER

A white surfboard with black logo and text, leaning against a yellow corrugated metal wall, mounted on a small wooden plank on wet pavement.
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The 80’s thruster is a great choice as a small wave performance weapon! Often overlooked and replaced with  a fish or other wide and flat arrangement, these boards have all the float and projection of a regular groveller with added style and flow.

Key (80’s Style) elements:

  • Belly channels that feed into a spiral Vee, allowing the water to be pulled under the feet and split through the fins

  • A boxy rail coming off a flat deck

  • Squash tail and beaked nose

  • Great for hacks, carves and linking together sections in otherwise gutless/ lacklustre surf

  • Great for Indo/Aus and beyond on all the small days

  • Also available in a single flyer, swallow tail twin fin version.  

FOR REFERENCE: I ride a 6’0 x 19 1/2 x 2 1/2 - 34.5L and I’m 6 ft, 80 kgs

A shirtless man surfing on a wave in the ocean during daytime.
A shirtless man wearing black shorts surfing on a large wave in the ocean.
A man surfing on a wave in the ocean.