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ChristianChristian

Balsa Skate - A Wooden Pumping Dream

After seeing a friend's Balsa surfboard I was immediately hooked and had to build my own for pumping. The first sketch outlined a small and flat (no rocker) pumping board that I could easily transport with public transport or put in a travel bag without loosing too much space.This was the first pencil sketch of the board (Sperrholz = plywood, Styro = 30 kg/m3 EPS foam):To aid in building I decided...

Balsa Skate - A Wooden Pumping Dream
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ChristianChristian

Making a windsurf board foil-ready (JP Magic Ride 116)

Converting a freeride board, in this case a JP Magic Ride 118 into a foil-ready version can be done by anyone with a little bit of patience. Freestyle windsurf boards are even a bit easier to convert since they don't have a fin-box that is laminated both the lower and upper deck which makes the removal a bit easier. The original screw hole for fin mounting was reused as the aft mounting hole for t...

Making a windsurf board foil-ready (JP Magic Ride 116)
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ChristianChristian

Foiling Power Plate - Similar to CHINOOK PowerPlate

When I started hydrofoiling I did not have a proper board that could hold the Deep Tuttle mount of my newly acquired Moses (Kit 85) foil. After several hours of searching for a board on the internet the conclusion was clear: most of the windsurf foilboards in 2022 were either overpriced, huge, had weird shapes or were just not particlularly pretty. At that time most of my boards had an unenforced ...

Foiling Power Plate - Similar to CHINOOK PowerPlate