Putting the board in high-energy positions on a wave is when it
excels the best. Finding that water sucking off the reef to bank off
for bottom turns creates the most energy and speed. That's the thing
with these boards; they constantly have potential energy, even while
sitting there. The rocker is put into these boards with the glass skin,
meaning the core and stringered rails constantly want to go flat, its
like the board is constantly jumping forward!

Once you get over the board and discover that you have to let it do
its own thing under your feet, it is complete mindsurfing. Depending on
the types of waves you're surfing the different template and fin
choices can suit to work any sort of waves. It makes you look for
different lines, different levels of energy and the possibilities to
connect all of this energy together. And in each of these energies that
is a section, you can continually throw harder and harder turns because
they will only increase your speed and the possibilities. It's very
hard to slow down on these boards, only by pulling radically tight
turns in what seem to be impossible places followed by an immediate
body drag of some sort can you stop the board. Stepping on the tail
like a normal stall only flattens the rocker and makes you go faster,
the afterburner effect!

The twin fin keel fish works absolutely insane at the long points
here in California; choosing the right wave that grows and speeds up,
no speed barrier has yet to be found, it is only limited to what energy
the rider can draw out of the wave. Normally such a wide tail can be
tough to manage in the tube, but the pins on the fish will flex up into
the power of the tube, allowing higher lines and tighter turns than any
other fish.

For the tighter and shorter playful beach breaks, a 5'5''x 20.5'' x
2'' quad fin round tail has been a blast. Wide and stiff with a
snowboard material bottom, the thing is indestructible! It is the
closest feeling to a skateboard I have experienced on the water, but
this exact board is more of a rail-to-rail style than most people like,
but something I suggest people try.

The tri-fins have proven themselves as well. Tested in some sizeable
surf in California and a few good days on the North Shore. They work
amazing for just sitting deep in big barrels and doing nice speed
carves up under the lip. We've gone through a number of the thruster
shaped boards, and have found the stiffer ones to be better for this
style of riding and for more juicy waves. With a more narrow board in
the nose and tail compared to the fish and quad shapes, the system
likes to bend more than needed, but by making it stiffer it feels more
and more like a regular board, wanting to go vertical and do quick
snaps rather than speed producing carves. It's all just what your into
and the feelings you are searching for. The board can be built to each
rider, with either a specific style or none at all in mind!

The new realm of displacement surfing has started for those who want
to reach out and grab it, it is an entirely different avenue of riding
a wave, one where flow, connectivity, and being smooth will generate
previously unexperienced speeds. Unmakeable lines, turns, floaters, and
altogether waves become easily makeable, all you have to do is draw the
line with your mind and hold on.

-Cameron Biehl (Wibb Test Rider)