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INFO: CHOOSE YOUR LONGBOARD !!!

If you are looking for a longboard, you have come to the right place. Here’s what you can find for continue your quest for retro aesthetics and style.

 

The longboard surfing being an essential part of GONG’s DNA, we offer a complete range of longboards to suit all surfing styles and conditions. Shaped by a passionate longboarder, our boards are the result of a long experience and will offer you the best in each program.

GONG Surf 9’0 Moodrive

This Longboard, at ease in a wide variety of conditions, offers all the optimal qualities to combine modern moves from off the tail and the stylised Noserides needed in competitions.

Malo, Team rider GONG, noseriding.
  Fast when paddling, radical in the manoeuvres, with a reduced volume for great control, this Moodrive EPS is capable of incredible curves AND beautiful Noserides. You’ve got a Longboard underfoot that loves radical turns. It has a big rocker for a Longboard and it makes it easy to get down the slope. The rails are marked for a total grip on the wave and its diamond cut tail gives it excellent manoeuvrability to lay it down heavy in every session. A resolutely modern Longboard for energetic sessions ?
Romain, GONG ambassador, on his Moodrive.
  Its versatility allows you to surf it in small conditions as well as in bigger waves. Its round nose provides all the lift needed to hold on to the nose and enjoy great sessions. This video shows Malo, Team rider GONG, having fun in these conditions.

Available in 3 technologies (WCKF, EPS and Origin 2.O), this Moodrive is light and hyper reactive to have fun in a maximum of conditions.

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GONG Surf 9’1 Zero EPS

Performance longboard tailored for serious conditions.

Quick at the paddle because it likes being up around the peak, radical in its maneuvers thanks to its honed tail, and blessed with reduced volume to give it serious control on steep faces; it’s your best asset to confront massive swell. Its pronounced rocker insure take offs on steep faces. You got what you need to attack, with all the confidence you need, the most vertical faces.

The mini diamond tail is easily manipulated and fast, combined with the thin rails its insures diabolical edge hold when things start to speed up and you need real control and precision. The outline is tailored for speed and tubes. 2 lateral FCS II boxes and one US center box allows multiple Fin configurations.

This magnificantly shaped and glassed board offers all the qualities you would expect from a hollow wave longboard, which proves to be very effective even in small conditions to have fun in noseride.

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GONG Surf 9’2 Ten Blues

Fast when rowing, stable at the take-off and fluid in the manoeuvres, this 9’2 Ten Blues is a MUST have for having fun on days with light conditions.

Simon, stockman at GONG, and his 9’2 Ten Blues EPS.
 

Its generous ratings provide a lot of stability, facilitating take-offs and forgives errors. Once on the wave, its round tail allows you to perform manoeuvres with great fluidity and without losing speed. With its moderate rocker, it is a Longboard that turns and holds Noserides in all waves.

An excellent Longboard to start and progress quickly. For the more experienced, the 9’2 Ten Blues is the assurance of feeding her in small conditions.

This longboard is offered in 3 technologies (WCKF, EPS and Origin 2.0), from 449€.

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GONG Surf 9’3 Moblog

This Moblog is the perfect synthesis of a modern Longboard with the advantages of a fat tail to score big on mushy sluggish waves.

The Nose of a Ten Blues for camping out and cooking Marshmallows, a wide tail inspired from a Batmob for killing it in dumpy MushBurger waves is you get with the MobLog. It is the result of this hybrid performant shape L’Ours has created just for you.

Hang five.
 

Stable on the nose and donned with incredible acceleration power, the shape of the Moblog EPS was designed to perform in smaller conditions. Capable of not only of powerful turns but endless nose rides, this board is the perfect proof that you can successfully mix 2 different styles of riding while keeping the best qualities of 2 different shapes.

Slightly less width through the wide point thanks to a strong tail allows you to undersize, which insures a quick and mean and lean board.

A must to have in your quiver to have a lot of fun all year round.

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GONG Surf 9’6 Pampa

The Pampa offers the best synthesis between two universes: the handling of the modern Longboard and the style of the Classic one ?

Malo, Team rider GONG, noseriding on his Pampa EPS.
  The Pampa is a beautiful Longboard on the border between a 9’2 Ten Blues and an Incredible Ten 10′, made for those who want to combine the beautiful glide of the Retro Boards with the modern moves from the tail. The Pampa offers a very round ride, a smooth glide and very easy turns in small waves. Its low rocker gives it an excellent oar and makes it possible to start very early on the wave. In surfing, its puled back master width and its diamond tail give an excellent handling. Its planing hull at the tail allows you to accelerate by pumping if you need to pass sections, hit rollers or surf cleanly when it gets bigger.

For a classic style, noserides are limitless and do not require a high technical level. Its larger extremities provide all the lift needed to hold long noserides and its rectangular spoon shape increases stability and limits flow disturbances.

This longboard is offered in 3 technologies (WCKF, EPS and Origin 2.0), from 499€.

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GONG Surf Incredible

The Retro Noserider for surfing small waves on a real flying carpet dedicated to noserides, beautiful turns and style.

If you’re looking for a Classic Longboard to surf the small summer swells with a pure old school style, this Incredible has its place in your Quiver. With its voluminous, load-bearing and fluid shape, this Board is made for Retro cutbacks and five/ten hang backs. All in its line and its lift favors Noseriding, starting with its square nose that stretches the front lines. The Board is soft and stable to walk on. The more you move forward, the faster and flatter it is to pass sections without having to move towards the back.

Malo, Team rider GONG, on the nose of his Incredible EPS.
 

Nevertheless, it remains one of the most incredible Boards for a novice surfer thanks to its unique glide. It takes off so easily and glides so well that it even goes into micro waves. It erases mistakes because it is wide and it allows you to take a maximum of waves without getting too tired when paddling.

It’s the cult Noserider totally indispensable for lovers of cross stepping, available in 3 widths (56cm, 58cm & 63cm) at the easy price of 599€ ? Find this longboard on the online shop.

Shaper: Patrice Guénolé and his GONG Surf Longboards.

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