TECH HIGHLIGHT: SURFBOARDS IN A FULL CARBON CONSTRUCTION

Our new high-end carbon construction takes the performance of some of our best-selling shapes to the next level.

Widely used in the board sports world, carbon's qualities and properties are well known. With this material, you benefit from raw dynamism, and the transfer between intention and action is instantaneous, for a hybrid feeling of lightness and driving precision. Whether it's pumping to catch the section, engaging the bottom turn or pop in tricks, all your moves are overboosted!!!

EPS Pro technology encapsulates the perfect balance between weight, controlled flex and strength. This construction is a premium choice for surfers seeking the best possible performance / durability ratio. This construction stands for excellence, as the performance markers of surfing are all at their peak.

Surfer: Moritz, GONG team rider, with a Fork EPS Pro.

A closer look at EPS Pro construction

Our EPS Pro boards feature a 64464 construction, with a 6oz layer made of carbon fiber:

High-end materials: EPS blank, Epoxy resin, fiberglass and carbon fiber.
Materials chosen for their suitability to the requirements of our specifications.
100% Epoxy resin board on EPS foam blanks of 28kg/m³ (with 3mm wooden stringer).
Deck detail: 2 layers of 4oz fiberglass, 1 layer of 6oz carbon fiber .
Detail of the hull: 1 layer of 4oz fiberglass, 1 layers of 6oz carbon fiber, plus 1 patch of 4oz fiberglass reinforcement covering the tail and fin boxes.
Preshape with digital control, shape control using traditional templates, 100% hand finishing.
Matte finish for better glide, less susceptibility to scratches and a comp look.
This technology is easily repairable in the event of a ding, and has an excellent strength/nervousness/weight ratio highlighting all the technical qualities of the shape.
It is THE modern technology, in fiberglass or carbon, currently popular with the most technical surfers looking for the best performance.
These boards are 100% shaped and glassed in our factory in Asia which strictly replicates our methods developed and tested in our workshop in France.

Choose a PU, EPS or EPS Pro technology?

Surfing is all about sensations, and these are unique to everyone. Comparing one technology with another can only be a caricature. But in broad terms we can say that an EPS Pro board can be compared to an EPS board (EPS blank, Epoxy resin and fiberglass), in the same way that an EPS board is compared to a PU board (polyurethane blank, polyester resin and fiberglass).

A PU board for instance will behave differently from an EPS board of the same shape and weight. The difference in feeling is greatly due to the distribution of weight in the board. For two foam blanks having the same shape, one in PU and the other in EPS, the EPS blank will be lighter, the EPS blank being less dense.

In the case of a PU board, it is the blank which provides strength and which concentrates the weight at its heart. The board therefore has a very “central” inertia. This gives a very soft board, which erases mistakes, but less dynamic. PU blanks will be heavier than EPS blanks.

In the case of an Epoxy board, the blank is very light and the strength comes from the fiber layers. So the inertia is “peripheral”, that is to say that the weight of the board being on the outside of the board, it becomes more mobile and dynamic.

And this effect is pushed to its climax with EPS Pro technology. All this translates into maneuvers where the surfers intentions are fully transmitted to the board. Everything is more dynamic, faster, the nervousness is at its maximum! The qualities of each shape is also better underlined.

EPS boards, and even more so EPS Pro boards, are more resistant to shocks and less likely to break under strong pressure. We also avoid the usual dent marks of PU boards.