What’s a shitty shape?

How do you recognize a mediocre shape?

 

Trust those who have experience.

As a General rule, Shapers offer Shapes that are harmonious and performant.

In kitesurf there are several major categories of shapers:

  • Yourself. It’s an emotional experience to make your own board.
  • Regional shapers. They are familiar with the needs of the area but are sometimes far from the innovation, guarantee of stability, and a mellow evolution.
  • Elite shapers. They have Pros on their team and focus on performance according to competition criteria. It’s very exclusive and preeminent.
  • The world shapers. Their role is to transcribe elite codes and trends into board ranges that accurately meet a global audience.
  • The impostors. They look like shapes, but an informed eye understand immediately that it’s phony. The digitization of our businesses promotes the emergence of fake brands with their share of fake shapers. A keen eye is needed.

If we had to describe the board to run away from, this would be it :

A flagrant lack of harmony and without passion. We can shape odd things but it is a calculated approach and backed up with solid, well known lines.

A board that looks like a board but you know it’s a hack job.

A tweaked out visual on the web, with a graphic that’s made to make you react. A true shaper will not be encumbered with this type of artificiality if he does not have the means. He will put a photo on line and that’s all.

An incredible promo that will not last but arrives right at the right time for you.

Asian producers rely on agents from among us who are poorly qualified to resell their production. The traps are huge but some are being fooled, be careful unless you want a shape drawn by a guy who has never seen the sea 😉

Look carefully at the Fin placements, it is often a good indicator of poor quality if they are placed poorly. Check that the boxes used are FCS2 or Futures for example.

What techno? Too many complicated words, key words in the guise of technology, all that feels like a good scam.

A range of shapes “boats”, that we see everywhere, without originality. You think that’s enough for you: mistake, you deserve character and emotion.

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