GONG SURF DEVIL’S TONGUE EPS

299,00 Price includes VAT, shipping excluded

The easy shortboard for progression.

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5'11
6'4
6'8
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299,00 Price includes VAT, shipping excluded

  • Direct sale from shaper to surfer.
  • Quality boards conceived in France
  • Pay in multiple installments or deferred payment 30 days Service available for orders of €100 or more.

Description

Program

Modern Egg : boards that boost your level and hover over the spot.

Introduction

Quite a lot of surface, an early take off, a magical acceleration, this is the shape to progress without the hassle of a big board.

Thin, elegant with its round point nose, the Devil’s Tongue gives you just the right amount of ease without degrading the performance you need. Its nose offers lift but does not catch rails in the turns. Its tail is punchy but fits perfectly in the curves, moving smoothly from rail to rail with its V-shape under the rear foot.

The concave hull captures the flow of water to boost your acceleration. The rails are clearly those of a shortboard for a modern drive that you will enjoy throughout your progress.

The Devil’s Tongue is either your first shortboard to evolve; either the super fun and relaxed board for the summer and / or surfers looking for comfort and ease.

Definitely the all about fun board to put in all hands.

Shape

The round point nose and large diamond tail maximize surface area to boost take-offs. This is clearly what will help you in your progress. The rocker is pronounced to give maximum tolerance on the slope and boost handling. The highly crafted rails come from our dedicated high performance shapes, with plenty of rear foot grip, gliding super well above the water and the most forgiving nose possible. The hull is also very worked with a big concave under the front foot which concentrates a maximum of the flows to direct them towards the fins and the tail. Both acceleration and handling / control ratio are optimal. Everything you need for an evolutionary board with high performance.

 

RADAR GONG SURF DEVIL’S TONGUE EPS

Equipments

These boards are equipped with a leash plug and 5 FCSII fin boxes at your choice. You can therefore assemble your fins in thruster or in quad according to your desires and your surfing style while accessing an almost endless catalog of assembly possibilities. These high performance boxes are delivered with injected plastic fins for the FCSII boxes.

Construction

These boards are built with EPS surf technology for the best strength / responsiveness / weight ratio by highlighting all the technical qualities of the shape.

It’s the modern technology currently popular with the most technical surfers looking for the best performance.

 

Your benefits are clear:

1. An efficient shape created by one of the leaders in the world of surfing.
2. A design at the cutting edge of R&D and ahead of its time.
3. A construction proven on thousands of boards.
4. The “Full Options” finish at a crazy price.
5. A light, solid board, with one of the best tech on the market !!!
6. An incredible price that can only be explained by our direct relationship with you.
7. Simple maintenance and easy repairs because we have all components in stock.

Shape

  • Rocker: modern to combine speed and carving.
  • Rails: hard at the tail and round at the nose for a high-performance feeling.
  • Volume: without excess to keep the performance at a good level.
  • Outline: large general surface, tail support, compact and soft nose. The board carries and flies on the water.
  • Tail: large faceted diamond cut to accelerate and keep a nice rail to rail..
  • Nose: round point nose that carries when paddling and does not snag in the turns.
  • Deck: flat for control, domed near the rails for maneuverability.
  • Bottom: concave for maximum speed with a slight V at the tail for an easy rail to rail.
  • Fins: Tri/Quad.

Instructions

Innovation is at the core of our products

 

  • High-end materials: EPS blanks, Epoxy resin, fiberglass. Materials chosen for their adequacy with the requirements of our specifications.
  • Board 100% Epoxy resin on a blank of Polystyrene Foam 28kg / m³ with stringer (wood stringer 3mm).
  • Detail of the deck : 2 fiberglass layers of 6oz.
  • Detail of the hull : 1 fiberglass layer of 6oz, plus 1 reinforcement fiberglass patch of 4oz over the tail and the fin boxes.
  • Preshape by numerical control, shape control by traditional templates, 100% handmade finish.
  • Matte finish for better glide, less sensitivity to scratches and a comp look.
  • This techno is easily repairable as new in case of ding, and has an excellent strength / nervousness / weight ratio highlighting all the technical qualities of the shape.
  • It is THE modern technology currently popular with the most technical surfers looking for the best performance.
  • These boards are 100% shaped and glassed in China in the most experienced factory in the manufacture of surfboards, strictly according to our methods tested in France.

Buying guide

For whom?

This is the board for progressing or taking it easy. Or the easy little summer board for packed peaks or messy waves.

For what?

The board is stable, easy to take-off on and accelerates super well. It will function and be easy in all types of waves (except very hollow ones) and is perfect for everyday conditions.

Which surf bag ?

Quiver partners?

It’s a board that will stand on its own. For more seasoned surfers, this is typically the board for cool little conditions that can be supplemented with a more perfected shortboard when the swell gets bigger. Lethal, Atomic, Chemical or Evolt will complete your quiver to perform in good conditions.

Which fin setting?

You have the choice between a thruster or a quad setting on the Devil’s Tongue.

All the classic sets work, no particular gain by going towards something exotic. A good set of Performers will be perfect. Switch to Carvers if you want more directional stability (control).

To go further in performance, the Toledo and Wilson are top notch, The Fanning are more powerful at equal size. These fins are only sold in a thruster set. To be completed with quad rear fins if you want all configurations.

Take your recommended fin size or just above. Not less. You’re going to need some grip to use it.

Reminder of the recommended FCS2 fin sizes:

  • XS for less than 55 kg / 120 Lbs
  • S for 55 kg – 70 kg / 120 Lbs – 155 Lbs
  • M for 65 kg – 80 kg / 145 Lbs – 175 Lbs
  • L for 75 kg – 90 kg / 165 Lbs – 200 Lbs
  • XL for those over 85 kg / 190 Lbs

Note that before the shape, it is the material of the fins that makes the performance. Remember that the more rigid the fin, the more it performs. And yes a pro needs good fins, but an amateur also needs to go fast because speed is the basis of all maneuvers.

Never take shorter, except possibly with a kite.

A surfer who wants more speed, to make better curves, to surf more cleanly, to work on his speed, will take a size above the recommended size.

How to put together a quad that suits you:

In a setup that mixes sets, consider that the laterals provide grip and acceleration; and the rears do the pivot, the drive and a little grip. So focus on beautiful ears suited to your need for power and speed.

Flat inner face quad rears have more grip and less glide. A more straightforward grip, but a Vmax and a mania a bit below the domed internal faces (20/80 for example). Favor flat faces anyway.

And rear quad rears that are too large totally block the handling of your board, giving you the impression that its tail “floats” too much in the curves. Terrible. Better too small than too big.

Included equipments

  • 5 FCS II boxes.
  • 4 FCS II Glass Flex Fins.
  • Concrete Fixed Plug on the tail for your leash to never lose your board.

Pricing

GONG SURFBOARD DEVIL’S TONGUE EPS: 299€

  • We make quality products. We are not “low cost”.
  • We sell simply without an intermediary thanks to the internet: direct from shaper to surfer.
  • If we sold this board in a surfshop, it would cost 599€ (taking into account traditional margins that we should offer to distributers and stores).

 

Shipping

Availability:

The dates of availability of all our products are written on each product page, in the size and colour of the product concerned.

These dates are valid at the moment you consult the site and/or place an order. It is possible that this product may be ordered a few seconds after your consultation. It then becomes unavailable. If you have placed an order, this change does not concern you: the product you order is still available on the date indicated at the time of your order.

We sell several thousand products per week. The stocks are therefore very evolutionary. But our management always shows you the real availability live.

If it’s available online: it’s available ?

 

Pre-order:

Some articles are proposed in pre-order during their routing to our premises. You can buy this article which will arrive at our place in a few weeks. This method avoids the fair to grab upon receipt of the lot and the disappointed ones who would not order within the hour.

Upon receipt, we will ship it to you as a regular order.

The times indicated on the pre-orders are 95% reliable. First of all, because we only pre-sell finished products that are arriving to us after Customs, and therefore shipped right after. And also, because we add decent margins with concern to the dates announced by the shipping companies or railways.

However, a Worker Strike, a breakdown, an overbooking, can unfortunately happen. In the case of a delay, you will be notified by email (check your spam). It is generally less than a week and totally independent of our good will.

As soon as we receive the container in La Baule, we ship your order within three working days. Then the carrier takes over: delivery time and tracking numbers are under their responsibility.

It is possible that the date displayed on the online for the pre-order of the item you have ordered and paid for may change for two reasons:

  1. All quantities of the batch are sold (most common reason). In this case, orders placed for the first container will be delivered as scheduled.
  2. The container is late and we have to shift the date by a few days. (Strikes, breakdowns, overbooking, can unfortunately happen). You will be notified by email.

We never change the delivery dates of a container without notifying customers.

 

Delays:

The dates that we announce are shipping deadlines, which GONG has in stock and available here physically.

We usually give a shipping time within 3 days, but in most cases, we ship within 24/48 hours. Normally morning orders leave in the afternoon for example.

Then the transport service takes over. The variables are then important between the customer being delivered to France (very fast) or Bulgaria (a good week) or to a forwarding agent or to Asia or the USA… You understand that each location has its own type of delay.

We work with serious and well-known carriers. They do their utmost to make you happy even if a snafu can happen. In any case, we are there to make things easier and to arrange our customers.

 

Shipping Fees: 

Contrary to others, we do not hide shipping costs in the price of our products. At GONG everyone knows exactly what he pays. The transport is charged at its strictest value, and the person who comes to pick up his products does not pay hidden transport fees.

Shipping costs are calculated according to the weight and volume of each package, and your delivery address. To this is added a labour time of order preparation.

The invoicing of the shipping costs is identical in continental France and in the bordering European countries. A surcharge is automatically invoiced for deliveries to the most distant European countries and all European islands.

For a shipment in French overseas departments and territories or outside Europe, our logistics department will contact you before the payment stage to give you an estimate of the shipping costs. You will be able to accept this estimate and pay your order, or refuse it and cancel your order.

 

Any questions:

We answer you within 24 hours by email. But 95% of your questions are answered on the site. Try to use our contact form which will guide you to all these answers.

Don’t forget to read the Forum, where thousands of users exchange information and experiences.

In any case, don’t panic. If you don’t get an answer during the weekend, it’s normal: the team is resting ?

We are passionate and professional in our job. Our only goal is to make you happy, as much as possible ?

 

Eco-responsible packaging:

Preserving the environment is a top priority. That’s why we are doing everything possible to reduce our environmental footprint.

The first thing is to sell quality products that will last, be repairable and will please you for a long time.

The second thing is to sell for less. Most of the pollution coming from a Board is in its use (the km driven to use it) and in the countless environmental damages you have to do to pay for it. Each euro spent is a sum of damage related to your life quite simply: eating, working hard etc… By reducing the price of our products, we significantly reduce your ecological footprint on this item.

For our shipments we use:

  • Flexi-Hex: ecological packaging of very high resistance.
  • Paper Craft Scotch Tape.
  • Final packaging made of high-end cardboard.

All this for:

  • Reusable and recyclable packaging.
  • An almost total reduction of single-use plastic.
  • Maximum protection and impact resistance thanks to the innovative design of Flexi-Hex honeycomb (35mm thick).

 

Tracking of your parcels :

The tracking of deliveries is directly ensured by the carriers to whom we have entrusted your parcels. They will contact you by email or SMS to allow you to choose the delivery methods and to follow the route of your package.

If you ask us for this tracking, we will have to do as you do: we will go see on the carrier’s app because they are the ones who manage and are responsible for this job.

 

Delivery:

We collaborate with the best transport providers to deliver you everywhere in Europe and in the world in very short delays.

We have chosen them for their quality of service and their respect of deadlines. 80% of your orders reach their destination in less than 48 hours of processing in metropolitan and continental France.

For Europe, the delays vary from 3 to 6 days depending on the country of destination.

For the rest of the world, delays can be up to 15 days.

Please note that the transport time is added to the preparation/shipping time. Two companies work on your order (GONG and the carrier). Each one controls its activity and commits itself to optimize its delays so that you are delivered as soon as possible, in good condition and at a reasonable price.

 

Reception of your Board:

Upon delivery, simply open and inspect the condition of your Board in the presence of the carrier. A complete email explaining the procedure to follow will be sent to you when your order is shipped.

In spite of our requirements and all the care we take in packaging and protecting your Board, transportation hazards may occur. Even if it concerns less than 2% of everything we ship around the world, a Board can suffer a more or less important transportation shock.

But in any case, don’t worry, just refuse it, and a new Board will be shipped back to you.

 

Returns:

You can choose to return your products if:

  • You are not satisfied (14 days right of retraction).
  • You want to change an item.
  • You have refused your package.

 

For each situation, contact us by our contact form to help you.

4 reviews for GONG SURF DEVIL’S TONGUE EPS

  1. Florian Werbke (verified owner)

    Hello,
    Living on the german baltic seaside, we generally have choppy and half-powered waves with 80% of the surf sessions with strong winds. We cant really use high performance surfboards here, but need early planing surfboards that bring us through weak sections and still have enough potential to be fast turning and snappy in a way when the sections are powerful.
    The devils tongue 6,4 (45 Ltr) makes it possible here to have good fun on the water with a relaxed atmoshere down the line. It feels very easy and comfortable in our conditions here. I ride it with FCS II performance quad fins size M- my level is average and weight 80 kilos.
    Thanxalot for the shape option.

  2. FantoSlate ER

    Et vous ? Vous l’aimez votre devil’s tongue?
    Je la possède en 6’4, je suis un peu en surcôte, mais c’est volontaire car mes épaules sont très douloureuses.
    Du coup un confort de rame inégalable, et un confort au takeoff , qui permettent de se rassasier comme il faut ?.
    Je la sors dans toutes les conditions, et pour cela je l’ai équipé avec les quads machado.
    Ce sont vraiment des dérives terribles, accélération et accroche au programme.
    Bref je trouve cette planche vraiment polyvalente, très très facile et malgré tout performante pour celui qui le désire.

  3. Thierry

    Hello
    je ne l’ai surfé que 3 fois entre du 50cm à 1m en tri fins car je me suis fait un ligament et un ménisque mi-juillet. Opéré en aout, je devrais remettre un orteil dans l’eau en février mars.
    Mes premières impressions : super facile d’entrée, pas de soucis au take off. rapide et tourne facilement. C’est un peu bateau comme réponse je sais. En comparaison, je la trouve plus facile que ma fatal 6.8.

  4. FantoSlate ER

    La Devil’s tong …6’4 et 45litres…cette planche est parfaite pour les jours où je suis fatigué et que je veux prendre un max de vagues sans perdre en performance…Mes épaules m ont remercié avec ce litrage confortable, 4h15 de surf ce matin … longtemps que je n’ ai pas passé autant de temps dans l eau , et croyez moi…j ai pris un max de vagues .
    Ce n est pas un shortboard, certes, mais j ai été bluffé par son point de pivot, ses prises de rail et la relance.
    De plus, les dérives Quad Machado sont également une révélation pour moi ..jamais essayé, mais alors …une tuerie !! ??
    Bref, cette planche va vite, peut être surfée à la cool , mais si t as envie de mettre un gros roller de porc ??, il te suffit de faire comme en shortboard et ça fonctionne ?.
    Encore un shape diabolique de Patrice Guénolé , encore……….

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