Shred Show - Dan Mann's Double Agent by Firewire

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More boards by Dan Mann
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The Unibrow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tdb37...

The Baked Potato:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQSuT-...

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Camp Shred
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Camp Shred goes down today, March 16th at San Elijo campgrounds in Cardiff, California.

Surf boards from brands like Firewire, Panda and ...Lost, in the soft but perfect reef breaks around Encinitas.

Thank you Firewire for sponsoring this episode. All opinions are my own.

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welcome to shred show i'm chris and this
is the internet's most stoked surfboard
show job to keep Oahu you asked for the
double agent Maidan man and firewire
surfboards been haviland we're sending
you a merit I'd watch courtesy of
freestyle and Marie Logan in Cape Town
South Africa were sending use of sandals
to make your feet smile so yesterday
morning my girlfriend saw this board and
told me that reminds her of what she
calls my other fat board the baked
potato
she doesn't serve or know who dan man is
but to me this definitely looks like its
evolution of dance potato board even
though there's obviously a lot going on
in this thing to claim there's like a
missing link in the DNA between this and
his older shapes go to a surf shop and
look at the oil on this board and you'll
probably find it's more thin out towards
the tail than any other board you've
seen that thin this back here can be
useful if you want to feel as if you're
surfing down into the water fighting and
digging into it just one of the Lord is
thinner back here like this it becomes
easier to sing when compared to a tale
that would be thicker making you surf
more on top of the water with less bite
and more slide now those boards with
more thickness in the tail like Dan
sweet or baked potato often require the
use of bigger fins like my evil twin
fins or America EMTs to give all of that
thickness in the tail more grip in the
water during bottom terms of cutbacks
but in this board here that seemed out
tail is likely hit you don't have to put
as much Finn in this board as you do
those other boards and it's also include
the sport might have more hold and grip
to the water than what so much with
would imply when i'm surfing this board
I noticed that entail most during bottom
turns because of all the drive that it
has shape and I also notice it up in the
lip because of how easy it is on a
stomach high wave to push down on the
tail paws up in a mushy lip and reang
google the board back down towards the
trough for another bottom turn that it
would be if this tale was thicker the
danger in finding out of oil this way is
that it creates potential for an
unbalanced bored because of how i could
put all of the phone in the forward half
of the board and none in the back
because
how thin it is getting in the tail but
looking at the outline on this board we
can see that the widest point of it is
pulled back a couple inches from center
and that helps add volume in the width
of the board where otherwise lacks it in
the oil often shapers will bring the
widest point of a surfboard forward in
an attempt to make paddling easier and
to suit front foot surfers because of
the way that brings volume in the board
up to where your chest is or where your
front foot is looking now at the foil in
the front half of this board we can see
that the thickest part of this surfboard
is probably a couple of inches in front
of the halfway point so we get our
ability to serve on this board front
foot and our ease of paddling from the
thickness up here where the board is
still really wide even though the widest
point of the board happens to be a
couple inches behind center looking at
the rocker on this board the nose rocker
looks pretty moderate but the tail
rocker when you look at it closely as
much more than what you'd expect
partially do is everything that we just
talked about you see in order to get
from really thick up here to really thin
back here this deck slowly shames off
volume as it goes back towards the tail
getting thinner from up on top of the
board but that's nothing compared to how
quickly the port shaves off volume from
the bottom of the board that goes back
towards the tail as the four pins out it
also increases the rocker by default and
the easiest way to understand that is to
imagine what would happen if magically
this tale right now as you're watching
got thicker from the bottom because of
the tail ended like right here instead
of right here that would mean that there
was less curved that the rocker had to
make to get to this point as opposed to
this point really deep double concave
with an enormous beast fine here
happening through the center double
concave continues really really deep
right onto a flat right at the end of
the tail
this is gonna be the deepest longest
double concave that we've seen on shred
show and when we look at how deep it is
on either side of the double concave
coupled with how thick the board is
along the V spine here it seems like a
wonderful compliment to the foil that we
just talked about because this kind of
an aggressive double concave
which you can probably see easy in the
lights like this is something that will
help add elements of slide to the
thinness of the tail back here and it
will also add maneuverability to the
front half of the board nothing again
rail-to-rail where it would otherwise be
difficult because of how wide the board
is front lastly it helps with speed
because when you add depth of concave to
the bottom of the surfboard especially
as deep as become cakes are on this
board from nose to tail that increases
lift which helps a surfboard go faster
and in the case of this board which
clearly has double concave all the way
from the entry all the way back to the
exit that equals a lot of lift happening
across the entire whole of this
surfboard as it moves forward on water
now some shapers like Ellis ericsson in
bali like to focus on one element of the
boards of time for example spending like
half a year perfecting the ideal rocker
template and then spending months and
years keeping that rocker template
exactly the same while experimenting
with damn near everything else on their
surfboards the idea that some shapers
follow is that if you slowly and
increment improve each small aspect of
your shapes you end up 10 years from now
with the perfect surfboard looking at
this board and other boards that Dan is
made you get the impression that he uses
his rail design as a foundation and a
starting point for a lot of shaping and
then experiments with other elements
from board-to-board effectively what
he's done is found a way to decrease the
length of his boards drastically without
compromising the effective shape of his
rails right at the point where they make
contact with the water he does that by
bringing volume straight out from where
the stringer would be on this board had
a stringer and then dramatically angling
it down right where it counts to get to
his effective rail shape if you look at
his boards closely you often find that
the line he draws here on his rails
coincides in parallel with the line that
he draws from the deepest point is
concave as it angles Darren to meet the
bottom of the rail making two parallel
lines like this sort of angling down
into the water essentially what this
does is it allows most of these boards
that uses this rail design
on to feel abnormally fluid going from
rail-to-rail when you consider how short
they are or how wide they are or how
packed full of volume that they are i
think that the double agent is an
improvement to the maneuverability of a
baked potato with more options in this
board for going up and down in the
pocket or a baked potato with just want
to get for the shoulder and then do a
cutback I place this board in between a
performance grobler on one end like
number four with an emphasis on small
wave ripping at the cost of paddling and
a sweet or baked potato on the other end
with emphasis on fun and float at the
sacrifice of a little bit of
maneuverability in the pocket in the lid
when I surf this board I get really good
drive off the bottom with an am2 for fin
set up this board definitely feels to me
like a really fun low volume high
surface area kind of arrived when you're
surfing you can almost feel just how it
is at the deep . the concave i surf in
the middle of my volume range in height
I beach breaks that would normally call
for the high side of my volume range and
I think anyone would be stoked on one of
these boards and waves ranging from
zippy three-foot beach break to head
hindmarsh burgers on the other end if
you live in California and your
cardiff-by-the-sea you'll be able to
demo one of these alongside the rest of
firewires range at surf rights camps
shred at the san elijo campgrounds today
and tomorrow on sunday more on that
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