Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Ocean magic 7'4" Minimal


Size: 7'4" X 21 X 2 3/4"


This board remains one of my favourites. Its set up as a thruster which seems to suit it perfectly. Like most mini-mals it has a relaxed nose rocker and catches waves easily. I suspect that its balanced with a little extra tail rocker as its really easy to turn this board like a shortboard. It will top turn and cutback with ease. Surprisingly, you can also do cheater 5's pretty easily. The finish on this board was excellent and after 1 year of regular use there were very few heel compressions on the deck. This was probably due to the heavier Burford Blank (polyurethane) and the gloss and polish finish (Polyester). In all I could not fault this board one bit in durability or performance. It would make an excellent first shorter board.


Rating: 5/5

2 comments:

Unknown said...

sounds like a great candidate for me. but how does it duckdive? i can duckdive my 8' g&s magicfish, but not very deep.

Anonymous said...

If you can duckdive an 8' then you can duckdive this. It's been a few years since I owned this so I can't really recall, but generally the more volume in the nose the harder to duckdive. If I recall correctly the nose of this was quite thinned out.