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SURFLIGHT TECHNOLOGY:
"Recognized in the surfing industry for high performance."
ENGINEERED FLEX - The Next Frontier
Surflight boards use technologies that have roots in surfing,
snowboarding and bodyboards.
What you see and feel in a Surflight board, the outer portion
of our boards, is made with a flexible foam, similar to bodyboard foam.
Like a conventional hard surfboard, the foam is custom hand shaped. It
is then coated with a smooth and extremely tough urethane finish.
The heart of our technology is a composite structure inner core
surrounded by the flexible foam. Imagine a snowboard (itself a highly
sophisticated composite structure) within a flexible foam surfboard.
Like a snowboard, the Surflight inner core is made of a composite of
epoxy resins, an exotic stiff foam and carbon and fiberglass cloths
formed under high pressure and cured with heat for high strength and
light weight. The inner core is contoured to give the right amount of
flex and spring, and like a snowboard, it acts as a "torsion box" to
eliminate twist. The core functions as a "composite structure" because
the pressurized forming of the materials causes them to function as one
melded structure, much like modern snowboards, skis and tennis rackets.
The combination of these foam, finish, and core technologies has taken
years of research and development to achieve the right flex, weight, and
strength. Fortunately, Hawaii is a great proving ground for both
performance and durability.
Over the past several years, we have developed a good understanding of
how boards should flex to improve performance by working with some of
the world's best riders and shapers. Making the inner core light and
strong with the right flex has been a rewarding challenge.
Our current boards have remarkable performance, and in our view, they
are superior to conventional high performance surfboards. Pros have
told us that our boards have "mind-blowing performance," that it is
"like surfing with radial tires" and that they are "the future of
surfing." Our boards also have excellent strength for their weight.
We have only just begun to explore the potential of our engineered flex
technology to further improve both the performance and durability of
Surflight boards over conventional boards. The future of surfing is
now.
Unless otherwise noted, all surfing photos copyright John Jones
© 2001- 2006 Surflight Hawaii, all rights reserved
Design - point b incorporated
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hand shaped
slighty soft
cross section of composite core technology
7'6" x 18 3/4" x 2 1/2"
mark occhilupo
pushing the flex
guga arruda @ rocky rights
mark occhilupo @ rocky lefts
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