Summary: [singlepic=1947,125,188] Doug Lock talks about the Brian Caldwell 10' stand up paddle surfboard and shows us around its shape and explains its dimensions. He says that the board is good at riding four to five foot waves, and mentions the new concept on its nose shape called the bottleneck concave. The all-around shape of the board helps it perform well as a long board for nose-riding and short board for tail-riding. Interesting.This board is pretty light even though it's hand-shaped, as you'll see on the video.(click thumbnail to launch video)[gallery=29]Jeff: Itrsquo;s Dougrsquo;s custom board. Let Doug explain the design on this.Doug: Well this is Brianrsquo;s new creation and itrsquo;s hand-shaped EPS foam.Evan Leong: How heavy is this thing?Doug: Right around maybe 20 pounds around there -- pretty light.Evan Leong: Oh so even though itrsquo;s hand-shaped itrsquo;s pretty light then?Doug: Fairly light, yes. It has got ndash; with the blend of materials, it has got a blend ofhellip; the layup is different from any other lay up that I canrsquo;t say. Itrsquo;s top secret.Evan Leong: Kind of cool, this pad thing, huh?Doug: Yeah, the stop pad. Basically what it is is our stop pad that we get manufactured, basically we just get the deck pad, trace it out, cut out all the pad, put the stop pad. That way you know where yoursquo;re foot is.Evan Leong: So whatrsquo;s going on with this tail?Doug: Well, the wing swallow. Theoretically you want to be a short board when yoursquo;re riding the tail, and you want to perform more as long board when yoursquo;re up on the nose. And Irsquo;ll explain that a little bit once we flip the board over.Evan Leong: So this will make it ndash; on the tail it turns faster.Doug: Turns faster, more responsive; it can handle bigger waves so the tail is pulled in. But itrsquo;s really stable. The board tracks really nice, it tracks really straight and the fin set uphellip;Evan Leong: How long is this thing again?Doug: 10 feet.Evan Leong: 10 feet, ok.Doug: So if I flip it over. Irsquo;ll try to show you this interesting bottomhellip;Evan Leong: When you guys make these customs, do you always make a certain design or you guys make it where itrsquo;s always design changes per person kind of thing? I mean if you want to surf, do you recommend this kind of tail set up and this shape for people who want to surf.Doug: This seems to be, to me, the most ndash; the free-est surfing as far ashellip; it looks like a lot of fins; it looks kind of staggered because therersquo;s a lot of fin going on. But with this four-fin set up and this keel in the middle, this keel makes all the difference.Evan Leong: It just keeps it straight or what?Doug: To keep the tracking straight but also at the same time it gives it bite. So the board has that, since itrsquo;s so wide, you need this center fin to keep it tracking.Evan: It looks like not too much V on this board either, yeah?Doug: Just mostly back, slight here, but major on the end here.Evan: Oh so behind the fins.Doug: Behind the fin, right.Evan: Interesting.Doug: Itrsquo;s mostly flat in here but as you can see this chime, right here therersquo;s a slight chime that rolls off from the edge here.Evan: What does it mean chime? Seems like a little bit of a ridge almost.Doug: Right. Itrsquo;s a ridge that comes down before the rail.Evan: I donrsquo;t know if you can see that. Kind of right here.Doug: Right there, right. And if you look down the board you can actually see the outline from the chime. This is where yoursquo;re riding on a lot of times when yoursquo;re planing but when yoursquo;re sitting in the water, this is all in the water for stability. When yoursquo;re up planing, this is the surface that is actuallyhellip;Evan: What width is this board?Doug: 28rdquo;.Evan: I...
