DANE REYNOLDS GOES FIBERFLEX IN MEXICO

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DANE REYNOLDS GOES FIBERFLEX IN MEXICO

Dane Reynolds is across surfboard design as much as any guy on tour. He’s conjured and sculpted his own Franken-boards, is often found sampling retro crafts and is keenly involved in the shaping of his own Channel Islands models. So when the 25-year-old got wind of an innovative Australian surfboard technology, FiberFlex, he was all too happy to put it to the test. Think he was impressed?

FiberFlex is a relatively new surfboard material and construction that has infiltrating the world of shaping. For those that haven't heard of the 'parabolic' rail design or the FiberFlex technology, you may have seen the boards that utilise it; they have distinct black rails and no stringer (pictured).

FiberFlex was invented by Sydney-based shaper, Hayden Cox, of Haydenshapes surfboards. While its engineering is explained by Cox in detail in the mesurfTV episode embedded at the base of this article, it’s all about giving surfboards a more lively flex pattern. FiberFlex boards will flex but then return to their original rocker at a very fast rate.

Reynolds’ Quiksilver teammate, Craig Anderson, rides for HaydenShapes and is an avid fan of the technology. Incidentally, it was during a film shoot for Quiksilver in Mexico’s Cabo San Lucas that Reynolds really got to put his Fiberflex board through thorough paces.

“I shaped the board for Dane to allow him to try out the FF technology,” says Haydenshapes’ Cox. “He jumped on the board and loved the feel of it - hence he rode it whilst he was on the trip in Cabo.”