I have the “old” 7.10×31.5x131l (besides a several other boards) and really agree with your findings. 🙂 The only 2 thing I wanna ad is that the hypernut is really king in crap conditions and with crap I mean not a mediocre cornwall day in the review but really crap. Because the UK blocks 90% of the waves we have in the netherlands mostly winddriven slow 4sec period short peaky unorganised chaos waves. In such conditions the Hypernut shines because of its stability and ability to generate speed out of virtual nothing. Where my former Starboard Pro 8.5 and current… Read more »
Yes, some very good points. Thanks for adding your thoughts and opinions the boards its great to share with the community. Don’t forget you can ‘HAVE YOUR SAY’ as well and submit your own review of the board above 🙂
Olivier Decroly
1 year ago
Hi Beau ! great and honest review ! I have this board since 2016. At that time it was recommended for small mushy waves and for stability. I thought perfect for our North Sea conditions… Short SUP surf board was also the hype at that time… I took the 8′ 130 L with the Bamboo deck (I am 90+ kg). I did feel my progression was on hold with this board for a few years (slow to paddle, not so stable in choppy conditions, rail to rail difficult,…). I got afterward a long SUP 10′ 140 L and started only… Read more »
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I have the “old” 7.10×31.5x131l (besides a several other boards) and really agree with your findings. 🙂 The only 2 thing I wanna ad is that the hypernut is really king in crap conditions and with crap I mean not a mediocre cornwall day in the review but really crap. Because the UK blocks 90% of the waves we have in the netherlands mostly winddriven slow 4sec period short peaky unorganised chaos waves. In such conditions the Hypernut shines because of its stability and ability to generate speed out of virtual nothing. Where my former Starboard Pro 8.5 and current… Read more »
Yes, some very good points. Thanks for adding your thoughts and opinions the boards its great to share with the community. Don’t forget you can ‘HAVE YOUR SAY’ as well and submit your own review of the board above 🙂
Hi Beau ! great and honest review ! I have this board since 2016. At that time it was recommended for small mushy waves and for stability. I thought perfect for our North Sea conditions… Short SUP surf board was also the hype at that time… I took the 8′ 130 L with the Bamboo deck (I am 90+ kg). I did feel my progression was on hold with this board for a few years (slow to paddle, not so stable in choppy conditions, rail to rail difficult,…). I got afterward a long SUP 10′ 140 L and started only… Read more »
Hey Olivier – thanks for your comments and awesome to hear you are progressing well with your surfing 🙂