Nomad
The Nomad is a new take on the Tyler Double Step Deck design arc, one that fits under more youthful feet, per example as a “go to” for team rider Cormac. The Nomad features a soft nose with pushed up ears, a shallow continuous curve for acceleration to pushed back hips to a squash rounded tail for full roll and tip on check turns and cutbacks. Utilizing a pyramid rocker with the step in the nose and tail with the rocker fulcrum at the hips, the flexibility of the Nomad flattens out the rocker line increasing the speed down the line while also creating sensitivity in the nose for easy noseride adjustments. With the addition of a barrel concave for nostril positions, the Nomad locks in for extended tip time. The step in the nose allows for less swing weight while the springiness of the step encourages radical projecting turns, cutbacks, and coasters.
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JoshRat on his Throttle
Throttle
Working with a very smooth and notable surfer a decade or so ago (who went on to develop a popular model with a Santa Barbara surf brand named after adjacent offshore islands), Tyler developed the “Throttle,” a model that helped him win an international surf contests or two. High speed trimming. Precision turning. Critical noserides. The Throttle Model truly delivers it all. This model utilizes Tyler’s battle tested Noserider rocker along with a functional step deck in the nose. The rocker allows for quick turns and stability in the pocket. The square tail gives the board a fast release out of every turn. The step deck allows a highly functional amount of flex, enabling the rider to make corrections from the tip with ease. No concave means this board can paddle with the best of them and trim at high speeds. This is a great beach break longboard or an easy choice as a daily driver.
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Matchbox
The Matchbox is your California involvement style longboard. Combing through Tyler’s design library, teamrider Cormac, found and fell in love with a modified “Double Deuce”--the standard “Double Deuce” is Tyler’s take on late 50s and early 60s surfboard designs. Ironically, Aussie involvement style surfboards pull a lot of influence from this California design arch with the wide point back and a narrow nose. While Aussie Involvement boards are more catered to point breaks and down the line waves, The Matchbox is at home in these conditions but is also suited and excels in daily California beach break. Tyler’s newest model flies on even the smallest days featuring a rolled bottom and a flat deck making it fly through sections while lifting on the nose while having the ability to lay high-speed turns on rail. It’s a design meant for the advanced surfer, someone who is looking for something more sensitive under their feet out in the water
Centerfold
The Centerfold takes inspiration from the Hap Jacobs Mike Purpus models of the late 60s, a time period when longboards become pretty dialed and figured out–and then they cut the tails off into experimental shortboards which most of the time did not work. It’s a very versatile model that caters to South Bay hotdoggin’ style, aggressive, raw, and frisky as a porpoise. With Tyler’s mentorship under Hap and teamrider Ed’s relationship with Mike Purpus (Ed once lived with Purpus–do they have some stories), fittingly the design essence of Hap and Purpus’ work is carried under the hexagon in homage and advanced with Tyler’s interpretation. (In R&D as we speak)
Indicator
The Indicator is your aggressive, sleek, and foiled, mini-gun. (Details to come)
SHort
LONGboard​
One day, middle aged Tyler Team Pilots while accepting the fact they “aint sprung chickens” anymore had an epiphany, “What if?”
What if the design aspects of 1968 ¾ design arch so obscure and underground it makes the hull guys gush combined with a 1981 surfing reality, the need of 60s surfer who kicked out of surfing in the 70s due to life circumstances and/or limitations of the shortboard revisited the ocean circa 1981 when surfboard blanks over 9’0” was not to be found?
The SHort LONGboard.. Foiled very sexy in the nose and tail, with a hump in the middle for paddling, the SHort LONGboard redefines the common nomenclature “midlength”, as it's more like a “funshape” as it’s so fun to hop on (and no way resembles the design popularized by Phil Becker in the late 80s).
Board can perform on riders preference, drop knee, wrap around cutbacks, noserides, rollercoasters, South Bay salutes, etc.
All sizes come the same. No need to geek out on dimensions–just know a SHort LONGboard works and you're part of an exclusive society who pays no mind to such hang-ups of the younger crowd. Only one size 8’4” in two thicknesses
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