Nice vid Supmaori, Just wondering what size you are.. I'm 6'6" and 95kg, was thinking the 7'10" the best bet, currently on 8'10" widepoint, also have 8'11" x 32" Exocet, which surfs great, but not stable enough, the widepoint I find very stable, just not super radicle. Any thoughts anyone else?
Alright, started a full-time job last week (first job out of university) and am already wondering how to spend my first pay check. Thinking either the 7'4 or the 7'8. I'm 6' and 80kg (though that seems to be marching northwards as I adjust to an office lifestyle). Have previously spent time on a JP 8'2 widebody (which was comfortable, but sacrificed too much performance for me) and an old 7'3x28 hokua (which I could just manage on a nice day, but really too much effort and not enjoyable).
Any input would be greatly appreciated 
Hey, I like your style, first paycheck…pay off student loans?….nah…buy a new SUP! 
You can look at the 7'4 and 7'8 as your weight is good for both so boils down to your skills and conditions. The 7'4 is the board to aim for if you are surfing in reasonably clean waves without too much wind and chop. If it often gets choppy where you surf then the 7'8 with the extra bit of width and 10L in volume will be handy. I ride the 7'4 and I am nearly twice your age, 5'7" and around 82kg and love the 7'4 as it's stable and fast. It does become a mission in the windy choppy crappy conditions.
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Thanks Casso..mate have you tried Minion as a thruster or staright quad set up?
Cheers
Yeah, tried both of these options. They go OK but prefer it as a quad with the Darc Drive trailer - just that little bit more drivey when you need it.
Cheers for that Casso..Thanks Don and DJ..
Don I'm 6ft and 95kgs..before the Minion I was on the Fanatic 8'10 prowave..which now is just for decoration. .it does take a while to the feel of the Minion and I could have maybe gone to the 7'4 but conditions aren't always super clean and I wanted to be comfortable out the back and spend my time riding waves not falling off in chop...like stevo said take into account your skill level then pull the trigger..as I've said before..couldn't be happier with board and service I received. Looks even better now I replaced white deck pad with a Deep one from Simon.
Chur
I'm keen to make one too, could you give me an idea for nose and tail widths and rocker please?
Hey DonSup
Your best of speaking with Simon from Deep he is going to be the best one to advise you from your Height weight expertise ect. You can contact him thru his website www.deepoceanboards.com That's how I got mine, This thread gave me the ideas
regards
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Select to expand quoteCasso said..Supmaori said..
Thanks Casso..mate have you tried Minion as a thruster or staright quad set up?
Cheers
Yeah, tried both of these options. They go OK but prefer it as a quad with the Darc Drive trailer - just that little bit more drivey when you need it.
hi test pilots! during 4 weeks of i tried many combo of fins on my 6'5" vangard type of board, i can say now that a quad version of Nexus in front and rear H2 medium as trailers, was the best combo.
I think it's because they have a lot of drive and shallow under water , so they easier dig the rail of wide tail more efficiently better the deep fin.
Took delivery of my minion tonight. Quick pic and it was into the deck grip...3 hours later I am finally finished and ready to take her out tomorrow.
So stoked with the whole experience. Quality all the way through. Great packaging for airfreight, amazing glassing/sanding, absolutely awesome shape with the double concave taken out deeper for a bit more grunt in turns, fins....apparently only the best will do as standard with Jackson Close signature Future quads and Dark Drive nubster.
Was lucky enough to be able to get one of the first DEEP tail pads and went nuts cutting up a DEEP deck grip to round of the customisation.
Wanted to slim it down somewhat so went slightly narrower than I am used to at 28.5" wide but at 100kg want the extra couple of inches for rough days whilst keeping the volume down a touch at 117Lt
Am I happy....the wife is on the couch tonight ....
Thanks a million to Mags, SA's very own DEEP pimp and Simon and the boys for producing such an amazing product.
Interesting tail on your board as it is not the usual 'batwing' and looks more like the tail on the Gullivar v-box.
Very nice looking weapon there Danny you will have to let us all know how she goes
Had my first surf on it this morning in 1 - 1.5ft clean Middleton on a dropping tide.
There was 3 of us on Minions this morning and we all had a ball despite the small waves.
Over the moon with the way it performs, just a little disappointed in the surf as it's usually bigger and still yet to ride a minion in more than 1.5ft
When I did manage one of the bigger set waves she really came alive. Took a few waves to remind myself how to really milk these boards in the turns but man are they something else.
I find myself delaying the bottom turn for a split second longer and really laying it over more then I can any other board and boy does it grip through the turn. It drives out of the bottom turn harder with more speed than you would imagine and projects nicely into the lip where the fun really begins. I find the tail so easy to push around and didn't even feel my foot on the kicker today. From snappy reo's to wide drivey cutbacks, with a bit more pressure and kick on the back heal they seem to get loose when you want but with a surprising level of control.
Having spent the last couple of weeks on the JC the minion feels totally different and certainly suits my style of surfing more. The JC with quads was too unfamiliar compared to a thruster setup but the minion as a quad with the darc drive just feels soooo natural especially to someone who has only surfed with 3 fins for over 3 years.
So Happy? Hell yes but desperate to get it out in 3-4ft where I struggle to really throw my current board around naturally. Hoping the minion will be the one board fits all I have been looking for. The good thing is I don't have to wait to long to get the waves I want as I'm off to Bali in 6 weeks for 10 days on the minion.
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Interesting tail on your board as it is not the usual 'batwing' and looks more like the tail on the Gullivar v-box.
StevO I've seen Minions with this style of tail long before I had heard of Gulliber. My reasoning for this tail versus the standard minion tail is I will be travelling to Bali with it and hate the thought of a point being snapped off. Having surfed both styles and I honestly can't pick the difference in performance so didn't hesitate.
"Having surfed both styles and I honestly can't pick the difference in performance so didn't hesitate."
My question to the DEEP's team about Minion tail lift : is it the same lift tail on batwing tail and fish versus 
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I find myself delaying the bottom turn for a split second longer and really laying it over more then I can any other board and boy does it grip through the turn. It drives out of the bottom turn harder with more speed than you would imagine and projects nicely into the lip where the fun really begins. I find the tail so easy to push around and didn't even feel my foot on the kicker today. From snappy reo's to wide drivey cutbacks, with a bit more pressure and kick on the back heal they seem to get loose when you want but with a surprising level of control.
I have also been finding a bit the opposite in that I can now bottom turn earlier and can get an extra turn or two in that I could never do before as there is the acceleration and speed/drive on tap which was not available on other boards. Saying that, when I do more of a classic off-the-bottom turn it is like getting a slingshot out of the bottom turn which feels fantastic and sets up for the best top turn I have ever done and now really projecting the board out of the lip!
Does Simon give you the option of FCS fins with the Minion boards, or is it 100% Futures boxes?
Select to expand quoteDanny Lee said..
Had my first surf on it this morning in 1 - 1.5ft clean Middleton on a dropping tide.
There was 3 of us on Minions this morning and we all had a ball despite the small waves.
Over the moon with the way it performs, just a little disappointed in the surf as it's usually bigger and still yet to ride a minion in more than 1.5ft
When I did manage one of the bigger set waves she really came alive. Took a few waves to remind myself how to really milk these boards in the turns but man are they something else.
I find myself delaying the bottom turn for a split second longer and really laying it over more then I can any other board and boy does it grip through the turn. It drives out of the bottom turn harder with more speed than you would imagine and projects nicely into the lip where the fun really begins. I find the tail so easy to push around and didn't even feel my foot on the kicker today. From snappy reo's to wide drivey cutbacks, with a bit more pressure and kick on the back heal they seem to get loose when you want but with a surprising level of control.
Having spent the last couple of weeks on the JC the minion feels totally different and certainly suits my style of surfing more. The JC with quads was too unfamiliar compared to a thruster setup but the minion as a quad with the darc drive just feels soooo natural especially to someone who has only surfed with 3 fins for over 3 years.
So Happy? Hell yes but desperate to get it out in 3-4ft where I struggle to really throw my current board around naturally. Hoping the minion will be the one board fits all I have been looking for. The good thing is I don't have to wait to long to get the waves I want as I'm off to Bali in 6 weeks for 10 days on the minion.
I was out with Danny for his first surf, it was great to see him finally riding his own minion. He's a good surfer and even though the surf was lacking I could see the speed being produced through the turns. Good stuff Danny
Another friend was out on his big name brand sup, he asked to have a surf on my 7'8" minion. I immediately saw an improvement in his surfing. His turns produced speed and the transitions flowed so much better than I've seen from him on his board. I was taught if you can't say something good then say nothing, so I'll say nothing about his 106 litre carbon big name brand Board. You quickly forget how different the minion is until you get on something different.
Wicksy, I've had Deeps with fcs fins, but mine are all futures now......I'd suggest ringing Simon direct.
Select to expand quoteZeusman said..
Ok.... I really want one of these now Select to expand quoteWicksy said..
Does Simon give you the option of FCS fins with the Minion boards, or is it 100% Futures boxes?
You can order the boards with either FCS or Futures!
Funnily enough I agree with both Danny and StevO. Delayed bottom turn gives great speed and projection into a top turn. The extra speed and short length means you can whip into an extra turn or a quick floater easy peasy.
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Funnily enough I agree with both Danny and StevO. Delayed bottom turn gives great speed and projection into a top turn. The extra speed and short length means you can whip into an extra turn or a quick floater easy peasy.
Yeah it is like you can either really crank it off the bottom or immediately turn on the wave face and fang down-the-line fish style surfing. Really cool to have options like that which the other boards I have had didn't offer. With other boards I was always wanting more speed down the line but felt I was decelerating towards the lip before going into the top turn. A mate saw me on my 7'4 and do a late lip smack floater and he thought I was way too late to pull it off but he said he was amazed at how I connected with the lip at speed and punched through it and threw the fins out of the wave in my turn. I thought I was way too late too but pulled it off because I had the speed and a wide tail to drive through the foam off the top. Stoked!
Select to expand quoteDanny Lee said..
Had my first surf on it this morning in 1 - 1.5ft clean Middleton on a dropping tide.
There was 3 of us on Minions this morning and we all had a ball despite the small waves.
Over the moon with the way it performs, just a little disappointed in the surf as it's usually bigger and still yet to ride a minion in more than 1.5ft
When I did manage one of the bigger set waves she really came alive. Took a few waves to remind myself how to really milk these boards in the turns but man are they something else.
I find myself delaying the bottom turn for a split second longer and really laying it over more then I can any other board and boy does it grip through the turn. It drives out of the bottom turn harder with more speed than you would imagine and projects nicely into the lip where the fun really begins. I find the tail so easy to push around and didn't even feel my foot on the kicker today. From snappy reo's to wide drivey cutbacks, with a bit more pressure and kick on the back heal they seem to get loose when you want but with a surprising level of control.
Having spent the last couple of weeks on the JC the minion feels totally different and certainly suits my style of surfing more. The JC with quads was too unfamiliar compared to a thruster setup but the minion as a quad with the darc drive just feels soooo natural especially to someone who has only surfed with 3 fins for over 3 years.
So Happy? Hell yes but desperate to get it out in 3-4ft where I struggle to really throw my current board around naturally. Hoping the minion will be the one board fits all I have been looking for. The good thing is I don't have to wait to long to get the waves I want as I'm off to Bali in 6 weeks for 10 days on the minion.
Great review Danny. Would love to see some photos/video of your new puppy in action.
Cheers Casso. I'm sure I'll have some decent pics on my return from Bali.
Have a mate that's a Surf photographer over there so going to be bugging him to get me out to some secret spots and take some pics the next 6 weeks can't go fast enough.....
That looks sweet what size? And how many litres? I should be getting mine very soon
Hi there I am seriously considering getting one of these to use in NZ, but like others there is no way to test drive one.
I mainly surf Muriwai Beach and on the Coromandel.
I'm 180cm, and 95kgs.
I currently use a Coreban Icon, and have been on a standup for around 4 years.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Hi,
The SUP Centre in Newmarket have demos and the full range. Talk with Russell. I'm 188cm and 100kg, came off a 9'6" Prowave and have the 7'10". Just an awesome board and I back up everything that has been said about the Minions. Mine is borderline for me in choppy conditions however even though I have a few swims I love it. The drop in length is a bit of a head trip at first and I've found it difficult to go from one board to the other as they are so different. The Minion is so much faster and maneuverable.
