Starboard Kombat (08 Model)

I'm thinking of getting one soley because I like the pretty graphics.

i like that train of thought.


is that a phrase??? or have i gone stark raving bonkers!! my memory is shot


getting old, can i borrow your P n S mike??????

If you cant ride a 2008 Kombat in the surf there is little hope for you on any board...


for a real review of the Kombat - go here:


http://www.star-board.com/2008/pages/news/news.php?readmore=362

The 87 i rode in hawaii was indistinguishable in wave performance from a dedicated aggressive wave board

Scotty was throwing huge aerials at hookipa on this board as well.

With the GLOWING reviews i think there is some real evidence to support this board's awesome performance claims

and it looks good too!

Ahh the RRD FSW, i've heard some good stuff about that.

Thanks guys for all your inputs.

I was at Gerro's last year and some of the guys let me try their boards. I rode an 07 Kombat (89 litres i think), an acid and Mistral synchro (both round the 90 Ltr mark)
I ws surprised how easy I found the Kombat to sail compared to the other boards. And the differences were huge.

We were testing against several of the other large manufacturers offerings which we "aquired " for the day for testing purposes. Many just did not turn - and some (inclusding the markets best seller by sales volume) flat out could not be bottom turned - while the kombat was indistinguishable from a dedicated waveboard.

Many intermediate users will rate this style of boards by their planing ease and speed - which is important - but you need to combine that with turning - which many intermeditate sailors cant do yet.. hence reviews in the past have often rewarded fast crossover boards with little mention of their turnability and freestyle ability - which is a critical performance criteria.

The best selling cross over board for 2006 - 7 simply would not bottom turn - so the market is getting the wrong message somehow...

Funny - we thought exactly the opposite. OK we didn't sail it in proper waves but the Kombat 87 was the worst gyber by a country mile because it was so reluctant to turn (by that I mean properly engage the rail and grip into the gybe...you had to be really agressive, sheet in loads and use a lot of back foot to make it turn...trying to gybe off the front foot just didn't work for me). It then lost speed easily through the gybe and I found it the least likely board to plane out. (This is in powered up 5.8 weather)

That could "maybe" be forgiven to a certain extent if it was a fast early planing speed machine. But no way was it that either.