Drive / Speed | |
---|---|
Movability | |
Paddle Power | |
Stability | |
Quality | |
Overall |
Great board, super fun to ride in all conditions. Would definitely recommend to friend. Looks super sick too!
Drive / Speed | |
---|---|
Movability | |
Paddle Power | |
Stability | |
Quality | |
Overall |
Pyzel makes amazing surfboards, and the Phantom is no exception. For everyday 2-6ft waves this board performs like a dream. It is thick and buoyant enough to have suffcient paddle power and stability. And once your up and riding it has a great capacity for shredding! I highly recommend this board for anyone and everyone!
Drive / Speed | |
---|---|
Movability | |
Paddle Power | |
Stability | |
Quality | |
Overall |
This board definitely loves the more powerful surf than the average sloppy beach conditions. Once the waves get around head high the board really comes to life. It's not a bad all rounder but does get a little bogged down in the mushy conditions and hard to connect turns. Overall super fun to ride but now only use it when the waves turn on.
Drive / Speed | |
---|---|
Movability | |
Paddle Power | |
Stability | |
Quality | |
Overall |
This is a great step up board I put the large JJF fins in and and in 4 ft and up it is manoeuvrable responsive in big waves glass job in the big boy boy glass is good very little deck depressions.
Drive / Speed | |
---|---|
Movability | |
Paddle Power | |
Stability | |
Quality | |
Overall |
Easy to surf, great on the points and awesome on the beaches especially when is 3 to 5 foot.
Drive / Speed | |
---|---|
Movability | |
Paddle Power | |
Stability | |
Quality | |
Overall |
Lucky SHADOW! I managed by chance to get this board off a mate, who bought it for himself but felt it was a little too low in volume after all, lucky me. For a 28L board with a much more generous nose outline and volume filling the front of the deck than a more even keel throughout, you'd be forgiven for thinking this thing would move like a boat. Fast, smooth on rail and forgiving across flatter sections of the wave face. I've surfed this thing in the chop and cleaner conditions in WA and The Shadow performs like no board I have ever ridden. At first it was a bit odd, feeling so much of the board under your front foot but I got used to it really quickly and soon realised how good it was. The wider outline and sneaky positioning of volume under the chest/foot definitely helped me paddle and get up onto the waves with ease, especially on some of the larger or steeper sets having that volume there just allows you to slot in tight on the rail down the face and recover. There is a tiny little hip in the tail and coupled with a slightly tighter squash tail allows for a good bit of surfing off the back foot when you wish to release, whether that's on the face or off the lip. I wouldn't say there is a negative, just getting used to the volume placement was an adjustment from riding boards with a more even or traditional spread. As far as I am concerned this is one of the best boards I have ever ridden, if not the best. In clean or chop it performs to it's peak, it's forgiving and to be frank I think it's helped my surfing a great deal. There's also a note that all stock orders come with a 5x4 team glassing and I have a mate who said he really felt a difference with heavier glass on a Chilli Faded (6x4oz) but I have not noticed anything when in the water. Pound for pound when you hold two different glassed boards, yeah there is a mild and noticeable difference in the weight but when you're in the sea, doesn't cross your mind. I ride the stock dimensions and use the Octopus Is Real traction. Yew!
Drive / Speed | |
---|---|
Movability | |
Paddle Power | |
Stability | |
Quality | |
Overall |
I surfed this board in Lakey peak and it went ok in the heavy surf. the thing that bothered me the most was that it had so much rocker and it was hard to paddle and didn't go to fast on waves. however it had so much pop and even with little speed I could launch off the lip and its stability due to the width let me land a couple of rotations. I surfed with the old Kelly Slater 2.0 fins by FCS and the suited it well but the when I turned to small accelerators, they super charged the board and I could push so hard on them. due to the loaded rocker I could fit the board in the pocket and set the rail really nicely to do super tight fast turns. in fact that's what I liked so much about the board. I could transition rail to rail so quickly and the board let me hold rail as well. A very lively board suited to good waves and I really enjoyed surfing it.
Drive / Speed | |
---|---|
Movability | |
Paddle Power | |
Stability | |
Overall | |
Quality |
Very happy with board very easy to use and it’s extremely fun and awesome.
Drive / Speed | |
---|---|
Movability | |
Paddle Power | |
Stability | |
Quality | |
Overall |
Awesome board. Much faster than I expected, great as a quad, my go to at home.
Drive / Speed | |
---|---|
Movability | |
Paddle Power | |
Stability | |
Quality | |
Overall |
Great daily driver for waves from waist to overhead. Wide point forward to really easy paddling. Rails are a forgiving. Got mine as a squash tail but round tail is available too which is what I'd go with next time. Also went too big with mine and would thin it down a lot for the next one. Also check out the Pyzalien 2 which apparently has a bit more range and a more foiled out range.