9'8"Y Reverse Rocker

General Discussion
1

Have any of you shaped a 9’8"Y with natural rocker backward – i.e., with the nose of the blank as the tail of the board?  If so, how’d she ride?  Many thanks.

 

David

2

Shapers comment is that the rocker begins at the middle of the “demand curve”.   Typical candidates for a reversed rockered blank would be flatter in the middle, kicked at the nose and flatter at the tail.  When you reverse such a blank you end up with a board that is low in the nose with a kicked tail.  ie a classic Noserider.  Whether or not a 9’8Y would be a good rider as a reverse rocker board depends more on nose and tali rocker.  Research the Walker blank that was used for the Nuihwa(sp) Noserider.   That board was shaped out of a reversed rocker Walker blank.  Can’t remember for sure, but I think it was also a 9’8.  But flatter rocker than the 9’8Y.

3

Doing that would have on a 9’8"

4.5" TR

2.3" TR12

2" NR12

3.6" NR

This is still too much nose rocker IMO.

good reverse rocker #'s (Stewart Tipster)

4.5" TR

2.75" TR12

1.375" NR12

2.75" NR

or for extreme low entry rocker like Chris Christenson uses (check out Mikey DeTemple riding his boards on youtube/vimeo):

4.5" TR

2.75" TR12

0.75" NR12

2.25" NR

let me know which rocker you want and I can tell you how to custom order the blank.

4

Those aren’t blanks that can be purchased and reversed.  You’re talking finished boards not raw blanks that might be reversed.  When you can ride a Wavestorm like Mikey Detemple. Post it on YouTube. 

5

Yes, I already have a blank (it’s actually a balsa) that was built with 9’8"Y natural rocker, and I was thinking about shaping it backward.  I’ve shaped 9’8"Y natural-rockered blanks before and haven’t loved the boards’ noseriding characteristics.  

6

I would take free&easy’s offer and guidance.  You can order a blank from any of the Big Three just about anyway you want it.   I tried to have some Surfblanks Australia 9’8’s(I think) reversed and cut from a file when I was on Maui.  This was back in 2006 after Clark closed.  Machines and programs were not as advanced back then.  The machine couldn’t produce the rocker as a reverse.

7

Yeah, he PM’d me the rocker figures.  Much appreciated.