GSI Modern Retro Longboard

yeah i had the walden cd4 mini magic.

 

nice logs are really expensive. Shockingly expensive. Spent more shaping my last log than a plain white shorty would cost off the floor of a shop... 3 hardwood stringer blank, about 20lbs of glass and tint, finbox, 10" fin adds up!

 

It's a pop out...to some people that matters to some it doesn't.I choose to support surfers making boards for surfers right here.

-good luck

 

Find someone that shapes, that doesn't have a big name -but has decent quality. That's what I did. I have my third board on the way from this dude, it's been so much cheaper I can't quit buying boards. -support your local shaper

 

For the price of a GSI you can find a better deal on something used or even new depending on the shop. This time of year shops are trying to unload some boards, which means you can get a great deal on a much better board. The shape of that GSI is good but the construction is not. Over the life of the board it will cost you more money in ding repair & have a much lower resale value than other options out there. Depending on where you are a local shaper could be the way to go. Cruise craigslist, shops, etc. and just see what pops up. Just remember with surfboards you usually get what you pay for. Best of luck with the hunt!

www.garbuttsurfboards.com

 

Right on dude!

 

Purchased only 1 Gsi aloha board on a whim...was actually a great shaped board but seemed to be glassed lightly...has many pressure dings, more then normal, on rear of deck...still water tight and looks new except for those pressure dings. It's Gonna be my last Gsi board, not because it's a pop out, but the glassing was way to light...sure makes the board light and loved how it performed but it's still gonna be my first and last Gsi board. It's up for sale if anyone is interested.

Like others, used May be the way to go or a good local shaper...and IMO, after the holidays, you may be able to get a nice board marked down.

 

I think GSI is a pretty good company. I had the superfish and it is a very good board. the problem is that everyone jumps on the "support the local shaper" soap box. And thats fine but if someone pays for a gsi board, its most likely a pretty good board.
the company took care of me when the superfish arrived with shipping damage paying for the repair plus some more.

 

that's a problem?

 

surfboards are one of the last items that you can truly buy locally and support a local guy who isn't a millionaire / billionaire but makes the same quality or even better than the large corporation at a similar or better price. Do you want to increase burton snowboards stock (or even worse, a company with a much lesser reputation, GSI) by a thousandth of a cent or put a few day's pay in a local shaper's pocket?

 

I recently bought my first log (I'm a short boarder, but in NY you get an extra 100 days a year or so with a longboard). I tried a few pop outs and a few hand-shaped boards. I can honestly say as a short boarder that longboards show their personality even more than shortboards do. Remember, on a log, the board is doing the driving, you really feel its input. Longboard pop outs feel much more soulless than shortboard pop outs. I love my Sakal (smallish shaper out of Huntington - not exactly local), which was about $600, but I'm sure your local shop has something from a local (or at least, hand) shaper around that price. I doubt you'll be paying any more than you would for anything by GSI.

 

my shaper costs far less, the majority of locals ride his boards, and he laughs at crap like walden.

 

I've done a lot of ding repairs on GSI boards (Webber, Aloha come to mind). Presumably someone paid for those boards, and they were not pretty good boards. As was said above they typically have oversanded thinly glassed poly laminations resulting in thin and brittle glass. Its quite noticable when you do ding repairs on these boards.

 

good on ya! you'll be stoked for sure!

 

not to mention that nearly all (90-95%+) of all the blown FCS plugs i've seen have been GSI boards.

 

This is along the lines what I'll be looking for. A basic longboard by a local (VB or OBX) shaper.