Couldn't wait to try this new version of Gong small-wave machine, the One, designed for 1' waves.
So I decided to get it out, even if the waves were more than its intended range... after some hairy out-of-control rides (before the video), I spend the rest of the session letting the board go through its paces to quietly (on the shoulder) feel its nature... and also a bit scared by the bigger waves at the beginning of the session :-)
PS: I love these kind of noses: wide enough for stability, but pulled-in enough for not to be cumbersome. With them, I can dig a lot of rail in late drops to get the stability of a longuer board...
That looks like fun Nice looking board too (from what I could see). 6'10" - seems so short! How wide is it?
It is the Gong One, 31.5" wide
www.gong-galaxy.com/magazine/pics/1-hour-4-boards/
The buoy during the video was at 0.8m/1.3m, 12s. The day after I got a killer session with it in the conditions it shines in: 0.3m/0.5m 11s (clean tiny punchy waves)
Actually the wide nose gives a quite long rail, so the row effect is not as pronounced as with a semi-pointed nose.
The One was a quite specific shape the years before, but now this shape is made in 3 versions, a bit like wetsuits have now Short and Tall variants (M, MS, MT)
The Normal 120l: 7'6"x31" gongsupshop.com/GONG-SUP-76-MOB-120-PRO-XTR
The "Tall" version ("SP"): 8'3"x30" gongsupshop.com/epages/box1707.sf/fr_FR/?ObjectPath=/Shops/box1707/Products/GON7SUPMOBSPPRO83
The "Short" version ("One") 6'10"x31.5" www.gong-galaxy.com/magazine/pics/1-hour-4-boards/
The taller+thinner you go, the bigger waves it can handle. The shorter+fatter get a boost of power for small waves.
Or the taller+thinner are super easy boards for the intermediates, if they get one with enough volume for them.
The drawback is that you have to move a lot the rear foot to dance all around the wide tail. and boards with a more pulled-in tail are easier to manage in the pocket, such as the Fatal: gongsupshop.com/epages/box1707.sf/fr_FR/?ObjectPath=/Shops/box1707/Products/GON7SUPFATPRO75