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Did you entertain the thought of Kale Brocks mid length as a performance middy?

I have a 7.2 pintail single fin. Works as good as any tri fin.that hybrid looks fun

Mate dont say you bought a mid length when you didnt. A 6 8 m23 is a hybrid. You are like so many other short boarders who pretend to want a mid but are too scared to go there. A mid is over 7 2 if you ask me anything less is a long shortboard.

Good choice. Ive had several channel islands and they all surfed well. Id love to try the m23.

I like my m23 for shoulder high plus. Ci tph is the one for under head high. My mid quiver is album moonstone, js big baron, lost c.k., album vesper, pyzel MLC. Tph is all time for small waves

Cool cool waves dude, lived there surfed there 30yrs ago and still the waves keep coming..

Mean mbro from Brisbane by way of whaingaroa

Home!!!!! Miss the coast!! Be home next month for some waves. Love the videos brother 🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽

More videos like this please, Tui! That was a great watch. :)

Currently visiting my parents in the Far North...this reminds me why I moved to French Polynesia 15 years ago

This is great news! Ive been considering that exact model the m23 so Im glad to see your perspective. Thanks!

Epic footage

A shape like that at that length, I’d prefer it in a swallow tail for smaller waves under head high. Maybe also try it as a twin + trailer in grovel waves

Just went from 5"10 rocket fish to a 6"6 twinzers, i ride Akila Aipa Twins and got the canards from Ames fins.

JS El Baron looks awesome. My friend owns one, such a well balanced board.

I recently bought this and have ridden it in different conditions down in Dunedin. It went great on a small point break with pivot fins which made it loose and playful. It goes really well in big fat or steep waves with the AM2's that are recommended by CI, gets you in early. I love it. Can't wait to hear how you find it in bigger waves.

Ive looked at the M23, but Since i got my 7'6" Lost Crowd Killer ive never looked back.

kool man..all you young uns are surfing Mid lengths nowadays

Great board and a good choice for you. At 6'8 they are the most versatile shape out there. You can ride it as a twin plus trailer in tiny mush then as the waves get progressively bigger go with progressively smaller thruster fins and it keeps performing. In waist to chest high I use large thruster fins then above that mediums.

I just turned 44 and purchased a 6'2. I'm on my way!

I made myself a mid length in PU glassed with epoxy and basalt. 6'8" x 20 1/2". Low entry flat middle medium exit rocker. Outline is narrower in nose and tail than say the CI mid. Slight concave to pronounced double through the fins. It has a single fin box and futures boxes at 12". I ride it as a twin with a small trailer with positioning I dailed in with the adjustable box. Pros Heavy - mows through chop, soaks up the bumps. Has momentum and glide and is easy to catch waves Very easy to paddle - can scoot around the line up and out-paddle groms on short boards Handles big stuff - windy take offs Feels awesome on rail Is duck divable Cons Duck diving a 6 wave set gets pretty tiring compared to a short board. Can't whip it around and take off late Not as many turn options as a shortboard in small stuff - I prefer my small wave twin+trailer short board. A bit sketchy in bigger hollow waves.

I have had quite a few "mid lengths'...and they can cater to all sorts and conditions. the M23 looks a great board. My go-to good wave mid length (also a "hybrid") is a 6'9 Christenson Osprey. an absolute weapon. can be pushed into as big and heavy conditions as I can handle, but also has a bit of glide and trim for down to small and clean. Check it out. Might suit your style, too

6'8" a midlength , in 20 years definitions sure have changed.

P.s I could see this being a good step up in pumping south piha sessions like 4-6foot / overhead when there is a lot of water moving?

Purchasing an Album Vesper as a bit of a treat. Where did you source the PU M23? I can only see the Torqs available online? Cheers!

Congratulations on the M23, I'm curious about your next reviews. It's a board that I've had my eye on for many years. After our conversation about mid length I was saying bad things about epoxy but I ended up buying the Mid 6 7.0 :) second hand and I love it, i feel the thunderbolt diferent than firewire epoxy. The problem is that I no longer use my short boards. I catch a lot of waves and surf like I've never surfed before. Now I am looking to mini Moe, Album Vesper and Pyzel Mid Lenght Crises.

Love your videos and really inspiring. Hope you don’t mind me asking, what is your age please?

Try a 2+1 fin setup to loosen the board up a bit for those small days ...

Great Interview. Really appreciated the discussion of how to keep surfing into ones 60, 70s (and beyond).

Hi Tui, I was surprised to see you do these videos! We chatted out at South Piha about my baby blue mid 6 - 7ft in the car park. Its been a good all round board. I'm now looking at the 6'4 in thunderbolt black now that my fitness is better. I had a great session at Te Arai last week where it was pumping and caught lodes of waves. I like the mid 6 - very driveable board and the thin rails allow it to cut into the face. One thing about thunderbolt is that the boards are tough and mine has only small compressions. That can't underestimated. I'll see you out there in your 6'8 and really nice professional video. All the best Ken

Awesome video as always 😁 from your list I’d probably would go for the HI mid 6 or the m23. I also heard a lot of good stuff about the dhd interceptor.

Beautiful place !

Awesome reviews bro, relevant n knowledgeable appreciate your mahi

Love these videos mate.

Beautiful. Cheers from the other side of the world in Lisboa.

Nice concise explanation

Loved the discussion Imo I tend to ride the following based on conditions: Mushy Waves (small/med/big) - Fishes (I like quads)/Eggs/Everyday mids/Twin mids Punchy/Hollow waves (small) - Grovelers, Fishes Punchy/Hollow waves (medium/big) - Thruster shortboards I always struggled with "higher performance" mids with more rocker and more pulled in outlines. For small or mushy waves they weren't as maneuverable, harder to duck dive, and didn't paddle as good as fishes. They didn't have as good glide for small waves as everyday or twin mids. For larger waves, I could see more of a use case for them but then again if the waves are good I'd rather just be on a shortboard or a step up if its actually huge. The one place I could seem them being extremely fun is a clean lined up point break, but I feel like any board would go well in those conditions

#rideverything ! Great video! As for categorizing depends on one's height and the length of their smaller and bigger boards...if it falls in the middle and has a rounded nose it's a mid-length (or fun board).

For me coming from shortboard land, I tend to prefer "performance mid's" or whatever that means. Currently been riding: 6'8 Chilli Mid Strength as a quad - honestly an amazing board goes in anything just about from shin gutless to double overhead. For one year I kept coming back to it calling it the "Secret Sauce". I then got the 6'4 Chilli Middy as a quad - the small brother of the Mid Strength, love this board and ended up being on it more instead .... During this time I got a 6'9 Stacey Ohlson Twin - this is a performance mid length and it literally goes from the smallest waves to as big as I am prepared to ride .... I like this even better than the Chilli boards. I got addicted to it and rode it everywhere. I liked coming to the beach with two boards. Rode the shorter board for an hour or so and when feeling tired I swapped it for this board to extend the surf. I liked it so much I got myself a 6'5 Stacey Ohlson Twin recently. This feels like an everything board. I might eye out some bigger boards now above 7 foot to add something to the quiver to teeny tiny days ... A key thing for me is the width, too wide and I was struggling to handle / duck dive the board in bigger or rather wilder surf with lots of water moving around .... That's why I keep coming back to the Stacey Ohlson twin ....

Really liking my Cape Collective 7'0.... Made in Byron...not sure if available in NZ or around other places. Great board. Also got a CI Mid that I never use. My first mid was a McTavish Carver years ago...fun board

Right on, nice waves!

when I saw your first riding, I just smash the subscribe burton! 😎

Pumping piha!

That guy who blatantly dropped in on you what an absolute clown even better we all got to see his face while doing it . Awesome video by the way ripping uncle 🤙🤙

My experience with Channel Islands shortboards is that they’re typically pretty high performance and sensitive/reactive boards. Not the easiest to surf.

Pops is ripping. Those conditions at my end would be a great day.🤙

what is it a 6'1 ? ...I got the 6'2 version..its pretty versatile, im closer to 85 kgs and my 6'2 Happy Everyday is 37 litres ,,,I can surf it in small or big and it has the volume to still catch all wave sizes even when in a 4'3 steamer. Even though looks like a meat axe it still moves around like a performance shortboard......Id love to try a JS daily driver and move down one or two litres into an easy rider Monsta 10 or Xero gravity but not in a rush as dont expect life changing difference. I can surf the Happy everyday from 0.5 feet to overhead and a bit,,,,,,,,if gets bigger I got an old sweetspot 2.0 6'8 to use as a step up. Actually what were your 4 other daily driver options ?

2:10 what a jerk…annoys the shit out of me why ppl cant just follow the frikin rules

🎉🎉 happy every day compet the shadow xl? the happy every day need good amount of wave friends tells me

I hope I still surf like you when I'm 60!!! I watched your twinnie vid, What has been your favorite twin+trailer board? I've hated twin fins every time I've tried them but I have been considering giving them another go on a 2+1 setup