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The Inertia

If you were to walk up to any random surfer anywhere in the whole world and say “Rob Machado is the smoothest surfer,” you wouldn’t get much argument from any of them. Everything looks easy for Rob, from spitting Pipeline tubes to little French beachies. What’s really fun to watch, though, is Machado on cruisey little boards like the one in the video above.

It’s called the Go Fish. It might look like a plain old fish, but there are a lot of little tweaks from this day and age. “I’ve narrowed up the swallow tip to tip to give the board more maneuverability and the narrower nose gives it a more speedier outline,” Machado says. “The bottom contours … were inspired by a George Greenough design I rode a few years ago. I’ve refined it over the years and it now features a really flat bottom concave that runs down the center all the way through the tail. The two side panels run down each rail on either side of the center panel, and transition from concave to flat to Vee while maintaining the deep single concave down the middle.”

 
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