Board testing done right. Photos: YouTube//Screenshot
If you’re going to do a serious board test, you need a few things: surfboards, of course, but also good waves. Not just one. Days of them, preferably. Days of great, yet varying conditions. You also need to be someone with enough surf knowledge to properly dissect each board and what the small tweaks and changes are actually doing for a surfboard and the person riding it. William Aliotti is one of those people.
For Asymatra, the film you see here, Aliotti packed up a Ryan Lovelace quiver (a Lovelace quiver may just be the most sought after of all quivers) full of asymmetric twin fin surfboards shaped by Lovelace and Vincent Brecqueville for Lovemachine Surfboards.
“This surf test takes a closer look at four asymmetric surfboard designs,” Aliotti explained, “tested across varying conditions in the waves of South Sumatra at The Ujung Bocur Bungalows.”
The boards featured are as such: a 5’5″ Zambal, a 6’0″ Satellite Step-Up, a 5’7″ Willycopter, and a 5’8″ Satellite. It’s a true test — by putting each of them into everything from rolling, slightly slopey waves to racing walls and challenging, heavy slabs.
“It’s really perfect to try out the surfboards,” Aliotti said, “and to really push the limits of the boards.”
