Rob Machado surfs very well. He surfs very well on just about anything, but as one of the original freesurfers, he doesn’t have to surf on a regular old thruster. Despite the fact that he’s one of the best surfers on earth, he generally surfs on surfboards that work for the commoner a little better than a CT surfer’s thinly glassed high-performance sled. Surfboards like his recent fancy, the Too Fish. And in the video above, he took it to Japan to surf it in all manner of waves, from man-made ones to beachbreaks.
The Too Fish is an evolution of the older Go Fish model that came out in 2017. He took a few bits from another board called the Seaside and created the Too Fish.
“My favorite in small and weak waves because of how thick and floaty it is in the forward two thirds of the board,” he says, “but this shape is also thinned out aggressively in the tail to enable hold in powerful waves.”
Machado has ridden it in everything from overhead North Shore waves to sloppy little junk at Cardiff, but, as I said, he can surf just about anything well. Still, though, doesn’t this thing look fun?
