Surf Star’s Secret Weapon
Be a surf star and ride a Tomo quad in your next surf contest!
5’10” x 19 1/2″ x 2 1/2″
Light and strong poly 6/4 glass job with wetsanded gloss finish and airbrush.
Advanced 21st century design stolen from an underground Pentagon lab.
Dazzle the judges, freak out your competitors and get the girl! Be a star, be a shiny star!
Anonymous
September 20, 2010whats the theory behind that tail? and whats it called?
Anonymous
September 20, 2010The Raptor FA-22 Version 1 is Inspired from the cutting edge U.S air force technology Fighter-Jet and theories of which allow the craft to perform sharp controlled manoeuvres at high speeds. I’ve found that the best way to release the high velocity laminar flow created by the foil outline is a combination of sharp calculated angles, rather than the of curves of a fish tail. Consequently the Raptor tail releases the low pressure flow cleanly which gives the design a free and effortless manoeuvrability and minimal resistance hydroplaning. The Raptor Hydrofoil is an exciting and truely unique future performance surfing experience.
malte
September 20, 2010awesome
Anonymous
September 20, 2010I really like these boards. But being 6 foot and weighing 190 pounds, they just seem so small.
Most other small boards these days are wider and somewhat thicker. What´s the reason that tomos can be short, narrow and not very thick? Do you hide the volume somewhere else – or are they not very good at catching waves. Keep doing a good job – and get them to europe as well please.
Thomas, Southern Spain
Anonymous
September 20, 2010If this board is the surfing equal of the F-22 Raptor, then what is the equal to the beloved and enduring C-130 Hercules? I know…a Velzy Pig. There is a distinct resemblance there too.
tg
September 21, 2010cool pic of the future surf star
Tyler Karaszewski
September 21, 2010It’s not a hydrofoil. I wish he’d stop describing it that way. A hydrofoil is a real thing — there are lots of hydrofoil boats, and Laird Hamilton and friends actually built a hydrofoil surfboard (see it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_WKgcOiq2M ), but I heard it was quite difficult to control.
Also, when fighter jet engineers talk about “high velocity” they literally mean 1,000mph, not the 20mph or so that a surfboard might go. From an aerodynamics standpoint, surfboards move at a pretty low velocity.
There’s a lot of high-tech sounding words in that description of this board, but I don’t think there’s actually any calculations going into his “calculated angles”, and I question how many engineers at Lockheed contributed to the design of this board.
Gerardo
September 22, 2010Thomas: con facilidad podrias usar una tomo 5’8″ x 18+ x 2 3/8″ o quizas mas delgada 2 1/4, son tablas rapidas y no hay problema atrapando olas, y cuando el oleaje esta bueno, tsss, te la recomiendo…
Anonymous
September 24, 2010ditto Tyler!
High tech term overload!
Royal
September 28, 2010call it what you want, DT puts his boards in places most of us wish we could, regularly….
oh yeah, nice tail DT 😉
ben chipper
October 2, 2010thanks tfad for posting shots of the daniel thomson boards . the videos i’ve seen of him surfing show him ripping the bag out of it !!
also , the three fin bonzer shots ? insaaaane !! keep em coming sir ! [i want to make one , one day !!]
my brother has a nice FIVE finner he picked up at cafe haleiwa a few years back ….