{"database": "surfing", "table": "posts", "rows": [["324331", "17470", "New CJ model - Slasher Low Pro", 24, "takedown", "Sep 5, 2024", "2024-09-04T21:22:37-0400", "I'm having a great time on the shape.  I consider myself an intermediate longboarder that is just starting to figure out noseriding after many years of practice.  I had a breakthrough week down in San O on a 10' CI Log, it all just started to click. I found on that board I really had to be in the pocket, at my weight if I wasn't in the pocket the nose would go under, but a lot of the time would pop back up.  I think surfing that board for a couple of months really helped me improve my pocket surfing.  I then got on one of CJ's prototype 9'9 carbon low pros and spent a week on it at San O and found that it surfed similar to the CI Log, but was more forgiving in noseriding.  It's stable when walking and it just levitates when on the nose.  The prototype appears to have bigger rails and a lot more edge when compared to the thunderbolt version.  As a result I found the prototype to paddle closer to the much larger CI Log, easy to get into all size of waves.  One thing that I progressed on was the faded take off to quick pivot and run to the nose.  I spent a day working on it and the board allowed me to do that fairly easily.  I just picked up a thunderbolt version 9'9 in silver.  The rails are more foiled, there is less edge and it appears that the overall thickness is less than the prototype.  I'd have to get some calipers on it to figure out the difference.  I've noticed that the TB version is a bit slower to get into waves, probably because of my weight and there being less foam coming from the 10' log to the thicker 9'9 low pro.  I got the chance to get the TB version on a couple waves with some juice and it works really well, I never really feel out of control, it just sort of does what you tell it to do.  I have bogged the rails a bit more on the TB version and nosedived on takeoff, so I need to figure out what I'm doing wrong in that area.   I haven't been back on the prototype in a couple of weeks, so I'm interested if I see a difference going the other direction.  What I really need to do is get both boards out in the same conditions and the difference that way.  I'll be headed down south to surf San O, C St and surrounding waves in a couple weeks and will be bringing both boards. One needs to stay behind at my mom's so I really need to figure out which one I prefer to surf the majority of the time in Oregon beach breaks.  If anyone is considering the shape and wants to give the TB version a go at San O hit me up.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWith all that being said, I don't know if my stoke is because I finally passed a major plateau while trying all these boards or if the boards unlocked something for me and now I'm figuring it out because of that, it's hard to tell.  I'll be jumping back on some of my other boards as the swell picks up here and see if it's the board, me, or a combination of all of the above. A buddy of mine, who is on a 9'4 Bing Derringer, tried it out for 6-8 waves and he really liked it.  He said it's a lot easier to ride, noserides well and he can see why it's fun.  He was on the fence of picking up one from Cleanline.  I tried the Derringer, it was undersized for me, when I got up on waves it did not feel lively at all."]], "columns": ["post_id", "thread_id", "thread_title", "post_number", "author_username", "post_date", "post_date_iso", "post_body"], "primary_keys": ["post_id"], "primary_key_values": ["324331"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8716720003576484, "license": "Public Domain"}