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| 164487 | 7331 | Those parallel railed, wide tailed logs... | 18 | takedown | Jan 17, 2020 | 2020-01-17T17:51:53-0500 | On my last trip south I stopped by Michael's shop to check out his boards. He chatted with us for over an hour, showed us his shaping bay and glassing area. We met his son, Kai, a friend from gradeschool and his glasser. He had a shop full of boards being built and a ton of blanks with orders waiting to be fulfilled. Michael has been building boards for many years, but now is transitioning from being a flooring contractor to building boards full time. Michael was a lot of fun to talk to. He had lots of stories and information about his boards. He recommended I look at the Annihilator model which is 24" wide, parallel and wide tailed. He explained he had several different tail configurations of varying thickness and he recommended the foiled out tail for my board. He said the boards provide a stable noseriding platform while being easy to turn. The younger / smaller riders seemed to be able to turn them with ease. Longbordian recently did a podcast with him, I haven't listened to, but here it is: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-longboardarian-podcast/id1452115482 There was also a clip of the host riding the Annihilator that was previously Kai's board and he seemed to enjoy it: https://www.instagram.com/tv/B7RPUixHwj-/ Now to figure out which colors to get |