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This exact board, this gently used album Twinsman. It's our small way to say thanks for the support.

And we'll pick one name from our subscriber list on March 1st, announce it on social media, and we'll be doing these

kind of giveaways every other month throughout the year, and hopefully beyond, and actually,

hopefully more frequently than just every other month if we can kind of streamline the workflow.

So enjoy today's show, and good luck on March 1st.

Hey everybody, David Scales here. You've heard of album surfboards for years now. You've been seeing an increased amount of footage of guys writing albums boards. And if you've seen any of that footage in the last

six months, the odds are that the board that you saw was the Twinsman. And it's the board that I've

been exclusively writing through December and January. So did the Twinsman allow me to surf like Asher Pacey or Josh Kerr?

No.

But does it deserve to be the next addition to your quiver?

I'll break down all the details and let you decide.

So let's take a closer look.

Okay. Now, to best understand the album Twinsman, we should contextualize the genre or the category. This one is six foot in length, but I wouldn't really call it a shoreboard.

It's a twin fin, but I wouldn't call it a fish.

Here's how album surfboards, founder and shaper, Matt Parker, defines it.

I kind of see it as a shortboard replacement for most of us, right?

Okay. Because, or at least a shortboard replacement kind of daily surf.

So I view it not as a retro board, not as a fish, not a, you know, it's more a daily driver for the waves you're going to surf 95% of the time.

Okay.

And the reason it's more phone friendly, you know, so you can kind of jump on it instantly.

You're like, well, I can catch waves a lot easier than I can on my normal board.

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