New surfboard constructions are popping up everywhere with the promise of improved performance and durability. Among the companies developing new surf materials and board constructions, Surftech has added a new design to the line up with ULTRAFLX. We got a chance to test out the ULTRAFLX with the ...Read more

I just surfed 6 days in a row on the Poipu using several NSP rentals. I had fun but it was painful to know what I could've done if I had purchased this board a week ago. Today I went in to the Hanalei Co. Surf Shop. Super nice people. I told this local brada Gordon I wanted the 8'0" Rusty Epoxy. (very nice board) but he said that I just had to try the Ultra Flex. I weigh 220 lbs and have been on larger boards for over a decade. Hanalei was a couple feet over-head on sets, nice crowd and I just started scoring wave after wave got to try a clean tube ride several off the top re-entries and some really hard long drawn out cutbacks. The board just kept gaining speed the harder I pushed on each turn. I did notice I put my feet too far forward and I opted not to use a stomp pad. I have been known to rip them off my boards in the line-up if they aren't working for me. So maybe a stomp pad would be a good idea for this board cuz I would know where my back foot should stay. The width did require me to shift my feet laterally for the drawn-out cutbacks but that's ok cuz I didn't lose any speed. Floaters were a piece of cake and on a couple waves I tried stalling out to see if I could make the sections.. yep. After one sketchy barrel I popped out the curtain before it closed and I was able to use all the volume to get through the foam and catch back up to the face again. I just love this board.. But I am surfing The Bay. Aloha

On Janaury 2nd 2010 I bought an 7' 8" "ultraflex" quadfish from the Surf Ride store in Solana Beach Ca. John Ennis sold me the board. I had spent 45 minutes or so mildly considering buying an "off the rack" board. My last 2 boards were shaped by local Venice/Southbay shaper Scott Anderson. However when I saw the Randy French "Quad Fish" I dropped the $700.00 without hesitation. It was exactly what I was looking for.

There was a nice little Headhigh + swell running through San Diego and I immediately waxed my new board anticipating a great session the next Morning. I paddle out at "Pipes" in cardiff at 7 a.m. the next morning and caught a nice little right, made a couple of pumps then got dropped in on. Fair enogh... paddling back out I took a set wave on the head and had to duck dive pretty close to the impact zone. I lost grip of the baord while resurfacing and while grabbing it to get on it and face the next wave I got a nasty little pinch to my left index finger! Huh?

Then I realized the board had SNAPPED !! Wha?? Duckdiving ?? Headhigh semi mushy beachbreak type surf! No Way! Okay.... so there is a serious flaw in the construction of the "Ultraflex" series as a whole or I got a lemon. A brand new board 3" thick should not snap duck diving 30 minutes into the first session in average surf... I dont think.

Okay so I got into Surf Ride and John Ennis (store manager) says he will get right on it, and he did. He CC's me on an email he sent to the Surftech Rep "Haji" to replace a board he considered as a "defective product".

It has been a week since John contacted "Haji" and there hasn't been any word from the rep. Surf Ride (the shop where the board was purchased) has been helpful and responsive. I sincerely hope Surf Tech will stand by its product and replace the board with a non defective version.

I will keep Blue Safari Posted.

Happy New Year