MONSTA 8

The Monsta 8 is one of the most versatile surfboards on the planet. From waist high to double overhead plus, everyday surfers to World Title contenders, average surfs at home to annual trips chasing waves. No matter what, it won’t let you down. In competition, it’s the go-to for the Traktor Team in QS contests in small, weak beachies to elite Dream Tour locations like Snapper, JBay or Trestles – and it’s been on the podium at all of them.

TEAM RIDER REFERENCE

ADRIAN BUCHAN // Height: 5’9 (175 cm) // Weight: 76 kg – 165 lbs

Rides 5’10” x 18 5/8” x 2 5/16” x 26.1L

DUSTY PAYNE // Height: 5’10 (178 cm) // Weight: 80 kg – 176 lbs

Rides 5’11” x 18 3/4” x 2 3/8” x 27.6L

JULIAN WILSON // Height: 6’0” (183 cm) // Weight: 80 kg – 176 lbs

Rides 6’0” x 18 3/4” x 2 3/8” x 28L

JOEL PARKINSON // Height: 6’0” (183 cm) // Weight: 83 kg – 184 lbs

Rides 6’0” x 18 7/8” x 2 3/8” x 28.2L

MIKEY WRIGHT // Height: 6’0 (182 cm) // Weight: 75 kg – 181 lbs

Rides 6’0” x 18 3/4” x 2 5/16” x 27.2L

LSD TEX

“The Tex is a super stubby little thing for when the waves are super small or you’re just feeling lazy.

The bloated girth and thickness of Tex will get you trimming and turning on any wave that breaks. The contemporary single into double concave gives this craft plenty of spark.  A balanced outline combined with a large round squash tail helps with the control of this little animal.

The Tex should be ordered approximately 6 inches shorter than or three four liters more than your conventional short board.”

Luke Short

Simon Anderson Face Dancer

A High performance small wave quad option all rounder for waves 1 to 5 feet.
Medium nose and tail rocker with deep single concave to a slight vee right on the tail to assist quad rail to rail control. Low soft Simon rail to help hold and facilitate deeper carves through turns on the wave face.

The increased width and nose area enables you to surf a little shorter as per World Tour trends. Works best all round as a thruster but has the ability to be looser and faster as a quad in weaker waves.”

For clean point or reef waves – flat inside foil side thruster fin set and double sided foil back quad fins. For general beach breaks conditions – concave inside foil side thruster fin set with 70 30 foil back quad fins.”

Simon Anderson

Simon Anderson 5 Spark

Swallow tail performance fish with Quad option fin system. A Streamlined fish outline with flatter style deck and old style chunky low soft rail. Single to double concave with vee at the swallow

Designed to be surfed as a Thruster in the 3 to 4 feet range and as a Quad from 1 to 2 feet. The team usually surf 5Spark as a Thruster and their go to smaller wave board. Surfs like a souped up high performance short board and accelerates through turns and releases the fins out of the top of the wave in a predictable manner. The Quad fin placement is old-style, meaning the fins are slightly closer to the rail than the modern Kelly Quad version. As a Quad, 5Spark exhibits extreme speed in 1 to 2 foot surf with sharp direction changes possible, but less predictable slide at the end of the turn, that’s the ‘Spark’ element.” 

Simon Anderson