Will have to check them out this summer. Heading North for 3 months this year. Looking forward to some Traut sessions.

No wetsuit needed. Water temp on our lake is 75 and we are 3 hours north of Madison.

Brozil, Flour Bluff, Texas

Wood core boards are far more resilient to impact restistance, far stronger and heavier.... Also difference core materials have different flex patterns. Writing off all other cores except foam shows ignorance. Have heard ( but not seen any data to support it ) that a wood core has much better dampi...

I second the Brokite recommendations. Have been riding them for 8 years and they just keep getting lighter and stronger. Jerry will build you a custom board and the price is comparable with factory boards.

Interesting, I thought there would be many more responses from small board builders and/or their riders. Jellyfish and Saul Customs, thanks for responding. It was interesting reading about your boards.

For many years I have been riding a Brokite board that was hand made to my specs by a company in Texas. My question is, what other small custom board manufacturers are out there like Brokite that make high quality boards that aren't stamped out on a production line? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp...

Its interesting that on this thread has focused mainly on the big manufacturers who stamp out boards without much focus on the smaller board manufacturers that make some great boards. I have been riding Brokite boards for many years and love them and the people that build them. Here is a video of th...

This video explains how the big kite companies stamp out their boards. You can't blame them, they are trying to run a successful business. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ3YcqJ6svo So you can get a board stamped out in a factory in Asia or a custom board by a company like Brokite where the board is...

Sad news. Not much detail yet on what happened.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-2 ... -dead.html