PRIDE BODYBOARDS Lewy Finnegan ‘Guru’ SDC Polypro Core – 2023/24 Model

STYLE: Lewy Finnegan Collection
CORE: Kinetic Polypro Core
SIZES:  41, 42, 43″
RETAIL: (AUD) $499.95
 
MODEL BRIEF: Lewy Finnegan is Pride’s most explosive Aussie rider. The man goes huge in the small stuff & even bigger in the big stuff. His new model reflects his stylish, technical surfing & balls to the wall madness in waves of consequence.
RIDE BRIEF: Lewy has refined his model ovet the past few years. It’s all round template combined with a 55/45 rail setup and the “flex to weight” characteristics of its  Polypro Core ensures responsiveness through every move, both on the rail and through the air. The Guru is a narrow and thin bodyboard, featuring a relatively high wide-point and a wide tail, resulting in a low volume, straight bodyboard. This design is ideal for radical lines and big airs. 

FEATURES
CORE: Kinetic Polypro Core. Kinetic Polypro Core is a state of the art engineered bodyboard core. A lightweight core that is fusion formed to create a nucleus that delivers incredible flexural properties, including instant recoil, added projection, enhanced longitudinal stiffness & awesome compression strength. 100% waterproof. PRIDE LAB Tested and Proven
STRINGER: – Carbon Fibre Stringer
CONSTRUCTION: Deck – NXL
SLICK: – Surlyn by DuPont with Mesh
RAILS: –  55/45 Double Rails – NXL outer and IXLPE inner
TAIL: Crescent
ADDITIONS:  Slick Mesh, Pride’s exclusive Single to Double Concave, Parallel Channels,  Nose Bulbs
 55/45 Double rails,  XFL Nose & Tail Armour, Nose Bulbs, CNC Shaped,
FINISHED THICKNESS: – ( Based on 41′) 53mm

SINGLE TO DOUBLE CONCAVE-The Single to Double Concave features Pride’s most advanced bottom contour to date.
The bottom contours of your bodyboard and how they are blended together, play a big role in how that board is going to perform.
Concave’s produce lift as well as laminar flow of the water under your board. They also slightly increase the overall surface area compared to a flat section. Some very basic fluid mechanics principles have been adapted to our case by our Pride Lab engineers. “When the water flow goes from a bigger section to a smaller section, the flow speed decreases and the pressure increases.” figure 1. explains Jeremy Arnoux. “Using this principle as an analogy to what happens below our boards (if water is coming from both side of the board), if the perimeter of the concave narrows, water will encounter resistance at the end of the concave creating a pressure which push up the board creating more lift. As a result, having a concave will add a greater sense of lift. Which also means more speed in smaller conditions.”

The Double Concave is coupled with the classic deep Hull channels. Channels operates the opposite. While most of the surfboards on the market have fins in order to add drive and maneuverability, Channels are replacing the fins: The diameter at the end is bigger than at the beginning creating drags which is partly the reason why the tail of your bodyboard is maintained into the face of the wave.

Colourways
Midnight Deck// Aqua Pinline// Black Rail// Metalllic Grey Slick
Grey Deck// Aqua Pinline// Grey Rail// Metalllic Grey Slick

Here’s a Clip of Lewy on this model: