54 Special - Thruster - 4'6"

so fun!

My son is loving his little 54 Special softie. He’s been using it to surf, skim, and bodyboard. All around great fun. Looking forward to some decent waves so dad can take it for a spin too (if he lets me)!

Super fun board on dumpy shorebreak and some waves you need more volume to catch. It's an amazing paddling board and floats me right how I like it (175lbs). A little harder to duck dive since it's super small and extra floaty, I can easily get under solid 6' but once it gets bigger, I usually ditch the board and hope I don't break the leash or tail off. I can generate speed pretty well on this and steam down the line. The heavy bottom turns do take a lot of your speed and it takes a few good waves to see how to not give up all your speed on these. It turns really quick and is able to move around really easy when on the faces of waves. I would absolutely recommend this board to anyone looking for boogie barrels to stand up barrels, it hurts a lot less than the fiberglass options too when pounded into it.