A surfer standing atop a fish is typically easy to spot. He or she moves with a distinct glide and swooping lines that, even when you can’t see the board itself, you can picture the wide, flat piece of foam they’re riding. A fish just has its own personality even when it’s sitting on the rack of your favorite surf shop. Whereas your standard thruster looks like each of its stamped out brothers and sisters, each fish immediately feels unique for a thousand different reasons. And the general reaction to scoping one out from under the arm of another surfer about to paddle out is to mind surf the thing yourself before it even touches the water.
“That thing looks fun,” at least one surfer will inevitably say – stopping you while walking down the beach, delaying the start of your session long enough to give the board a twice over. And that makes us awfully curious as to what kind of looks Ross Bushnell got before getting this thing into the lineup. It’s not a fish. And it’s not a longboard. You look at it and your imagination runs wild with what you could do on the 10 foot long twin fin swallow tail. This is what the Mega Fish does to us.
Now if only we could learn a move or two from Ross.
