Mick Fanning’s New ‘Go-To Kirra Board’ Is The EAST Experiment We Never Got To Run 

Simon Jones has won the Electric Acid Surfboard Test twice. Darren Handley has been the shaper behind Steph Gilmore and Mick Fanning’s 11-combined World Titles. 

What happens when you pair up two of the most successful high-performance and alternative shapers to collaborate on a surfboard? That was the question we posed in 2022’s Electric Acid Surfboard Test with Mick Fanning. 

Thanks to the tuned-up 6’8″ channel-bottom twin fin breaking on Mick’s third wave at an overhead, barrelling right-hander, we never got any answers.

Evidently, that irked more than just the viewers. Mick went right ahead and ordered a replica straight after – he’d felt a spark. 

During the recent cyclone swell that lit up the east coast’s pointbreaks, footage surfaced of Mick flying through Superbank tubes on a replica of the board that never got a proper run in the Maldives.

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“This board is now my go to Kirra board,” Mick wrote in the comments. 

While Matt Biolos x Donald Brinks’ asym the ‘Mick’s Tape’ was ultimately crowned the winner, it’s interesting to think what could have been if the 6’8” hadn’t broken at the beginning of the trip.