One Of The Best “First Sessions” We’ve Seen On A New Board

The CI Happy Everyday rose to prominence after placing 2nd in Stab in the Dark with Taj Burrow.

Inhabited by an inquisitive and restless mind, Britt Merrick kept thinking about how to make a good thing better. Tweaking the design led to the board now known as the Better Everyday, a step-down performance shortboard.

Its most notable changes were a softer hip, a swallow tail — that, according to its maker, took the board to the level they had wished for — and a slight increase in tail rocker. 

The board also comes with the sacrilegious five-fin setup, so the undecided can ride it as a tri or a quad. Use all fin boxes at once, and you’ll be sent straight to jail. 

Britt’s “if one thing matters, everything matters” approach means that fin design wasn’t overlooked and plays a fundamental role in the design formula. A specific set was designed for the board — pair of uprights in the front and another pair of rakey trailing fins closer to the tail.

In a nutshell, the Better Everyday could be that versatile all-rounder that sits between your high-performance shortboard and your step-down/groveler — the board you keep in the car for your daily sessions but won’t disappoint when the ocean throws down those extra kJs.

Or, in Kian Martin’s case, something you walk down the beach with. The Swedish-Brazilian Canggu resident got a visit from the Onboard crew and demonstrated the board’s versatility over three different sessions in the wedgy black sand beach breaks (and a rivermouth) of Southwest Bali.

Like Kian, those among the CI team who spend most of their year competing developed a special relationship with the design. It has since been spotted under their feet at many QS and CS stops, and Lucas Cassity even took out the Bottle Rockets title at Stab High Japan on one.

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Watch Kian’s test runs on the Better Everyday — both as a thruster and a quad — and his detailed breakdown of the reason behind the sudden disappearance of your next paycheck.