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Please Meet: Chilli’s Nevada Model

Jay Davies-approved.

hardware // Sep 28, 2016
Words by Stab
Reading Time: 2 minutes

Chilli Surfboards’ latest and greatest, the Nevada model, just landed on shelves. Which is good news for those who subscribe to the average-size wave / all-around performance type of surfing that you’ll see Jay Davies doing in the clip above (albeit a heightened version of it).

In short, the Nevada is a round square-tailed shortboard for intermediate to pro skill level, which works best in the zero to four feet range.

In longer, and in the words of Chilli: “Our latest creation for high performance shortboard with two size breaks. We wanted to create something from the Spawn (our current high performance shortboard) that is an easy transition from your small wave boards, catches waves easy, carries through dead sections and does all that with performance and ease.

“This model has volume distributed throughout the whole board nose to tail (where as the Spawn has the majority in the centre). A new simple neat feeling rail allows carving to be easy and forgiving. Round square tail giving you a little bit of area (as apposed to the narrower squash tail) and the rocker starts off a little flatter in the top third (speed) gradually builds through the middle and continues steadily out the tail giving you performance in the steep sections. Concave was a major player in testing this board. It starts under the chest medium depth and through out the tail it shallows out giving you a release when needed through turns.”

Get more over here.

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