Board Alert: Mikey February Releases Signature Performance Model With CI
The EAST star pivots back to a pointy, triple-ruddered, high-performance surfboard.
It’s hard work to be an enthusiast in the age of hyper-connectivity.
One day you’re filling out an order form for a mid length because someone you half-trust on the internet said foam is your friend. The next, Slater tells us we should’ve been spending more time on twin fins, Rasta’s got us jumping on quads, Burch on asyms, and now, in the wickedest bait-and-switch, Mikey February, a man who made us fall in love with alternative designs in EAST and beyond, has scrapped all that to go back to the “Swiss Army Knife” of surf sleds.
Just when the collective brain had finally recalibrated around alternative craft as the thinking surfer’s choice, Mikey February, of all people — the patron saint of trim, glide, and elegant limb positioning — pivots back to the most orthodox object in surfing: the high-performance thruster.
The Mikey February Shorty (as it says on its ID), developed with Britt Merrick, seems hard to argue with. Though unmarked and unmarketed at the time, it was seen under the feet of several CS and CT surfers in heats last year. Out of all the CI comp heads, George Pittar (with one foot on the 2026 CT) has been its most unapologetic fan.
Gabriel Medina had to order his like a pleb (he’s not on the team), and has routinely been seen riding one in his preferred dims. Oh, and guess what prototype Kelly was searing D-bah with in Stab In The Dark X…
How’s that for peer review?
Mikey’s whole brand of surfing was built on flow and on looking like he’s not trying at all, which is possibly the hardest thing to do well. The question with such a return-to-thruster moment is whether the board serves the surfer or erases him. The M-Feb Shorty, by Britt’s account, sits somewhere between the Two Happy’s accessibility and the 2.Pro’s sharpness. It features a staged rocker, a subtle hip near the fins, and a single-to-double concave designed to offer range without sacrificing feel.
For Britt, this is a board that augments Mikey’s surfing rather than restraining it: effortless speed, deliberate lines, and controlled release. It comes dressed in a signature swirly triple-hex logo too.
In an era obsessed with novelty, real subversion might just be making orthodoxy feel like a revelation, again.
PS, Joyride coming soon…
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