WHAT FIREWIRE HAVE TO SAY:
The Dominator is perhaps the most versatile board in the Firewire quiver to date, the Dominator combines a full outline with a thick foil from nose to tail and a 5/4/3 fin configuration(use it as a 4 fin quad or 3 fin thruster). The wide point has been moved back to reduce the nose profile, maintaining all of the speed but with none of the top turn drawbacks of retro nose outlines. Built with the flex characteristics and light weight of Future Shapes Technology, the Dominator paddles like it's turbo charged and does not track like heavier PU boards with similar dimensions. Take Charge!
RapidFire is a hybrid technology, combining the carbon rod suspension of Direct Drive with a bamboo top deck skin.
Developed in conjunction with Surfboard Suspension Systems, RF's core is shaped from 2lb fused EPS foam and the bamboo skin is applied using Firewire's proven sandwich construction. Unlike FST and DD, the 2lb foam and bamboo deck sandwich do not require a vent.
The interior carbon rods work with the bamboo skin to optimize flex patterns, maximizing speed and drive through turns, and while not as dent resistant as the DD or FST aerospace composite skin, the bamboo does create significant compression strength. Please note our boards are definitely not indestructible and if slammed by a thick lip, or if you land incorrectly in the flats after doing an aerial, it is possible to break them.
RapidFire's flex characteristic is similar to FST and the overall effect is a highly tuned, durable surfboard with increased performance AND strength versus traditional surfboard constructions.
The Dominator is the most adaptable board in the Firwire range, a real crowd pleaser, everyone should have one in thier quiver!
What this all means for surfers is a step forward in the age old trade off of performance versus durability that has traditionally limited polyurethane boards. The nature of the core technology in these boards allows them to rebound in and out of turns with little loss of speed. The secret to improved surfing is maintaining and using this speed to go higher, bigger, longer or whatever does it for you!
