It’s really the subtle features that make it a special board. It basically creates all the speed for you. “The whole back end of the rocker is super flat. “It connects with the wave really, really nicely,” says Hayden. And with Craig Anderson, one of the most admired surfers in the world riding ‘em in such a sublime fashion, they’ve become so popular they account for more than 30 percent of Hayden’s worldwide sales. But the Hypto-Krypto is important because it brought the genre to a new generation. Dave Parmenter’s Stub Vectors in the nineties and Biolos’ round-nose-fish a few years later all combined the same magic ingredients. Pulling in the tail, moving the wide point forward of the middle, giving it a straight rocker and relying on the curve of the outline to create manoeuvrability ain’t a secret to anyone, of course.
So I grabbed that same design and put my semi-gun rounded pintail into it, blended the curves and… it worked!” Hayden explains its genesis: “I was shaping a couple of twin-fins and they had those traditional wide swallowtail designs and I found they went too straight. You have a bunch of paddle speed, you fly down the line and then you do turns. You don’t have to think about your feet when you stand up. Those boards make serious drops if you commit to them. “There’s no other board I’d have under my feet. “Everyone likes that model a lot,” says Craig, who takes his 5’4” Hypto everywhere including that top-to-bottom left-hander in Namibia that features in Slow Dance. It was a great experience.”Īfter that he took it over to G-Land for a Quiksilver trip and then to Deserts where he eventually snapped it and gave both pieces of this magic surfboard to a local kid. I could sit further out and pick my lines. I was really excited on how much paddle speed I had. “The banks were shallow coming from deep, no one out. Until one day when a four-to-six-foot north swell was lighting up the waves of Newcastle, where Craig lives, and he discovered the Hypto’s not-so-subtle pleasures in the long lefts of Dixon Park. I always like a clean, normal looking surfboard ‘cause I feel that shorter, aesthetically weird boards have an unclean, almost cheating, look to ‘em.” “I didn’t really dabble in the tricky looking fish boards. “I hung onto the shortboard dream when I was younger,” Craig says of his reticence to ride the Hypto.
Narrow in the tail and with a forward wide point it resembled something from the seventies but spruced up with the carbon Fibre Flex rails and a regular three-fin setup.Ĭraig was so thrilled “he didn’t touch it for a year,” says Hayden.
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