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TB is really easy to work with. He asks for changes in terms of length, width and thickness when he thinks he needs to go up a touch. He’s getting more powerful every few months so I need to deliver more hold so he can’t overpower his craft. Whether the next change is bigger fins or less rocker and planshape curve in the tail, who knows? We’ll try a few things.

I made Taj 20 short boards in one go last year and that really helped him mentally. He didn’t have to worry about where I was in the world or whether his next batch would arrive in time. It also meant that 90 per cent of them were fully cured by the time he got to try them, which is almost never with most top pros.


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One thing he has changed is his openness to experiment. Once he has a good batch of boards, like three back-ups for his normal board, I’ll give him some fins-forward designs, which we have been working on. Taj has also been experimenting with fin foils so he’s reached a good balance of having the reliable contest quiver and the mini experimental quiver.

Overall, I prefer going out to the special clubs with Taj and Stamos and not mentioning one thing about boards. I remember giving him some new boards at Huntington after the contest there. We spent 15 seconds looking at the sticks before he said we should go for a walk through the flesh gallery outside. Crazy G-stringed women with bum tattoos were arcing their asses at us. I’m glad he and I share a similar responsiveness toward sexy females.

Of course, all guys love sexy chicks, but we are generally hopeless at tuning. Taj is no wanker, he’s just confident with women. I’ve watched two performers compete for him at a special club in the hope that they might catch him as a ticket out of that field of expression.

He can be hard on them too. He showed me a text message. I said: “Well, that’s the end of her, huh!” He replied: “You’d be amazed what I can get away with, she’ll write back and just pretend that I was joking.” A minute later, he smirks and reads me her expected response. Ah, feminists would love him. Me too, for that matter.




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