I surfed my new 9'6" Hangman for the first time today and I found its responsiveness and performance to be truly mind-boggling. The incremental improvement I've felt in the past when trying new boards now seems trivial in comparison. I've never surfed a door, but all my previous boards might as well have been just that -- doors. That's how big the change feels to me. My other boards always carried with them built-in limitations that no amount of skill or imagination could overcome. The Hangman seems to bypass all that by tapping directly into what I'm feeling and translating it for me in the water, almost effortlessly, without any cerebral thinking.


Maybe I can explain it this way: My wife is a violinist and a few weeks ago she was given a surprise opportunity to play a Stradivarius from his "golden age." Stradivarius only made a few hundred violins during this period and they are conservatively valued at several million dollars. No one in the room knew that my wife was going to be playing a Stradivarius (not even herself), but as soon as she picked it up, it was obvious to everyone that something miraculous was happening. From the moment she started to play it, her whole being became illuminated and the sounds she produced were mesmerizing. Later that day, she kept exclaiming over and over again that the instrument "played itself." She could do no wrong. Whatever her impulse, the Stradivarius executed upon it flawlessly.


Prior to witnessing this event, I always assumed that talk of "magic surfboards" was bunk. Watching my wife that day, my mind expanded to believe it might be possible, for if a violin could do what it did for her, why not a surfboard for me? But never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined that just a few short weeks later, I actually would be riding my own magic board.

So allow me to politely suggest that Sunovas are not "the Ferrari of surfboards," as some have claimed, but rather "the Stradivari of surfboards."


Yours in awe,

Scott Grusky
SunsetSurf.com