Notes from meeting with Kelly Slater today

After meeting with Kelly Slater for half an hour and then digesting all the information that has developed between the board I shaped for him and the board he's riding its clear that several principles have emerged.

1. He's working on washed out tails (or what I have been calling "tail feathers") as well. That's in the form of a pin tail with "v" in the last 5 or 6 inches of the board... this matches my "tail feathers".

2. He's got a very small foot... only a little bit bigger than mine. The board he's riding at the moment is really narrow in the tail at 13.5" so he's actually using too little area and too little fin spread for his foot size and...

3. He has stabalized on his fins... he's got standard thruster fins at the front and slightly smaller fins behind them that are double foil shape,  so the 9 time world champ has got that working and we can say that's a pretty good set up...

So yeah... we'll keep moving with those 3 interesting items....

Transcribed from audio notes with Bob by Ric.