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Z-Flex Bamboo Fish Surfskate Complete 7.875″ x 31″ Wood Grain

Name: Z-Flex Bamboo Fish Surfskate Complete 7.875" x 31" Wood Grain
Brand: Z-Flex Skateboards
SKU: Z-FLEX-BAMBOO-FISH-SURFSKATE-COMPLETE-7875X31-WOOD-GRAIN
Availability: InStock

$279.95

The Z-Flex Bamboo Fish Surfskate is a modern day take on Venice Beach and the Santa Monica Pier with their first ever Bamboo range!

This Z-Flex Surfskate delivers the tightest turns that will never bight and provide responsiveness that allows for amazing speed generation. This Surfskate uses an asymmetrical design to allow for 3x more turning than an ordinary skate truck!

In stock|Lead Time 6 days

SKU: Z-FLEX-BAMBOO-FISH-SURFSKATE-COMPLETE-7875X31-WOOD-GRAIN Category: LONGBOARD COMPLETES Tags: Z-Flex Longboard Completes, Z-FLEX SURF-SKATES

The Z-Flex Bamboo Fish Surfskate utilizes patented Waterborne Technology to provide amazing turning potential. The Z-Flex Surfskate deliver the tightest turns that will never bight and provide responsiveness that allows for amazing speed generation!

The Z-Flex Bamboo Fish Surfskate is a modern day take on Venice Beach and the Santa Monica Pier with our first ever Bamboo range. Z-Flex has taken iconic images of the beach, the pier and the surf culture of the area and adapted illustrations to bring novelty and a point of difference to standard bamboo cruisers.

Waterborne have designed the Adapter for the most aggressive surf-skaters in the world. Tested under forces of up to 1500 lbs, far more than any rider could exert.

The aluminum alloy used has elasticity, originally intended to make the Adapter more durable, but also added a layer of suspension between the rider and the ground.

Z-Flex Surfskate’s all utilize patented Waterborne technology to provide amazing turning potential. The Z-Flex Surfskate’s deliver the tightest turns that will never bight and provide responsiveness that allows for amazing speed generation. Don’t mistake this for just another reverse kingpin truck on another cruiser. Z-Flex Surfskate’s use asymmetrical design to allow for 3x more turning then an ordinary skate truck.

The Waterborne Adapter mounts between your skateboard deck and front truck to become a surf-skate with an ability to pump, carve, and control slides with the precision and style of a well-shaped surfboard.

Z-FLEX BAMBOO FISH SURFSKATE:

Deck width: 7.875″
Deck length: 31″
7 Ply Construction
6.25″ Powder-coated Z-Flex Trucks
Trucks include 90A Soft Cushions
Waterborne Surfskate adapter
3x more turning than an ordinary truck
Z-SMOOTH wheels 63mm 83A
14 MM Z-Flex Riser Blocks
More here: Z-FLEX SURFSKATES

Grab your board and hit the coast with the Surf-a-gogo Series. Inspired by the 1960s and 1970s Californian surf culture with bright colours and iconic check patterns.

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History

1975 saw the Zephyr skate team from Santa Monica (better known as the specific area of Dogtown), California competing in the Del Mar national Skateboarding competition.

The “Zephyr surfboard production” surf shop was an integral part of the local surf culture, and had branched out into skateboard production, coinciding with the invention of urethane wheels. Kent Sherwood (Jay Adam’s step-father) who owned a fiberglass shop, was approached by Jeff Ho, Skip Engblom and Craig Stecyk of Zephyr Surf Shop to create a Zephyr skateboard.

Riding low, fast and hard, the Zephyr team took the existing version of gymnastic, handstand based skateboarding, fuelled it with the aggression of the streets, and things would never be the same again.

At first an alternative to surfing when the waves were flat, skateboarding soon took priority for a group of skate/surfers eager to prove themselves. Hitting the local schools in an attempt to mimic the big wave surf styles of their idols, the Zephyr team, or Z-Boyz as they came to be known, quickly developed into a phenomenon in their own right.

The phenomenon continued as California found itself in the grip of record droughts, causing many residents to empty their swimming pools. The Z-Boyz saw opportunity, and dove right in to these newly exposed playgrounds, sneaking into people’s back yards, skating as long as they could, and then running to avoid the inevitable police presence. The embodiment of an opportunistic, anti-establishment sentiment that remains evident in skateboarding to this day.

The finest example of this being Jay Adams, not only a 1st generation Z-Boy, but regarded as one of the best skateboarders ever, due in large part to his carefree aggressive style of attacking pools and streets. The nature of skateboarding eventually took it`s toll on some of the Zephyr team- and in 1976 Kent Sherwood, Jay Adams’ step-dad, broke away from Zephyr and started EZ-RYDER with half of the original Zephyr skaters including Jay Adams, Tony Alva and Jim Muir. 6 months later EZ-RYDER changed it’s name to Z-Flex

Product Innovation

Z Flex has long been responsible for product innovation, being a pioneer in development and testing urethane wheel designs. The standard clay wheels from the roller skating industry did not provide a smooth, fast ride, since they lacked retaining and grip qualities. Z-Flex developed the abrasion resistant Z. Smooth wheel specifically for boardwalk skating, followed closely by Z Grooves, a one-of-a-kind, faster, smoother wheel with a formula which most of today’s wheels are based upon.

Z-Flex 2nd Generation riders and product innovations continued to think outside the box, maintaining Z-Flex as an industry leader. Z-Flex is responsible for the first skateboard in history to utilize a concave on the board’s top-side. This revolutionized the direction of board design. You will find “concave” on almost every skateboard on the market today.