7'4" Alex Knost BMT Disco summer saleBetween recording albums, touring, going on surf trips, and managing the Costa Mesa Conceptual Art Center, Costa Mesa's Alex Knost manages to squeeze in some time to shape some select sleds. The Disco model is a contemporary refinement on the Space Pins we all know and love from Knost's early stages of his shaping career. The Disco exhibits a teardrop outline with the wide point forward and a pulled in pin tail. The bottom contour starts with a rolled
The narrow tail will allow for the Disco to fit into critical sections of the wave and project turns through steeper sections while the low rocker and high volume will also allow the design to coast through softer parts of the wave
he started playing with its architecture while still remaining true to the original design
A rarity shaped by Costa Mesa's own Alex Knost
amongst others were the key members that ignited the shortboard revolution that spanned from roughly 1966 - 1971
and the board finishes off with a rounded pin tail
a difference in feeling becomes evident shortly after putting on the glasses
The deck of the board is slightly domed giving the illusion of a S-Deck and has the quite a bit of kick in the nose
versatile noserider with some Transition Era influence
a throwback to Newport Beach's surfing history of the 1970's when the Russell Crew was referred to as The Brotherhood and was made up of a radical bunch of craftsmen and shredders alike including Russell Brown
this is generally the case with most gliders to allow them to bank turns and surf more functionally with their added length
The bottom contours start flat towards the nose and grow increasingly rolled out the tail
an approachable log with a shallow nose concave and thin foil
