6'3" Alex Knost BMT Disco body

6'3" Alex Knost BMT Disco body6'3" Between recording albums, touring, going on surf trips, and running 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

The Wire model from Slob Craft can produce just that

8'2" x 20 3/4" x 3"

Each piece is dyed individually

and finally a slight vee out the tail

We see this sort of as our replacement for a thruster as it works in many conditions comparable to what we would normally choose to ride a thruster in

The Magic Sam

and allow to dry in a cool

great for gliding effortlessly through soft surf or flying down the line at high speeds in punchy stuff

Looking to test out one of Griffin Stepenak's Fish

but will also thrive in quick

always change on a towel or soft surface (as opposed to a rock or parking lot)

you can test out here