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BRAND: CJ NELSON DESIGNS

MODEL: OUTLIER

FINS: SINGLE FIN SYSTEM

CONSTRUCTION: THUNDERBOLT RED

Chasing All the Fun With CJ Nelson’s Outlier Mid-Length

“If you don’t have a mid-length in your quiver, you’re just not perfectly equipped.” – CJ Nelson

CJ Nelson knows boards better than just about anyone out there. He’s one of the greatest traditional longboarders of all time, and shreds on any type of surf craft. Recently, CJ was at the Surf Ranch riding his new Outlier mid-length. In addition to tearing apart Kelly’s creation, CJ also took a few minutes to talk about his quiver’s “funboard.”

8’0 with 9.5 G10 flex fin. The Outlier is the perfect board for the Surf Ranch, or pretty much any point wave. It is based on the displacement hull, which is a design made famous by a handful of guys at Malibu over the years. The Outlier is a more modern, user-friendly hull, and uses Yu San’s Thunderbolt Red Technology to make it super light and responsive. CJ rides an 8'0" version with a 9.5" G10 flex fin that he developed.

The Outlier was designed to be a board that traditional longboarders could jump on and immediately understand how it moves. Traditional longboards get their speed from trimming in the center of the board, rather than pumping, and the Outlier was intended to do the same. You don’t need to pump the board to get speed, which provides that classy, traditional feel, even though it’s a shorter and more maneuverable board. It features a simple outline, and a rolled bottom into a flat tail, making it perfect for any level of surfer. Intermediate guys can surf really well on it, beginners can figure it out easily, and pros can do the best surfing of their life on it.

Not only is the Outlier a good transition from a long to a shorter board, but it is also a good transition for short boarders who want to get a bit more foam under their feet on small days, but don’t necessarily want to move all the way up to a longboard. CJ loves is on days on the points that are a little too small for his keel-fin fish, but bigger than he wants to ride on a log. But no matter what you ride it on, the board is a heck of a lot of fun. No wonder they call mid-lengths “funboards!” 

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