Biggest waves you have surfed on the Spitfire

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Originally Posted by beetles

5 foot Gas Chambers on Oahu, almost double overhead. Air dropped in and made a couple solid turns under the lip. I'm still running away from the barrel though. I guess I have to try it in there sooner or later. It's a super fun board with lots of speed but gotta get into waves early or not at all. ...

That's what I've found too. I've had mine out in solid 2 feet overhead and once up and riding I found it handles pretty well. The takeoff is the critical part when it gets steep.

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Originally Posted by prjwebb

I surfed mine in up to head and a half steep, walled up waves but it was pretty much safety surfing and racing. I'm not sure how it'd perform if you were going to be going top to bottom trying to lay down big carves in those conditions. Gut instinct says you'd be struggling.
I reckon the peak of the Spitfire's performance window will be in the chest to shoulder high range on steeper waves, but not top to bottom barreling waves. ...

Yeah definitely, for takeoff on steeper stuff that's its comfort zone. I target knee to head high for my spitfire and then for anything bigger it's time for the hellfire though there have been some overhead days where I went home and got the spitfire just because the waves were a bit fat and the spitfire paddles onto them easier. I find once up, on the spitfire it surfs steep sections OK like fattish takeoff sections followed by a barreling reform shorebreak section are fine. It certainly goes nicely off the bottom up into the lip and releases off the top nicely. Mind you I'm not talking double overhead but up to a couple of feet overhead.

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Originally Posted by hwork50

Does the DOM and Spitfire seem to surf incredibly well going left? I was very surprised at how well mine went.

:) Mine likes going north!