For "Super Smooth" XPlay Longer, faster, smother than the S6 & S7. The S8 is a full on, fast carving, dynamic blunting, smooth cartweeling, high hopping, design. Use it for dynamic surfing on river or sea waves, play in deeper holes, on sweet eddy line spots and moving about the river with speed and precision. The S8 provide the paddler with a new sense of agility and speed and remains super smooth and controlled and stable in the vertical world. Available in two sizes. The "225" for small to medium paddlers and the "235" for medium to larger paddlers.

• Rocker Break
  To enable you to dynamically "hop" the S8's out on a wave or perform super high (carving off that swallow tail) air blunts, air wheels ect. The S8 has a small rocker break front and rear. Enough to give you the "essential" hop ability but not so much that it sacrifices speed and stability vertically.
  The rocker breaks are critically positioned within the paddler's effective weight throw area. This positioning allows you to maximize your ability to throw your weight over the front change in the rocker and then rapidly back over the tail, which will start to get you airborne. You take it from there!
  Maximized Planing Area
  Just like the S6 no gimmicks to create drag, just a large planning hull designed to provide lift even at slow water speeds and provide quick release when you want it. The S8 hull is slightly curved in its cross section towards the front and rear to let you snap from edge to edge while carving maintaing fast boat speed to manoeuvre and allowing you to land air moves with stability.

  

  Inverted Rails
  Having a sharp release edge allows water to dissipate from the hull. Helps give the secondary stability of a round hull but with the performance of a slick releasing flat hull. Keeps the S8's real user friendly and easy to roll.
  Performance Fittings
  Modified for 2002 our "Super XR" rapid adjust, quick release, ratchet backrest system is mounted on the fully adjustable contoured thighgrips. Combined with the new Play Seat (PS) an ergonomic and supportive seat pan that lets you rapidly and easily micro trim your S8 for different water conditions for optimum performance. "Super XR" and the "PS" combine to give maximum power transmission and lightning fast reaction time so that you can drive the S8's to their performance envelope.
  "Shoc Bloc" bulkhead footrest. Tough ABS vac formed unit push-fits in to the front of the boat to give you a solid and dependable footrest (can be quickly removed by pulling on the webbing loop for more foot room if required).
  "Play Series" end grabs tested to 500kgs (1100lbs) some of the strongest on any play boat out there, also provide you with the ability to lock up your boat.
• Power Pockets
  OK we have to claim this one for ourselves here! While working on the S6 & S8 we were looking at how we could give you control and assistance while performing loops, air loops mega loops whatever kind of loop you want to do really. After lots of testing the one that worked the best while not compromising other key areas like cartwheeling, volume distribution and general river handling was the simplest!
  We mounted some real simple steps on the front and rear deck, we faired the steps in to the deck so that they did not affect the boats stability when cartwheeling. Then we built more volume in and around the knee area (this also made the boat more comfortable) and jacked up the back deck a touch to make sure that we balanced out the boat volume to keep it all working properly.
  It worked a treat, water rushes up the deck towards the feature as you bury the nose (sometimes it is easier to slice in to the loop rather than try to bury the bow level) it is then is trapped in the pocket, this upward thrust assists the natural "lift" provided from the volume of the boat giving you higher moves. It also holds the boat in the water laterally giving you great control over the boat while you perform the move.
  Overall this gives you a really innovative new feature that allows you to learn, develop and take "looping" a stage further, under control and without affecting other areas of the boats ability to give you a fantastic ride!
• Swallow Tail
  Short flat hull boats are super fun but can often slide out from underneath you when driven in to a hard carve while surfing or on steeper waves. This loses speed and momentum for dynamic moves. To alleviate this design compromise in these boats we have designed swallow tails in to the S8's. Its not a new concept and has been around in board surfing for many years. However, now that high performance play boats are being asked to do more and more and generally getting shorter the concept of being able to effectively lengthen the rail on the boat giving you better carving and surfing ability while not affecting overall length make its use in these boats a great performance enhancer, giving you the ability to drive the boat out of a carve in control with plenty of momentum for something special!
• Extras
  Just like the rest of your S8 we don't scrimp and save on the little things, take a look at your drinks bottle, its Nalgene of course. Not the cheapest by far but the best you can get! Your S8 will also come complete with a full "Fitting kit". This comprising of; self adhesive hip pads that you can shape to you because we are all different sizes, self adhesive foam to stick where you need it for max comfort, and that important fish sponge!
  
  
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