7'8" Alex Knost BMT Mid-Length shoes

7'8" Alex Knost BMT Mid-Length shoesBetween 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. New from BMT this sled is a combination of a couple different design ideas we've been seeing from Alex lately. This Wayne Lynch style mid length looks incredibly lively and playful. The board has a soft rail for much of the board and tapers into a harder edge

The outline of the board is moderately parallel with the wide pushed back slightly in true pig form

In addition

" the famous board that is responsible for an accelerated evolution of board design that changed the way surfers approached waves from 1966 onward

The domed deck does a nice job of hiding a lot of volume through the center of the board and makes the rail thin and approachable

this is the sled for you

professional and novice alike

The rail foil is boxy and forgiving with a low rocker profile that is gradually stretched out

the sweeping s-deck gradually builds thicker starting from the tail up through the back third of the board then slowly thinning out as the inflection point of the curve aligns with the forward wide point

Based out of Los Angeles's South Bay

His Wilbur model is an excellent all around longboard for those looking to get their hotdogging on

you can test out a 9'2" Liddle L-Spoon

The nose is beaked and pushes a lot of foam forward while the tail is aggressive and narrow