The High Five isn’t your ordinary performance longboard. It’s designed to have a wide range of use with some secret ingredients. First off, it has a five fin option. With the High 5 you have a quad fin option that will supercharge the board’s turning ability and speed. What makes the quad perform so well is the combination of a narrow pintail and deep double concave vee. This gives a smoother turn with plenty of bite. If the quad is not your thing, the two plus one works incredibly well on this board.

The full 19″ inch nose with critically positioned concave is the key to lift on the nose without pushing water. This is where the secret ingredient comes in. From just past the center to the front fins there is a Venturi concave inside the already generous double concave which sucks the tail down when on the nose.

The same Venturi concave when on the tail forces the water to be channelled to create extra speed, and with the pintail double concave vee you’ll have all the control you need. Another key ingredient to make all this work is the thinned out rail because at high speeds you need rail control and thinner rails are faster because there’s less curve to create drag.