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Yoshinori Ueda, also known as Y.U, played a pivotal role in the era and heyday of the Lightning Bolt brand through shaping and making these boards available to the public in Japan.
Yoshinori Ueda, également connu sous le nom de Y.U, a joué un rôle central dans l'époque et l'âge d'or de la marque Lightning Bolt, en shapant ces planches et en les rendant accessibles au public au Japon. Le modèle 70's de Y.U rend hommage aux designs, à l'esthétique et au type de surf qu'a permis une époque aussi emblématique de notre sport. Cette dérive présente une base large, un template plutôt droit, et un tip plus étroit qui s'accorde bien avec les pintails, les rounded pins, ou tout type de simple dérive plus étroite qui aime avoir du jus. Cette dérive offrira de l'accroche là où vous en avez besoin, des turns orientés pivot, et si vous fermez les yeux au milieu d'un bottom turn, elle pourrait bien vous ramener à l'âge d'or.
It is a tribute to the surfing that came out of the early-to-mid 70's: a wide base for hold and grip down low, feeding an upright template that keeps the turning radius tight rather than drawn out.
True Ames points it specifically at pintails and rounded pins — the boards that want a fin with some authority but not a lot of trailing area dragging the tail around.
Put it on a narrow-tailed single fin — a pintail or rounded pin in the seven-foot range — and surf it off the tail: it holds your line through steep sections and pivots off the back foot instead of waiting out a long arc. It is not for fuller logs; if you want planted-tail trim on a wider noserider, the Yater Pivot or Velzy Classic are calmer choices.
The YU 70's Model is a single fin by Yoshinori Ueda, made by True Ames, built around the narrow-template surfing of the early-to-mid 1970s shortboard transition era. The outline runs a wide base into a somewhat upright template that pulls into a narrow tip. It comes in two sizes, 7.25" and 7.75", and is intended for pintails, rounded pins, and other pulled-in single-fin boards.
For a wider noserider wanting planted-tail trim, the review says the Yater Pivot gives more straight-line hold and a calmer tail.
Like the Yater Pivot, the Velzy Classic is suggested for fuller boards that want more straight-line hold rather than back-foot pivot.
From the same shaper, the review recommends the YU Freedom for fuller boards wanting a more all-around hold-and-drive feel.
