Louisiana board demos

Like the Maryland post we need a demo shop cause I bought a 2011 slingshot recoil and I kinda wana trade after 1 ride

From what I can see in your profile ur coming off an Ibex... dude give it more than one set hahaha

Switching to flex takes a little bit of investing on your part... very few people can adjust their riding in one set to the VAST differences between those boards. The Recoil is a sick board and my weapon of choice for both rails and boat. It does everything really well after you take a few sets to figure out the differences.... All i'm sayin is don't give up yet... go shred that thing a few more times and get a feel for it before you make a snap judgement. You might love it, you might hate it... but one set isn't going to tell you much at all

I see what ur saying but I spend all day and I adjusted faster I landed all my normal tricks loving the flex the only problem I have is how slow the recoil felt slow to me

It's definitely a slower board I totally agree, and def something I've had to adjust to as well. Thats what you get with that 3 stage... but give it a little time and you'll get used to it and the extra pop from the 3 stage will start to outweigh the speed because you'll adjust to it. The Kine or the reflex would be a good alternative because it is similar but a little faster, maybe check with your local shop (or whomever you purchased from) to see if they'd be willing to swap it out. But if it was me I'd keep riding it cause you'll adjust and start to love it... I know I did.

Well the shop does no refund or return so I'm s.o.l.

You'll figure it out... just keep shreddin!

Have to agree with the win-some and lose-some deal when it comes to 3 stage vs continuous and stuff.
I have both an older '07 recoil and a 2010 response. switched to the response because my style was changing to where i was enjoying taking jumps way out in the flats more. making the switch i was anticipating less use of energy, but i noticed that I felt like i had to wait a little longer before I could cut back in with the return of line tension, so the energy/time expenditure i was hoping to decrease stayed about the same.

I did not notice a huge difference in pop except for when i was doing double ups. doubleups were more a controlled pop on the response and i kept my control better, but for some reason i missed more of them... kind of another trade-off. huh

Soft landings has always been one of the main driving factors for my choice of gear and style. though landings out in the flats was super fun, i was missing the wake-to-wake soft landings. I lengthened the rope to keep both worlds. this made the wait to cut back in shorter, but i was also riding with a longer line, so the energy/time thing was still the same. haha, but i got my extra soft landings again.

I have not tried the reflex, or any of the 2011 stuff for that matter, but i bet the reflex would be perfect for me considering all that i said above. Its supposed to be a middle-ground between the two, but i shied away due to the chined rails.

ima try to get a refelx in exchange for the recoil if anyone u know wats to tell me