Keith Lyman Signs With Slingshot

I know there has been a lot of speculation lately about Keith, but the cat is finally out of the bag. He just signed with Slingshot. Click the link below for more info...

http://www.wakeworld.com/news/latest...wake-team.html

Cheeeya

WOW! Can't wait to see this session go down! Congrats Lyman...

That's cool,glad he stuck with boarding,fun to watch.Kind of ironic the graphic on his last LF model looked like a SS logo.

sweet!

"Now I can’t wait to see what we’ll come up with for his new 'Lyman Board!'" --- i can't wait either

Originally Posted by wakebrdjay

That's cool,glad he stuck with boarding,fun to watch.Kind of ironic the graphic on his last LF model looked like a SS logo.

true dat. also the 2008 model had very similar graphics to the recoil line of the same year... or vice versa

Originally Posted by wakerider111

sweet!

"Now I can’t wait to see what we’ll come up with for his new 'Lyman Board!'" --- i can't wait either


true dat. also the 2008 model had very similar graphics to the recoil line of the same year... or vice versa

how different could it be? it will have a featureless bottom and it'll be a flex board. sounds like all the other slingshot boards.

In the Oli Derome thread, slingshot said they were making a solid core board. Does that mean it is going to be a stiff board? Is it Lyman's?

It said he'll be riding the SS Hooke. It's one of their stiff boards, they have carbon fiber wrapped around the edges to stiffen and strengthen

Originally Posted by Wakeska89

In the Oli Derome thread, slingshot said they were making a solid core board. Does that mean it is going to be a stiff board? Is it Lyman's?

if that's the case, that'll be one slingshot board i'd be down to try.

Yeahhhhhh buddy!

after all the hype and speculation the thread with the news only generates a handful of posts haha

Originally Posted by dakid

how different could it be? it will have a featureless bottom and it'll be a flex board. sounds like all the other slingshot boards.

Originally Posted by e_rock32

It said he'll be riding the SS Hooke. It's one of their stiff boards, they have carbon fiber wrapped around the edges to stiffen and strengthen

The article did say he is riding the Hooke and had a pic of him with the Hooke with the RAD boots. But the article also mentioned working with him on a "Lyman Board" and then there was that post that someone said they pulled from his facebook page, something like, "don't buy your 2011 boards yet, something is in the mix"

The ballistic line (Newton, Hooke, Kine) are all a little stiffer due to the carbon fiber on the rails like rock 32 said. but they also incorperate subtle bottom features. they all have unique shallow channel workings in the tip and tail that are about 0.5 to 1 cm deep. the Hooke has a channel within a channel which in a sense would make it have the most significant/deepest bottom features of the ballistic series. Every other year slingshot has made major changes to the boards. each time they have gotten a little bit stiffer too. this year they even added subtle bottom features to some.

i may be mistaken but i think the mention of "solid core" on Oli's thread was to make a comment about the team and not a board. but with this said i have no doubt slingshot could make whatever kind of board they want. they just appear to have had a particular style and direction up to this point to keep things flexy and simple among other things.

I wanna see some vid of him riding it. Will be curious if the flex affects his amplitude at all. Randall still went huge when he was on the Company Recruit flexboard before they made his pro model.

I wanna try the ballistic series soooo bad. They need to make the Newton in a 145.....

I wonder if this means that Slingshot might venture into the realm of non-flex boards. I'm assuming that Lyman will want something stiffer than they currently offer, but perhaps that's not an accurate assumption. I'm basing it on the fact that that is what Randall wanted when he started riding for Company. Maybe a new "less-flex" category will emerge.

Originally Posted by wakeworld

Maybe a new "less-flex" category will emerge.

you mean there could be a whole new version of the sliced bread?

Slingshot went with an all wood core this year compared to previously going with foam and wood. Wood is much better in all aspects of strength. In fact, it's so much more cost efficient for the strength that they use balsa cores on wind mill blades. Most of the boards on the market use all foam or have partial foam cores. Technically all boards flex, but the extent of what they flex is determined by the core, the geometry of the board, and the types of fiber and resins used to cover the core.

Slingshot uses a stiffer wood for stringers in the core, bottom contours, and a carbon along the rails of the board for the Newton, Hooke and Kine.