Review: '09 Liquid Force Groove Wakeboard

The Liquid Force Groove Wakeboard. A great new shape in our line; it’s Collin Harrington’s first Pro Model with Liquid Force wakeboards. Now this might be Collin’s first Pro Model, but is far from the first wakeboard he has ridden. He spent more time on the water riding more wakeboards than any Liquid Force rider. And that waterman knowledge has made him one of the most difficult guys to shake for because he knows exactly what he wants in a wakeboard. He is incredibly picky. I’d get prototypes back from Collin with all kinds of notes on it. I mean telling me sharpness edge, soft in this rail, lift is pebble, but that all translated into unreal great riding wakeboard and a terrific addition to our line. Collin likes a wakeboard with a nice predictable but smooth surfy feel.
So we gave his wakeboard a progressive continuous rocker. And by progressive I mean it’s still a smooth curve, no kinks in it like a three stage. But the curve accelerates through the tip of the wakeboard so it gives it a higher trajectory off the wake. If you notice, just because he is a waterman doesn’t mean he doesn’t spend time on the rails. And Collin wanted a bottom that didn’t have anything to hang up, especially through the mid section.
So, you’ve got no edge channels, and the double inside single concave ensures that the center beam is lower than the outside panels. He has combined it with a lifted rail here which is ever so slight bevel that lifts the edge up and combined with a variable edge rail, makes it catch-free on rails. This all gets sharper and crisper as it moves out the end of the wakeboard where this double concave flows into a quad concave placed between a quad fin setup. Now this gives Collin that drivy surf feel that he loves. The quad fin set up focuses the flow between each of these concaves and he’s even got a little mini keel in the center to just keep that center concave to the right or left side of where the flow is coming.
Another thing Collin wanted to incorporate in his wakeboard is he wanted it to be strong to hold up to his rail abuse but still flex at the tips. So, it’s got a ridge line on top of the rail on the right and left side that tapers out to nothing and the whole wakeboard itself, the profile gets really thin out to the tips which gives the wakeboard extra flexing response. Collin’s new shape comes in three sizes: The Liquid Force Groove Wakeboard.