The Brainfaze is the O.G. in the Faze lineup. Originally built as an all-rounder shortboard back in 2016, but once I got it under the feet of Hamish Renwick (local Tassie surfer — check the clip below), we knew there was something more to explore with this board.
A few variations later, we had dialled in the Brainfaze just before the Sydney Surf Pro, where Jadson Andre rode it in a Surfer/Shaper showdown at Manly Beach, thanks to Vissla. Jaddy gave it the nod of approval, and so the Brainfaze was officially born.
Since then, the board has evolved ever so slightly from the original design — it was the bottom contours of that board which gave it a crazy amount of spark, from holding turns for longer, to experiencing a hit of speed coming off the bottom, to having confidence when committing to a big section turn. The board can handle it all.
So let's break it down: it starts with some vee in the nose, expanding into a single concave under your front foot, before a reasonable double concave just before the fins. It flattens off through the fins and exits off the tail with a little vee again.
The rocker is fairly subtle, nothing too hectic, but I've added a little extra flick off the tail that begins about halfway down the center fin to help with going rail to rail, or getting on the back foot when locking into some steep east coast funnels.
We tested the board with a few different tail designs and fin setups, but the one that worked best was the round-tail with a thruster fin setup.
The Brainfaze is the O.G. in the Faze lineup. Originally built as an all-rounder shortboard back in 2016, but once I got it under the feet of Hamish Renwick (local Tassie surfer — check the clip below), we knew there was something more to explore with this board.
A few variations later, we had dialled in the Brainfaze just before the Sydney Surf Pro, where Jadson Andre rode it in a Surfer/Shaper showdown at Manly Beach, thanks to Vissla. Jaddy gave it the nod of approval, and so the Brainfaze was officially born.
Since then, the board has evolved ever so slightly from the original design — it was the bottom contours of that board which gave it a crazy amount of spark, from holding turns for longer, to experiencing a hit of speed coming off the bottom, to having confidence when committing to a big section turn. The board can handle it all.
So let's break it down: it starts with some vee in the nose, expanding into a single concave under your front foot, before a reasonable double concave just before the fins. It flattens off through the fins and exits off the tail with a little vee again.
The rocker is fairly subtle, nothing too hectic, but I've added a little extra flick off the tail that begins about halfway down the center fin to help with going rail to rail, or getting on the back foot when locking into some steep east coast funnels.
We tested the board with a few different tail designs and fin setups, but the one that worked best was the round-tail with a thruster fin setup.
