Bang!

A 5'10" × 20" × 2.42" sits at 31.1 L on the spec table — that's the center of the band most riders in your weight class land on for this model. If you're paddling into solid Lowers and want a touch more late-takeoff confidence, the 5'11" at 32.4 L is the sensible step up. If you're a strong paddler riding mostly clean reef where the push is doing the speed work, the 5'9" at 29.7 L will feel crisper underfoot. Talk to me before you order — height, stance, and the specific waves you ride matter more than the weight number alone.

The thruster gives you the vertical hit off the back foot that matches what this board wants to do — release water cleanly off the hard tail rail and project off the bottom turn. A quad loosens the tail and trades some of that vertical release for faster down-the-line drive, which is the right call when the wave is walling rather than standing up. We default to thruster because that's where the contour pivots best; if you know you want quad-feel or you want to switch between sessions, order the 5-fin convertible and run both.

Solid SoCal swell — head-high to overhead-and-a-half — at spots where the wave has push behind the section. Lowers when the south wraps in clean. Overhead reef at Blacks. The punchier outside bowls at Salt Creek before the wind goes onshore. For travel, this is the board you pack for solid mainland Mexico (Pascuales when it's breaking right), the punchier swells in the Mentawais, or any North Shore session that doesn't need a true gun. It is not a board for knee-to-chest summer surf. If your typical session is shoulder-high or below, a daily-driver shortboard or a groveler covers that hierarchy better.

Yes — if you're committed to using the board for the days the surf actually has push, not as your daily driver. The Bang! rewards commitment: late drops, driving bottom turns, projecting off the back foot. It gives back nothing on a knee-high day. If you want one board that covers everything from soft summer surf to the occasional overhead reef session, this isn't that board — get a daily-driver shortboard for the small-day default and add a Bang! for the days the buoy fills in. The model is tuned for the wave you want to surf, not the average wave you do surf.

Each Bang! is built to order in Carlsbad. The process: I design the file in Shape3D against your specs — height, weight, surf level, the waves you actually ride. The foam is CNC-roughed from that file, then Jack Sykes finishes the board — final sanding, lamination, and finish work. Timeline runs 4–6 weeks for a clear-resin sanded build, 6–8 weeks for tint with gloss + polish, and 8–10 weeks for tint sanded (the longest because the lam color decision pushes back in the queue). 25% deposit at order, balance due on completion.

The Two Happy and the Phantom XL sit in the same heavier-water HPSB neighborhood — modern HPSB rocker, a single→double-leaning hull, and copy framing built around "the board you want when the surf has push." All three boards target a rider who wants a performance shortboard for solid surf rather than a daily driver or a groveler. Where the Bang! lives is in that exact intersection — a punchy shortboard tuned for committed surfers in head-high to overhead-plus SoCal swell. If you've ridden either of those boards and liked them, the Bang! is a peer; if you want help picking between specific dims, start the conversation and I'll help dial it in.

Default deck is 4oz S-cloth + 4oz warp (4S+4W); default bottom is 4oz S-cloth (4S). For solid-surf duty — repeated late-takeoff impact loading, harder deck pressure under the front foot — a heavier deck schedule (6S+4S) holds up longer. We can spec the heavier deck at order; it bumps the build a touch on weight and a touch on turnaround. Resin is polyester. Foam is standard PU or EPS per preference; the Carlsbad shop runs both. Read the build-guide pages on glassing schedules and foam-resin types if you want to dig deeper before locking specs.

The contour diagram on this page reflects the file as it sits today — a single concave running through the visible length of the hull, with hard rails through the last twelve inches doing the release-water work that a double concave would otherwise do behind the fins. If you've ridden a single→double board and want me to spec the moderate double through the fins on your build, that's a straightforward Shape3D adjustment at order. The default — single concave + hard tail rails — is what the stock dims map to. Either way, the customer-facing answer for what your specific board has is locked at order, not at the diagram.