Dimensions: 9’0 x 22″ 1/2 x 3″

Last week we test drove Kimo Greene’s most popular longboard model, the Honolulu. The standard normal Honolulu model is a high performance longboard designed for off the lips and hard turns. Instead, we tested a Honolulu model crowd control board in hopes that we could catch a ton of waves and do a few hard turns as well. The board we tested had a slightly wider nose, flatter rocker, and a little more foam left on the deck for improved paddling and wave catching ability.

We were very surprised to find that not only did this board catch any wave we wanted, it also turned incredibly well for a thicker/wider tanker. It was somewhat easy to pump down the line and floaters over sections were not a problem. The Honolulu model comes with a 2+1 box and O’Fishl fin set up but we rode it as a single. Round house cutbacks were not a problem and while we normally prefer 2+1 or thruster setups, this particular single fin was extremely fun. The extra wide nose and flatter rocker also made nose riding quite easy.

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