KT Ginxu Pro 2 Surf/Freestyle Wing Foil Board Review | The Perfect One-Board Quiver?

The KT Ginxu 2 Pro Carbon foilboard is up this week on Wing Wednesday, and Tucker's been riding and loving the 62L 5'3" x 22.25" for a while now. He thinks it's a huge improvement over the launch model last year, which he felt was a little hit or miss. It's an entirely new animal for 2024, so be sure to take another look if you passed on the 2023.

Tucker is a big fan of legendary shaper Keith Teboul's boards. His designs are innovative and use top quality materials. So what's special about the Ginxu?

Ginxu 2: Bottom Features

The Step Bottom was introduced with last year's Ginxu. This year it has been mellowed out a bit so that the overall volume is more balanced. Once you get up to speed, the step bottom allows the board to release so smoothly that you're often up on foil before you even realize you've lifted off. It makes liftoff clean, smooth, and easy.

The weight has been reduced on the board, and it's a lot thinner, giving it a much tighter contact with the foil. This gives you a more intuitive response and a better sense for where your wingtips are and how far you can push that.

It's got a surfy outline, fairly narrow and a bit longer compared to most 62L boards. This gives you a surfier performance and better ease-of-use, and if you're leveling up from a larger board, you'll find it's easier to ride than other 62L boards. It feels like a smaller board while still packing in adequate volume for lighter winds. It's a really fun shape.

There is a fairly low entry rocker. It's just enough so that the board recovers well and rebounds well coming off jumps, but it's not so scooped that you'll push a lot of water. It's quite efficient. There is a bit of a displacement front that becomes a double concave through the belly. This drops off at the step bottom, where the board is flat all the way to the tail. That gives you not only a nice mounting spot for your foil, but also a clean, efficient release off the tail to help you build speed and come off the water easily.

The chines are mellow with a lower angle so that there is more lift from the edge of the board, but it doesn't get in the way when you're ripping a turn. If you tend to touch down a bit, it's at an angle that'll skip off the water nicely without putting on the brakes.

The middle of the board is quite narrow. If you're doing foam hits in the waves and recovering after touching down, that makes it so smooth and easy to keep your speed. Your foiling is so much more fun and high-performance when you're not worried about touching down a little. It frees you to push your limits, knowing you can recover without falling.

The bottom shape is very fun for surfy freeride with a little freestyle mixed in, as well as day-to-day cruising and racing around.

Ginxu 2: Deck Features

While the board doesn't include straps or foothooks, there are inserts for them, and the board does work well with them. You can have a V strap setup up front, with a single strap or foothook at the back. Being able to center your foot is important if you're riding both directions, but if you're riding hard in the surf or making hard turns, you can still offset your foot a bit by using a looser strap or a foothook, and that way you'll still have the option to hook in and send a jump.

The Ginxu 2 has a new deck pad with a fine corduroy texture. It's dense enough that it won't bottom out and is very responsive. You'll feel all the micro movements of the board, which makes it that much easier to control and know what's going on under the water with your foil.

It looks almost flat, but when you look closely you'll see fine corduroy lines running lengthwise. Despite how fine these lines are, it's still plenty grippy underfoot. It's also got indicator dots and lines to help you know where you are both visually and by feel.

Toward the front of the pad is a notch on each side, and those help a lot with your knee placement. They seem quite far forward, but remember that most of the board's volume is in the front half, so you'll be knee starting a bit further forward than you might on other boards. Still, it's more balanced than the shorter Ginxu V1 was, so you won't have issues with finding the sweet spot or pearling like you may have with that board. This board is very easy to learn how to knee start or to use to progress to a smaller volume.

The chop tail falls off nicely and help release from the water. If you need to climb back up from the rear of the board, the slope makes that easier than a blocky tail. The vent plug is also at the back. It's metal and needs to be opened and closed manually. When you get your new board, you can find the vent screw under a sticker in the foil track so it's not rattling around loose in the box. Remember to find and install it before you go ride.

Tucker's Review

Tucker's had a chance to ride the Ginxu 2 Pro Carbon for a while now, and he's been loving it. He'll ride the Ginxu Dragonfly Surf Carbon as a light wind wing board, and when the wind picks up, the Ginxu 2 Pro Carbon is the perfect board to transition to. If you don't ride in light winds, this can be a one-board quiver. You can ride it a bit smaller due to its efficiency and extra length. It's definitely more efficient than most 60L boards on the market.

Although the construction is lighter, the board is still quite bombproof. Tucker has come to expect this durability from KT, and so far he hasn't had any dings to repair despite landing hard on it and throwing it in his truck. It's a full carbon sandwich, which is the perfect balance of weight and durability.

It's a great high-performance board, especially if you're looking for a one-board quiver, though you can pair it with a downwind board to add light wind riding. Tucker has been having a lot of fun with it and really can't say enough good about it.

Tucker's Nitpicks

Still, he does like to find some quibble about any product he tests. Sometimes that's not too hard, but on this board it's going to be very nitpicky. Personally, he would have gone with a bit narrower belly and narrowed out the nose a little as well to make it just a tiny bit more surfy. Doing this would remove a lot of its performance freestyle where you need to be able to land hard, rebound, and lift back off, though.

Summary

As it is, the Ginxu 2 Pro Carbon really is the perfect blend of surf and freestyle, and KT has done a great job of walking that fine line without pigeonholing the board into a single discipline. It's an ideal all-around board for those looking for that one-board quiver. Be sure to give the shop a shout if you need help picking out your quiver.

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