A Board That Works From the Outer Banks to the Mentwatai Islands

“The essence of the Horse is to give you a shortboard feel but (with) the paddle power of a bigger board,” said Tai “Buddha” Graham, on the first public explanation I’d seen of JS’s equestrian-themed stepup.   

Over the last year, the JS Big Horse has not so subtly become a popular option for solid, predictable and powerful walls of water. The kind of waves that demand on-rail attention. Which, predictably, is where Brett Barely went from a canter to a full-on gallop. But more on that in a second.