661 €
High Performance Freeride, Freestyle and New School twintip
Customize your Armada
V-Concave bottom and advanced 3-stage rocker
Reversed 3D shock absorber reduce weight and optimize flex and damping
Made in Tarifa
Before ordering, please check with us if your size and color is in stock. If we don’t have it in stock, it could take up to 4 weeks to produce your board.
Price shown is for board only. If you need straps, handle and/or fins, please add them to your shopping cart from our store
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Freestyle + Big Air
Performance
The Armada is our freestyle and big air twin tip, and everything about it points at one moment: the second you edge hard against the kite and the board sends you. The flat centre section builds the speed you need going into it. The kicked tips load as you carve, hold the tension, and release it all at once. Carbon runs along the line the load actually travels, so that snap is the same in your hundredth session as it was in your first.
The base is not flat. A concave running through it channels water out to the rails, which does two things you feel immediately: it gets you planing earlier than the wind should allow, and it gives the rails something to bite into so you hold a hard line upwind. On a marginal day that is the difference between riding and swimming. On a good day it means you finish the session where you started it, instead of walking back up the beach with your board under your arm.
FinsFour per board · G10, 45 mmFour fins per board, one at each corner. Glass-epoxy laminate, 4.5 cm deep — the outline drawn here is traced from the fin that ships in the box. PadsPrime, mouldedA moulded footbed, wedged at the heel and cut away at the toe, so your foot sits where it naturally loads. InsertsFour screws per padStainless inserts through the deck. Slotted holes slide the stance wider or narrower with the same hardware. FitFeet, booties or bootsThe same insert pattern takes all three. Swap to boots, or replace one worn pad on its own. Fin hardwareFour fins · eight screwsTwo screws and two washers per fin, so eight of each per board. Washer first, then the screw: snug, then a quarter turn. Rinse them after salt water. StrapsPush up / push downVolume is set by pushing the strap up or down. No tools, and full-width velcro closes it with cold hands. Grab handleTwo bolts, centredBetween the pads on its own two bolts. Beach starts, board-offs, and carrying it down the path. Damping3D shock absorbersUnder the pads. They take the chop and the hard landings before your knees do. Fin positionAll four cornersAll four sit outboard of the twin channels, so each fin bites in line with the rail that is already carrying the load. 
“ It loads up the second you put it on edge, and it gives all of it back. I stopped thinking about the board after one session. Pedro Castro — Freestyle Tarifa Feeling Rocker LowMediumHigh Flex SoftMediumStiff Pop SoftMediumExplosive Swing weight LightMediumHeavy 
Los Lances, Tarifa · 45 knots Aptitudes Upwind drive88 Edge grip90 Landing comfort85 Early planing72 Durability95 Accessibility78 Program Big air and freestyle first, freeride after that. It is not a wave board. 
“ I feel safe yet extremely fun. That is the part nobody photographs. Tomas de Lara — Best team rider Sant Pere — Catalonia Shape Plan · squared tips Squared tips, radiused corners, widest between the inserts. 
fully personalizable · Designs available as well 
“ Hand finished, checked, and ridden by the people who built it before it goes in a box. The workshop Tarifa, Spain Core Lay-up · deck to base Bio-based epoxy through the whole lay-up, not just the top skin. 
Fresh from the factory · est. 2003 Your choice
01 Hand made Shaped, laminated and finished by hand. A machine cuts the outline; people build the board. The last millimetre of a rail is felt on the water long before it shows on a screen. 
02 No mass production Small runs, built close to order. We are not filling a warehouse or hitting a quota set a year in advance, so nothing gets rushed to make a shipping date. 
03 Materials that last Paulownia wood core, green bio-based epoxy through the whole lay-up, ABS hard box rails, G10 fins. Chosen for how they ride and how long they last, not for what they cost us. 
04 Time and care A board takes the time it takes. It is checked by hand before it is packed, and if it is not right it does not leave — a decision a person makes here, not a tolerance in a spreadsheet. 
05 No middle men Straight from the workshop to you. No distributor, no shop margin stacked on top. Same wood, same hands, fewer people taking a cut — that is the whole reason the price looks like it does. 
06 Tested by the people who make it Los Lances is ten minutes from the bench. A board goes out, comes back with a note, and the next one changes that week — not next season. If we have not ridden it, we do not sell it. 
Deck · the belly 
Base · the dorsal The deck takes the mackerel’s belly — pearl, iridescent. The base takes the dorsal in navy and teal. Where they meet the graphic breaks into burgundy fragments, the moment the surface gives. Hexagonal scales run underneath, and the Artist Series marks and Mane in France signature are drawn into the artwork, not stuck on top.
Limited in time, not in units: no run size, no numbering. The design sells for a set window and is then retired. Order before 15 August 2027 and you get one; after that it does not come back.
An Artist Series board is an Armada. Paulownia core, green epoxy, ABS hard box rails, twin channels, four G10 fins, Prime pads and straps. The artwork is limited, the build is not.
All six Armada sizes, 131×40 to 144×45, artwork scaled to each rather than cropped. Ask and we will put it on a Spin or a Breeze instead — same window, same price.
Three to four weeks, printed in HD and finished by hand in Tarifa. Wherever the artwork runs light you see the grain of the core through it — Michaël designed with that in mind.
Michaël Gatt works as Mane in France, our Artist in Residence, and takes commissions from 450 €. A second board of his lands on 20 August.
michael@maneinfrance.fr @mane.infrance Tell me when the next one dropsArtist Series
Three to four weeks. Every board is built to order in Tarifa — there is no warehouse of finished boards to pull from, which is the same reason yours can be exactly the size and design you want. Custom artwork does not add to that time, but you approve a proof first, so the clock starts when you say yes to it.
Because they are shipping something made months ago in a container. Ours is shaped, laminated, printed and finished after you order it, by hand, in small numbers. Three weeks is what that takes, and it is the reason there is no distributor margin on the price.
Worldwide, tracked, from the workshop. Shipping is calculated at checkout and there is no middle man in between — the board leaves the same building it was built in.
Yes. Tell us when you order and we will have it ready. If the wind is on, bring a kite — the water is ten minutes from the bench and someone will usually come out with you.
Yes, on any shape and any size. Send us the file, we print it in HD onto the deck, and you get a board nobody else has. It is 100 € on top of the board price when the design is your own rather than one of the stock graphics from the site.
A rectangular canvas of 165 × 65 cm at 300 dpi at final size. That covers the whole board with margin to spare. Anything smaller or lower resolution will show on the deck once it is printed at full scale.
Avoid very dark colours, and avoid the colours of the water — a blue-green board disappears the moment you drop it. Avoid hard outlines that trace the shape of the board: each one is finished by hand and the print can move slightly with the resin, so an edge that is meant to follow the rail will not sit where you drew it. Lighter, looser, more abstract artwork always prints better than something solid and precise.
They show the wood. The core is Paulownia and the print sits over it, so wherever your design is white or very light you will see grain coming through. Plenty of people design for that on purpose.
Always. We send you a revision of the design on the board before anything goes into production, and we will tell you honestly if something in the file is going to print badly. Unusual requests get looked at case by case.
Twin tips come out matt. Our surfboards are the glossier, more saturated ones — worth knowing if you have seen a colour on a directional and expect it to look identical on an Armada.
Your weight and the wind you usually get. Between two sizes, take the bigger one — a slightly big board in strong wind is easier to ride than a small one in a lull. Tell us your weight, your spot and the kite you ride and we will answer with a size, not a sales pitch.
It is our freestyle and big air board: most pop, most edge grip, best in flat water and happy up to 40 knots and beyond. If you mostly cruise and want speed, look at the Spin. If you are learning, or your spot is light, the Breeze will do more for you.
Yes. It is built for freestyle but the flex and the concave make it forgiving, and people learn on them. Take a bigger size than you think and it will be easier again.
Just the board, but you can include the Prime pads and straps mounted and ready, the grab handle, and four G10 fins with their screws and washers.
Yes, the same stainless inserts take pads, booties or boots. The stance is adjustable on the inserts too, so you can move it in or out without new hardware.
Ride it and send it back within 35 days if it is not for you. Getting it wet is the point — a board you never took out tells you nothing. Custom-printed boards are the exception: they are made for you and cannot be resold, so talk to us before ordering if you are unsure about the size.
Manufacturing faults. Register the board after delivery and we add six months to it. Damage from riding is not a warranty case — that is what crash replacement is for.
Send us a photo. If you broke it riding, crash replacement gets you another one at a reduced price. Small things — a rail knock, a stripped insert — we can often repair here rather than replace.
Rinse it, and rinse the fin screws in particular. Check the screws every few sessions: a lost fin is always a loose screw. Do not leave it in a hot car for a week — heat is harder on a board than the sea is.
Yes, all of it separately. Front and back bases are different parts, and one pad, one strap or one fin can be replaced on its own without touching the rest of the board.
