At the top of the R&D agenda for 2009, Dream Team Taty Frans, Nicolas Agkaziyan, Kiri Thode and Sara Quita Offringa have set ambitious goals for the new freestyle range, working with Tiesda You to produce the World's lightest freestyle boards and the most advanced shapes possible.

WoodCarbon
Starboard's WoodCarbon technology is the first board construction in the World to utilize an ultralight, pure unidirectional carbon fibre that is flat-weaved for total mechanical efficiency. The unidirectional flat-weave fibre generates equal tensile strength as biaxial or woven carbon fibre but at half the specific weight. A layer of 0.6 Australian pine wood runs along the spine of the board to provide rigidity, additional integrity and increased strength in the most stressed areas of the board. WoodCarbon - the combination of a wood spine and ultralight carbon: a new composite material matrix that sets a new benchmark.