Ante Up
For when the waves are getting a bit bigger and punchier than your regular shortboard can handle. The Ante Up is that little extra you need to get into bigger waves easier and maintain the balance of speed and stability necessary to rip on the overhead dream days. The rocker has an even bend from nose to tail. The bottom features a slight single-to-double concave bottom with a touch of subtle vee off the back fin for drive and a positive hold through turns. The deck is a bit more domed and foiled down to the rail. This keeps most of the volume of the board under the chest for paddling while keeping a lower volume fine-tuned rail for lightning responsiveness. Thumbtails and rounded pins handle the power best.

All guns customized according to locations to be surfed.

Experience: Intermediate to Advanced

Product Specs:
Dimensions: 6'6" x 18 3/8" x 2 5/16"
Tail Shape: roundpin
Construction: polyester
Fins: comes with Future fins

I’ve been working with Todd for a little over a year now and the best way I can sum him up,

“He’s a master craftsman as well as a consummate professional!”

Over the years, I’ve had the blessed opportunity to work with some of the world’s best surfing shapers.

Aside from Todd Proctor being one of these world’s best shapers, the attribute that stands out the most is the fact that he is willing to listen to you as the client and make you exactly what you want.

No ego with this guy, just awesome custom building!

All of my boards from Todd work amazingly well

but there’s definitely a couple of them that I consider my magic carpets…

6′ 6″ – 6 channel swallow tail:

This board has turned out to be my all around work horse.

It’s the fastest,most responsive board I’ve ever owned!

The thing about this board is the fact that it’s so alive

in small waves but yet it maintains control in punchier surf.

I can push this board in the 7 foot Hawaiian scale with utmost

confidence.

7′ 2″ and 7′ 6″ - sharp pin tail:

I’ve been working on this design for nearly 2 decades.

Once again, the great thing about Todd is his lack of ego and his willingness to learn new ideas and

concepts. The concept with these two boards is thicker, fuller rails with plenty

of old school V for the bottom design. These boards are excedingly fast and

stable and not only do they work great at Pipe and sunset but they work in

powerful surf world wide.

Hey Todd & Charissa,

The waves of November and December at Salt Creek have proved no match for the tube threading ability of the Proxy 6'4" Ante-UP Quad you shaped me! The board is excellent and rides equally well as a thruster or quad. I have run FCS: PC-5 quad set and the FCS: TC Aqualine 5 fin set as a thruster and quad. The PC-5 quad makes the board hold on anything and i'm taking off way deeper than I've ever pushed it and they seem to draw out your turns (I prefer these on the more powerful days.) The Aqualine's make the board much looser and even though your riding a 6'4" it turns on dime and feel's like a 6'0". The board is the best i've ever ridden! Thanks for listening to the little guys out there and treating us all like family!

Many tubes!
David Fields
Salt Creek, California

Surfed in 7′-10′ Anchor Point. Now this board was such an amazing ride. Paddleing out on that big day with new board I was a little concerned. But as soon as I made it out the back a wave popped up just in front of me. And from the the paddle in to the finish, I just shat myself!!!! Paddled in soooo easy and early and once to my feet was no kidding and I hate the expression, ‘like a magic carpet ride.’ The board had so much speed and control, glided around sections easily, turning off the bottom was always controlable, was unlike any board I had ever ridden.
For the next 2 hours I had one of the best sessions of my life on that board

and can only wait to ride it once again.

As for the office side of your buisness, I found Charissa very helpful and pleasant. Her side was as good as the boards you made me.

I have to say that when I find myself back in Cali and I need a new board I will definetly be giving you a call for my next shape.

Cheers Todd and Charissa
Matt Panighetti, 31, Morroco

Hey Todd and Charissa,
This is Scot Masters Calling. Ya’ know…I hadn’t had a chance to get back to you, but I wanted to thank you so much for the awesome boards….man…..the Ante Up that I got….everything from the omission of the words ‘Big Chief’ to bringing it down under 20 inches wide, the thing is like, I don’t’ know…

I mean you can have a dream board and you can have a dream board…but I think this is definitely one of my dream boards.

I caught a wave to almost double overhead, head-and-a-half out at Mussel Shoals, good 15 foot sections or about 5 yards, just doubling up warping wave - and the board just glides like a dream. So anyway, I wanted to give you some feedback.

Nancy is just totally stoked on her 6’8”. She just loves it.

She says it’s even looser than her other board, I don’t know how that is, but she loves it - absolutely loves it.

So, thank you, thank you , thank you.

Went out on a big day out at Gun Turrets too – it was about a head and a half, and I caught some bombs on it, and it just didn’t have any problem at all pushing me over the ledge, and holding the rail on the wall, so thank you so much!
I hope you guys are doing great.
I’ll talk to you soon.
Bye.

Scot & Nancy Masters, 30s, Ventura, CA
His: 7′4″ x 20 1/4″ x 3″ Ante Up, FCS GAM Glass Flex, S-glass, Y2K UV Resin
Hers: 6′8″ x 18 7/8″ x 2 5/8″ Ante Up, Future AM2, S-glass, Y2K UV Resin