Watch: Britt Merrick and Parker Coffin on the Surfboard That Won STAB’s Blind Board Contest Two Years Straight

Every year STAB runs a double blind surfboard contest wherein the shaper doesn't know the surfer he's building a board for, and the surfer doesn't know what brand is under his feet.

Last year, Jack Robinson chose the CI Pro built by Britt Merrick as the clear winner. This year, Italo Ferreira — a totally different type of surfer in every single way — chose the updated version of the same surfboard: The 2.Pro.

That's a pretty damn impressive feat considering the best shapers in the world submitted a board each year, and the two surfers landed on the same (or at least very similar) board.

"My main goal in life as a shaper and designer is to make high-performance boards, and it's the hardest thing to do," says Merrick in the edit above. "Surfers like yourself [Parker Coffin] are the most demanding, the consequences are the biggest, the tolerances are the smallest, and so I spend most of my mental energy around thinking about this type of board."

Obviously, it's paying off.

So, what makes the CI Pro and the 2.Pro so special? And what are the major differences between the two models? Click play above and let Merrick and Coffin break it all down. Objectively — at least if you place stock in STAB In The Dark — this is the best surfboard in the world today.

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