Myself and few others guys use the viper model at the irish contests, cheap light and strong, very high performance and can handle some big surf - guy is based in the north costs around £400 new and delivered free in the uk
plastic and polystuff - theres a bit more to them than that having snapped a few but they are no where near as tough as some people think, but they are nice to surf.
Yeah more to firewire boards than that, I think people think their like the surftech construction, fst FireWire are still stronger than PU and more lively