75cm mast, med fuse, 150AR tail
I didn’t like the small fuse on the 720s, required too much management. I’m wondering if the 810x makes that less of an issue.
I tried the 810 with 142AR & small fuse - definitely took a lot of getting used to but still super whippy and fun.
The other people I spoke to said that they’ve gone back to med/150AR on larger waves with the 810x.
the build is noticeably more solid
Foil drive dream foil!
I found it was not bad at pumping, it’s not HA but it’s got plenty of low end. even with the weight!
The good thing about FD is you can just drive to the best part of the wave 
You’re able to get up on the flats with 810x?
Yes. I’m on a 30L north vert. No issue on the flats
Spent two days on the 810x small fuse and 142 tail. 80+ mast. One day parawinging and one day winging.
Low end wasn’t anything special. It’s been a long time since I rode an S but I remember them as having great takeoff. Not so much on the X.
First day was parawinging the Silo runs out at Rufus. 30+ knots of wind and nice swell. I didn’t care for it at all. It felt quite slow and stiff in the turns. Also got hung up in weird turbulence a few times and after one lap I was not stoked and went back to my AFS stuff to finish out the day.
Second day was winging at the Hatch in decent swell but way lighter conditions. Maybe 20 knots, 3.5m wing. The 810x was great. Still nothing special on low end for takeoff but once on foil it was super fun and easy to play with, nice glide, easy for me to pump and link on. Most surprising was the speed it carried in poor swell. It seemed very forgiving.
I’ve never had such night and day experiences with a foil. My best guess is it had to do with the river flow and the 810x not liking getting blasted by 100,000cfs of flow being so close to the dam at Rufus while the Hatch is many miles of twisted river away from the nearest dam.
I’d say the 810x was easily the most fun Code foil I’ve tried.
First time trying out voice over / gear review style video
Probably it was too big for 810X to really shine but I was too excited to not give it a go 
Spitfire 780 is one of my favorite surf foil to get in the critical sections so that would be a really fun comparison when the wave size comes down a bit.
Epic! You’re making the Oregon coast and FD look good!
Yeah, I’d say you were a tad over foiled… ha ha ha. Looks like when I first learned to sup foil take off on a Takuma 1600 on head high A frames. Your fall technique is very good (seriously.) I always land belly flopped on my front hand (right) rib cage. I’d wear an impact vest in those conditions… loved your Pacific City video also.
Thank you so much! Yeah I should get better at wearing impact vests for sure.. The one I have keeps rolling up so I stopped wearing them, maybe a tighter fit will work better.
Has anyone heard when they expect to release the bigger sizes of the X?
They (Code) have warned people to use the medium fuse. In Dave West’s review he uses M and L fuse with it. Curious feel it and discover for myself.
I used it with the Small & 142, and it sure was spicy 
Is there a comparison between the 810X and the SK8 by F-one? Seems like a similar design (tips pointing up) AR the same. Curious if anyone here rode both
Years since riding the sk8 now so hard to make an honest comparison but the 810x small fuse and 142 tail was very fun, playful, easy to ride, easy to pump, liked low energy swell. Did not like high energy swell in the one day I had it in the good stuff.
Sk8 for me was more of a locked in foil, wanted powerful swell. TBH I think the fuse/tail choices limited the sk8 vs the 810x which you can tune with fuse and tail size until you find the perfect setup.
Thx. Helpful
How did the Code X turn in comparison to the Silks
Feels heavier than an 850S also 
Using the small fuse and 142 tail.
Top end and turning feel similar to my Spitfire 780/Skinny 40 combo. Way more pitch stability, pump and glide. Felt comfortable right away.
Best breaching foil I’ve ridden - toe side turns on swell or tacking tend to be the type of breaches that take me down and I must be riding right through them.
I’m 78KG and winging. 810x is a great daily driver size at my weight.
810x small fuse 142ar tail: Preferred it in soft conditions with mellow pump and glide with the occasional, opportunistic, explosive, hack/slash rear foot pivot turn. At times, thats my favorite style of riding. I felt like this foil wanted to really be thrown around and is so loose I get the feeling of chasing the foil through that style of turn. I could see this being a Hatch riders favorite foil but I would want to ride this a few more times in bigger conditions to see if the Rufus day it struggled in was a fluke.
The Silks are more about a supernatural roll and drive in the carve and every size does great when overpowered. You can produce the pivot experience on the 1050 with the 132 tail and the 650 has a short fuse position for the pivot experience but for me the Silk is more about unrivaled reliability in roll and drive. When I throw the Silks around they give me feedback that feels like I am pushing the foil through the turns.
So, I see the X and Silk as different foils for different styles on different days.
I rode them back to back in the river.
they both had that playful surf feel, and the sk8 was alot of fun. It was my first time riding a sk8.the only difference I found was that the sk8 had no forgiveness in the low end, it would just suddenly give out on you with no warning.
I was coming to what I felt was my stall, again this was my first time riding it, went to give it a pump and it just gave out. This happened 2 times.
With the 810x you can feel the low end, the moment you feel it giving out or you are coming to the stall speed, there was always feed back to push against, you would loose it or get back on it. But it never gave out completely and dropped like it rock like the Sk8 did.
And I was on a much larger tail on the sk8 as well, it was a 160, and it still didn’t give me as much low end bite as I expected.
I was on the 850
Thanks! Super helpful. I ride the SK8 mostly powered (wing or para). That’s my sense as well. I prone with the code 1130. In general I don’t like pumping the F-one system as it’s not very stiff. The mast connection and their titan connection just lose a lot of the pump energy between them.