One of my team riders, Shea Lopez, was teasing me about how big my boards are. It’s up to us shapers to educate people, and it’s information available, right now, on our shaping machines. There’s a magic number and it’s called your cubic volume. And, when you do get up, all you’re going to do is parallel floaters.Ĩ. On a planky board, it ain’t gonna work when you need to jump to your feet and bottom turn in one quick move. I travel with a curvy board and a flat board: curvy boards for the Gold Coast and for Sydney shorebreaks.Flatter boards for mushy points or blown out crumblers. Everything goes out the window for pros – they can do anything. Match the curve of the board to the curve of the wave. However, and this is a big however, a drivier board will be more forgiving in picking up speed, just less forgiving when you need to turn.ħ. The straighter the rocker, the further back you need to stand and boards with a continual rocker have a bigger sweet spot. You’re either Taylor Knox or a flicky little kid.ĥ. You’re either a weak back-foot surfer or a strong back-foot surfer. I don’t buy into the whole back-foot/front-foot surfer thing. Round tails and pintails decrease the rail line, so they’re going to hold a little better and shorten a turn radius.Ĥ. If the width going into the tail is the same, a square, a squash, a diamond or a swallow is going to behave in a similar way. You can have a really thick board, but if you put a vee bottom in it rides neutral, whereas a medium-thickness board with concave can ride flat like a plank.ģ.Tail shapes don’t matter as much as you think. And, you thought it was all about thickness, right? It’s not it’s how the bottom moves across the water. Even if you’re surfing two-foot windblown peaks with three friends, you still have to compete to get waves. If you can’t catch waves, you can’t surf. And, paddling is 50 per cent of the game. Boards with a straight rocker paddle faster. Mayhem’s guide to surfboard design for dummiesġ. This is golden, super great information for todays surfboard consumer!
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