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14 Comments
Nice video, and timely. I'm working on getting a new board shaped this spring!
Good video. I am 5' 10 190 lbs and I prefer either a 10 ft board with thinner rails and less foam and less rocker for traditional riding or a 9 with more foam and more rocker for just general surfing. Since I surf kind of a punchy beach break with smaller steeper waves I find the 9 or even an 8'6 with some rocker works well here, you still get that paddle speed that you would get with a longer board that has thinner rails but the rocker helps you fit into the waves and make the turns on the smaller faces. I love my 10-foot classic shape but honestly where I surf i very rarely use it because it's just not the best choice for the waves we get here.
I'm 511 180lb, I learned and rode a 9'4 for 10 years, I recently got a 9'5 and I wish it was 9'6 or bigger. I can cheater 5 no problem but there are not many situations where I can hang ten without the weight pushing the board under immediately. 9.5 inch fin on it. Hope this helps someone my size or larger, go for a longer board.
Hey mate, do you surf HP longboards ever?
Hey Ben, what are the volumes of the boards you ride and how does volume fit in with the equation?
I'm fairly ignorant about this subject but I have always thought this subject was about weight. I have never experienced board length effecting nose riding, just shape.
Hi Ben. Great advice. I am 5’5 and 90kgs. I have not been surfing that long and want to noseride.
I live on Sydney’s Northern Beaches and have been surfing 9’3 traditional long board and just could not get to the nose. I recently purchased a banged up 9’8 traditional longboard and the difference has been amazing. So much more stable and getting to the nose. Not quite noseriding yet.
So based on what you just talked about I am gonna stick to it.
I think your videos are a great learning tool I would not be progressing without them. Thanks.
Thanks heaps Ben for doing this vid. Just the question I asked last week and was perfectly answered. 9’8 it is😉 🙏
It's not the board. It's the rider.
Follow-up question Ben: spoon or not for noseriding? I'm 71, surfing 2 years, starting to walk on my 9' board. Probably not the right board for this ultimately, but a good board to practice my steps on. Thanks for your channel! P.s. strpping back before stepping forward was a great suggestion.
hey man 🙂 whats the rocker you got on those boards?
The excessive jump cuts in this video make it really hard to watch
I’m 5’3, 52kilos and ride a 9’1 shaped by James Parry but I’m tempted to get something with more volume for small summer waves. I’m guessing 9’4 is the biggest I really want to he lugging about though?
Hey Ben, love the vids and keep up the good work.
I'm a socal native and am looking for a new board. I'm 6'1 and around 84 kg and used to compete in both high school and college and was looking at getting back into it. not a big fan of my current board. It's big and thick with a lot of rocker in it. basically too big and thick for high performance, but too much rocker and not enough spoon in the nose for classic log riding. I tend to lean towards high performance riding, but believe it's not a real long board if you can't consistently get some proper hang tens. I can on my current board, but the sweet spot is so small that there is really no chance of me holding it for more than a sec or 2. I was looking into the thunderbolt tech from firewire (specifically the HI4 9'3") and wanted to get your thoughts on it. I don't really have the option to have multiple longboards for different conditions and figured that it was a good middle ground between high performance surfing and still able to get some really nice nose rides and could work in a wide variety of conditions.