Livit said...SugarQube said...This is new and a bit diffrent but it will do all that you want for riders 80kg+
5'10" x 17"3/4
Goes up wind as good as anything els you can buy without that locked in feel, will do radical slashes with ease.
Traditional PU construction with additional bamboo veneer on top
Can you tell us a bit more because looking at the shape I don't see what makes it suitable for Perth conditions.... I always found that having more volume around your front foot help for the conditions we have in Perth metro. Also as stated in the original post this guy is a beginner with a SB, and I don't think that this kind of shape makes the learning bit very easy. Just my two cents....
Well if your a beginner moving on to SB a lot has been said already, you could just get yourself a pile of cheap surf boards from garage sales or Gumtree and go for it and probably do well instead of forking out the dollars. Most daunting thing initially is weight distribution on a surfboard, every one that uses mainly surf boards and then gets back on to the twinny find that you tend to nose dive the twinny for the first half an hour or so. Which means stabillty in a board is important for a beginner, just means dont buy a too small board, also boards with a lot of rocker will make you struggle to go upwind initially, even though they will make turning easy. So in essance you will never get the perfect board but always compromise what ever level you are at. Truth is you may love these boards or hate them depending on your style, a beginner has no bias and wont realy know whats good or bad.
Basis of my design was to get back up wind fast and still have maximum turning, which was accomplished with the out line, tail width, rocker line and fin place ment. just played around with existing surf boards for two years chopping and changing till I thought this is what I want and it had to be tough, Im over polystyrene / sandwich boards that once they have a hairline crack take on half a kilo of water before you even notice it.
One word that I heard from an established surf board rider was... "smooth",
sort of summs it up.