Looking at going shorter.
Thinking about an 8'3" x 30.75" x 4.15".
In glassy conditions, shorter the better.
Might need to lay off the pizza and beer.
Can't wait to ride it.....

Thats it, be no sunday afternoon cruise but no different to surfing a short surfboard. Its easy to forget how hard that is if you don't keep up regular surfing.

This is a Laguna Bay Board that Woogie Surfed in the Snowy last year and Won on.

It has short board Characteristics -

I think you kinda need ideal conditions for the shorter boards as it does require a little more concentration on balance but once up and surfing you can do more and generate more speed than a longer board.

This board is currently for sale

That's a really nice board. I couldnt ride it because of the width. I don't find my legs burn on samller boards but its definetly harder physically to ride. The conditions do need to be amost windless and afterwards you feel more tired.
I feel stiff in the calfs the next day but thats normal.
How good will it be surfing but.....
I understand its not how everbody wants to ride but I am keen as.

Go for it Scotty. Your 9'4" is rad but an 8'3" will go off. Pull the nose in and keep the rails thin and you'll be shreddin' like a standard shortboard.

Paddling it will be a challenge and it'll be tiring but it's a great way to keep fit and increase your balance. I've dropped another couple of kilos since I've been riding my 9'3" Naish with it's pulled in nose and performance rails.

That was a great shot,whacking the lip on the light blue board if i recall correctly!

mac

62mac said...

That was a great shot,whacking the lip on the light blue board if i recall correctly!

mac

Different shot - but I like that one better (Blue Board) I also have that somewhere
is it this one??

Good work Scotty, sounds similar size to the one I am getting off Rod (boardbumps) He is sending it next tuesday Maybe have a chat with him about the workings of a small board, sure seems to know what his talking about.

Yes the bevvies & pizza are a problem

Yep thats the shot I was talking about! Sheer Power and drive!It looks a lot better in the mag"

Those guy's up Noosa way know how to make great longboards and by the look of those photo's ,make damm hot SUP! IMO


mac

Anyone else notice the rail changing shape at about 1/3 from the tail....

U can see it if u pause it at 1:14

I rate subtle hips & flyers on boards, they give rapid acceleration exiting turns.

Yes they are called stingers, first introduced by Ben Aipa in the 70's, Ben also taught Mark Richards how to shape and is one of the north shore legends.

Rod

Yeah good one bIG dADDY.
Apparently the XPS foam is not available so my next board will be by hand again.
Bit shorter will mean a bit easier....

DJ that vid loaded pretty fast for me, sounds like it might have been the 5 axis one that Nev and Firewire were using on the Gold Coast before they moved to Asia.

I have access to a Shop Bot CNC machine locally, about 3 mins from home. I don't use it. The owner wants $100 per shape and he reckons that he is free to use whatever file anyone puts into his system.

Apart from that I only use EPS foam and hot wire out the blanks myself from a large block. They are exactly what I want for the rocker and most of the thickness ( I fine tune the ends). I have to increase the blank thickness by a minimum of 6mm to allow for positioning variation in the machine and allow the cutting heads to have something to cut. This decreases my blank yield from a block of foam.

I am one of the few shapers left that can actually take a raw un preshaped urethane blank and free shape a board from it. Most of the young crew today are basically rail turners and only "shape" preshapes.

Shaping V and concave is not that hard, either is planshaping and shaping rails. Then again I made my first board when I was 12 years old, which is now my eldest boys age.

Rod