worst board you ever had

i had 2 potato chip boards in the early 90s that really sucked. just didn't work in mid-atlantic surf. then a few years ago I got an EPS board and despised it.

 

yup. i got so frustrated, i bitched out my shaper and he made me a fish.

 

Well, you have to know what you want in a custom board and have it shaped exactly THAT way. I have never disliked a custom ordered board.
As for a woman, it is best to know what you DON"T want; that gets rid of the trash *usually*.

 

6’2” Kechele squish.... just did not work for me. could Not get the thing on rail.... felt stiff, too stable. Got it for cheap brand new off a guy who thought it would be a good first board... sold the thing a couple months later.

 

my second board ever was one of his personal comp boards. trashed and ultra thin glass.

 

I won a board playing poker one time years ago when I first lived on Oahu ($80). The guy just would not quit. Anyway, he paid me with a custom 7'6" that was probably a couple of years old. It was beefy and somewhat of a gun...wide and thick with pulled in pin tail. I surfed it at Lani's and Himalayas (one of the bigger waves of my life that day), surfed sunset on smaller days with it a few times...it wasn't that it was a horrible board but it was always getting dinged, cracked a fin on the reef (glassed on fins), and I never really felt like I road it proper (probably b/c I wasn't paddling into 15' sunset lol). Anyway, I felt like it was cursed b/c of how it was acquired. I ended up giving it away, and it made it's rounds to a few friends and otherwise. I ended up getting a rounded pin 7'2" T&C Glenn Pang which was/is one of my all time favorite boards.

 

Too many to name. There aren’t enough good waves to waste on bad boards. If it doesn’t work, I’ve learned to cut my losses, sell it and move on.

I figure most board will work for someone but not everyone. All because it doesn’t work for doesn’t mean it completely sucks, not to say there aren’t just terrible boards out there, there clearly are.

 

Fixed up a early vintage 9'6 shaped by a legendary east coast shaper hoping the board would be a good rider. Total dog.

 

YES - bought a few vintage boards thinking they'd go great and they were horrible. -learned a lot about fixing boards though

 

trying to figure out your signature...are you trying to say that you're straight?

 

I bought this boart from this guy in NZ. Payed way too much! Surfs like shitte

I think his name was R. Stuart or something..?!

 

its Ayn Rand
He's a Rugged individualist

and you arent well read

 

now look what ya done made me do

 

Ahhh Ayn Rand...She is a terrible author but fitting in today's age.

 

bic magnum! no clue what I was doing! when I pearled, which was always. that thing was like a truck coming at your head! you could drop it of an overpass and surf it right after! stupid kook!

 

Bwahahaha, i’d rock that all day long!!

 

Closest thing to a dog was my Eaton Bonzer. Was my fault cuz i didnt understand how to surf it.

This wasnt a dog but i put my foot through a Linden during session #1. They replaced fo free so no issues with Linden.