You know this is all Laird and Donovan's fault right?

i need the scoop on soul boards. i'm assuming they are vintage boards being remodeled to surf n moreover brag about? even then, what's the prob with that? everything else i blame Laird or Obama

 

boutique health foods?

 

What's a soul bort?

 

there is a reason all those shapes got replaced.....

 

They did get replaced in professional competitive surfing, and to a large degree recreational surfing among the masses. For a small sub-group, though, it (the modern shortboard) became an addition to the quiver, not a substitute for it.

And no matter what I'm riding, I'm trying to avoid the crowds...

 

Man buns are killing surfing

 

i rode all those things at some point and for the most part more modern shapes worked better. Except the 90s potato chip boards.

 

If I see anybody surfing my break with a man bun I'm gonna drop in on him harder than a raging feminist sitting in a line up 10,000 miles from home with fifty balding middle aged guys ever could.

 

My surfing totally stagnated between 1993-1997 on a potato chip board.

 

same here until bigger volume shapes came out.

 

If I ride shapes shaped by soulrider does that make my bortes soul bortes?

I’m a huge fan of mini simmonses.

 

Now that's a statement I can get behind

 

Wait that doesn't sound right, I take it back

 

That doesn't sound right either

 

o Zippy

 

And what do you ride now??
A Tostito chip board??

 

Scoops.

 

While I agree on the towboard, SUP and foil, I have to strongly disagree with you on the twins, simmons, and other "retro" shapes.

I have almost completely moved on from HPSBs. I have 1 that I keep for those handful-a-decade hurricane swells, but my daily quiver is a mix of Biscuit style boards, retro fish, quads, singles and everything in between.

Surfing for me is about drawing interesting lines, pushing the limits of how loose I can get on a turn, and challenging myself to live in the moment. That's what gets me stoked. Throwing the biggest spray or packing the deepest barrel is cool, but that is not why I surf.

Also, the only time I end up surfing in a crowd is when I'm having a blast and making it look good on one of my weird boards , and all the pack-mentality folks fill in around me.