New Board- Mistake or not?

I personally wouldn't have bought since I'm 100 percent shortboards but it does look like a nice board. as a plus, the tuflite will make it durable.

 

Its a nice looking board.I would throw a traction pad on it even thou its 7'4.I just got 2 more boards in the last few months.I feel by switching up boards it helps your surfing.

 

If he likes skatey feeling boards, you should get with jon ashton and check out his round nose fish! very fun in small waves.

 

who is calling this a thruster? you or is that what the company named it?

 

I wouldn't have bought it since I'm into short funky shapes. But like everyone is saying it's nice looking for sure and probably rides great for the shape. I love the blue fade color and the big Channin logo. Whats the rocker like, is it really flat or a standard fun shape curve?

 

it also depends how much you spent on it.

 

i think only you can be the judge of it it a mistake or not! got to ride her first, and see how she feels relative to your style!

 

Thanks for the info on thrusters. I thought it was pretty well known (at least around monmouth county) that thrusters are thin short boards with a good amount of rocker and a narrower deck that incorporated the 3 fins? Not sure, I just have never heard anyone call a funshape a thruster around here.

Nice board though, looks nice and glossy.

 

I'm not into midlengths... but it's not a mistake to buy it if you like it. The price was certainly affordable enough.

 

if you have to ask,you should not have bought it.
buy a board you really love and won't question

 

Exactly! I've bought quite a few boards in my day and I can count plenty of times I thought a popular board was a dog and an unlikely board was magic. This just recently happened to me again.

Give it a whirl & be honest with yourself. If you don't like it, get rid of it. Life's too short for a mismatched board.

 

It looks like a pretty fun board and im sure that if you dont like it you can sell it for $250 or $200 at the end of the summer. I personally wouldn't buy it but the longest board ill ride is a 7'0"

 

a common misconception. a thruster is any board w/ 3 fins of roughly equal size. "thruster" is the fin set up, not the shape of the board (like "egg" or "fish" would be).


aside from that, i would have chimed in that this board was a mistake. i have no use for the tuflite/pop-out garbage. IMO, you basically dropped $350 on a pool toy. those things don't handle waves w/ any kind of texture well at all. they get that weird "chatter" going when there's chop.
a guy w/ a mid-length pop-out screams KOOK! to me.

 

glad you're still at it. & hey, if you're happy w/ your choice, then what does the opinion of some guy in nj matter? & that's 20+ years of surfing/ocean experience talking...at age 29.
my father just turned 64 last month & still rides locally hand-shaped shortboards (larger than they used to be, granted. they're in the 6'6"-7'0" range now), either from brian wynn or scott busby, as he splits time between nj & buxton. having grown up surfing oc, nj during the mid-late 60's, attending grad school in hawaii in the 70's, & judging asp & nssa contests in the 80's, he passed on a deep & abiding appreciation of the history of the sport & that is not something i can easily discard. my view of the matter, regardless of the evolution of the shape in question, is that cheap, poorly made pop-outs tear away some small portion of the soul of surfing & what the "culture" of surfing is/has been all about.
& as i understand it, channin isn't even really a board company anymore. they went out of business, then the logo/label was bought & the brand resurrected w/ overseas production. essentially, whoever owns the channin logo is cashing in on the nostalgia & past reputation of the brand. same w/ canyon. it's bs to me.

 

The dudes 60 and hes still surfing.Rock on brother.

 

a lot of the older guys out here ride the bigger boards (7+) esp since the surf in this area tends to be smallish (2-5ft) (and the guys tend to be biggish) more often than not. brands range among the usual suspects, but bruce jones http://www.brucejones.com has a shop here a mile up the road in sunset beach and he's there to make sure one gets the right fit.

is the "popout" likely to be durable or is it a throwaway?