Best "off the rack" groveler boards for summer

CI Dumpster Diver

 

They're already in the order I'd choose...

 

Sharpeye disco

 

J7 Ugly Stik
J7 Whatever
JS Pier Pony

 

Get a custom made long board form a local shaper you sh!thead.

 

He's kinda right, ya know. You'll get much longer rides on a nothing day when a groveler is just going to frustrate you. Especially for a bigger guy. If you were 135-155lbs I'd say go for it, but if I recall you're like 225 - 245lbs right? Think about the amount of foam you'll need to properly float you on a short stubby board, that thing will be a bobbing cork. Plus when the waves are that small, there's not enough juice behind the wave to really get the kind of momentum you're going to need. But, if you're hell bet on a groveler, then I might suggest a weight loss plan. Not giving you a hard time, just being real.

 

Sorry, thought you were seriously considering one of these boards, didn't realize it was a hypothetical discussion. I got no advice for the hypothetical surfer.

 

Grovelers are just another piece of crap in the endless marketing of useless shaping ideas. After all, they have to keep you buying "the new and improved", right??
Realistically, surfers need 4 boards--longboard, shortboard (thruster), gun, and a mid-size. The rest is Shiit--marketing

 

When shapers starting making short boards, was that endless marketing of useless shaping ideas?

 

Lost Bottom Feeder
CI Average Joe
Von Sol Shadow (is the Mantis really a groveler?)

 

Thank you so much for posting this tread I have waited a few years for someone to come along and knock me off the throne as biggest idiot question posted . My final answer is...the same board the silver surfer uses...hypothetically speaking of course,

 

Some ideas are good, others are bad, which was my point. If you wish to have 100 different shapes, be my guest-it is a free country. Please note--I included shortbaords in my list of required boards.
Therefore, your retort is pathetic. NEXT!!!

 

well it's short boards so your spelling is pathetic. It wasn't a retort but a question but allow me to follow up with a retort.
I believe the short board was made to help surfers do things that longboards couldn't do. To even surf waves That long boards couldn't. It filled a niche. Those short boards were like 7 feet. A mid length today. Then boards got shorter And surfers were able to do even more things and perform well in waves that weren't being surfed.

Low and behold someone said I wish I could go surf those little waves and still do the things I was doing on my short board. So they made it a little wider and shorter, and messed around with v and concaves and fin configurations. The groveler was born. Turns out to be a perfect short board for most east coast waves.

So some ideas are good. Some are bad was not your point. your point was "Grovelers are just another piece of crap". Yet these boards are being used in waves you wouldn't surf with any of the boards you originally mentioned. And people are having fun with them.

 

Vernor Mini Simmons
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