Stupid question?

here you go.


E. USSF Competition Rules will be made available to all competitors by request.





III. EQUIPMENT (All boards are measured from end to end, using a straight edge)



A. In age division events, surfboards will not exceed 2 ft. longer than the competitor’s

height, except LEGENDS, which has no limit as to equipment used.



B. Longboards must be a minimum of 9 ft. in length, in Junior, Men, Master, Women,

and Senior divisions. Menehune division will be 3 ft. overhead.



C. Bodyboards shall not exceed 5 ft. in length.

 

so, seeing as i'm 6ft tall, i can't ride a board longer than 8'0"? this seems odd to me.
or is it supposed to say that boards cannot be LESS than 2ft longer than the surfer's height?

i ask b/c i ride a 9'6", & know guys who ride longer, in the local log contests around here. often times, i've got the shortest board in the competitor's tent.

 

No hes got it wrong all the comps i have done, the board has to be minum of 9ft or taller than f feet of the competors hieght. So the minuim board hieght you could have would be 8 ft

 

Your looking at the shortboard division. When competing using shortboards they can't be longer than two feet past your height

 

No, its says Mens has a minimum of 9'0". This is interesting because I don't usually consider boards between 8'6" and 8'11" to be anything other than longboards. They're not fun shapes <cringe>, so I guess they're mini-longboards. Sounds weird.

 

Yeah weird but you care right any board under 8'6 is a mini longboards

 

For those without reading comprehension...

Longboard contest: board must be at least 9'

 

haha, thank you. it says it right in the first post so dunno how they missed it

 

They didn't read the entire thing before posting. "The meatloaf!! F*CK!"

 

what sucks is that ESA seems to think a shortboard is less than 9'!! I hate doing comps and some schmuck is riding an 8 foot funshape and I'm on a 6'2"!!

 

Mis-read thread FAIL.

 

Thank you. I posted the other data on there just because it was there. It related to bodyboarders and basically youth shortboarding....

The answer is 9'0 and larger is the standard US competition rules.

And yes, I do agree that anything really over 8'2 or so is a longboard. I mean, im 5'9 160 so, i can nose ride an 8'2 in the summer.... But just for competition, it needs to be at least 9 ft to keep everything fair. Those shorter 8'6s and stuff ride like longboards, but you can still turn them if they have thurster fins and they bounc off the lip much more like shortboard, so to keep things slow, smooth and fair, its 9'0 plus.

 

Destroy them then. Anyone riding a funshape in a contest will get owned anyway... I havent done a comp in a couple years, but I watch all the ones locally out here, and the kids in OB alone are doing sh** in these contests, that one would never have imagined. They pop their little shortboards out of every lip. They are doing rail grab 360s through all their frontside turns and stuff, crazy technical... So any chump with anything larger than a 6'2 or something will get owned, unless you are surfing huge surf.

 

+1...you should have no worries Pump!

 

I usually always beat those guys (but rarely win). the only advantage they get is the paddle out if its small.

 

in any long board comp. the board must be at least 9 feet.

in any short board comp. ie age division. the board can not be more than 2 feet over your head.

 

This is a bit off topic but I was gonna enter a few contest this year just to see how I would do. In the longboard event do they have any rules about fins and what is allowed and what isnt??

 

I have never entered a competition, but I have been riding single fins I guess for 15+ years now and I don't think I ever considered a real long board to be less than 9 feet. Anything less regardless of your hight I would define as a funshape, hybrids, big guy short boards. I wouldn't doubt there are shapes out there call mini-longboards that could be considered more of a novelty or is just that; The majority of people on here are shorter and lighter so they would say a 8'6 is a long board because they ride boards 5'8's (or shorter) to 6'0 and they think a step up is a 6'2, which it's not it's just a 6'2 short board anyway you look at it.

 

You mean they make boards with more than one fin????? I thought that was a folk lore