With all the recent posts about where and what type of board to buy; has anyone ever picked up a board that just sucked? I have my favorites just like everyone else but I can't ever remember just totaly thinking "I wish I would have never bought this pos" Cars? I can think of a few there.
yea i havent but my friend bought a js flyboy i think like 5'11 or 6'1 something like tht is completely sucked the deck like fell apart and the board ding so easly the board was a piece of crap he rode it for a month then gave up and rode his londboard
I had a Cannible longboard 9'4 . It would ding easy and the tail rocker was uneven and it rode horrible. 500 dollars waisted away
Rusty Desert Island. It caught waves, but after the pop-up, it was a miserable ride. Way too tight for being the "One board quiver" it was advertised to be. A horrible concept.
mine had to have been a 6'1" al merrick flyer tuflite. i bought it used as my first shortboard from a friends older brother and man that thing sucked i was so glad some kid hit his fin on my rail and i was able to buy a new and local shape. and after i got the local shaped shortboard i never touched the merrick and sold it to a friend who supposedly loves it.
when i was 14 years old some jackass sold me a 6'1 eric arikawa / Andy Irons pro model board to "learn on". I never, ever, ever, got waves on it. I HATED it. so I sold it, got some ****ty funboard, and it was all gravy. 10 years later, id kill for an A.I. pro model thats the cycle of life I guess...
I picked one up, it wasnt too bad. But the guy advertised a high performance board, 6'5, easy turning and ****. The thing was a tank, I mean its a nice board, but i never got my high performance board. But i ride this thing in chop, really good at catching chop. it was 200 though, i kinda wish i bought like a 6'1 or something
i found a 6'8 T.Patterson board in the trash with plenty of dings and holes and missing fins. Fixed it all up and spray painted it, but havent surfed it yet.
I bought some 6-1 Lost Mayhem board a few years back that I absolutely hate. I force myself to use it at low tide or on ****ty days just hoping I will like it someday. But sadly I dont like how it feels when it paddles, it rides well but that doesn't help when I feel bad paddling it. It's not like it is even to big/small for me since I have other boards similar to it.
I had a Natural Art Thruster, a Zodiac Twin and an Island Style Quad back in the mid eighties. I hated all of them. Anyone remember Zodiac surfboards in Belmar?
I hate my 5' 10 al merrick fishcuit sometimes. But love it others. Not to go off topic but what would cause this?
When surf tech came out with the Tufflite and the craze was on to get one of these wonder boards I was talked into getting a 9'6" G&S Noserider knockoff. $900.00 for the biggest turd I ever owned. Fortunately they were hot at the time and I lost only $200.00. The guy I sold it to had it for 3 weeks and he also sold it.
first thought is using it in the wrong conditions. i've heard that board doesn't like rough/choppy conditions. that said, my turn... 6'2" ci red beauty. may have been a bit small for me, but it was super tracky & was really hard to turn.
when i push the limits and order custom too thick,thin,long,short,wide,narrow;but that's how i get closer to my ideal dimensions and narrow it down
I've found that I actually like my surfboards more that I buy at a surfshop rather than custom ordering. I don't think I just suck at ordering boards, Because i do put a lot of time with my orders, I guess I expect more or something. Worse board I ever had: 5'8 Ezera ez-1. Weird cuz my favorite board of all time was a 5'6 Ezera ez-1
