How many Swellers really also LB and/or SUP??

I've got a 9 footer and a 10'2", if it's flat i don't sup i just cry

 

I ride a log when it's loggin time. I'm sure that is common knowledge for anybody who's read any of my posts. It's a 9'7. Single fin. Classic style foam (the most dense us blanks makes), triple stringer, a little belly in the tail, and reverse rocker. I think the only 'modern' addition is the tiny bit of con-cavity in the nose. Obviously I attempt to noseride it whenever possible. I'm pretty sure I've said all this before.

I ride it as long as its under chest high, most often I save it for waist-ish days. Or if I'm tryin to beat the summer crowds.

 

I no longer own a longboard. Mrs. 2B hucked her 7' custom foam beast this past summer too. Regrets. A longboard belongs in every garage for emergencies.

I used to have a 9'4" piece of... It was fun enough. It only came out thighs and under. I actually got stoked on a 6'2" Lost Couch Potato for a bit and it took over the place of the longboard. Way too much volume! The problem was that it still gave me a shortboarders entry window on smaller weaker stuff. It surfed kinda like a longboard---I could get 5 toes on the thing, it trimmed like a champion, and it was fast. In general though, if the waves would propel a swsb, the lb/potato stayed home.

I would like an easy, stable, nose rideable 9'. I think I just talked myself into another couch potato-esque shape though...

I don't SUP. I get that its probably a fulfilling and innovative way to catch more waves and get more stoke from riding waves into one's later years. But if you're healthy and chasing chest high waves in a SUP, and you're back paddling everybody, I just might pretend I didn't see you every time. I get that the SUP probably a fun way to paddle around rivers, lakes, and marshland too. I totally understand the positives the SUP has to offer, yet still I have this childish part of me that responds internally to all those positives by saying "yeah, but its gay dude."

 

I ride a 9'4" squash 2+1 with medium rocker in everything, if i'm feelin longboardy. Total crap I break out my old a$$ custom rick 9'6" almost no rocker single fin 65lbs and If i'm feeling like I want to go short on total crap I break out my 6"2" egg almost no rocker with a variable fin setup in crap I go with single or 2+1, I only set fins thruster on this board when theres juice otherwise it feels like its on railroad tracks. As far as sup I only use it for fishing and crabbing and exercise cause surfing on it is boring and not challenging. Fishing is awesome on it, it is a hell of a rush when a big striper pulls you around on it. A 30 lb bass hooked on a popper in the spring pulled me about a mile and a half out to sea on it off Long Branch! I leave the surfing of sup's to the hodads and douche canoeists.

 

Keep the sups in the bay

 

short board anything above waist high. long board anything under.

when it's small it gets so crowded here that you won't catch anything unless you can get out there and block the sup'ers, back paddle them, fake left then go right, etc

i do not sup

 

I used to short board but gave it up when I had to move further away from the water. Got a much higher wave count the few times a month I could surf when I used my 9'6". ive recently started to get bored longboarding all the time so I'm transitioning myself back to shorter boards for those better days. I'm using s 6'8" takayama scorpion and a 6'2" KG quad sea viper. Love both boards and once I feel ready I'll probably search for a true short board.

 

If it is clean and lined up and knee to stomach high, the longboard is the call. A fish if it is choppy. I prefer more rocker so I can still turn the board, do cutbacks, and it is lots of fun to shuffle up and down as the wave steepens and reforms and then backs off in the trench before peedling out. They are great to paddle on a flat summer days, just grab a dive mask and paddle the reef. The glide on a good thigh high peeler is exhilerating and effortless, v. having to pump and gyrate and wiggle your way down the line in gutless waves on a shortboard.

SUPs no. Kite boarding is the way to extend your water time on crappy days, especially the onshore to sideshore days we get here so often. I have not done it yet, but am considering it. Oh, and I just read in the NE Journal of Medicine that SUPing definitely causes you to become gay. It's a proven fact.

 

I have a 10'2" Yater that I love and can catch teeny tiny stuff and I use for letting newbies learn. I have a 9'0" Stewart that is easy and fun. My shortboard is an 8"1" Yater. What? But I am an old lady so...that is my excuse.

 

What does anyone consider the official length when a board becomes a long board?

 

Good 'tread' spicoli.
Depends on conditions. If ya wanna surf on the right coast, and you're a svelte 210 lbs (6'2), plus 20 lbs of rubber in winter, then oft-times it's Paul Bunyan loggin' time.

Longboards are a lotta fun when tail turning, not just leaning or riding down the line. Don't often get the swell for that, though.

I've jumped on a classic 9'6 bulkasaurus smooth flowing noserider in San Diego when it gets tiny there.
Surfing = good, no matter what the vehicle.

Having said that:
9'6 August WIR for small right coast
9'2 CI Classic performance longboard in anything from knee to OH
7'10 Strive Big Bully
7'6 Rusty BigCat custom
7'6 Strive
7' Bing from 1974
6'10 Austin Rocketfish
6'8 Strive Bully
6'7 Sunshine House by Claude Codgen from 1976
6'6 Dwart
6'6 LazyBoy
6'1 AJ
no SUP

yeah, the addiction ....

 

I have a reproduction of a classic 60's california nose rider. 3 stick, flat, wide and thick. Heavily glassed. 9'4". I started off just riding summer slop on it, but recently I've been riding it in just about every condition. In virginia beach 90% of my sessions are on the log. I'm no grom and I hate groveling. Shortboards only come out if it's barreling, over chest high, and/or I'm driving south. Owning a log has probably doubled my surf time in vb.

 

8'6" Ricky Carroll HP "long board," 7'6" McTavish Carver, a 7'4" Bic fun board that will outlive us all, and a 5'7" Mini Simmons. Back to my question, What do you consider the official length when a board becomes a long board?

 

I ride a 9'0 LB quite a bit, but I'm a shortboarder at heart. It's just that allot of the time the LB is the better choice.

For me, when choosing between a LB or SB it's more about shape than size. When the waves are fatter/weaker I LB, when the tides lower and things get steeper I'll bring out the SB. Lately I have been riding my SBs more in conditions that I'd normally ride a LB in though, and have been having allot of fun. I tend to ride my LB like a SB (like I said, sber at heart) doing turns more so then nose riding.

I don't SUP, for multiple reasons.
1) I can catch anything on my LB, never needed a SUP for small days.
2) laying on a board and paddling is just the way I think things should be done. Using a paddle or jetski to assist in catching a wave takes away from the total experience of surfing IMO.
3) although there are dudes who can SUP with skill and know what is going on in the water, a vast majority of them don't have a clue. SUPs often allow people who don't have the skill to be out, to be out. I can't associate myself with people like that. Not at 25. Maybe when I'm older and my shoulders fall off but at this time I don't have any need or want for a SUP

 

Used to ride a log till I snapped it on a big day now a ride a performance fun board lol it has a pintail pretty much will ride it 5 ft and under on toob days and days were it's small to overhead mush I'll ride it sometimes I just like to get in early on a bomb and cruise

 

Unc, so I finally got around to making my account and started to read this thread. I'm stoked that my first response gets to be about this topic. I'm right there with you, I understand there is certainly a time and place for SUPs, but in a packed line-up with guys sitting deep in shoulder+ high waves just isn't one of them. No one enjoys waiting for the swell to roll through and then watching three SUPs paddling at you from the horizon on three different waves, all of which I'm sure they won't shred... "yeah, it is gay dude."

 

Don't sell yourself short man I ride a board that's borderline under volume In board shorts I don't agree with changing boards just cause you got rubber on. Sure it does make sense to up the volume but I never have felt a difference I just will ride the board in different conditions like instead of riding a sb that's borderlime to small I rode it today on steep hollow nugs and it felt great. That's how I look at it I don't have dedicated winter boards