LONGBOARD tried one WTF!

Everyone who surfs should know how to trim on a longboard. It's just a good skill set to have in your surfing bag o' tricks. There should be no shame it...No fat chick analogies, moped analogies, etc. It's all good man.

 

Roy Stuart biz megaplank 16', is the clear choice here.

Alternatively, I can sell you my 8'x22x3 funshape.....$500 seems to the right price around here. I'll throw in the rope-n-fins

 

Kook.


Not for longboarding but for just now discovering longboarding.

 

hahahahaha.

 

It's all in the contours man. I've been thinking about this for a while. Has to be rails and contours... And size.... And the fin.. Also a lot depends on the rider too, but mostly contours. My fun shape has a V for Virginia like most yachts. Turns ok, but rail game is weak.

 

A 7'3" isn't a longboard *especially for a guy yur size* and isn't going to remotely resemble the ride of one. Get a big tanker of a board. 9'6" minimum. Don't sweat a bunch of other details if your new to longboarding and just looking for something to ride in small waves.

 

longboarding is awesome. gliding over water in general is awesome. summer time plus gliding is the best. If the waves are small introduce your friends or little ones to the activity. just be sure to stress to them that this is NOT a spring, fall or winter time sport. No one goes out after school starts back up... Its just a fact

 

9'6 X 23 X 2 7/8 with a relaxed entry rocker, some tail kick, and soft 50/50 rails the whole way except in the very nose, which should be slightly "up" or beveled. As for bottom contours... I like a blended concave in the front 1/3, to flat, to rolled vee through the last third. All contours transition invisibly. No edges anywhere on the board. Single fin. Triple stringer blank, glassed on the heavy side.

You could go up to 3" thick.

 

Dude this is Emass all over again, 2Fun is just older and bigger, maybe Emass Sr.?

Glad you discovered the LB. It's definitely a blast on the right waves, or almost any waves really. I ride my 9ft HPLB in all sorts of conditions from shin high to OH. Nothing helped me progress faster than my LB. It helped me get my wave count up and it translated over to when I ride my short boards. It's good having options. Some days I just feel like riding the LB, others I don't even look at it.

 

I was thinking the same thing. That whole "longboard is the wrong board " way of thinking.

 

It's funny because I use to have that mentality when I was a teenager, took me years to finally break down and give it a try and once it clicked I couldn't believe I waited that long, could of saved myself years of frustration, you live and learn

 

Man I am so skeptical about you 2fun... the first time you're on a longboard and you claim to walk up and down ? IDK man IDK... idgaf but smells fishy.

 

I started to longboard after shortboarding for 20 years. One small day, I watched this old salty dude in Cape May with the full on long gray hair and full gray beard (Cape May was still a hippie stronghold back in the late 80's/early 90's) catch dozens of waves off a jetty, while I sat on the beach knowing it was too small for me and the shortboards of the day. I remember that day like it was yesterday. "I gotta get a longboard... that dude's having fun!"

And that was it. For the past 20 years, I've had one in my quiver.

Where you cross stepping or shuffling?

 

o 2Fun

 

Long boards in mush are a blast but even more fun in thicker surf. Rides are longer and stoke is always high. Ever since I purchased the 9'6" I've been having a blast. Read Barbarian Days and watch Endless Summer on repeat, you'll have a much better appreciation for it. Don't get me wrong I still love my shortboards but they're harder to progress on. If you're having a rough day, log it! They say to end your last wave on a good note because that's the one your remember best. So true for me.

 

had the same experience on a trip to cr with my daughter. Came home and kept an eye on CL for a beater.. finally found one. Picked up a 9ft chaize pintail lb about a week ago. It has some damage but it's going to get abused anyway.... mostly water tight I think..Should get to use it for the first time tomorrow.