hello i am new to great american forem swelling infos. it is great pleasure to be here with such great surfing persons and wise men of great knowledge. i am buying a mini simmons and i am wondering if it is the way of the kook to put a traction pad on such a simmons, or if it is of traditional nature and does not deserve the pad of traction. amen. no seriously, simmons, track pad or no? purely on style ethics.
You're probably not getting radical/vertical on a wave with that board. I think a stomp pad would be a waste.
I tend to dig the ball of my back foot into the deck, so I put a pad on every board I own...even my mini-sim. In my case, it's really more for padding than traction. Problem with extra wide-tailed boards is actually finding a pad that fits it, without looking dwarfed...or a pad that's square-tailed, as opposed to pulled-in/tapered. It may not be worth the search if you don't absolutely require traction (like me). If your mini-sim's tail is ultra wide, you may need to buy longboard traction...and possibly do a little trimming to make it fit well.
Mini simmons are a glorified boogie board. Cease and desist acquiring one!! You will be entering a lower hindu caste!!!!
I feel like my foot needs to be as far back as possible on my 5'2" mini to do turns the way I want. I tried without the pad and it's night and day with foot placement. This pad from sticky bumps spreads out wide and has a small kick that lets me know exactly where my back foot is. Works great.
I would put traction pads from nose to tail, and few on the bottom. Just don't cover the salt life sticker.
I don't get your avatar. It looks like you're doing a push up with a boogie board under your left hand.
Yes it was, and I was there. HAd some real nice waves, which were, btrw, not predicted in size and quality by either SI or MSW. Surprise!!! That meant nobody out.....but me.....aww shucks gee golly!!!!