Getting a Surfboard

[mylow]

Hey people

Can someone please help me. I'm looking around for a surfbord at the moment, but I'm not exactly sure what dimension it shoud have.

I started surfing in 2004, at easter time, but I'm not that good 'cos I don't live near the beach and ony get to surf once a month if im lucky

Where I surf, the waves range from 1ft to 8ft depending on the time of year, but their clean and hollow and are quite easy to surf.

I'm 168cm (just over 5 and a half ft) and I weight bout 60kg (132.3 pounds).

I have a surfbord now, it's 6ft 8" long, 18.5in wide and 1.6" thick and when I'm sitting on it in salt water, the water comes up just below my chest (where the diaphram is).

Can anyone help me please?

Thanks, Low

<Dec edit: Plain English now>

[mylow]

Oh yeah, and if you could tell me where I can get decent bords from would be good as well. Somewhere in central queensland would be good. I mite be moving to Brisbane soon, so anywhere round there, or Sunshine Coast or Gold Coast would be alrite.

[kitesurfer]

Is your board seriously 1.6inches thin! That is very, very VERY thin. What sort of board is it???
Also how come you only get to surf once a month is you live close to the beach? "but im not that gud cos i liv near the beach "
KS

[mylow]

Is your board seriously 1.6inches thin! That is very, very VERY thin. What sort of board is it???
Also how come you only get to surf once a month is you live close to the beach? "but im not that gud cos i liv near the beach "
KS

oh shoot, I meant I don't live near the beach!
The nearest surfing beach is an hour drive and a 10 min walk from there.
Next nearest, you need a 4WD
Next after that, is 3hr drive

[kitesurfer]

What about your board thickness?

[mylow]

my board is a thruster.

what do you mean?

my board is 4cm (1.6") thick (at the thickest part) and 47cm (18.5") wide (at the widest part).



there's what i mean. the other dimension is the 1 that's 4cm (1.6")

ps. that isn't my board, i just found it on the net. so please don't get angry if that is your board...it's a pretty sick paint job, but, hey?

[Driftingalong]

It sounds to me like you've got yourself a high performance mini-gun (or step-up type model).

IMHO it does not seem like a very good board to be learning on.

[mylow]

well i started on a soft top and surfed on that for about a year. i got my fibre glass board last year in june.

i can stand up on the board and surf along the wave, i've done an aerial once, but that was by accident when i meant to exit.

the board is pretty easy to duck dive as well

i had the sickest surf (about 6 or 7ft) on it at the sunshine coast in australia, just south of noosa heads, don't know whether you have heard of it, about 1hour drive north of snapper rocks, kirra and d-bah and other such places. so its not that hard to surf on

[Driftingalong]

If you're having no problems with that board you could probably check out something in the 6'2" range that is 2" to 2.5" thick.

[mylow]

sick, thanks a bunch

[mylow]

suggestions from any australian surfers that know the queensland coast would be as well, i can get a board suited for the waves here, but able to be used in any waves from 1-8ft as surf at the central coast in nsw once or twice a year as well

[Brian]

why not just go to the surf shop, talk to the guys in there and ask what they would reccommend.

if you want to go custom, email a prominent shaper asking what kind of board they think you should get shaped in the conditions which you normally surf in...