Surfing Waves

I need a board that is really fast down the line, something that can easaly stay out of the whitewater, what shape do you think is best (I'd like it to be manuverable too, no minimals, I'd like it 6'10" or smaller please.) What bottom shape, what tail shape, what fin size/shape, ect. I am 6'2 btw and about 80 kg.

you can try out guns...

just a normal shortboard. can't imagine you'll be surfing much over a solid 6ft if you're not quite good enough yet. every board can stay out of the whitewater, even the soft fun boards that surfing schools use, it just depends on the surfer. wouldn't worry about bottom shapes and tails etc because you should go to a shaper who can make you the perfect board.

Get a twin fin bonzer fish. They are fast. And oh so stable.

Sillysausage wrote:just a normal shortboard. can't imagine you'll be surfing much over a solid 6ft if you're not quite good enough yet. every board can stay out of the whitewater, even the soft fun boards that surfing schools use, it just depends on the surfer. wouldn't worry about bottom shapes and tails etc because you should go to a shaper who can make you the perfect board.

It is just so that I can clear the section of the waves I surf, there is a section on the waves I surf and it useually breaks before or just after I cleared it, and it is hard for me to clear it after it broke. Plus I will love having a really fast board, I love speed. that is why I bomb hills the size of everest.

My advice would be to learn to surf first before you start worrying about bottom contours.

Get a red one.

Unscientifically proven by me in independent tests to go much faster than green or yellow ones.

^ You should become a comedian, but I must say it just seems that you will go fast on a red one, because of the self-confidence the cool looking board gnerates, making you pump harder.

what i said does answer your question though? if you can't make the section when it breaks i just answered that? its not just the speed of the board, i used to have a mick fanning copy and i found it quite hard to surf because it was way too fast for me...i find any shortboard you can gain a fair amount of speed as that is what most of them are designed for.

I geuss that will be fine, I think maby I sould borrow my friends board to feel if I need any faster, and it might help too to see weather I must stay with the board I have right now. BTW what is the avaridge amount of waves I can expect per sesh? I can catch 10 waves in a 2 hour sesh, and 5 of them I can keep, is that below or above normal for someone who has been surfing 3 months (with 2 weeks that I couldn't surf because I was on vacation inland.) on a heavaly dinged and cracked 7.2 hybrid. (If I am souldn't move on I am just going to let the shaper repair the board.)

Depends on the brake and the consistancy of the swell (to say nothing of the surfer) to how many waves they will get in a session.

Quite consistant, I am talking about on a nice day (not the best of days but nice, I havn't surfed here when it is at it's best yet, which is winter, which is in july here.), it is a pointbreak, so it brakes the same almost every time, I catch about 20%-30% of the waves I paddle for if that helps better.

i think you should stick to a longer board if you dont catch many waves on a minimal. you deffo wont catch that many on a shortboard yet

Ok, thanks, but how long do ou think it will take, because I think I sould start saving alredy for it.

Well how tall are you?
A good medium is a good 7'6" egg

I am 6.2 (big, i know) but I am really thin, so I weigh about 80kg (that sould be 160-180 pounds or so) and I am riding a 7.2 right now, it is the shape of a shortboard but I think it is a minimal.

well better off going for a minimal. the board you're riding sounds like a gun which is really made for bigger waves which may also be why your wavecount is fairly low. really you're looking at a minimal or an egg shaped board that you can surf untill you progress a bit

A 6`8" thruster should have what you are looking for.

Sillysausage wrote:well better off going for a minimal. the board you're riding sounds like a gun which is really made for bigger waves which may also be why your wavecount is fairly low. really you're looking at a minimal or an egg shaped board that you can surf untill you progress a bit

I thought it might be a gun, and there is this on e woman who surfs a board (which I had to save from the rocks after the leash broke, it got a few dings but mine looks 1000 times worse) which she calls "really old" (2 years, to me that is brand new, mine is probably like 10) and it is a 7.2 egg, she complains she can't duckdive it because it is like 2.5 inches thick (but I souldn't have a problem since I am twice her weight.) and actually ditch and ducked right infont of me (ouch) so I think I might be able to get it from her quite cheaply, what do you think is the best I can ecpect (it has been repaired a few times, and she didn't even care that it got washed onto the rocks)

an egg would be very hard to duckdive due to shape...but it is much better for surfing although the alternative is turtle rolling. not sure about price as i don't live there and i havn't seen the board