Surfing Waves

I've been surfing on a bic 7'3 now for a while and I'm quite confident whith it, fast on my feet and pretty good bottom turn. However, i feel it's a bit hard to make a top turn whith it and it feels heavy somehow. I would like something that turns easier and is a bit more lively but still easy to catch small mushy waves with. I live in sweden so the waves tend to be not clean at all and quite hard to catch since they seldom have a good wall.

I'm chosing between staying with the one I've got aor getting one of these boards: (I'm 5'7" 140 lbs)

1, NSP fish 6'4 Nose 15 5/8", Mid 20 3/4", Tail 15 5/8", Thick 2 5/8"
2, NSP 6'8" funboard Nose 15 3/4" Mid 21", Tail 14 1/2" Thick 3"
3, Custom surfboard 6'0" Retrostyle twinfin with widesplit tail (www.nordsurf.se) Nose 16 1/4" Mid 21", Tail 15" Thick 2 3/4" with fcs fins (mrx twin setup)

What would you get?

I don't think a smaller board would be a problem if it's not harder to catch waves in the poor condition I often have to surf in. Lot's of times it's onshore but it's better than nothing. Sometimes it can get quite good.

Thanks a lot!

David from Sweden

funboard

David,
You may be better with a custom funboard rather than an NSP if you can find one?

Otherwise I'd agree with silverfish and go with the funboard - miles more smiles per session!!

If I decide to go with a longboard I'll buy the NSP. At least it can take a hit, there can be underwater rocks in some of the places I surf. Do you think it would be clearly different to the board I have? That's sort of the whole point with switching..

Thanks!

sorry - I got your names confused just there!

Being perfectly honest, I don't see a huge amount of differnce in the board you are to the funboard. A bit smaller and a bit quicker but if your surfing is progressing, then you should be looking forwards to a fibreglass board to really help your ability develop.

You shouldn't buy an NSP because there are rocks around. Just don't surf into the shoreline.

The thing is that the rocks are not just along the shoreline. If it's a small day (chest high or so) the waves will brake along a rocky point where the depth is about 1.5 m. There are some rocks that lie about 20 cm under the water (1.3 m high rocks) that you actually have to surf around. But I wouldn't buy the board just because of this.

I want a board thats fun to turn but still easy to catch small mushy waves with. So I want a board that can handle waves between waist and overhead waves, and most importantly able to catch the fat onshore waves I often surf in.

It's going to be my only board, have to sell my board to afford a new one.

I would like the retrofish but I don't know if it's to short to handle fat small onshore waves.

Thanks again!

Go for a custom fish.... or a fiberglass fish... like the nsp... but fiberglass i think is better. (my opinion, not yours though).

a custom modern shape fish maybe but not a retro twinnie Silverfish.

Retro twinnies are pretty specialist boards, real flat rocker, big, fat juicy things, loads of volume and floatation to them. We tend to sell them to old school guys that generally ride big old logs and want something a bit smaller to chuck around but that they can still paddle easily on.

They're not easy boards to surf mate. Plus they are not much use in anything big either. Great laugh on windslop days though as they just fly!

Id say go with the fish aswell...

im saying the custom board, no offence but nsps (also bic) are mainly loads of plastic that the market is making for loot cash dough moolah. :/
they may last long but you should go for the custom..late bro

If you have some money I'd go with the Al Merrick Channnel Islands M13. I personally haven't ridden it yet but from what they say it,

"paddles like a funshape but surfs like a shortboard." "This is for you if you're looking for a hybrid surfboard with shortboard performance. This is not a shrunk-down longboard."

..and I trust that company with my life!