Santa Cruz Surfboard Demo
Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:47 pmThis was on Sat. 6/17 at Malibu's in Maryland, USA.
Santa Cruz Surfboards showed up and let people ride there various new shapes for '06 (they're Epoxy).
It was pretty fun. Waves were about waist high and pretty clean.
A little perspective on were I'm coming from:
My one and only shortboard I've ever had is a 6'6" swallow tail. I'm not a great surfer or anything, but I do alright (and I'm getting better). I can catch waves, pop-up, make the drop, turn and what not. So, I can't comment too much on the surfboards I tried...
I got to try out a 6'4" fish (Knot series) that worked pretty well for me. It had good acceleration on the takeoff and pretty snappy turns.
I also tried a 6'2" rounded pintail (Pumpkin Seed series). This was deffinatly more difficult for me, but I still managed to catch some wave. It also had good acceleration on the takeoff and turns were a lot smoother.
I was just so stoked that I was able to paddle around and catch was on those two boards; especially the 6'2".
All in all I got a couple of decent rides on each and I definatly liked the boards (it was cool to find out I could handle something smaller than what I'm used to).
Just a fun day overall.
Santa Cruz Surfboards showed up and let people ride there various new shapes for '06 (they're Epoxy).
It was pretty fun. Waves were about waist high and pretty clean.
A little perspective on were I'm coming from:
My one and only shortboard I've ever had is a 6'6" swallow tail. I'm not a great surfer or anything, but I do alright (and I'm getting better). I can catch waves, pop-up, make the drop, turn and what not. So, I can't comment too much on the surfboards I tried...
I got to try out a 6'4" fish (Knot series) that worked pretty well for me. It had good acceleration on the takeoff and pretty snappy turns.
I also tried a 6'2" rounded pintail (Pumpkin Seed series). This was deffinatly more difficult for me, but I still managed to catch some wave. It also had good acceleration on the takeoff and turns were a lot smoother.
I was just so stoked that I was able to paddle around and catch was on those two boards; especially the 6'2".
All in all I got a couple of decent rides on each and I definatly liked the boards (it was cool to find out I could handle something smaller than what I'm used to).
Just a fun day overall.