Surfing Waves

As it says really I'm looking to get a new board and want one that'll catch some of the small east coast summer swells but also be nice to turn. Thinking or either a 7'6" mini or a 7'2"/ 7'4" carpet.

Any advice on these options would be most welcome.

Cheers.

I've got a Nine Plus 6'10" Carpet and it's REALLY good fun - but it really needs to be pretty clean surf, otherwise it gets sketchy.

But for those clean days, it's great!!

Magic carpets are supposed to be Longboards with the middle 2.5ft cut out of them. It's not entirely true, but they do perfom in a similar way. Most carpets will be single fin, as the 3 fin option basically turns them into a fat mini mal.

As the two boards go, the carpet is deffo the performance option but it's a slightly different style of surfing thay are suited too. Awesome in waist high winding points, not so great in average beach break.

The mini mal is a good solid option. Nothing to flashy, but it will get you into waves early and give you plenty of speed to make the sections. Stick a decent set of fins on and it will be shaper on the turns.

have you thought of a funboard? useful for the small swells but you can have a good time even in bigger surf. ive had mine out in 6ft+ surfand it was still fine.