new board! shortboard w/swallowtail

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new board! shortboard w/swallowtail

Postby sebastiansurfer » Mon Jul 21, 2008 9:55 pm

new board! maybe a tad too small since im 5'8 and 125 pounds n have only used longboards beforehand.but the dims are 6'4,12 1/2,19 3/4,2 5/16

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any thoughts let me know!
it came with only two minor dings but i soon changed that lol
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Postby Beachbum » Tue Jul 22, 2008 5:31 am

nice board how much was it?
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Postby kitesurfer » Tue Jul 22, 2008 7:18 am

Looks fine to me.

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Postby pkbum » Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:04 am

it doesn't look new to me. more like second hand. Anyways hope you have fun with it.
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Postby drowningbitbybit » Tue Jul 22, 2008 9:18 am

pkbum wrote:it doesn't look new to me. more like second hand. Anyways hope you have fun with it.


Er, I think that was 'new to me' rather than 'brand new'.

Sure, it'll be trickier than a longboard, but you'll be fine as long as you paddle hard. :D
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Postby sebastiansurfer » Tue Jul 22, 2008 3:10 pm

lol new as in the sense of new to me as drowning said :D.it was 225 with the fins included.it paddles pretty well considering i took a 2 summer break from surfing and got stuck with shorebreak.if only it had the invincibility of a bic.we dropped his off the second story to the beach :bigoops: :woot:
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Postby essex sucks » Tue Jul 22, 2008 3:12 pm

looks like fun have a good one on it
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Postby sebastiansurfer » Tue Jul 22, 2008 3:27 pm

thanks essex. it feels like a funboards been stashed inside of a shortboard =o just finding its center of balance is hilarious.i need a video of it :thumbs:
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