keep a fish or swap for a longboard

[newportlongboard]

hi all i want to hear some of your opinions

i have currently got 3 boards a performance nose rider 9'1 a nose rider 9'4 and a 7'0 custard point fish the fish is nearly new as traded it recently for a old mini mal and have only surfed it once although it was fun. The question i have is i have the offer to now trade the fish for a performance longboard im not sure weather to go for another longboard or keep a shorter board. I am definatly mainly a longboarder and realy pushing to start nose riding and putting a few manovers into each wave what would all of you do swap for a longboard or keep the fish?????????

Also wil riding a fish help with my longboarding or not???? would i be better off always on a longboard????


Thanks all

[jaffa1949]

I 'd suggest being a smorgasboarder, keep the fish.
Why IMO riding and working with a number of boards pushes your perceptions and abilities to different areas in different waves and ways.I find I get sharper after a different board day, early in a different board session I look pretty spastic but then I recover the qualities of the board and I improve ( at least I think I do).
You can even do an interesting experiment, surf each board on the same day, that really shows you what the idea behind each is.
Get silly, have fun,see what happens

[esonscar]

Get shot of the 9'4" nose rider and replace it with a custom shortboard. Most avenues are covered then with three completely different style boards for (almost) maximum fun in the surf.

The two remaining ‘boards to get would be a gun (long and thin longboard) and a pocketboard® surfboard !

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