Beginner hollow wave board

[Jester]

Alright, pretty similar guys but givvus a vote! Which colour will make me go faster/level up quicker/get bikinis thrown at me more frequently?

Jester, he no ride no white stick no more

Except when I suck and have to take my bic back out of course!

[benjl]

Awesome man, can't wait to hear how you get on with the epoxy variant tomorrow!

Haha, if u want bikinis thrown at you go with the top blue. I sold a 6'6 fish version of that and not only did a hot girl end up buying it but she bid more than then it was retailing new for!! She loved the colour

Mine is just the boring white one with the pin stripe stringer haha. Although I did get it second hand for a steal

At some point play around with fins too, I found a big difference between my day on the 7'2 with ML side foiled fins vs yesterday on my JJf medium flat foiled fins with smaller base and smaller back fin etc. Much more loose

[dtc]

Can I be annoying again: if your leash breaks, how do you spot a blue board in the ocean?

I agree the top one.

[Jester]

Haha coz it shows up nicely against the rocks DTC!! anyway the colour of the sea here is a nice deep slate green, that thing should pop out like a clown in the house of commons.

Actually my first prob I had when my leash broke was it was all whitewater inside so I'm thinking it should stand out pretty well, not that I'm preparing go through the snappy happy experience again!!

[Jester]

Benj you big old hussler you! point taken though! I'd almost decided on the duskier bottom blue but now you all have me looking twice

[Jester]

So the waves were tiiiiiiny today and no point taking out the 7'2.. Gonna have to wait to try I'm afraid. Great day out though!

[Jester]

Finally done it! Pulled the trigger on the Torq 7'2 the top colour one.. I'll be the surfer in the line up under a shower of bikini tops pics to come when it arrives next week.

Thanks for all your help guys. Gonna have fun with the challenge of a 7'2

Benjl, Banz, we are now brothers of the Torq!!

[dtc]

Woo

As a heads up, you will now discover that everything you have learnt about positioning and timing to catch a wave is wrong...Don't worry if you miss most of the waves you are paddling for when you start with the shorter board (hint: move closer to the shore and catch the wave waaay later than you normally catch them on your bigger board - its both a bit scary if the wave is big and it feels like the wave is going to crash onto you).

Otherwise, once you have caught the wave (assuming your pop up is pretty stable and you aren't slipping on the bikinis), its just a trial and error thing to learn how the board moves around. You do everything pretty much the same way as on a longer board, just slightly less movement (or a more subtle / refined movement) required.

[Jester]

Thanks DTC! I naturally take waves late anyway so I'm hoping there won't be too many misses but I'm sure I'm in for some retraining.

My biggest prob I think is gonna be not using my toes and getting the balance point right as I chuck my legs for'd. I think I put my back foot on the rear of the board sometimes when I get tired and lazy as I'm popping up as a lill stabiliser, that bad boy's gotta go practising on my bed with feet hanging over the edge so as not to cheat!

Board arrives next week. Let the falling, flailing, missing and bikini throwing commence!!

[dtc]

My biggest prob I think is gonna be not using my toes and getting the balance point right as I chuck my legs for'd. I think I put my back foot on the rear of the board sometimes when I get tired and lazy as I'm popping up as a lill stabiliser, that bad boy's gotta go

You can still do this! (at least I can on a 7ft4 and I'm probably a bit taller than you)

The problem is that your toes push off from right at the end of the board, which isn't waxed. So generally you slip and face plant into the board (then 1/2 second later face plant into the water). If lucky you slip onto your knee and perhaps have time for another go. Or not.

I sometimes think about waxing right at the tail of the board, but have decided that if I'm too lazy to pop up properly then I am getting exactly what I deserve.

But its a good way to cure the problem - instant feedback!

[benjl]

thats awesome Jester! can't wait to hear how you get on and whether you get drowned in bikinis haha

[benjl]

Hey Jester!

I just came back to the office after taking a half day to go hit up some waves. It was clean and 2-3ft (shoulder-ish to maybe head on some). I took my high volume 6'2 out initially and to be honest, hated it. It's the first time i've ridden it in proper waves in a little while and I don't think it has a place in my quiver anymore. The volumous boxy rails wouldn't hold in late/steep drops but also didn't have enough volume to get in early like a longer board.
Somehow I ended up doing my first ever forward flip off the top of a wave when trying to pop up!@

I decided to chuck in the 6'2 and pull out the torq 7'2 instead and it didn't disappoint! I'm loving that thing more and more in anything clean and under 4ft at the moment (i'm sure it will handle more like the website says but I haven't tried it).
It's just so much fun and still retains a balance of turning that is somewhat shortboard-ish.

I even did a drop on a shoulder high wave that was literally folding closed as I took off and I still managed to pop up and hold the rail and stick the wave despite it closing whilst mid pop-up. The pin tail and rails work a treat.

Can't wait til you get yours and tell me what you think. just paddle hard and fast when the wave is about 10m behind you and you should catch almost anything

[Jester]

Ah that's sweet man!! Stoked well I'm sat here looking at my gorgeous new board.. Problem is, they sent the wrong colour!!

Gotta wait till Friday now.. SUCKS!!

[dtc]

To be honest, after about a year you will barely notice the colour. But if its only a few days, guess you can wait.

[drowningbitbybit]

high volume 6'2 ... proper waves ... boxy rails...

Doesn't sound like a 'proper wave' board
Just because it's short, doesn't mean it's meant for serious waves. Sounds more like your small wave board and save the bigger board for the bigger waves.

Just as an example, my 6'2 is my go-to board, my big-volume 5'10 is my small wave board, and my fatboy 6'10 is my big wave board.
With waves of consequence, the 5'10 cannot hold the face and slides around all over the place... which is kinda fun

If I was more of a hero than I am, and the waves got properly big, the board would get longer but narrower - definitely not shorter and fatter.

[drowningbitbybit]

just paddle hard and fast when the wave is about 10m behind you and you should catch almost anything

...whether you want to or not and damn the consequences!

[Jester]

Never backed out of a wave yet! It's balls to the wall time as soon as I start paddling

Actually looking at my board with it's pintail and sleek look it looks kinda 'fun-gun' shaped! Damned if I can ride the thing yet but can't wait to try!

[Jester]

Major suckage!! My saga continues.. They finally sent the right board, only its dinged in two places!! so I'm looking at my gorgeous board again that I can't surf.. Sending it back but they don't have another 7'2 in that colour. Oh my life!

Considering the 7'6 in my preferred colour as although it won't be as difficult and maybe less room to progress, at least I'll have an easier time of it and the colour I want!

Not happy..wanna proper kick some ass now

[dtc]

Just get the other colour (the one you wanted the first time...). Honestly you wont really notice after a while - its like when you move into a house and say 'wow, those curtains have to go, they are terrible' and 6 months later you think 'oh, I was going to change those curtains wasn't I' and 2 years later you are like 'I don't even know what colour the curtains are'.

Although if you got a bright pink board you might keep noticing

[Jester]

Ah but it's also for the image dtc other people will notice and that's important..lol how many bikini tops have you had thrown at you coz of your manky curtains eh? Eh??!