I don't get why surf a shortboard on tiny waves

[BaNZ]

My local break is super crowded. During the summer people are surfing shortboards when the wave is 1-2 feet. You get about 2-3 seconds of unbroken wave and it just closes out or that a bunch of kooks in foamie and funboard just drops in on them. I'm just puzzled because they are good surfers, much better than I can surf. What is the fun to that?

Why not just grab a longer board and sit on the outside? I think my break has 80% short + funboards. I'm the few that is on a longboard and they are surprised that I'm catching all the waves.

[jaffa1949]

Often shortboarding in unfavourable conditions is about refusing to see reason beyond fashion and cool!
Take note of how many beginners argue to start on short boards.

Become a smorgasboarder, choose the suitable board like a golfer chooses their club!

Look over the lineup any day and see the fashion victims whining about how they can't surf this stuff .

[pmcaero]

I would assume they are practicing maneuvers like floaters on closeout sections. Or they suck.

[jaffa1949]

Either , or! Good call!

[oldmansurfer]

They probably want to learn to ride a shortboard and don't really care to learn to longboard. That's why I don't ride a longboard. Some people want to cruise along and have an easy time surfing. Some people enjoy being challenged. I like being challenged but then I do that without a crowd.

[BoMan]

"A philosophical surfer once said, 'if you live in the moment, it doesn't matter if you don't come out'"... -Holly Beck

[waikikikichan]

A shortboarder explained it to me once, "Riding a Longboard is like driving with the parking brake on".

[pmcaero]

A shortboarder explained it to me once, "Riding a Longboard is like driving with the parking brake on".

worst analogy ever, since the longboard reaches and maintains gliding speed much better than the shortboard

[pmcaero]

They probably want to learn to ride a shortboard and don't really care to learn to longboard. That's why I don't ride a longboard. Some people want to cruise along and have an easy time surfing. Some people enjoy being challenged. I like being challenged but then I do that without a crowd.

waist high on a shortboard can be fun if it's not mushy

[oldmansurfer]

Fun is a relative thing. What is fun for me most likely is not fun for you.

[pmcaero]

Fun is a relative thing. What is fun for me most likely is not fun for you.

yeah, TBH I suck at this surfing thing so I need perfect waves, not too big though, to have a decent ride