Interested to know whether people believe you would get better value by cross training for SUP on a longboard or a shortboard and why?
Phill
Get an OC1, will help with paddle technique and core strength which will improve both paddling and surfing.
I think a little bit of Short & Long.
But also SUP paddling into Victorian 25 Knot Winds and 5 Knots of current should also be part of the training regime. It's good for endurance, and strength. But above all else, it strengthens the mind!!
If you mean cross stepping you should definitely go the log.... But for high performance surfing a surfboard and a shortboard sup... unless that's not your thing?
I have ridden mals in the past pre sup days when it was 1foot.
I think for fitness good cross training would be mountain biking it hammers you and great for leg strength therefore more power!!
Very simply. Get a sup that's too small for you. You will fall of all the time meaning more push-ups. You will struggle to stay up right meaning more balance. You will get really strong without realizing it. When you do catch a wave you will surf more dynamically. All round you will improve strength, Endurance, balance. When you do surf/paddle on a board your comfortable with, you will rip like chicks knickers
Just my opinion but depends why your doing it, if it's to learn how to do SB style surfing than go a SB, ie vertical surfing, bottom turning straight into the lip, re entries etc, if it's to learn how to cross step draw out a bottom turn and trim a board then go a lb. Turning a longboard would also probably help to learn to turn a big board.
If it's somewhere in between then maybe a fish or an egg/ minimal might suit and I'd say if you go a SB then still get a bit of width and thickness in the board so it's stable and paddles good.
hi phil. i've often thought i would like to see kristie do some short boarding.
from my experience this is what i would do.
grab a good 12'6 racing bop board and surf that. then go for some short board surfing after that. i've found the feel, the lines and the technique are the same. more so than a shortboard sup. obviously the shorty lines are going to be way tighter. to surf a 12'6 well you have to have good technique. sticking a paddle in the water to turn isn't going to cut it on those boards
after surfing a 12'6 for a lot i decided to surf my shorty. really thought i was going to be in for a shocker but it felt like i had never been off the shorty at all
so from 12'6 to short board than surfing sup.
repeat dosage as required
^ he's holding that board with the love you would hold your girlfriend with! As you do when you're in love with a nice board! 
As you do when you're in love with a nice board!
Lancer or Celica? I'm not sure. But yes, they match! The board matches the pin striping too.
(you're closer to the industry, so I'll go with Lancer).
Don't go the longboard cross training thing,you wont go back to your sup haha
I agree with Lacey,surf the big tankers for a while and drop back to your HP board and see what happens.the thing will turn on a dime
Simondo that's no Celica,I had the Celica 73 mustang two door fastback 
6,8 7S go very well, set one up as a quad and see how she goes on that, very easy boards to surf.
DTM,
We do a few kms on the road but havent doen any serious MTB at this point but there are lots of trails around here that woudl work for that kind of thing.
