NE UK coast. 6'2, 88KG
8'2 JP Surf Wide - small, weak mush, lazy day (travel board - takes up less space in the van!)
8'9 Kanga - nearly everything we get
9'2 Steeze - all of the above and flat pootling around
Can use all of them for the majority of the conditions I get but the Kanga is the board I now seem to default to. It's not the 'easiest' of the three, but it's the most fun/rewarding.
Wife boards
8'6 Quattro Glide
8'7 Starboard Wedge (Good allrounder)
The holy grail of sup surfing: stability + comfort + performance. A long search but I am pretty content with my 3 board quiver.
I usually choose my board for the day based on stability for the conditions not the best board for the conditions. I find having a shorter wider board gives me more stability than having longer and narrower. Particularly, they offer both side to side and front and back stability. Because of this two of my boards are Simmons/Tomo shapes. Added bonuses to these boards are the instant lift on take-off and having my back foot constantly on the tail. This allows me to have less nose rocker (more stability) as I can always just weight my back foot to get the nose up. Constantly surfing off the tail has been a game-changer for me.
Informationally I am 6'2 107kg
8'10 L41 ST: My go-to board for most conditions. In my opinion, as good a board as there is. Does it all and for 8'10 this big guy is stable. Can get a bit skatey overhead and is not the most stable in chop or in full winter gear.
8'11 Sunova Shroom: This board does not get enough love. Super fun, super stable and turns way better than you think. When it is choppy or I am in full winter gear the L41 goes on the shelf and the Shroom comes out. This board has a wider nose and does not like anything steep but I have surfed it in everything.
9'5 Sunova GenRation SP25: This is the perfect compliment to my Simmons boards. It is 16 liters more than the other two boards but the nose is so thin and pointy it actually surfs shorter and lighter than its size. A more traditional shape, with a heavy nose flip, I surf this in larger waves when the ST is too fast and skatey (the SP25 tends to run out in front with speed too but I can control it better and I prefer to cut back into the pocket) or in steep waves in full gear that the Shroom can't handle.
"The best surfer is the one having the most fun." Being unstable is not fun. These boards have plenty of performance but have outstanding stabilty.
Yes my ECS Slab 75 got on list ahead of Shroom 73. But if I didn't have Slab the Shroom would replace it at 1 .Those door shaped boards are a lot of fun and reliablein the conditions I go in
8'8 x 31.5 125L Flow V2 for most conditions when it is play time (thigh to OH)
9'9 x 31 135L custom Insane for when it is BIG (but I will probably use it when it is small or wonky and I need the length/stability)
8'5 x 30 121L Infinity Blurr V2 for when I drop a couple of Kg's and I really want to go top to bottom
I often also use my Style 10'6 x 30" 148L when it is clean and small
Currently 96kg and 6'3 and 60 yo
Hi everyone, Cant you are around the same weight and height as me how do you find the stability of to Flow?
Well reading my post above the other night about the Nalu staying on the rack since I brought the Mini-Stylelord, I decided to give it a run this morning. I have been out of the water the last two weeks, long Covid or something was kicking the crap out of me. So I wanted something easy and decided to head to my local break that would be small but clean and hopefully uncrowded.
I have wanted to try the Nalu as a single fin to see if a large centre fin would tame some of the movement of the board when standing out the back waiting for waves. It seemed to do the trick, high tide and plenty of backwash had me dancing but it was manageable. The big 10 inch fin did make walking around, ok more like shuffling around when riding a wave much easier.
The board responded really well to the big fin, so it will stay in for the time being as it gives the board new life in slow waves. It was at best waist high this morning and the board ran through sections with ease. And it allowed me to try to get my feet moving, which after thirty years of riding a standard six odd foot thruster I really need to do.
Have a great weekend all.
Steve.
My quiver. Some for slow rolling waves, others for bigger and suckier waves. But all are fun to ride.
added this 9x28 104L New Deal and surfed it 3 times last week, along with other sessions on 8x28 Blurr above it.
Really like the ND, had some really fun sensations holding a line and going fast, and also while surfing it more like I would the Blurr. My average fun level through session is higher on ND, cause I can glide around out back and enjoy a wider variety of waves or get them when they stand up on outer bars but don't yet break. but my peaks in fun higher on Blurr cause I can surf it better on the standout waves. If I could surf 3-5 days a week I'd probably use the longboard a lot, but once winter storms get me back to 1-2x per week I'll prob stick to shortboard shape
almost tried ND on an overhead day thinking I could get in earlier and paddle back out faster, but we often have offshore winds in winter and think I feel more comfortable on Blurr if there's a chance I'm gonna get hung up in wind while wave stands up
12Ft PSH gun in red (goes faster) Great in big bombs out the back, small offshore micro days and flat-water training.
10'6 Laird Pearson Arrow Awesome noise rider, turns off the tail on a dime and is very stable and surftech bulletproof construction.
8'4 Sunova Flow. Fun beach break shortboard
Could add a few more but only 3 allowed.
Brenno that's the fin setup I have on top board in pic, felt loose on top turn which I liked, but also loose on bottom on good waves, didn't like that but prob need to work on more rail less fin
Pretty sure I've done one of these before. But I'll do it again.
9'6" x 29" x 4.25" 127 litres, 7.2kg. Surefire Custom. My shortboard
10'6" x 30" x 4.25" 140ish litres Surefire Custom longboard noserider 9.5 kg
11'11" x 29.5" x 4.5" 170ish litres Surefire Custom big order ave gun. 9.6 kg
All boards glassed in Innegra