When to surf with a shortboard?
Posted by JEFF NEWELL
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You have done your first surfing steps on a softboard or a longboard and feel like you are familiar enough with the environment to take your skills to the next level? There are two solutions to that. You either challenge yourself to become a great longboarder and stick with the big boards or aim for a more radical style of surf and switch to a shortboard. If you are lucky enough to surf often, try to keep both games on so you get to surf all year on every swells, they both are very inspirational for each other. Going with...