What tail to choose on your surfboard?
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The surface of the board in contact with the water is key to understanding and picking the ideal tail shape for what you are willing to achieve in the water. A wide tail will provide stability, the ability to float, speed and a bigger feeling of losing the grip while a narrow tail will help you to hold the line. More angular tails will result in looser, sharper, more pivotal, and more aggressive turns while a curved shaped tail will hold the water flow and give you smoother, and rounder turns. Surfboards are shaped in many different tails to offer...
How to choose your surfboard? ( beginners & pros )
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At the beginning of surfing, there weren’t a lot of options to fill your quiver, It was pretty much a big piece of wood from different species of trees that would make the difference from one to another board. Nowadays surfboards come in many shapes, different materials and can be very specific to certain types of waves and styles of surfing. With the modern evolution of surfing, you can find dozens of different shapes and categories of boards. In this article, we will go through different types of shapes and explain what they are made for, who they are for...
When to surf with a longboard?
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One of the best feelings in the world is longboarding with friends. Longboard sessions are usually "chill" and "relaxed" ( unless you are a charger ). Learning to longboard is much easier than learning on a shortboard… The reason being is the surface area; on a longboard, you have about 40% more surface to find your balance on because of its size, stability and float ability. Normally used on smaller waves, you get to catch much more of them and far behind the shoartboarders so you have a longer time on the wave. At the end of the day with all those...
When to surf with a shortboard?
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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...