I lived in Cardiff for a year and never surfed Swamis because no matter the conditions it was always super crowded.
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Is it possible to rip on a mid-length?
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I working two blocks away for almost 4 years and only got two rights at Swamis. If I surfed it I took lefts. The crowd is insane.
I think those CI Middies are really great for the right person. For example, my neighbor's grandmother : she used to surf maybe once every year or two and she takes out her new CI Middie (when she's not paddling her SUP), and wants a bit more excitement. At her age she can't really prone paddle so well anymore, or even see or hear so well for that matter , and she has that bad global arthritis and her back is pretty much totally surgically fused and has had both knees replaced. So of course she can't really turn or do anything but go straight. But she can get to her feet occasionally, and luckily she doesn't hear the screams or see the frantic duck dives of the shortboarders who happen to be in her way. She's totally oblivious, and has relatively wonderful stamina for someone of her age, and she just goes. I think it's wonderful there is a board designed for people like her who just want to experience the feel of slowly and surely riding a wave, even though they can't really move much anymore. It gets them out in the lineup, and that's the important thing.
99% sure that’s a fletcher chouinard huevo s rancheros model 6’10 that Devon helped develop after the tak special mini and before CI. He’d almost certainly have a 6.5 centre fin, Devon likes the true Ames 6.5 Wayne rich template.
Josh Kerr isn’t surfing a midlength in the clip posted.
Ripping on a midlength isn’t the point.
Carry on..........
Thats short, and short finned for a midlength right? wonder what the side fins are sure looks thrusterish riding.
Devon’s current thing is ride them 10-12 inches over your height which I guess puts them in the 6’10 to 7’2 range for him.
To be fair what Devon is riding is an egg isn’t it? That’s what he always called them before the CI marketing machine got into gear. An egg can be a midlength or not depending on its length, the “egg” moniker describes that template.
For me “mid length” is over 7’ to under 9’ and designed to draw more lateral rather than vertical lines that are smooth and stylish. Tailor that to your preferred “line on the wave canvas” with template (egg, long fish, mini longboard, magic carpet, mini glider etc) and fin set up.
If you want to “rip” them a shortboard is a better design?!
To be fair what Devon is riding is an egg isn’t it? That’s what he always called them before the CI marketing machine got into gear. An egg can be a midlength or not depending on its length, the “egg” moniker describes that template.
For me “mid length” is over 7’ to under 9’ and designed to draw more lateral rather than vertical lines that are smooth and stylish. Tailor that to your preferred “line on the wave canvas” with template (egg, long fish, mini longboard, magic carpet, mini glider etc) and fin set up.
If you want to “rip” them a shortboard is a better design?!
Yeah I missed out the tyler hairpin which is the orange egg in the 7’2 vid posted earlier
Also, rip? no but you can still chuck spray......
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(6’10 takayama howard egg, GX sidebites, 6.5 centre fin in case that’s important)
À(6’10 takayama howard egg, GX sidebites, 6.5 centre fin in case that’s important)
The townsend has been speaking to me lately, thanks in part to this forum.
I ordered one after reading on here and seeing all the pics this guy posts in my local spot. Was thinking about a quad on the heel side, but he said the tail holds in the barrel just fine as a twin. Best barrel board he's had. My XTR version should be done soon
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