What's your favorite board between a groveler and a shortboard?

cjs2002

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You couldn't go wrong with any of these 3:

CI Rocket Wide
Lost Short Round
Rainbow Speed Dialer
 
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kool-aid

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I had a sh!t ton of fun on my Rad Ripper in the fall / winter when the waves were small / fun / rippable.

Crazy speed and momentum but can still rip a big top turn all in a tiny package. Pretty solid recipe for success.
 
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LifeOnMars

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js monsta box 5'10, hpsb 6'0-6'1, gravel 5'8
on my fourth so far 2 pu, 2 hyfi, can't say i've ever had a js that didn't work well
 

oeste858

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I'm still surprised you didn't pull the trigger on the AstroPop. Have you considered an El Tomo quad fish from XTR?
Album Twinsman?.. or maybe you already have one of those
 
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Aruka

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I'm still surprised you didn't pull the trigger on the AstroPop. Have you considered an El Tomo quad fish from XTR?
Album Twinsman?.. or maybe you already have one of those
I was very close to and I still may. I have considered el tomo. It's the first tomo to tempt me in a long time. No Twinsman...yet. I opted for lightbender instead.
 
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Waterlogged05

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that Chemistry d3 i used was extremely fast in thigh high surf and has quite the high end.
It was over-sized for me and had a round tail but it went really really well.
I've seen my friend surfing it on bigger days so it has a great upper end.

"Based off of our popular Disk series and the success of our Disk 2 model, the D3 takes it to the next level. It is more high performance but loses no fun. We added more entry and tail rocker to the Disk 2 while slightly pulling in the nose and tail. The bottom contour is a deep double barrel concave feeding off the tail. This model works well as a quad or thruster so it is equipped with a 5 fin set up. The D3 model is the perfect board to cheat on while still being able to surf progressively in waves from knee to head high. "
 
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tedshred5

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that Chemistry d3 i used was extremely fast in thigh high surf and has quite the high end.
It was over-sized for me and had a round tail but it went really really well.
I've seen my friend surfing it on bigger days so it has a great upper end.

"Based off of our popular Disk series and the success of our Disk 2 model, the D3 takes it to the next level. It is more high performance but loses no fun. We added more entry and tail rocker to the Disk 2 while slightly pulling in the nose and tail. The bottom contour is a deep double barrel concave feeding off the tail. This model works well as a quad or thruster so it is equipped with a 5 fin set up. The D3 model is the perfect board to cheat on while still being able to surf progressively in waves from knee to head high. "
speaking of Chemistry surfboards
http://instagr.am/p/CBdcUTlAbLL/
 

ChaseTMP

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It's been hard to get off my Neck Beard 2 (Varial) in pretty much everything from just rideable (thigh high) up to a couple of feet overhead. I've had it almost a year. My Spine-Tek Fever has only been called up once or twice and I kind of missed the NB2.

In the last year I bought a custom Dan Cobley 5'8 performance twin based off the Stacey Bullet Twin and a used Superflex Fling. The twin surprised me how thruster like it surfs (fins are set back at 7.25"), but I know I can do much more progressive and powerful surfing on the NB2, so I've been neglecting the twin. The 5'6 Fling I purposely oversized/over-volumed, thinking it'd be for waves I thought I'd be struggling on the NB2, but I've realized that when I get to a section with those extra 3.5 liters (29 vs. 32.5) compared to my NB2, I'm just too on top of the water and can't get things to bite how I want.

I sold the Fling last week and briefly considered looking for a 5'4, but the Pyzel Astro Pop with its narrower tail seemed to be more in line with how I surf and I put an order in through XTR on a 5' 6" x 19 1/2" x 2 3/8". I put a stock 5'6 under my arm at my local shop which is 2 5/16 thick and I was tripping out, since it felt 2 3/8" all day long to me. The rails weren't as foiled as I had expected from having read some comments, but definitely more refined than the Gremlin I felt up. I talked to someone at Pyzel SC and he said the AP doesn't float as well as you'd think and he recommended going a liter over what I'd usually consider.
 

ChaseTMP

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@Aruka you should save up some bones and get a JT glassed Astro Pop
I wanted to do the same, but if I was able to procure a 20% off deal, that's still a $1089 dollar board with tax and $50 deck color factored-in, which I'd want to have if I ever planned on surfing while the sun is shining . I'm gonna have some splaining to do with the cost of the XTR Astro Pop as it is; if my wife found out I paid over a G...
 
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