Anyone got shots of guys ripping on Eggs!

[H20]

I have a been surfing 19 years now. I started on shortboards but gradually had to ride bigger and bigger boards. I am a big chap 6ft 4 slim but very broad. The 6ft fish shapes just dont support my surfing. My shortest board is 6ft 4 but with a lot of meat in it. I ride a longboard as well and have won a few comps but I was getting bored riding a longboard and frustrated riding my fish. I talked to my shaper and ordered a mini mal. Basically its an egg/malibu. I ordered a 7ft 6 x 22 x 2 3/8ths and rode that for 3 years. It was a fantastic board. AS i am bigger than most surfers I can chuck it about like a shortboard but I found it sluggish and not very responsive. I talked to the shaper again and we came up with my MAGIC BOARD.

Its 7ft 2 x 22 x 2 3/8 and identical shape to the 7ft 6 just 4 inches shorter. Wow what a difference. I am still waiting for those big days when the local breaks start firing but the last 2 swells we have had off reminants of Alex and Charley this board is magic.

You can really snap it hard off the top and I have even managed a few carving 360's. Its just so responsive and so quick it leaves others standing. Its virtually flat underneath with a round nose. You can catch waves like a log but as soon as your up it feels short and your able to do anything a shortboarder can do. Its super carvey and your able to over power it but in a controlled manner. I had an over head wave the otehr day, took off dropped down into the flat water and carved a long backhand bottom turn and climbed virtically up the face and carved a powerful off the top, the fins broke free and the tail slid accross the lip but it was easily regainable. So much fun!! Bring on the Winter swells!! I am ready this year!

Does anyone else ride these type of boards I would be interested in seeing some shots of you guys ripping on them. You dont get to see many shots of surfers riding these. Its sooo much fun though. I will take a few photos of the board so that you see what I talking about!!
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[LeeD]

My main board is a 7'3" x 21, about 2.5 thickness, and I weigh 155lbs. Got one smaller and two bigger.
Check file footage for WAussies ripping MRiver, like old Wayne Lynch footage.
Not the flavor of choice in USA, most guys think funboards are only for learning to stand up.

 

[000]

i rode a rusty fish that was rode like u described. it was long for me for a fish but worked well for turns despite great paddling

 

[GWS]

 

[Shipman]

sorry I couldn't find any pic's of me ripping on a egg <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/shrug.gif" alt="" />but I mostly ride performance eggish/hybrid type boards in the 6'8" to 7'8" range. my favorite Magic board at the moment is a 6'-9" eggish swallow tailed twinzer.

 

[wonka]

no photos here; just a comment-

Shipman, after dealing with hurricane howard in san diego, I am beginning to beleive in the merit of these mid-lengths- the waves I encountered during our 'swell' didnt really need a long board and a typical shortie didn't seem to fit either- I started thinking about the twinzer you posted and of course the rest of my sessions were spent wondering about a board of this type.

Chipfish- love the post on un-fish boards- the MP re-issues for 2002 look very sweet. In fact, here at G&amp;S, we offer the Magic model as a midlength fish, and a round tail- we don't get many requests for the squash tails or diamond tails on thse particular boards, although, I got a willie nillie the other week and made a stock 8-0 magic with a diamond tail- set it up for a single 10 1/2'' box.
definitely interested in a shorter, rounder version like the Magic Machine ad you posted-
Thanks for sharing everyone!

 

[rgruber]

Not pictures, just a reply and request.

Been surfing for about 20 years, shortboards for most of the first 15, longboards and an egg for the last 5 (in addition to shortboards). I'm not fat or unskilled and can still ride a shortboard but the glide of an egg just works for my style so well. I've currently got a 7'10 x 21 1/2 x 2 3/4" tri fin shaped by Greg Pautsch that I love but was looking for something shorter that would work in bigger, more critical waves. I'm 5'10 around 160. When it gets a bit hollow or overhead, the board gets a bit much to handle but switching to my regular 6'8 tri fin mini-gun (6'8 x 18 3'4 x 2 1/4") I loose a lot of the glide I love so much.

What kind of dimensions/fin setup would you guys recommend for solid head high or smaller steeper waves? I was thinking going down to 6'8 or so and maybe a box plus two side runners type of setup to keep the glidey not slashy feeling.

Great thread.

 

[wonka]

nightfly-

I would suggest a 7'0'' with the same or similar dimensions you have on your 7-10 maybe a little thinner.

I also feel that a standard thruster set up for a board as per decribed, would cover your bases pretty well.
note- one morning at pacific beach(this is several years ago), i paddled out to a head high nw swell and couldnt catch the outside waves, because they were rolling in and dumping on the inside bar. A guy by the name of Steve Seebold paddled out on a 7-6 magic rp and proceeded to surf circles around me- I was on a 6-5. I notice Steve was able to paddle into those outside waves real easy-like and still had manouverability on the faces - all the while, producing and carrying 'the glide' with a board most people would look at and turn their noses up in response- that thing is just a fun board- for kooks or learners.... those were my sentiments exactly, until Steve taught me a lesson that day.

 

[H20]

Nightfly you sound to be in the predicament I was in. I used to ride a 6ft 4 fish shaped board and a couple of others retor rocket type shapes up to 7ft. Where I come from the surf can be fairly gutless but occaiosnally it can get hollow and fairly powerful. I tried riding these waves on a longboard and got fairly good. I am a competant surfer probably up their with the top guys but I am bigger than most. I am 6ft 4 about 14 1/2 stone and very broad. I wanted a logs ability to catch waves but shortboard manouverability when up and riding but without loosing the speed and as you say The Glide.

I talked to a shaper and went for a 7ft 6 minimal or Egg. Its got a wide round nose and a rounded almost pintail. It looks like a magic Carpet Nineplus are making but with a thruster setup. It worked well very well but it just didnt have that snapability when doing off the tops. I chatted again to the shaper and we decided that the shape worked well it was just the rail shape nose to tail was too flat. By making the baord 4 inches shorter, by that we took 2 inches off the nose and 2 off the tail it curved the boards outline more giving a great rail shape.

The first day I took it in the surf was a measiliy chest high but fairly well shaped. I stood up on my first wave and dropped down into the flat water. The instant i stood up I could feel the increase in speed and the feeling that this was going to a ripper. I turned hard off the bottom and glided along the lip and free fell again into the flat water. It was so fast and so manouverbale I was chuffed. I later had a left hander and this just sealed the deal for me. Angling off the bottom and aiming straight for the lip felt so natural on this board and when snapping off the top the fins broke loose but regained control a few milliseconds later. It is truelly a magic board.

Let me take a few shots of it tonight and post them tomorrow. You may be interested in it. Maybe not 7ft 2 but a variation downw to 6ft10 maybe 7ft and you might be onto a winner. This is by no means a minimal or an egg it rides more like a Stubb Nose Fish. I have called my board a Flying Saucer. Check back tomorrow for piccies!

Ignore the coulour though. I chose a really bright yellow. It wasny until it arrived I remembered my Wettie is Yellow as well so I am easy to spot when riding. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/foreheadslap.gif" alt="" />

 

[rgruber]

Thanks for the replies.

I'm looking for I guess the shortest I could go and still retain the glide. Othewise I guess you've just got a bricky, funny looking shortboard. I've seen some shapes like this as short as 6'4 but I'm suspect of them not really having that nice sliding feeling as you enter the wave and that rush of speed off the bottom. Joel Tudors 6'8 diamond tail egg looks good:

http://joeltudor.com (not direct link as it's all Flash boo!)

Looking forward to seeing pictures.

 

[LeeD]

I've had Gordon &amp; Smith make one 5'10" x 22, and it glided really well in surf from 2-4', was well overpowered when surfing faster slightly overhead waves.
Biggest problem is ...TOO much surface area in bigger stronger waves!
Maybe a similar shape, round nose and wide tailed, but at 19" wide would work in armsreach overhead, but by then, a regular chip tri, big guy tri, or mini gun would work just fine.
You can ride these discs up to almost any size, but it works best in under head high!

 

[rgruber]

Coupla more thoughts on this:

When I was at UCSD in the early 90's there was this guy whose name I forget, super nice guy, tall blonde haired surfer looking guy (Paul?) who used to surf Blacks just about everyday on what looked like a low 7' light blue Skip Frye egg. Always the same board, as big as it got. He had great style and grace.

When I was down in Nexpa one time, during a solid week of overhead waves there was a guy with an eggy board just ripping anything from waist high on the smallest day to double overhead on the biggest day. Again same board every day.

The idea is to get something that just works in everything (maybe not 1' slop, maybe not double overhead barrels) but that covers the majority of good waves one encounters. The best I've ever surfed and the happiest I've been with my surfing was when I always rode the same board, day in day out regardless of conditions. At one point it was a 6'4 Michael Baron another time a 6'3 Xandau that was shaped for Brad Gerlach, another time a 5'10 Lost round nose fish and most recently my 7'10 Greg Pautsch egg.

The egg is by far the most fun and versitile but as another poster points out, when you go fast there's just too much surface area. Pulling the tail and nose is defintely desireable and for me a rounded pin just works. I guess it's all in the details in getting that balance of glide and hold for the bigger days.

 

[LeeD]

The right balance = GOOD.
But around here, there is a need for more than one board. We get playful, shortpaddleout spots, crowded longboard agro beachbreaks, superlong paddle against the rip outside breaks, usually in the 6-10' range, and everything except uncrowded points.
I DO have two funboards, one 7'3", one 7'9", that do the small stuff just fine.
They don't like 6' + at Ocean Beach. Can be surfed, but nothing works better than the right tool for the job.

 

[H20]

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[rgruber]

Thanks for the pics.

These eggs don't really look too different from what you'd see some beginer flopping around on in the whitewash but they do work.

Wonder if anyone is doing anything radical with them in terms of bottoms or if with all that surface area your standard flat to slight vee just works fine thank you. I know mine has a very simple bottom.

 

[TRI FINS ARE DANGEROUS]

previous egg thread, click this

 

[tenover]

 

[highline rider]

eggs. i wanna make one about 5'2" - 5'4". concave bottom and single fin box with two future boxes for the option of either single or twin fin. completely different as to the feeling were after. and plus mine is gonna have glowin the dark air spray on it so it will glow during the full moon sessions.

 

[LeeD]

As long as you keep the eggs in their designed wave sizing, they work just fine. They don't like offshore winds, as the wide nose like to hang up some. Everything else is fine.
As for bottom tuning...since you have plenty of surface area to begin with, almost any bottom config does just fine, with few advanatages to the real tricky.
Basically, wide, curvy outline shortboards with softrails are slow, so a standard flat to V is the fastest bottom for those boards.
Def use fin boxes, reinforced with wood, posted to the deck. Don't bother glassing superlight, as the width planes right up and allows carving in 2' waves.