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Is it possible to rip on a mid-length?
- Thread starter csarqui
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meh.
do not dig.
it looks like a weak second rate version of the actual early 70's transition era surfing.
too much shortboarding influence, loses too much speed off the bottom, no real sense of the fall line power.
I think it's a bad copy.
do not dig.
it looks like a weak second rate version of the actual early 70's transition era surfing.
too much shortboarding influence, loses too much speed off the bottom, no real sense of the fall line power.
I think it's a bad copy.
When someone paddles out and says to you while your riding a 7'10" x 21 1/4 " x 3" wide board - I thought you were a kid !
Were you - Riping ?
I picked up a 6'1" msf when they first came out. Was such a great board in bigger open faced shifting beach break, never got to try it in any point surf. I regrettably added 4 boxes to it and eventually sold it.
Picked up a 5'8" Mandala stubbie 2+1 on craigslist at least 10 years ago. It's easily been my best all around board...completely beat to sh!t at this point and a pain to keep water tight. It's got glass on ply side bites and goes best with a 6.5" bonzer fin.
I had an MSF about 15 years ago when they first came out. Felt very limiting. Then I got Jake Moss to make me a custom Space Cake single fin to replace it. Much better board in every way but even on really good waves, I just didn't really like the limitations that a single imposes. Much prefer a mid-length with a 2 + 1 setup. Better flow and ability to turn and put on rail for me. I love the aesthetics of a single but don't love actually surfing on one.
Devon Howard normally surfs a longboard at Swamis so he knows how to make a singlefin work. I don't know if that board is a 2+1, but every time I've seen him riding a mid-length that's what he's using.
Al and KS designed the board on which this one is based.
This specific board was shaped by Mike Walter.
yeah, something like that.
thats cool, and you can see where an insanely skilled shortboard surfer like Rasta is pushing that design to the edge of it's performance envelope.
thats cool, and you can see where an insanely skilled shortboard surfer like Rasta is pushing that design to the edge of it's performance envelope.
Thanks for posting that.
I found reducing the size of my center fin and increasing the size of the sides made my mid length flow a lot better for me. There was a little hitch in the turning of it with the bigger center and smaller sides that went away with changing up the fins.
I found reducing the size of my center fin and increasing the size of the sides made my mid length flow a lot better for me. There was a little hitch in the turning of it with the bigger center and smaller sides that went away with changing up the fins.
One of my favorite passive aggressive things to say to somebody who is being greedy with wave catching is to tell them their board doesn't throw any spray, but say it kinda like a question/observation, "Hmm your board doesn't throw any spray, huh?"
Can't wait to tell somebody riding one of these that.
Can't wait to tell somebody riding one of these that.