***The Official Mid-Length Thread***

Aruka

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They look fun. Kinda thought they were good tough potential travel boards but met a guy on a recent surf trip who had one and said it dinged easier than he thought and seemed to suck in water fast when they happened..
Weird considering your friends situation.
You guys with these getting little dings and water sucking in ala surftech?
They seem pretty tough to me.

I don't think they surf as nice as a Varial but they are pretty good for EPS. Enough weight to limit the chatter but still not as damp as Varial or PU.

They are still EPS so they will suck water if they get dinged.
 
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money4coffeeman

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Surftech is made with closed cell foam, retard.
Whatever the helll they're made from, I've seen water drain out of surftechs after being surfed with a ding.
Maybe it seeps into layers of paint, glass, m&m hard candy shell, or whatever the F is in them, before it gets to "closed cell foam", but water gets in there, Einstein
 
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Duffy LaCoronilla

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Not unless SS changed his name to Christian Beamish
I’m asking about the fins. I can‘t read what it says on them - fuzzy pic - but it looks like Stussy…

 

Duffy LaCoronilla

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Surftech is made with closed cell foam, retard.
Surftech tufflite is notorious for sucking in water. At least the old ones were. You had to run a hair dryer on dings and you could just watch the water pour out.

 

money4coffeeman

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Surftech tufflite is notorious for sucking in water. At least the old ones were. You had to run a hair dryer on dings and you could just watch the water pour out.

F me, Norway glue sniffer is right, at least for newer tuflites ;)

My wife has a newer tuflite takayama beach break, which she seems to ding more than I can understand how.
When I press on those dings, water bubbles out. Not a ton, but it's in there. I thought, like the old surftechs, you had to get on that asap.
Does closed cell mean I can stop fixing these..?
Frickin PIA compared to a normal poly or epoxy board.
 

Havoc

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F me, Norway glue sniffer is right, at least for newer tuflites ;)

My wife has a newer tuflite takayama beach break, which she seems to ding more than I can understand how.
When I press on those dings, water bubbles out. Not a ton, but it's in there. I thought, like the old surftechs, you had to get on that asap.
Does closed cell mean I can stop fixing these..?
Frickin PIA compared to a normal poly or epoxy board.
Water gets between the beads

Norway got hit in the head too many times moshing to Norwegian death metal and slipping when ice fishing iirc
 

Sauce

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I don't have any surftechs any more, but the tuflites I had were tough as fug and I don't get the hate other than being made overseas by barely paid people. My Byrne TC's were the toughest boards I've had, rode great , and the one major ding I got didn't suck water at all. I'm sold on the closed cell foam, but xtr is now the clear choice for me
 
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teeroi

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Rode my midget mid yesterday. Super fun. One of the regulars had lost a ton of weight and wanted to try my boar to see if he could ride a boar under 40 liters. He was on a 6’2 FW Mashup.

Jerome got a couple of insiders and was happy he could paddle and catch waves with my boar. I waited for a couple of sets. All the sh*t talking I do about FW I knew all eyes were on me. I babied the first turn to see if I could get on rail. After I did the second turn I did a harder snap. Sprayed a couple friends sitting inside.

When I paddled back out the pack said nice turn are you a FW guy now? I told them I babied the first turn cause I knew all you fakas was watching and to see if I could tip the boar on rail. After the second turn I said the boar looked back at me and said oooooh!

I can see the attraction to riding this model. It’s idiot proof. The floor is high. But the ceiling is low. Still not a FW guy but reminded Jerome he could get a custom Tokoro with a much higher ceiling at a lower cost.
 
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