When to surf with a longboard?
Posted by JEFF NEWELL
One of the best feelings in the world is longboarding with friends. Longboard sessions are usually "chill" and "relaxed" ( unless you are a charger ). Learning to longboard is much easier than learning on a shortboard… The reason being is the surface area; on a longboard, you have about 40% more surface to find your balance on because of its size, stability and float ability. Normally used on smaller waves, you get to catch much more of them and far behind the shoartboarders so you have a longer time on the wave. At the end of the day with all those...
When to surf with a shortboard?
Posted by JEFF NEWELL
You have done your first surfing steps on a softboard or a longboard and feel like you are familiar enough with the environment to take your skills to the next level? There are two solutions to that. You either challenge yourself to become a great longboarder and stick with the big boards or aim for a more radical style of surf and switch to a shortboard. If you are lucky enough to surf often, try to keep both games on so you get to surf all year on every swells, they both are very inspirational for each other. Going with...