Favorite surfboard? Best wave surfboard?

Greg · Post by **Greg** » Tue May 27, 2008 10:49 pm

My SURFTECK cracked by the fourth day, I was bummed but thats kiting..
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nate · Post by **nate** » Wed May 28, 2008 6:48 am

Re: I bet if they actually tried it in the water rather than in the shop they wouldn`t buy it.
Quads suck in the waves, sure they can go upwind but this is not thursday night...

No way man. I think it's great in the waves. When surfing it's much faster than my tri, grippy in the barrel. Maybe it's a little wonky in the turns but the speed and manuverability make up for it.

Quad squad!

LionKite · Post by **LionKite** » Wed May 28, 2008 10:28 am

nate wrote:Re: I bet if they actually tried it in the water rather than in the shop they wouldn`t buy it.
Quads suck in the waves, sure they can go upwind but this is not thursday night...

No way man. I think it's great in the waves. When surfing it's much faster than my tri, grippy in the barrel. Maybe it's a little wonky in the turns but the speed and manuverability make up for it.

Quad squad!

I find them too loose and too skatty for down the line wave riding, specially on the bottom turns.I think the speed is the worst part of the quad. When wave kitting you always try to slow yourself down to stay in the pocket easier to do on a rounded pin tri than a quad that wants to be ridden at Mach speed.

And in regular surfing, even though some people on this forum think surfers are the scum of the planet, just look at what works in performance surfing, they have been shaping boards for half a decade and have a lot more experience with shape and fin configuration. Can you name one pro surfer than has made to the top and won multiple events on a quad???

Hey Nate if your last name is Fletcher, don`t bother, keep rippin!

KillaHz · Post by **KillaHz** » Wed May 28, 2008 1:26 pm

nate wrote: When surfing it's much faster than my tri, grippy in the barrel.

Where you kiting at man? I want to get enough barrels to be able to evaluate how my fins work in there...

or are you talking about traditional surfing?

ahh, nevermind...

what LionKite said...

...slow down...

flippersurf · Post by **flippersurf** » Wed May 28, 2008 2:17 pm

If anyone on this thread is upgrading their board and selling the old one, drop me a line. Having tasted riding strapless a few weeks ago, I want to get into this more seriously. Thanks! [p]

nate · Post by **nate** » Wed May 28, 2008 8:23 pm

No barrels with the kite...yet. I was talking about regular surfing. I had heard they were skatey, but when surfing I felt like it gripped really well, in critical sections, and in the barrel, but I was surfing smallish clean tubey waves, I don't imagine it would be great at O.B. on a 8' day. The speed is great regular surfing too. I haven't kited w/ it enough in the waves to feel the problem of staying back in the pocket, but I love the upwind performance.

4winds · Post by **4winds** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 11:23 am

http://www.kitewindsurf.com/store/detail.aspx?ID=599

There are a few companies making pads with inserts.

has anyone tried these pads/straps that would care to share?

I tried riding a directional for the first time at sherman last weekend and got completely hooked, especially after figuring out how to jibe! I immediately stariting searching the forums and craigslist for kite surfboards but kinda lost the stoke when I saw the prices. then I checked craigslist for old surfboards and wow - lots of decent looking deals out there (please note that I am ammittedly new to the directionals and so I have NO idea what I'm talking about when it comes to "decent deals" but hey, I'm trying). Anyway, I came to the forums to find out if/how I could add straps to a used surfboard and BAM....looks like problem solved. Or is it? Do these things really work well? Am I kidding myself? And PLEASE don't give me the whole "you get what you pay for". I don't have the $$ to buy a brand new kite-surfboard that I hardly know how to use.

So in short, should this work well enough for getting started? get an old surfboard for $150 and throw some of these pad/straps on it?

KillaHz · Post by **KillaHz** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 12:19 pm

liv2kitesurf · Post by **liv2kitesurf** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 9:06 pm

4winds wrote:
http://www.kitewindsurf.com/store/detail.aspx?ID=599

There are a few companies making pads with inserts.

has anyone tried these pads/straps that would care to share?

I tried riding a directional for the first time at sherman last weekend and got completely hooked, especially after figuring out how to jibe! I immediately stariting searching the forums and craigslist for kite surfboards but kinda lost the stoke when I saw the prices. then I checked craigslist for old surfboards and wow - lots of decent looking deals out there (please note that I am ammittedly new to the directionals and so I have NO idea what I'm talking about when it comes to "decent deals" but hey, I'm trying). Anyway, I came to the forums to find out if/how I could add straps to a used surfboard and BAM....looks like problem solved. Or is it? Do these things really work well? Am I kidding myself? And PLEASE don't give me the whole "you get what you pay for". I don't have the $$ to buy a brand new kite-surfboard that I hardly know how to use.

So in short, should this work well enough for getting started? get an old surfboard for $150 and throw some of these pad/straps on it?

YES, those pads/straps work great ... but you must do your homework (riding without the straps) to determine the correct placement prior to sticking them down. (Note however, if you do screw up as I did, with difficulty and risk the pads can be removed and re-placed ... but not recommended).

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