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| 100097 | 2805 | Wondering | 1 | slideright | Jul 26, 2016 | 2016-07-26T08:51:28-0400 | Cruised our coast (Florida) last weekend during a very decent run of swell. I noticed longboarding, in particular traditional style (leash less, single fin, heavily glassed boards) never really took hold here. Then I thought of my travels along the eastern seaboard and noticed the same idea (exceptions noted). Yes, you will SEE longboards in the line up, but they are typically 2+1's squirrel finned tethered to a 50 year old man. One would assume that given the small nature of our waves, people would go bananas for it. Even here on the gulf coast where the waves barely crack chest high, the crowd will mainly consist of shortboards. Trend following, lack of knowledge? Just feeling like discussing. |
| 100104 | 2805 | Wondering | 2 | Surfertom | Jul 26, 2016 | 2016-07-26T10:01:56-0400 | Some folks use more than one fin? :shock: ST |
| 100106 | 2805 | Wondering | 3 | UncleKevin | Jul 26, 2016 | 2016-07-26T10:49:12-0400 | In the last couple of years in South Florida it's picked up a bit but the dominant short board mentally across Florida will probably never go away. My theory (could be wrong) is the lack of shapers outside of Mayo and RC to help put nice logs, hulls, fishes etc into the line up. Not too many shops that I can think of that carry a decent selection of logs either. I know most of the guys I surf with down here finally picked up logs and they constantly tell me they surf 3 times as much as they did before. Go figure. |
| 100109 | 2805 | Wondering | 4 | glider_boy | Jul 26, 2016 | 2016-07-26T10:57:57-0400 | slideright wrote: Cruised our coast (Florida) last weekend during a very decent run of swell. I noticed longboarding, in particular traditional style (leash less, single fin, heavily glassed boards) never really took hold here. Then I thought of my travels along the eastern seaboard and noticed the same idea (exceptions noted). Yes, you will SEE longboards in the line up, but they are typically 2+1's squirrel finned tethered to a 50 year old man. One would assume that given the small nature of our waves, people would go bananas for it. Even here on the gulf coast where the waves barely crack chest high, the crowd will mainly consist of shortboards. Trend following, lack of knowledge? Just feeling like discussing. Click to expand... Spent several years surfing the TX Gulf Coast. Lots of longboards, but definitely less of the traditional style. My primary theory: fewer surfers, less shaper-centered culture compared to CA, and therefore greater predominance of mass-market type boards (Stewarts, Surftechs, etc.) My secondary theory: although the waves are usually small, they are choppy, unpredictable and often outright crappy. Many transitional log designs are not necessarily ideal in crap conditions. I personally found it easier to ride a lighter, more "modern" longboard there and found my dedicated noserider poorly suited to conditions most of the time. Also noticed most of the best local loggers rode boards with more rocker and contemporary design features than one would expect for a hotshot. Dunno if this theory holds for places on the East Coast that have *better* waves tho. Quintal sure can rock a traditional log in FL waves. |
| 100111 | 2805 | Wondering | 5 | SMUKES | Jul 26, 2016 | 2016-07-26T11:13:09-0400 | Everywhere is 20 years behind California. |
| 100119 | 2805 | Wondering | 6 | Roadmaster | Jul 26, 2016 | 2016-07-26T11:38:59-0400 | most of the people here in Virginia Beach VA tend to ride single fin old school shapes, even the young good long boarders who enter contests |
| 100121 | 2805 | Wondering | 7 | slideright | Jul 26, 2016 | 2016-07-26T11:44:01-0400 | Roadmaster wrote: most of the people here in Virginia Beach VA tend to ride single fin old school shapes, even the young good long boarders who enter contests Click to expand... Wonder if the duct tape contest held there helped... |
| 100122 | 2805 | Wondering | 8 | arn2629 | Jul 26, 2016 | 2016-07-26T12:16:23-0400 | Lots of old heavy logs are in the lineups in Rhode Island. its an interesting thought. Some friends who went up to get New Hampshire a few times reported when waves were knee high waves out of 20 to 30 people they were really the only long boarders at all. Pretty funky |
| 100124 | 2805 | Wondering | 9 | jwahern | Jul 26, 2016 | 2016-07-26T12:20:03-0400 | My dad taught me to surf on an old hobie and I never looked back - heavy single since I was 12 in 1992. I stuck with it and got a lot of shit in MD as a teenager. Worked in a shop for years with the same look on surfing. Problem is that its one giant negative feedback loop. Heavy logs don't sell in most shops but shortboards go like candy. Makes it difficult to carry the boards and hence spread the word. Most shops I know want to carry the traditional logs but have to go with what sells. |
| 100160 | 2805 | Wondering | 10 | flipper | Jul 27, 2016 | 2016-07-27T01:44:45-0400 | Yeah, lots of traditional loggers in RI. And more recently. With long beards and no leashes. At least one of them sometimes showing up on a pink foamy longboard for an additional but different kind of retro cred. All good, all fun. |
| 100161 | 2805 | Wondering | 11 | Finward | Jul 27, 2016 | 2016-07-27T03:23:49-0400 | east coast is polluted with single fin logs you westies just don't get it I know a number of people from the gulf side and they all surf logs when its small. You just have a lot of snowbirds with their kids and grandkids on anything small enough not to anger the condo association by taking up too much storage space. |
| 100162 | 2805 | Wondering | 12 | Makawaosurfer93 | Jul 27, 2016 | 2016-07-27T03:31:04-0400 | 2 observations I have based on my experiences: 1. When first learning back in the mid- late 80's, Waikiki on a buddy's Phil Honolulu model and then eventually buying my own boards and then transitioning to a 6'10" as my short board, we surfed longboards on the south shore in the summer and then shortboards in the winter on the north shore. Same deal when on Maui. The right equipment based on the type of waves that you are surfing is key. We did surf short boards in the summer, but mostly when it got real good and then at spots where visitors did not know about. They do exist on Oahu. 2. While out last night on a very minor background swell, (waist high at best), there were some short boarders out in a well known spot and they kept dropping in on those of us on longer equipment and one guy said, "you guys are up and riding so much earlier than us, we don't have a chance to get any." I told him he should reconsider the board he is riding. After all, it is NJ in the summer. You want a higher wave count? Ride the equipment that will enable you to do this. Not sure he understood as he also was in a full 3/2 wetsuit strapped with a leash and most of us were bareback and leash less. |
| 100166 | 2805 | Wondering | 13 | slideright | Jul 27, 2016 | 2016-07-27T04:33:00-0400 | Finward wrote: east coast is polluted with single fin logs you westies just don't get it I know a number of people from the gulf side and they all surf logs when its small. You just have a lot of snowbirds with their kids and grandkids on anything small enough not to anger the condo association by taking up too much storage space. Click to expand... Its rare for me to see them honestly, I wish I did see them more. NSB and Ponce I counted one Friday and Saturday. BTW we got an amazing mysto swell last night |
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