Hope you invited board culture

I'll sit out there with you Howie. I've got an 8 footer.

Start off on the 10ft Naish Mana and buy a good paddle.

Yeh boofy, Love the PSH range myself. How long do you reckon we're got til mac's back ? VIP event + staffies I reckon a couple of hrs.

You blokes DO know he's gonna peel skin slowly slowly for months don't you Late Late edit: and he's back you is pork chops

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I can't have a beer with you mate , I'm only ever going to spit it out laughing so bloody hard , funny fella true

Hey the 8 footer are a real fun board,I think I was one of the first few to own a 8ball

i had a couple of surfs on piros's psh hr 9'6 28" pro in some decent size alley a bit back. sounds normal width, but take off the chimes and your stand on a lot less pretty technical to surf. you have to have your back foot half way on the back quad fins and make your back and forth weight movements are from there. go anywhere forward on the board-well forget it. i got the hang of it after a few waves and well, i don't talk my self up, but my last wave wave was top to bottom all the way. rob reckoned all he could see was buckets coming of the top as he watched from behind. small waves- leave it in the bag

How could you possibly know about that. After a big night on the voka red bulls, I am not sure where I am on the scale.

Bristol stool chart is on the wall in all nurses stations in Nursing homes

^^^ Well it's not like you'd be able to "misplace" it with that paint job.

On a more serious note Howie, bottom contours can make a massive difference to the way a board paddles. A deep (3/8") single concave from the nose going into a 1/4" double under the front foot and flat out the tail cuts like a hot knife through butter and still drives nicely, even in small surf. And if you get the rail shape right they're not skittish or sticky either. I'm a cripple so feel free to tell me to STFU, but I've gone from riding 6'2" to 6'6" hull entry kneelos down to 5'4" to 5'10" boards with the concaves and the 5'10"s both feel too big for me. The 5'4" feels about the right volume but I screwed up with too much area in the tail, should've stretched it 2 or 3". It's all good though 'cos the revised edition will be ready next week. I'm 6ft and 107kg on a good day too. I jumped on one of my old boards that a mate bought the other week and it was just so much harder to get into waves. Most of the stuff I surf isn't big, 1-3ft, but is quite punchy. Although there is one soft pointbreak that works off refracted swell that I surfed them on a couple of times last year and they still went really well, way better than what I used to ride. 50/50 rails for the front third, becoming progressively lower towards the tail. With the concave running about an inch in from the rail at the nose out on an angle to about 8" in front of your leading fin, so that your fins are set in the concave, giving you a nice tucked edge with lots of bite. Yet still very forgiving in the front third. Very similar to Ronnie Goddards (Arkgee on here) chine rails but mine finish in front of the fin. It's worth exploring, has breathed new life into my surfing. Yes it will mean a custom shape, but hell man that's gotta be better than riding a lamp post.

And now I know

My brother is now in the transition too. He now has 1 x 7'0 Fun Board Quad, from Robin Mair, a custom from him, from Kauai'i (Hawai'i). http://www.mairsurfboards.com/ He had a 6'0 Hull that he was enjoying too. An egg doble ender, 2+1 fin arrangement. But he just got himself a 7'0 Hull, and the 6'0 is up for sale! It's the start of the journey.... !! Part way there at least!