Hobie have just signed up three time long board world champ Colin McPhillips.

www.supsurfmag.com/features-stand-up-paddle/news/hobie-signs-3x-longboard-world-champion-colin-mcphillips-to-its-team-20100107881/

Shame they don't put more effort into getting their boards into shops down under..

DJ

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firstpoint said...

hows the slow creeping across from the dark side of the world class surfers both long and shortboard,pretty soon there will only be sup in the line up.

hi, i hand a sup at 13th just after ny. had a ball, then pulled out the shortie. not so much fun- a bit boring sitting around and i notice you can't see the waves like on sup. i keep telling myself i have to get back on the shorties a bit, but it doesn't seem to be happening. i sometimes think sups might be the dominiate surf craft in the distant future

Whats this might be!!!!! it WILL be the number 1 surf sport.

No longer do sups just go to the fat points every beach break now has them. The future of SUP is scary..

It's funny all these pro guys changing over, and the funny thing is they try to ride a sup like a mal or surf board, insted it needs to be ridden like a sup. Interesting times ahead i feel!!!!!

Jacko

OG SUP said...

Hey Lacey,

Merry Christmas Happy New Year!

Short boards make excellent coffee tables or so I am told!

Phill

thx's phil, same to you and all the paige girls

rahams said...

sup is surfing longboarding is surfing body boarding is surfing one isnt better than the other i dont see a difference

i think we or i am talking about numbers
cheers

i am talking about numbers it dosnt matter what we use

sorry i may have taken this forum abit sideways ill leave it at that .to get back to dj hobie post i agree the hobie boards ive seen look great cant seem to find them

ok, back to the topic.hobie had a stand at the coffs race. they had 2 of their stinger type boards which to me and a few others really didn't look that impressive. kinda of old hat looking, but in having said that i didn't try one and they could be good.they reminded me of the mac-t range in that older retro styling and it seems the mac-t 9' is the best board in their range. however their race boards look the goods with 12'6,s and 14',s on show. that American guy byron had a proto type blue 14' which seriously looked like it was hot wired for outline and rocker and deck line and had the corners rolled off a bit, some v in the bottom and a scooped out deck and that was it.the most interesting board there and he certainly paddled it quick and won the lc race.so imo, keep an eye out for their race board for sure and their paddles look good and are lightweight
cheers

firstpoint said...

i think on their web site they talk about a new shape for their race boards where in their old shape was wide point back but they are going wide point forward for the next series,a lot of these guys will do an old shape early in their range for surf but because they are being mass produced it will take a while to catch up to the latest shapes ..once again its part of the problem of designing a shape and having to sell that run before a new shape can be produced.

tried to find that about the widest point bit.i have got a hold of a second hand xp vertice and it widest point is back and i have found it's really nice to step back on when you have too, really stable and turnable so i would have to say if that's the case it is a bit disappointing for me
cheers

Hopefully the really fast boards won't turn out to be pigs - that's when the sport really polarises. Racers end up on boards that are fast but aren't fun and the gap between recreational and racing just gets wider and wider - bit like what happened with Formula boards in windsurfing.

stevefields said...

DavidJohn said...
Shame they don't put more effort into getting their boards into shops down under..

DJ

Hi DJ,

Working on that............justed needed a bit more stock upfront first.

cheers
steve

Good to know.. Thanks Steve.

DJ

One thing that gives me the sh-ts is, the constant bagging of longboarders wtf.
Do you really think your going to dominate your local breaks with attitude like your showing,I think not.
Now Colin is a great boardrider short,long or sup, he would still rate longboarding as his pet activity and probably only jumps on a sup when condition are best suited.