@ husq: performance wise you are right, but buying a sup and an slog n ride waveboard is also a big compromise on my bankacount and storage space so as an option its imo great. i wind supped for years but stopped with it but every now and then the Missus likes to Windsurf, just reaching back and forth, and being able to put here on a sup saves me a board.Width: there are various topics about width.Basically if you have the skills and conditions smaller is better, but not everybody is blessed with those two coming together.
I,m 90kg, living in the netherlands-Europe and sup at the Northsea in Europe. We got only beachbreaks with shifting peaks, we call 6 sec a long wave period and most of the waves are wind generated and ripped apart by the tide and chop topped...ooh and did I already mention we surfing from mid-oct till mid april in a 5mm hooded wetsuit, 6mm booties and wearing gloves??? .....and there are lots of people who surf even worse conditions as I do.In the for me "normal" conditions a wider board like the 8.10 is great and make you spend more time on the board instead of swimming next to it and got your willie hiding for a long time.
My 2th board is a Naish Hokua9.0 that is pretty difficult to surf here, wobbly, hard to catch waves with and needs help to generate speed on.When i,m on holiday to the clean Atlantic waves of Cornwall, France, The Canary Islands or Ireland the "difficult" Hokua is plenty stable, a blast to surf and in the better conditions I can easily paddle a smaller board (and makes me wonder why I even go out at my homespots
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