more people will get 12'6s surf race boards and realize how much fun they are


they will be used on small days and bigger fatter days out wide or away from others


they will get as many waves as they wish without any crowd issues


they will realize how much of a pain in the arse short sups are and its not really why they tried sup ing in the first place.


they will go back to their shortboards and mals etc in nice waves and surf better than they ever have in their whole lifes because the 12'6s have refined their base surf skills

this in turn will lead to surf race comps and more people keen for ocean paddling

amen


ridiculous- maybe, maybe not. flame on

You maybe right.. but for me I'd rather a 14 anyday over a 12'6" for both flat water and down-winders and I'm not a big fan of using a huge 12'6er in the waves.

DJ

DavidJohn said...

You maybe right.. but for me I'd rather a 14 anyday over a 12'6" for both flat water and down-winders and I'm not a big fan of using a huge 12'6er in the waves.

DJ

hey dj, last week i surfed a 15 footer wide alley on a higher tide, but they were proper waves. you get an incredible buzz surfing something like that

not easy be anymeans

akhawk said...

If I had to narrow it down to one board to cover all bases as best as possible it would be either the new coreban or dc 12'6".

If I had to pick one to do it all it would be the DC14'. Ooops, I already picked it, it's in the garage.....

Couple of weeks ago, 5 feet wide Alley running them the whole way to the sand from out even with the rock. Don't even know how far that is, maybe 6 or 700m??

CMC said...

akhawk said...

If I had to narrow it down to one board to cover all bases as best as possible it would be either the new coreban or dc 12'6".

If I had to pick one to do it all it would be the DC14'. Ooops, I already picked it, it's in the garage.....

Couple of weeks ago, 5 feet wide Alley running them the whole way to the sand from out even with the rock. Don't even know how far that is, maybe 6 or 700m??

Funny you should say that, because the one board that I currently have is the DC14. Guess I won't be getting rid of it anytime soon.

Smokin work Lacey,

I love the longer boards in the surf, the PSH12er, the Munoz 12er and the Fanatic 12'6. The light weight carbon Fanatic swing weight is awesome.

The only thing you need to remember with these boards is when things go south, its a lot of board to go south with laughs.

Hence the PSH12er has been nicknamed "The Widow Maker"

Phill

Thank god for LL
Good on you for saying what you really think,lock the doors bro

if your nice about it.
surfers are normally more then happy to share.

if your a twit then you'll get hassled.

i've seen many people on both sides of the coin.

kooks on the water that get a stern talking too, and surfers that have paddled over to have a chat and ask where to get one.

12'6 or 8. its all the same to me.

just be happy and share and we should be fine anywhere

Flounder said...

Pretty much how it's panned out for me! I got a new short board (surf board) and have hardly touched my 9'6 SUP since. I reckon SUPs in good waves are like trying to drive a bus on a motocross track. If it's bigger than two foot I'd rather go surfing any day. I really do have so much fun though on those tiny days at the alley riding my Glide and I reckon it's a great workout too, trying to catch as many waves as you can. (Away from everyone else.) For me, that's when the big SUPs really comes into their own.

what he said,nobody comes out when its 2/3 plus,why?

AMEN.

I must admit things have been changing lately
I've had a 14' surfboard style for some years that I use for fat outside bummys.
It's one of my favourite board because even when everybody else is struggling with conditions I still have some good surf. Much more fun than my own 12'6 on a wave.
But I've tried the last 12'6 dale came out with and it does surf a lot better that it used to, so maybe i'll start to think of keeping only 1 board instead of 2 previously wich would be good news for my increasingly complicated storage problem

I think you are all on drugs !!!!!

i'll explain myself. i basically did shortboard sup for 2 and a half years, every day if not twice a day. getting boards shorter, more pulled in and refined on each board. the last board was a step rail 8'6 under a 100 litres. now the step rail is really good, but you don't get a lot of support/ stability outside of the very centre of the board. while the board surfed insane, i found myself prone paddling out of rips and swirls, after 3 days in a row i got too sore from holding me and the board upright and no matter how good a sup is, it's no shortboard.

the last day i surfed it i had some nice alley wide waves ,jm and myself were the only sups out so that was groovvvvy.

last wave in was my best, got the hollowest wave of the day.

thing is i got to the car and realized i was over it.

so i just stuck to the bigger sup boards for a while.
i did some shortboard surfing but had a terrible time of it.

anyway i had a few shortboard sessions over chrissy which was better, but kept paddling and surfing the big boys and was having fun again.

about a month ago i decided to get on the shortie again, remember it now about 4 months off the shortboard sups except for one go on a suplove. i was thinking to myself this is going to be very interesting not, but it was like i had never stopped short boarding- flow trim speed was instantly there. i was shocked(in a good way)

i've got this theory that shortboard sup ing is this weird mutant surf style all of its own where the big boards you have to have the basics right to surf them otherwise you just fall off and i'm finding this is really good for surfing shorties like it was when i started sup ping on an 11 footer rh.

so presently i'm happy surf ing12'6 s or 14' ers or bigger if i feel like it in small or fat of onshore rubbish and only surf the shortie in clean waves, no crowds, no point surfing. every time i surf the sb again it feels insane. such a buzz effortlessly flying around, so i can't see myself getting a shortboard sup any time soon.
you would also be surprised at what you can do on this big suckers if you keep at it, look at noels surfing on the 12'6 fanatic. i've never been a longerboarder so i'm no stylemaster, but i'm getting to the stage where i can pump the bigun down the line shortboard style. funny watching guys faces when i do that. fading and then cranking out a big bottom turn is a special feeling too

i'm not anti shortboard sup, just lost interest in it for the time being. i suppose if the alley wasn't there things might be different
cheers

ps i must add the last couple of years have been the time of my life ocean and surfing wise

rahams said...

first of all love the froth on this topic
to hear surfers are having a ball on 12 to 14 foot boards is unreall
my quiver goes from 6' to 14' can surf from no waves to best ever
onshore offshore dont care can have a ball whatever the conditions
lifes good

your pisst again noel

arent ya

nice and toasty

laceys lane said...
nah, i'm pretty safe when rumor has it that 'BC' has now got a 12'6

haha rumors are like that......if your refering to "bingo" he hasnt. He has paddled one ONCE! funny how the guy can paddle something and BAM! its on the internet rumor mill

BTW his go to board is a 7.3........his words were: try pulling into a 7 foot Samoa'n reef break on your 12.6