I tend to try and avoid being dragged along the bottom or the beach
to be honest a lot of surfers would probably sneer at my board because A) it's a longboard and B) it's made in thailand to a tried and tested shape using new fangled technology rather than hand shaped by someone local

but frankly, it's far more robust and it surfs like a dream (not surfed mine, surfed one the same but red) so I don't give a crap.

surfing is an odd sport in terms of equipment. a board made the conventional way will suffer from pressure dents in the surface quite badly just from regular use, eventually rendering it knackered. they are also pretty brittle and prone to getting holes in them.

I find it hard to accept that my equipment isn't up to the job of resisting damage from use after I've shelled out a few hundred on it.

whereas my board is lighter, floatier and you can turn it upside down and jump up and down on it without it breaking.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 6 Aug 2008, 16:02, Reply)