Strong offshores medium size waves, what board?
Bodyboard is an easy answer. but flippers give me grief.
Weight and volume for stiff offshores.... MC pro tow or Webster desert storm work well IMO
Yahoo 7' single fin.
Or an 8' Yahoo widowmaker.
They would be my go to boards - but it depends on your definition of medium size.
Something with the wide point forward....and some weight....not epoxy
If u think a bodyboard could do the trick I reckon u need a stronger offshore wind . A five fin claw from tom hoye is the best ever & u can surf waves that are choppy offshore winds
thedrip wrote:They would be my go to boards - but it depends on your definition of medium size.
This was the other day that i was talking about, the wind was stronger than it looks-
Thank for the answers i only have a banksy fish and firewire mini driver or bodyboard and a 72 funboard at the moment as i sold all my good wave boards when low on cash. But im looking into what to get now.
The mini driver works well in many conditions, just not strong offshore winds.It also sometimes skips out on heavy drops but a nubster fin might change that.
Thanks for the answers.
Those pics have fresh wind on the waves but they aren't far out enough to get the chop as much as I assumed . Still small not medium size
Yeah i thought youd think that Camel but the main worry was im still out of shape after putting on about 16 or 18 kilos over winter- drinking beer and wine.
Its sure made paddling into waves like this harder and more stress on my bottom turns once i get into one.
I dont know if i should get all new boards for my new weight or try to get thin again like i was before.
Earlier this year (and a few years ago)i found waves like that easy now i find it difficult.
I must add that im on medication now to help with schizophrenia which makes it hard to lose weight and easy to gain weight.
So i dont know whats going to happen to my surfing in the future. I might go back to a bodyboard for a while, i find that easy to fall back onto even if im fat.Where as with a surfboard if you stop for a month or put on a little weight then you go back several steps.
By the way i mean medium for that place. its best at that size or a little bigger. Geraldton doesnt really get big like what you would call big either.
Try to find a mini driver in PU instead of epoxy...world of difference when dealing with chop and offshores
Ok good gs best of luck with the medicine
Thanks, after last night im not drinking any more booze for a while so that should help. Hung out with my new doctor funnily enough last night where he shouted me a few vodka red bulls but im done with drinking now so should get back on track soon enough.
gs, no piss and definetly no mull let the psche drugs do there job
no nicotine either, can mess with Clopine type meds.
out of all those the hardest one for me will be nicotine, but when im feeling healthy giving up smoking is fairly easy.I hate mull. allergic to it.
Today the waves were smoking if you could get in the right spot and down the fac withthe howling offshore wind.
Got me thinking about other similar times and what equipment would be most suitable.
Besides training and doing laps in a pool regularly.