I could get up on my feet but do no maneouvres and it felt kooky and unstable. I got waves on the board, loved the easy duckdive, paddled easy into waves but it felt too small, too thin and all wrong for me. I surf 4 times per week and I am an ocean swimmer and pretty fit. I have been on my 6’6, 19 1/2, 2 1/2 swallow tail for the first time in over 4 years yesterday and it felt like a thin potato chip skateboard. Winter is beachbreaks with 3-5ft clean fast waves the staple. We have overhead pointbreaks and the boards do really well in that. The birth did my back in and I have been surfing an 8’6 and 8’1 for 4 years now. before my son was born (he is 4 now), I was surfing shortboards exclusively, 5-6 sessions per week, tons of surftrips, some guns in Indo, happy in up to double overhead surf. I have been surfing for 20 years, live in Noosa (Sunshine Coast, Australia). If you have any other questions, please email us at or call (800) 920-2363 to discuss your next board. If you're not ready to contact us (afraid we're going to try and sell you something huh?) you can always check our Progression Guide that will give you some more detailed information on this subject. If this wasn't specific enough for you send us an email or leave us a comment below and we'll give you a personal recommendation. You now exactly what you want and probably wouldn't take my opinion anyways. But this depends on the size of waves you'll be surfing it in. Shortboard- I usually recommend going 2-6" taller than yourself. Fish- Proper fish size is typically 2-4" shorter than your shortboard. A good place to start is going to be 12"-24" taller than yourself but will vary by the shape and style of surfboard. Funboard- These boards can be anywhere from 6'6" to 8'6" or so and is more dependent on your weight and what you are trying to accomplish. Longboard- Same rules above, 3ft taller than yourself. You guys are little more tricky because your board selection can be anything from a longboard to a funboard to a fish or shortboard.
There can always be exceptions to this if you're on the heavier side or lighter side. So for me, I'm 6' 180lbs and I ride a 9'0". Rule of thumb is to get a longboard 3ft longer than your height. :) Now, what size of longboard should you get? We'll look at this from a height stand point, and we'll assume that you're of an average weight. What's "cooler": sitting, falling, and barely paddling a "cool" shortboard OR surfing, turning, and easily paddling a longboard? I hope you answered surfing over falling. Now, I know longboards may not be cool and sexy but I need you to put your ego aside for a moment. If you're a beginner, I always recommend going with a longboard. So even though there's a whole slew of options, and obviously a few variables, I will do my best to give you some general rules of thumb. "What's your skill level, height, weight, goal, type of wave.?" I think you get the idea. The answer lies in several questions I need to ask you. So one of the most common questions we get here is, "what size of surfboard should I get?" I wish that there was a simple answer to that but unfortunately there really isn't.
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