What is the best small wave board out there?

5'9" 7S superfish and itll prob last alot longer than the designer thin glassed boards. I have the 6'3'' and it is nuts. Dont go too short. Ur not dane renolds and ull prob put on weight at some point.

 

you should go to 7th Street ,KONA, or Easternlines and check out the Randazzo Industries, look for the lil Joe, Pork Frog, & Chop Sue Wii, & Mysto, and order a Custom, we can dail you in with a board made for you, and a big plus is every custom i keep the file so can email or skype me and make any adjustments you may want in the future .
We would be stoked to make what you want.

www.randazzoindustries.com
this vid shows the Chop Sue Wii & Porkfrog
http://vimeo.com/29105533
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO6Jx_1hZoM



Mysto
http://westsurfboards.com/Boards-mysto.html

 

Stop by Greenlight at take the Groveler for a test drive. Designed and built for the smallest rideable local surf we get. I think the one in the shop is a 5'8, but you can custom a smaller one. I've been out on days and have said to myself, "man... I wish I had that Groveler right now."

http://greenlightsurfsupply.com/greenlightsurfboards-2.aspx

 

I know it's not what you're getting at here, but I really think everybody should have a longboard in their quiver for the knee high days, maybe with a pintail for ease of turn.

If you insist on a shorter board, though, I'd talk to somebody local instead of paying a bunch of money for a board that won't last as long or work as well in our surf...

 

I second that. If you want to ride knee high surf get a longboard. Whenever I see guys trying to ride small waves on shorter boards it just looks so frustrating and not fun.

 

dumpster diver--and all other versions--should be renamed "the gimmick"

get a longboard for those conditions.

 

The Tommy Moore Slop Rod, sickest thing ever for waist to ankle, catches waves like a retro fish, performs unreal for such a fat little board. Basically the performace of a high performace fish, with the paddle, glide , and wave catching ability of a mini simmons. Eps/Epoxy build. I am 5'-8 - 160 lbs and mine is super bouyant, tons of float. I catch waves so much earlier than all the dumpster diver or "gimmick" guys in stuff thigh high or under.


SLOP ROD PIC2 by jblacks, on Flickr


SLOP ROD BOTTOM 1 by jblacks, on Flickr


slop rod by jblacks, on Flickr

 

going to try one out next small day. thanks for the info

 

Hey Damook,you should trademark that name.Anyone willing to bet a board will come out soon called "the gimmick"?
Surfing, just like anything else, has it fads. some are here to stay, some go out of style and come back again. Its fun to try new shapes and and see how they perform. you take the things you like about a board and incorporate them into your next board. i saw a rocket fish when they 1st became popular that had a double wing swallow and fins that curved towards the stringer( this was before F.C.S). the shop owner called the fins "south african turbo fins". Needless to say i had to buy the board. It's one of the best boards I"ve ever owned. i still have it, although it\'s beat up pretty bad and almost unsurfable, and use it as a reference along with the other magic boards that I've kept over time whenever i get a new board shaped.

 

what are the dims on that board? looking @ something like that with a twinzer set up for a next board.

 

You don't need a long board to ride tiny waves. I can ride almost any size breaking wave no matter how small on a 5'6" in the summer and a 6'0" in the winter with the rubber, I am not a small guy. The only reason to get a long board is if you want to be able to go out when the tide is really fat and the wave is super mushy. On those days you might want a longboard just to be able to catch the waves but that is usually my excuse to leave and get some work done. That Tommy Moore Slop Rod shape is exactly what you want, you can stand right in the middle of that and ride it like a longboard if you have to. Wider tail with some v going to a quad fin set up, parallel rails, wider nose with a little flip, all these things make a great small wave board and if made right will work in some bigger surf as well. I surfed a similar shape this fall in over head waves and it did great at least for my style of surfing.

 

No, you don't need one, but in my opinion riding a longboard is the best way to have lots of fun in tiny waves. Other "small wave boards" sound interesting, too, though. I tried out a fish for the first time a couple of weeks ago and it was a good time.

 

Personally I have more fun on a shorter board no matter what the size of the wave. I rode a long board for years on smaller days and it just got boring. If by small we are talking about ankle high dribblers then yes I would agree that you will have more fun on a longboard. But I wouldn't even go out on a day that small unless my son wants to paddle around. Knee to waist on the other hand, one of these straight rail blunt nose boards will go just as fast and be more fun. On these knee to thigh high days I have noticed most of the eyes are on me and my friends as the guys on the longboards are wondering how the hell we are surfing such small waves on such small boards. I have had people come up to me on the beach to look at my board after a sesion because they want to know the secret. But all that said you do need to change your style to ride one of these boards on ultra skinny waves. I always tell people they need to think light, lol.

 

I'm a bigger guy so generally I have no problem shifting to my back foot swinging the board around. After years of riding my own shapes with no v in the tail, finally riding a board shaped by a pro with all the bottom contours that go along with it, turning is not a problem. That's in the really small stuff, wasit high and bigger I make some of the nicest swooping turns on a board like that especially if there is v out the tail. The V allows you to get on one edge or the other with no problem. With the wide open speed of a quad you can do almost anything. I always felt like speed was is the key after that is achieved turning is not going to be an issue. On small waves those boards get going so fast with a few pumps that I have no need for a longboard.