How To Pick A Surfboard

If you're a complete and utter beginner, never tried surfing but you want to give it a go, this is the board you're going to want to either buy, rent or you're going to use one of these in a surf lesson. So, it's nice and soft on the front, as you can see. The reason for this is if you're a beginner, you're going to fall off an awful lot.

So, it's going to protect you and it's going to protect other water users also by it being nice and soft. On the underneath, plastic. You need it.

Plastic and rigid so we, you know, so the board doesn't flex as much. You don't want a board that just bends like a banana, and you put your three fins. So, this is a learner's board and this, pretty much, as soon as you start surfing, you want to get one of these.

When you progress from your learner's board and you can actually turn left and right and you can catch unbroken waves, you may want to have a look at a long board. This is a good step up from your learner's board. Long boards are traditionally nine feet but they can actually go up to 9.

8 or even 10 feet. This is made out of foam and fiberglass. Long board surfing is a traditional but also a passive way of surfing, so progressing from that onto this is going to be a really good step up.

And then, once you've mastered these boards, you can actually go onto more progressive surfboards which are your short boards. This is a 5.10 and 20 inches wide.

These boards here are going to allow you to real rad moves that you see in surf videos and in surf magazines, all the aerials and big floaters, big cutbacks and so on and so forth. So, this is more progressive and this is more your learners to intermediates. So, that is how to pick a surfboard. .