If you were going to a relatively heavy Indonesian style reef, such as say, G-Land, and could only bring two boards, what would they be and what leash lengths would you bring along? S
if you were going to g land you are going to be surfing long hollow waves, although it does have mellow smaller 2-3ft days where its more of a wall with only a small barrel. with only 2 boards its always good to make sure you can ride either one if you break the other. maybe a 6’6’ and a 7’0. you can still ride the 7’0 in smaller surf if you break the smaller board, and a 6’6’ will handle bigger if you have to push it. both those lengths will handle general conditions at gland. if you can take 3 boards id add your usual small wave board to the other 2 and you would have pretty much anything covered. im assuming you are taking shortboards only here, if you were going to take midlength or longboards just be prepared to have you ass dragged across the reef when you get cleaned up and can’t duckdive. the only advantage a long/midlength will have in indonesia if you will be able to paddle faster, and get into the wave early. the indo waves are heavy even at a small size, and there is nothing worse than getting caught inside with a big fat board at those reef breaks.
just an opinion swaylock, but i’d take your versatile 6’4" and the larger 6’10" don’t chinch on the leashes…get brand new ones, one spaghetti (comp) leash, one regular leash, and one big wave leash. nothing worse than losing your board to a broken old leash…are you going to indo or fiji?
relatively heavy… that would mean; to me, relatively: a 6-8 or 6-10 pulled round tail, curvy bottom, all 6 oz with RED-X(my personal favorite)system. wide point 1’’ forward of center. heavy: 7-6 or 7-10 same as above- and even then when ol’ mr. heavy water rears his head, those sizes might seem too small… S- can we get a jpeg of you gettin pitted?
…Mike,I use XM leashes. …GET…(two) Complites…(one) regular w/quick release system… (one) big wave w/ quick release system. …The length of the smaller leashes can go a foot under the board’s length to just at the board’s length,and make the big wave job a little longer than the board’s length. …I prefer XM Surfmore(if you call/E-MAIL to XM, ask for Craig Efferim,tell him I refered you to them),Craig has been good to me,AND THE LEASHES NEVER HAVE FAILED ME YET , EVEN IN THE WORST POSSIBLE CASES,but maybe Tom@Daum can recommend a leash he likes better.Herb
Since we made the molds for most of the major domestic leash manufacturers’ custom components (including SurfMore, Bully’s, Da Kine, Destination Surf, Stay Covered, PBI, Block, Crow Haley and even some of the Balin line), we have a descent idea of who focused what attention where. The most indestructable stuff we built for big wave applications was for DaKine.