Hello everyone, I need help to choose a length of Fishcuit to choose, I hope you guys can help.
I’m 5’2’’ and 45 kilos, and am a beginner but learn fast. If I were to follow the guidelines on the CI website, a board like that would be in the 4 foot range. That seems a tad too tiny, even for me.
Any thoughts?
What are you riding now? I'd talk with your local shaper, and he can dial you in with something that would work best for your experience level, waves you surf, ect. youre just going to get frustrated riding a board that small, and missing every wave you go for if you are a beginner.
In my opinion, it is really easy to get on a big company site like that and find a board that looks cool, or the team rider who endorses the model surfs cool, but in all reality, the way you surf, and the waves you surf might differ. plus your local shaper will be much cheaper. good luck, and I hope this helps you.
Try this:
4 ft for a beginner, nearly double it and you'll be much closer.....see a shaper or try some diff boards, start with a mini-mal and work ya way down, if you want to learn quick, then start with the ideal board which is a mini-mal usually......then slowly come down in size as your surfing ability improves.....just my thoughts ....
Michael, how come the crumpet has so much rocker in the tail? 2.84? Seems a lot to me, but I’d trust your judgement over mine.
that thing looks like a blast !!!
Greg:
I work with true math. If you used a rocker stick on the same board on a shaping rack deck down you values would be different.
I shape a board then I scan it (turn it into a CAD Model). The nose and tail are level during the scanning. It’s the curve I’m concerned with and where it starts and how it finishes.
Rocker is more than looking at the tip ends. It’s all about the curve. In SHAPE 3D I can rock the board to netural and you will have differnt values however the curve will not change.
I hope this clear it up for you?
Kind regards,
surfding