absolutly…
10 boards the same size , for the same size surfers …
1st board , fits the pocket only , good for sucky waves , top to bottom …
2nd board , is great for sucky waves to , doesnt like the pocket , but can hug the face high and train through barrels …
3rd board needs suck to work , can drop and climb deep in the pit hugs the face loves the bowl …
4th board can only be surfed in soft open waves , prefers cutbacks , floating soft sections , loves boosting…
you could go on and on , you could have a list of 20 boards …
your question is to open , even if you were given all the answers , it would still take 10 years to find the balance between all the variables for various conditions, rider styles , and rider preference for different moves …and all that is just the focus of good surfers for high performance surfing …
thats the beauty of having a career as a shaper , you wont learn everything about your job in the standard 4 years it takes to learn most trades…
ive been doing it over 20 years now and am probably learning more stuff each week and putting more of the puzzle together than i was in my first year of learning to build boards…
if you ask a question like that again … maybe ask for a more specific reason …
like good barrel board for a 70 kilo surfer , who drives off the tail , and wants to thread long deep barrels as opposed to pitching short bowls …
then you should get answers from others more closely related to what your asking…
regards
BERT