Need Board Buying Advice !!!!

General Discussion
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I’m having trouble deciding on what board to buy. I’m a skateboarder
first so I want a board that can do off the top moves such as airs and
more. I am highly skilled in this area.

At
the same time, I’m out of shape and I’ve always been a lazy paddler so
the hardest part of surfing for me is actually catching the waves and
having to always wear a wetsuit doesn’t help.

So, I’m looking
for advice on what board to buy. I want a board that can do maneuvers
but catches waves like a stand up paddle board does. The less paddling
the better! I usually surf the crappy waves at county line, surfrider,
venice, bay street, porto, zuma and zeroes. I’m 6’0" and 195lbs.

Here are a few boards that I have thought about:

Rusty Piranha Quad
Mandala quad
Santa Cruz Pumpkin Seed
Josh Hall Quad Fish
Firewire Quadfish
Christenson quad fish
Surf Prescriptions New Toy

What size and style of board would you recommend for me?I only want to spend about $300 at most so I guess I will have to go to with the used option.

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here’s a good board for you: http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/spo/1098552414.html

now- be nice to people- there is enough meanness in the world. we don’t need to make it worse.

3

Nice board but I have owned a few fishys before and the twin keels are a bit loose. Also, you cant go up vertical.

4

Do as you like, but you’d get better responses if you took down the avitar.

5

Hey I came in here being nice but some chose to be douchebags. What goes around comes around.