Sweid those are the good times for sure.
Make him the board I posted he will advance really fast!
KInd regards,
PAPA WARDO aka Surfding
Sorry that’s what the little groms called me when they were young some 25 years ago.
He looks like he will advance very fast. Less foam will be his friend.
More foam for out of shape older people.
Build him a smaller board.
The board looks good just a bit too large for him.
One of my first attempts may very well be a little grom board for my 6 and 7 y.o. sons. These dimensions look great for them and should just about fit in a slab of EPS I was able to scrounge up.
My question is on fin placement. Single? Twin? 3, 4, or 5? Having grown up on a probably not ideal 6’, typical 70’s egg single which, looking back, was way too much float for a small, wirey kid, I’d like to give my kids something stable enough on which to learn without throwing them on some barge that takes an act of god to turn. I’m liking these numbers, anyone’s thoughts on fins for the beginner kids?
Thanks heaps Surfding, I’ve already experimented a couple of times and have observed first-hand the deep water freak out. The first wave to come up over my daughter’s waist and I had to almost surgically remove her fingernails from the back of my neck. But we managed to ride a wave into shore together and she’s still talking about it now, three months after the event, so there’s hope…
I’m going to go out and draw the outline on the blanks tonight.
I missed this thread, just took a look at it now...
surfding is speaking the truth, the biggest mistake I see with grom boards is oversizing them. For athletic youngsters, they only need a few weeks or a couple hundred waves on a crutch, then it's off to the races. If they wanna cruise, let 'em ride whatever; but if they wanna rip ya gotta give 'em something they can turn ''without an act of God'' ( I like that one..). They do need slightly more volume than would proportion down from an adult because they don't get the muscles until they hit their teens, but it's not a big increase.
I had a 13yr old 100lb rider score a Surfing mag poster shot in 1995, I might also have some idea of what I'm talking about here. The board was 5'2'' x 16 3/4'' x 1 3/4'', bumpsquash tri, 4'' deep fins @ 10'' and 3 1/8''.
This kid’s got a quiver most adults would be envious of. Trust me he’s got smaller boards. He saw the 5’6 dumpster diver in the local surf shop and asked me to make him one for his birthday and that’s exactly what he got.
great looking boards! Was just asked to make a board for a 37" tall, 36 lb boy. It’s his first board, but mom is a good surfer. Any idea of dimensions? I was thinking maybe 3"10" x 16 x 1.75? I haven’t shaped a board for a kiddo though, so I’m a little stuck.
“The board was 5’2’’ x 16 3/4’’ x 1 3/4’‘, bumpsquash tri, 4’’ deep fins @ 10’’ and 3 1/8’'.”
Mike Daniels recommendation is what I would make.
It’s the kids first board.
After he is catching waves on his own and ripping then go smaller.
My son’s first board was exactly the dimensions MD did in 1995.
This is how he surfs today:
http://www.surfline.com/video/locals/local-fire-shaun-ward-part-iii_27032
I started him surfing at 5 years old.
The mistake most Dad’s make for there kids is they come into my shaping bay and tell me how to make their kids board?
6’0" x 19" x 2 1/*2" round nose?
Please just go to COSTCO!
I believe if you want your kid to rip make him a rip stick.
If you just want him or her to be average buy a soft top.
Kind regards,
surfding
Biggest mistake I made with my oldest was starting him off on a big foamie. I think it was a 5’6 or 6’. While it was pretty cool to watch him catching waves at 5 years old, it ingrained bad habits from the start. The foamie let him be sloppy getting to his feet instead of popping right up. He’s now 12 and still is a little awkward getting to his feet. I really think it was the early use of that foamie that caused this. My other two children, both younger, pop to their feet and they both started on smaller boards. My daughter was actually stand up surfing on a boogie board at 6 years old and able to turn on it.
Finally designed the board for my 9yo & got it to him for xmas, super clean lines, very stoked how it came out
5’0 OC ( 4’11 3/4) x 17 x 2 with a good amount of concave. My only issue is I should have used the Mckee 5-fin setup rather than the FCS template
5’10" x19" x 2 3/8" …decals by Surfdecals.com
