interesting you call it pancaking.back in the day some of my friends referred to my boards as pancakes, so i started describing the severity of each board by calling it either a short stack(not so severe) or full stack( fully bladed,thin, pinched rails,etc). in turn, when they would see a board under my arm, they would ask how long it is and was it a short or full stack model.funny stuff!
Get Down @ Pancake Point!!
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Get Down @ Pancake Point!!
Wow, a man on a mission!
Thanks Proneman!!
I have been telling or yelling (with stoke) to anyone that will listen (again?) that A hull wont do EVERYTHING. A shortboard can pretty much do anything. Give me a lump of clay and tell me to make something…and I have no clue what to do. Throw that clay on a wheel and suddenly the creative process has very real physical parameters and limits. When done well you end up with somthing full of life and somewhat magical, and usefull. That is like surfing a hull!
Put me on a shortboard and I know how it SHOULD look, but…the feel doesn’t connect or inspire. The super gymnastic type surfer who enjoys pushing their physical limits on wave prpbably relates more to a shortboard. I like to figure out what the wave has to offer, connect my board to that and push boundaries related to board wave and self. So the things a hull does do, it does better than anything I have ever experienced. You know how you can’t explain a barrell to anyone who doesn’t know, and explaining it to someone who does is like preaching to the choir? Amybe the same thing… have fun go get some!
prone to the bone! cornell represent!
ask not what the wave can do for you,
but what you can do for the wave…
this definitely calls for a photoshop for the blog…
or just substitute “board” for “wave”
i’m no good with photoshop… i’m oldschool - just give me an x-acto knife and some spray glue!
These hulls sound right up my alley. Love to try one, but im in oz.
i’ll keep dreaming 
Suspect the idea of hull would mean exactly NOT what you’re looking for…
Hulls don’t nose ride, don’t need to, with the belly up front.
Sizing is fine, as NatYoung back in '68 or so rode mid 7 hulls.
Mainly for smooth, powerful performance surfing, not modern funboard style, which is what you want.
Actually, what you’re looking at is a performance modern concave bottomed short log or long funboard.
Basically, a hull should have turned up rails from the nose to 50/50 at the WidePoint, then lower rails back to down hard at the tail with belly back to the front foot, then some V back out the tail. Made for easy rail to rail rolling with a wide (22" or so) board, but not for contest performance longboarding.
beerfan: go to the first “post yer hull pics” thread, and somewhere on the last pages of that thread, you’ll see an aussie hull somewhere. I also saw on the 6oz Board Store website, a Dick Van Straalen hull.
-Jason
Thanks guys, i’ll check that thread out now.
A hull wont turn decent, because it will turn perfect. But only if you let it. It’s like being a good lover listen to what she wants then give it to her…actually it might be more like a three way where the wave is your “real” girl and the hull is her young hot friend. Let the two groove on each other and you are in for the ride of your life, but get too involved in the maneuvers you want to pull on the young hottie and there is going to be trouble.
That’s the best analogy ever given about riding a hull.
Just don’t let your board go down the wave without ya…