surfing outside Pleasure Point on a fun well overhead day couple trips ago, talked to some guy who see out there just about every time I paddle out. Said he only surfed east cliff, depending on swell from outside PP to the breaks that stretch around the corner down towards the pier, and so only surfed rights. So got me thinking, if you’re only going to ride rights, why ride a symmetrically shaped/finned board made for both ways?
So hypothetical, building a board for walled up rights shoulder to DOH, how does it change from the normal symmetrical design?
Template - already increasing trend in asymmetrical tails. Would it just be the tail, or if the board was only going right, would the entire outline be different on one side from the other?
Rocker - different rocker/foil between inside and outside rails?
Bottom - why dead center any concaves or V, shift them towards the inside rail?
Fins - Camel already proved this one at G-land and Margret’s, riding the guts out of barrels with the trailing fin on thrusters moved from the center stringer closer to the inside rail, and on singles with the fin offset closer to the rails as well. And fin placement is changing with asymmetrical tails, as it should, so…
And wonder why the gunsmiths aren’t pushing the edge with this at some of the ‘life on the line’ waves…not like you’re gonna go left at the Cortez Bank, right? Or Todos, 99.99% of the surfers at Mavericks, Hanalei, etc.
Is symmetrical over-rated and we’re just visually hooked on it because it looks bitchin and is there a whole other way to approach the one direction surfboard?
Is somebody already doing this in some fashion or other?
