As the title says, my brother refuses to ride anything long. Not 9’, not 8’ or 7 or even 6 for small waves. So I guess I’m looking at a simmons? He has a 5’6 everyday hybrid thing I shaped for him that he likes, but I’ve never done a simmons type board before.
Anyway, he’s small, 5’5, 120lbs, resonable fitness and skill. I want to do something that’ll actually be useful on small days, more so than his current board. He wants a quad. He’s fine with a 5’6 again, but with significantly more surface area and a bit more volume, lower rocker etc… all the usual small wave fixings of a longboard replacement. We surf beach break.
What blank do I even use? Greenlight has a simms blank I think. 5’10” RP from us blanks and take 5’6 from it then turn nose up a bit?
Happy Thanksgiving swaylocks. It’s flat here for now but hope you’re getting waves.
Fishy mashup with a little curve in the rear quarter. You take a 5-0 or 5-2 shape out of the middle of the 5-10 RP and don’t do anything to the rocker that’s left. Run an 80s style flat deck with chined deck rail and a standard fish bottom - flat with a barely-there chine at the rails to loosen it up. Set the fins to the rear and cut the buttcrack shallow so he’ll have to surf it off the tail. I put the arch bar from a tail pad ('cause that’s all you need) so far back that I had to offset the leash plug.
Small keel with a canted leader in front provides plenty of drive and hold, even going backside. But at your rider’s size you could also do a Speed Dialer combo.
