What's Your Board Poll - 2009

[whatsup]

hey surfsup, i've seen those ron house sub the 9'1" looks sweet how small you going on next and u consider selling the 9'1"

[surfsup]

I am going to keep the 9'1'' and maybe start looking at the 8'8'' range. I have noticed shorter boards are harder to ride in choppy conditions. You should unload that pig you have in the garage and buy a 9'6".

[Wazza66]

Just got the 9'3 Ripper and can't wait to start riding it!

[HaleiwaBill]

Bill,
I found this comment interesting "super small or large (6 feet plus) I ride my 10"6AA".
But it makes sense.

Good to know at least ONE person understood what I meant?.......lol........ but, the 10'6 AA is as close to being the perfect board for ALL conditions.  It is by far the best and most fun board I have for when the waves get super small but can also handle as big as I am willing to surf. Its the design Blane rode at big Makaha in the Ku Ikaika contest last year. If I could only ride ONE board, this would it.

BTW-I have have surfed the new 9"10 for a few weeks and love it! It feels similar to the 9'3 ripper, but is a tad wider and thicker , so the stability and paddling is better. It also has a Vee bottom, as opposed to the double barrel concave of the 9'3. Both have their pro and cons, but for my style of surfing, I prefer the vee bottom. It is easier to put on the rail during hard bottom turns and cutbacks and releases quicker when coming off the top.

[Evan Lloyd]

I'm on a 10-6 Tomahawk Sockeye on typical days,  9-6 Thunderbird on anything head high and above, and a 12-0 Terrafin on flat days.  These 3 boards pretty much allow me to have fun on any given day. 

[Wazza66]

Picked up  my new PSH 9'6 WR yesterday and put some Sunny Garcias in it and surfed it this morning in about 4/5 foot.
This board is unreal...so fast and stable and I could make quick sections that I would usually struggle to make and also nice and loose to.
Blane you were right it there were smiles all round!!

Wazza

[1tuberider]

Just moved on to a 9'0 stinger from a 9'8 fish.  Both starboard. 

[supstoked]

I have the 9'6" WAA PSH and also the 9'6" WR.  I tried the Sunny Garcia fins and found the boards to be stiff.  Now I'm on the original sidebites with a 6" cutaway in the center and loving it.

[Kevin]

I've got one board, a 10'4" x 28 x 3 3/4" Rusty Preisendorfer custom shape quad.

I first had a 11'10" Sean Ordonez Big Blue. 

[Piros]

There is a short board revolution going on downunder 8-8's and 8-10's are popping up everywhere , I've just picked up a Ron house 8-8 quad and it rips.

Rob

[bledesma]

Hey Haleiwa Bill. I too love the 10 6 AA, and would agree its the best all around board. I took it out at waist high Kalapaki the other day and the board went off! I have also rode double overhead Hanalei on it and it works unreal. I recently got a 9 6 WR which rides like a short board, but the paddling speed is not the same as the 10 6AA (to be expected) I notice you have the 9 10 ripper. I have been interested in switching my 9 6 WR for that model. I also love to push hard and surf rail to rail as I have been a lifelong shortboarder. Does the 9 10 ride with that shortboard feel? Does it paddle good? Interested to hear more feedback on the 9 10 ripper.

[Bob from Brazil]

I changed my vote... As all newbies, I started in a bigger board and growed into the smallers... Been surfing the PSH 9'3 Ripper and the 9'6 Wide All. However, more and more I'm proned to surf bigger boards again... Yesterday I surfed the PSH 9'3 and today I surfed a Takayama 11'. Well, in today's first 20min. of surfing I've surfed more and better waves than yesterday's 2h session...

Of course waves surfed in the 9'3 have their payoff (big time, btw) but I'm enjoying the smooth ride, comfort & early take offs of the 11 footers...

If you consider that I now have three 11' in my quiver, I've found fair enough to change my previous submited vote.

Mahalo from Brazil,
Bob.

[Patjul]

Just bought a Mistral Pacifico....a month ago. I'm new to this sports but I windsurf since 30 years now. I bought this board mostly for flat water and is great to have the mast track option to use as windsurfing too. I think i'll be able to paddle twice as windsurf now......what a great sport ....LOVE IT 

[Strand Leper]

Started out on a Roger Hinds 11'0 and a Naish 10'6" (I pretended this one was from my son) ... Roger then made be a 9'6" quad stinger... When I put this board into the hospital for a few weeks, I bought the Ron House 9'1" quad... at 6'2, 210, it was a little small for me... so I got back on the 9'6" stinger quad... when I put it back in the Hospital (I generally surf beach breaks in Orange County, and just don't like to pull out...  why pull out when you might land a huge air drop floater?  "I know that I will make the next one...") I picked up the 9'1" House again... and (as John Ashley says) started sharpening the saw... riding it in wind chop, wind swell, micro swell... etc.  I finally got it down... really down...  lost twenty pounds, and now LOVE the House... it is a demanding beast, but with two big front fins and two tiny (325) trailers, breaking the fins free and getting the controlled slide is a rush like no other...  Then, Roger made me a 9'5" diamond tail quad... the most beautiful board in the world.  I surfed our last South on that one... did not make it out of a pit at North Strand... (okay, an Orange County pit)... and lost it on the rocks... (those paddle board leashes are really not that good).  She is in the hospital now... and on Father's Day I did the House 9'1" in 15 mile an hour wind at Silver Strand in 1-4 foot little juicers... I am in love all over again!  What a challenge... but what a reward!  By the way, in case you can't tell, I am more stoked on SUP than I can even fathom.

[bootesta]

I just got a Jimmy Lewis "surf" (10').  Still getting used to it, but so far so good.  Seems like a good all-around board for me.  I will be using on the lakes in Colorado when I'm not near the surf, so I needed a board that would do flat water paddling and surf well.