hello,
I am new here - I'm from Austria, a country without sea...but some nice lakes.
I'm 53, weight 100 kg, windsurfer since 35 years, kiteboarder since 20 years, kitefoiler since 5 years,
just starting windfoiling, and surfer since 30 years - but - here the question starts:
I get about 50 days of kitefoiling windsurfing a year (together), but only some surfing or wave SUPing days a year (holiday only).
I can get easy waves and do some nice turns on longboards or minimals or on a wave SUP, but I will never be "good" compared
to people to living on the sea.
I have good foil experiences with the kitefoil, can do that pretty much "blind", and this year I want to start wave SUP foiling,
I am pretty sure that the basics won't be to hard for me, but - like described - I never will be very good.
I have a choice of 2 boards - a 230x78cm 130 l self made board and a 10'0" gong longboardstyle.
For pure wave SUP I very much prefer the 10'0" (140 l) as it has very thin rails and a really perfect shape,
I get waves much easyier, and to be honest for me it is better in any way.
The 230x78 has quite thick rails, I don't say that the board is not working, but as it is so short,
it is much harder for me to stand on it and it needs much steeper waves to get gliding.
Only place where the short one is better is small, punchy beachbreak waves, but for this I prefer the surfboard, anyway.
I go to portugal for 3 weeks in July and don't want to take 2 SUPs with me (I already have 4 kites, 2 foils, kite waveboard, surfboard...and I take a flight).
Can anybody tell me if it is total nonsense to learn to SUP foil with the 10'0" ?
It would be easy for me to install the reinforcments and inserts (female thread plugs) in the board, I did that on surfboards and also on the 230 SUP a couple of times.
The 230 has the inserts already, but for normal SUPing I will always think of my 10'0"....
Would be nice if somebody could give me an answer....somebody who understands my special situation...
Best regards
Wolfgang
ps this is my 230 (cork sandwich, now also having a windsurf mast fixing point)
http://surfforum.oase.com/showthread.php?t=146117this is the gong
(same shape, but older)
https://gongsupshop.com/epages/box1707.sf/fr_FR/?ObjectPath=/Shops/box1707/Products/GON9SUPFNFA100
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