nose riding

[noworrieshawaii]

Just kinda curious... we've already had the discussion on waxed boards and padded boards....  I like the waxed boards cause I like the feel and also like to move all over my boards ie: get on the nose whenever I can... So anyway, most of the boards with pads I've been seeing pictures of only have the pads a bit past the middle...  (Randy and Chan have that cool bitmappy pad pattern on their board noses... )  So do you pad guys stay mostly on the tails or am I missing partial wax jobs or some other kind of texture? 

[shapeshifter]

steve at infinity provided me with this clear non-gritty texture griptape that provides grip without the thickness of a pad and allows the logo on the board to show through. i ordered some along with their foam pad with the intention of applying it on my trisect once it arrived but i started to toy around with cork and wound up not applying either on the board yet.

[Dwight (DW)]

Just kinda curious... we've already had the discussion on waxed boards and padded boards....  I like the waxed boards cause I like the feel and also like to move all over my boards ie: get on the nose whenever I can... So anyway, most of the boards with pads I've been seeing pictures of only have the pads a bit past the middle...  (Randy and Chan have that cool bitmappy pad pattern on their board noses... )  So do you pad guys stay mostly on the tails or am I missing partial wax jobs or some other kind of texture? 

I wax the nose. The wax lasts a longggggggg time when you only go there for nose rides.

[Paddle-Plappe]

Do you ride the nose with your sub as easy as with your longboard?

[noworrieshawaii]

Do you ride the nose with your sub as easy as with your longboard?

Definately not as easy as my longboard but I try. Rode a friends heavy custom SUP board and it was much easier than my styro epoxy SUP to get on the nose. Probably depends a lot on the board. Bet the JL SUP's noseride. 

[Nate Burgoyne]

I don't remember who it was, but a few years ago, I was talking boards and noseriding with someone in Haleiwa, and he told me that you can really noseride any board, you might just need a little stronger wave to get it done. I used to think that you had to have a purebred noserider shape to get up there...then I saw surfers like Kanoa Dahlin hanging 10 on their high performance boards with thruster fin setups. Then, in stand up paddle surfing, I saw Leleo Kinimaka noseriding with ease on his high performance PSH board with a quad setup. It's easy to overlook the skill of the surfer and assume it's the board shape that makes them surf as well as they do. Even if you have a performance model, bring your board up to the lip, then run up to the nose, you just might surprise yourself. Aloha.

[Paddle-Plappe]

Well, i've had a 12'. No way to hang five. The fin was maybe too small for 12'.
i ride now a 9'11" with the same fin and it's better .
The board is so wide that I think about riding the nose on the rail.
I think of trying a bigger fin.