WA
2355 posts
We've had a big run of singles at work recently. 8 in the last three weeks. Most were pure singles too. 6'2" - 8'10".
I prefer 2+1 a lot of the time too.
Got a 7'6" on the way actually.
WA
2355 posts
Oops. In all that drafting I deleted the bit that said "Some wicked looking boards there".
I love singles.
SA
1739 posts
New one Mac??
I was literally thinking yesterday it has been awhile since you ordered one!
582 posts
Your colour choices always look great
NSW
1125 posts
I have one single fin pin... 9.0 ...love it for speed in the shore breaks and steep
626 posts
Had an old Crozier 7'?" single fin round nose pin tail back in the late 70's.
Hand me down form a neighbour who's son had stopped surfing.
Back then there was no such thing as a "mid length", it was either a long short, or a short long.
Looking back at the outline, rocker, rail shapes and the bottom vee that board was decades ahead of it's time and would would ride circles around a lot of these new age mid lengths.
So nice to see elements of this type of design and style of surfing being revived and reaching a new (and old) generation.
It brings back memories of the soul that exists in connecting with nature, of being in that "moment" of engagement where your whole focus is taken up in the elements. Every other soul destroying care is rendered obsolete and you exist only for that moment, the drop, the turn, the wall in front of you, with the only noise your hearing is the foam ball chasing you and trying to tear away that moment.
I dare say it's the same for longboarding as it is for midlengthing.
But it's something that always eluded me on a short board, it was always about rip, tear and lacerate .......... repeat. And the eternal frustration of not being able to accomplish that to the performance level desired (well for 90% of us mere mortals anyway).
Long live the mid length.
Long live the signles, the twins, quads, thrusters, bonzers, duos, pins, swallows, rounds, diamonds and any other.
Long live them all that get you to that place.