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Beautiful place !

Awesome reviews bro, relevant n knowledgeable appreciate your mahi

Love these videos mate.

Beautiful. Cheers from the other side of the world in Lisboa.

Nice concise explanation

Loved the discussion Imo I tend to ride the following based on conditions: Mushy Waves (small/med/big) - Fishes (I like quads)/Eggs/Everyday mids/Twin mids Punchy/Hollow waves (small) - Grovelers, Fishes Punchy/Hollow waves (medium/big) - Thruster shortboards I always struggled with "higher performance" mids with more rocker and more pulled in outlines. For small or mushy waves they weren't as maneuverable, harder to duck dive, and didn't paddle as good as fishes. They didn't have as good glide for small waves as everyday or twin mids. For larger waves, I could see more of a use case for them but then again if the waves are good I'd rather just be on a shortboard or a step up if its actually huge. The one place I could seem them being extremely fun is a clean lined up point break, but I feel like any board would go well in those conditions

#rideverything ! Great video! As for categorizing depends on one's height and the length of their smaller and bigger boards...if it falls in the middle and has a rounded nose it's a mid-length (or fun board).

For me coming from shortboard land, I tend to prefer "performance mid's" or whatever that means. Currently been riding: 6'8 Chilli Mid Strength as a quad - honestly an amazing board goes in anything just about from shin gutless to double overhead. For one year I kept coming back to it calling it the "Secret Sauce". I then got the 6'4 Chilli Middy as a quad - the small brother of the Mid Strength, love this board and ended up being on it more instead .... During this time I got a 6'9 Stacey Ohlson Twin - this is a performance mid length and it literally goes from the smallest waves to as big as I am prepared to ride .... I like this even better than the Chilli boards. I got addicted to it and rode it everywhere. I liked coming to the beach with two boards. Rode the shorter board for an hour or so and when feeling tired I swapped it for this board to extend the surf. I liked it so much I got myself a 6'5 Stacey Ohlson Twin recently. This feels like an everything board. I might eye out some bigger boards now above 7 foot to add something to the quiver to teeny tiny days ... A key thing for me is the width, too wide and I was struggling to handle / duck dive the board in bigger or rather wilder surf with lots of water moving around .... That's why I keep coming back to the Stacey Ohlson twin ....

Really liking my Cape Collective 7'0.... Made in Byron...not sure if available in NZ or around other places. Great board. Also got a CI Mid that I never use. My first mid was a McTavish Carver years ago...fun board

Right on, nice waves!

when I saw your first riding, I just smash the subscribe burton! 😎

Pumping piha!

That guy who blatantly dropped in on you what an absolute clown even better we all got to see his face while doing it . Awesome video by the way ripping uncle 🤙🤙

My experience with Channel Islands shortboards is that they’re typically pretty high performance and sensitive/reactive boards. Not the easiest to surf.

Pops is ripping. Those conditions at my end would be a great day.🤙

what is it a 6'1 ? ...I got the 6'2 version..its pretty versatile, im closer to 85 kgs and my 6'2 Happy Everyday is 37 litres ,,,I can surf it in small or big and it has the volume to still catch all wave sizes even when in a 4'3 steamer. Even though looks like a meat axe it still moves around like a performance shortboard......Id love to try a JS daily driver and move down one or two litres into an easy rider Monsta 10 or Xero gravity but not in a rush as dont expect life changing difference. I can surf the Happy everyday from 0.5 feet to overhead and a bit,,,,,,,,if gets bigger I got an old sweetspot 2.0 6'8 to use as a step up. Actually what were your 4 other daily driver options ?

2:10 what a jerk…annoys the shit out of me why ppl cant just follow the frikin rules

🎉🎉 happy every day compet the shadow xl? the happy every day need good amount of wave friends tells me

I hope I still surf like you when I'm 60!!! I watched your twinnie vid, What has been your favorite twin+trailer board? I've hated twin fins every time I've tried them but I have been considering giving them another go on a 2+1 setup

Ripping!

Congrats for the video. I started surfing in 1976, I did good for a long time, but age is geting a problem know, at 63 yo (back hurts!!). But is nice seeing not so young guys stll performing.

Just found your channel dude and may I say thanks for sharing, I started surfing 3 years ago aged 55 and decided to start a RUclips channel to watch my progress, looking forward to watching more of your channel dude and just subscribed

great wave and looks like you synced with the CI Happy every day really fast! Also, wow nerves of steel at 2:10 - looked like a close call!

Nice lil surf on that board bro, your first wave showed how loose it was. I like that loose feel of a squash or square tail. Even though it was small you could still get on rail near the pocket. Cant wait to see what it surfs like in bigger surf. What sized fins did you have on?

Great vid. I surfed east. Wasn’t as clean but had beach to myself 😂

Great video mate 👍

Nice one bro, I was looking at this board also, as i ride a 6'0 around 34-35L. Look forward to the next vid of you surfing it.

Great video and you are very inspiring 👍

Does it have a v or is it a high stringer? Either way, looks like a utilitarian board. Hope you enjoy it.

Idgaf I love my 9'0 Catchsurf Log and my 6'6 Catchsurf Skipper. I've been on 25ft faces on my 9'0 Log and I 12ft faces on my 6'6 Skipper. The only downside is they waterlog if you don't prep them properly and duck diving is almost impossible. But in terms of surfing = they're awesome.

I would also say don't overlook "Cheap popout" type boards for non-HPSB designs. My favourite board ATM for 2-4ft is an EPS Aloha Twin D designed by James Woods of Lennox head but made in Thailand and sold at a discount.

I have the Red Tiger in round tail - short board. Ive found 5ft is about its limit. Im 6'1 & the board is 6'3.

Surfboards are something very personal. The Pros' boards are developed to suit their surfing style and although several Pros use the same model, their individual boards have slight differences so the surfer feels comfortable and connected to the board. I have performance boards that I can catch and ride more waves then my everyday or small waves boards. I feel more comfortable when paddling and connected when riding them. I prefer boards with more rocker than a flat bottom, even on small waves has long the waves have push and pocket.

Im not buying it. Cold with no decent barrel section. Good 2 times a year at best. Add in grumpy locals and no parking. Give me Bukit any day.

@tui_ruwhiu_wavecomms you nailed it right on the head with your introduction I’ve been running my 5‘2“ fire wire boards in nearly all conditions weak small good bad and at different beach breaks. Some point breaks some Reef breaks some mushy weak point brakes. At times some waves I would miss and it was my own error, but also it would be high tide and the wave would have a backwash in it My main problem was starting to lose my fun in crowded rolling point break waves Hence, why, I said you nailed it on the head nowadays our beaches in Hawaii are getting so populated and so overwhelming crowded and you don’t see much short boarders these days it seems these crowds are opting for the easy way out and they all just use glider, long boards or huge standup paddle boards, and that my friend is where the frustration comes in for us short borders. Don’t get me wrong. I’ll still get my wave count but nowhere near as a standup paddleboard or a long boarder. Most times it feels like we leave the good sets for them and we just pick up the crumbs. A buddy of mines just turned me on two weeks ago when I was on my way, looking to buy a new board and he told me I should get it into Mid lengths. I wasn’t too certain about them. I thought they were just like Longboards and meant for the not so good Surfer or technically old man’s but let me tell you my perception was totally wrong. I am 100% a believer in mid lengths as of two weeks ago. Originally, I wanted to buy and order the dark arts construction album, Vesper that Margo was killing it on, but my buddy told me not to spend that much money for my first mid length He helped me look on Facebook marketplace for great deals on Mid lengths and that’s where we came across the seaside and beyond in thunderbolt red 6‘8“ and I seen reviews on it but still not enough reviews that I expected since the board been around for quite some time. Conclusion, I am 100% happy I can now sit outside with long borders that extra 20 L gives me the paddle abilities to paddle battle with longboard outback on a point brake rolling wave I no longer have to sit right under the peak. It feels great to catch waves early on, and I get to fade my turns and set up my canvas for the rest of the wave. I would never believe if you told me would’ve been able to rip that board just as great as my 5‘2“ performance boards. You just really have to get one to believe it for yourself. I’m so 100% happy I did and I constantly thank my friend for it. Not only because he saved me money on making another short board purchase that would’ve ended up in frustration. But he saved me from a lot of grumpy sessions. I finally found my stoke again. Sidenote, I can ride Longboards all day and I do at times, but they so darn boring if you grew up short boarding performance, surfing, all your life, then you would understand. There’s only so much time you can walk up to the nose on your longboard into cross steps with turning around and acting silly because you’re just happy to be in the water, but when the waves turn on just the littlest. Believe I’ll be on my mid length. I now will save my 5‘2“ board for hollow Barrels or more powerful, surf days. Aloha and I hope this comment helps someone the way I needed it at that time I’m going to help you out and subscribe to your channel because I think you’re doing a great job Mahalo 🤙🏽💯🌎😎🏄🏽‍♂️🏝️

On the mark again Tui 👌

Get a sauna/cooling routine in your week! And life begins again

Hated twin fins til I brought a Chris Christensen.... 10months later and a couple fin change ups... not sure if I'll go back to thruster, ever. Nice info on the clip, thanks

I have been using the Rob Machaddo Keels for a year or so now, wouldn't change back.

future machado blacksticks

try a set of SOAR MMBT G10 they are the best I've tried and I have tried a lot of them... I made a few videos comparing them.

The reason you hate them is because you have probably been riding garbage boards.or your not very good.

I find keels or large base twin fins hold more if you don’t like the skatey feel with your tail slipping when you give it a push

twinzer bro

I think most twin fins have probably to flat of a rocker which is fine for slow fat waves I have the MF twin fin from DHD it has heaps of rocker and it's not skatey at all and you can ride without thinking it's a twin fin the down side is you need quality waves with push . It's not a grovel board at all.

Love the video Tui, very insightful and easy to digest. I just picked up a 7’0 45.5L Chilli Mid strength myself. Would love to see more videos!

Enjoyed the video mate. FCS 2 only needs one screw in the back part of the plug and you won’t lose any fins (except of course if the rip the entire plug out but that would be the same with Futures)😜

My 7'4" HI Moe would have been a progressive short board back in the day, but now its a mid length groveler. How did that happen. Great all around board.

Hi ,thanks for including your age weight and height!

Beautiful shots! Love your work