Surf Equipment | TAILS
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- Опубликовано: 23 окт 2024
- Part 3 (of 7) of Safari Surf Adventure's 'Surf Equipment' series to help you understand how much what you are riding can affect how you are surfing. Safari Surf Adventures co-founder Tim Marsh and pro surfer Pete Mendia talk about surfboard tails and how they affect your manouverability and speed in different size and shaped waves.
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Pete is a legend, such an awesome power surfer.
Having skated street, park and vert my whole life and surfed for around 5 years, i can officially say that surfers comparing surfboards to skateboards doesn't help me AT ALL. This obviously makes sense when surfers talk to surfers, but not to a skater. I'm guessing one does big arcs, one does small ones? Like a snowboard side cut radius? Another thing i'll never understand is that barrel! Absolutely epic!! I'll pay that.
Thanks Avon ...the term Skate or feeling skatey from a tail standpoint is more about stiffness to looseness. Think of it like if you tighten your trucks super tight you're arcs / turns will be longer and wider where as if you loosen your trucks you'll be able to do much tighter arcs / turns. So the analogy is that thinner tails like pin tails and round tails are similar to tight trucks ...on the flip side squash tails and wider tails in general are akin to loose trucks. Hope that makes sense. And as for the barrel, when all else fails just body surf and get in there at all costs!
@@safarisurfadventures2892 Haha sorry for the late response but thank you! You have FINALLY been able to describe this better than anyone to me. One thing i know for sure is that choosing a surfboard is way, waaaaay more difficult than choosing a snowboard, which i've done in store with 95% accuracy for 25 years now. I'm slowly accepting the fact that i'll be on the hunt for good surfboards the rest of my life. ;)
@@topdeckdog ...like anything, the more experience you get the better you become at identifying what works best for you and your style of surfing !
That barrel at the end. Wow!
Guys, thanks for the great video! Would you please tell me if this is right, from stiffer to looser:
- Pin
- Round
- Squash
- Swallow
- Square
Right?
Hey Jorge...you nailed it! The wider your tail the "looser" and more ability to go vertical when need be :)
I love how to no one will admit that tail shapes do nothing. Some say it's 5% of the board. I have shaped/surfed round tails, roundpin, swallow and squash and I don't feel much of difference what so ever. 12" from tail you do depending on width though.
Its all about width, tail rocker, and volume that allow for certain variations of turns in critical points on the wave :)
It's all about tail, tails say everything that you can do
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