I have mixed feelings on this. I have a board that I somewhat screwed up and has a really flat deck near the front and a standard curved deck in the tail (my Home Depot bucket fish video). You make good points, the main counterpoint is the flat deck will most likely end up with much fatter rails. The curved deck allows for a lot narrow and sharper rails which give you more responsive control. With my fish it has the bulky fat rails in front which are great for the added foam and getting into waves, but once you are planing, then it’s the much thinner rails in the back of the board with the curved deck giving some really nice responsiveness. Maybe that’s the future, a flat forward half with a curved rear deck. Or more likely I just got lucky with my mistake.
Sometimes mistakes can be the best thing, look at how many mistakes I've made that has turned out for the better. Totally get it doesn't work for everyone but for me the flatter decks seem to work, possibly I'm inconsistant where my foot lands?
Flat deck all the way - early 90s had some really good/ not over designed boards which were simple and worked for all levels of surfers. Reckon any board builder who "went back " to boards of this style would find the older surfers would come running and new surfers would learn something that it clearly obvious. Good vids mate.
I have mixed feelings on this. I have a board that I somewhat screwed up and has a really flat deck near the front and a standard curved deck in the tail (my Home Depot bucket fish video).
You make good points, the main counterpoint is the flat deck will most likely end up with much fatter rails. The curved deck allows for a lot narrow and sharper rails which give you more responsive control.
With my fish it has the bulky fat rails in front which are great for the added foam and getting into waves, but once you are planing, then it’s the much thinner rails in the back of the board with the curved deck giving some really nice responsiveness.
Maybe that’s the future, a flat forward half with a curved rear deck. Or more likely I just got lucky with my mistake.
Sometimes mistakes can be the best thing, look at how many mistakes I've made that has turned out for the better. Totally get it doesn't work for everyone but for me the flatter decks seem to work, possibly I'm inconsistant where my foot lands?
Flat deck all the way - early 90s had some really good/ not over designed boards which were simple and worked for all levels of surfers. Reckon any board builder who "went back " to boards of this style would find the older surfers would come running and new surfers would learn something that it clearly obvious.
Good vids mate.
Couldn't agree more, nearly all my boards are flat decks now