Meyerhoffer shortboard

[Cpt.Caveman]

http://www.surfindustries.com/surfboard ... slipIn.php

Anyone tried it?

I have to say, it looks like a dangleberry to me and nothing like the boards I like. I'm super keen on the parallel rail thing at the moment, ala modern mini simmons / planing hulls whatever you call them.

I'm happy for someone to suggest otherwise however, but at the moment my opinion is its batshit.

[Yuke Hunt]

What the fcuk.

[Slobadan Madicubich]

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[Beanpole]

Kind of less unco than the mal version but good for a few laughs if you walk down the beach with that.

[Cranked]

Well, I too was almost provoked to laughter by that design. A few days ago there was a bit of swell (just south of Perth not MR), mainly shortboarders in the water, and this dude on a 9' Meyerhoffer took off on a set wave (6' face at least) only just made the drop it was so steep and late, cranked a bottom turn with his shoulder almost on the water, came up near vertical, 90% of the board out the top of the wave, and cranked it round, and paddled back grinning from ear to ear; best longboard manoeuvre I've seen on a wave.

[andy2476]

Well, I too was almost provoked to laughter by that design. A few days ago there was a bit of swell (just south of Perth not MR), mainly shortboarders in the water, and this dude on a 9' Meyerhoffer took off on a set wave (6' face at least) only just made the drop it was so steep and late, cranked a bottom turn with his shoulder almost on the water, came up near vertical, 90% of the board out the top of the wave, and cranked it round, and paddled back grinning from ear to ear; best longboard manoeuvre I've seen on a wave.

Except it's a shortboard manoeuvre

[grimshine]

Too right Andy...

[Beanpole]

So Heir Meyerhoffer was a snowboard designer wasn't he?

[Cranked]

Except it's a shortboard manoeuvre

You're quibbling Andy.

[andy2476]

No, Stating a fact

[Hatchnam]

looks functional enough.. regarless of it looking like a panty-liner..
http://vimeo.com/90345446

[Cranked]

Andy, by what epistemological skulduggery do you arrive at that fact?

Sure, a manoeuvre first performed and made popular by short borders, and one more rarely performed by longboarders, but when done the degree of difficulty and commitment is higher and the result more spectacular

By the way I don't ride a longboard.

[andy2476]

It is only possible to do that on a modern shaped longboard. They are not real longboards and are not surfed like a longboard, they are surfed like a shortboard, totally negating any reason to be riding a longboard other than the rider is lazy and uses the extra length to catch more waves.

Traditional longboards beautiful and traditional longboarding is a vital and functional type of surfing that takes great skill and dedication to master. Modern longboarding is a mutation and a scourge and the people that partake and champion it are morlocks and cretins.

[carlton St]

Rodney Ball shaped em back in the 70s.

[el rancho]

looks functional enough.. regarless of it looking like a panty-liner..
http://vimeo.com/90345446

Looks horrid in hard cutbacks and deep bottom turns, like its washing off all its speed and drive.

[Cranked]

It is only possible to do that on a modern shaped longboard. They are not real longboards and are not surfed like a longboard, they are surfed like a shortboard, totally negating any reason to be riding a longboard other than the rider is lazy and uses the extra length to catch more waves.

Traditional longboards beautiful and traditional longboarding is a vital and functional type of surfing that takes great skill and dedication to master. Modern longboarding is a mutation and a scourge and the people that partake and champion it are morlocks and cretins.

You won't get any arguments from me on those points. I just wasn't sure where you were coming from with your previous comments.

[channels]

If history has taught us anything, it is that narrow tails and single fins in shortboards are the pinnacle of design and we should always circle back to this.

[Beerfan]

You been smokin crack or something?