Wax or Grip?

[Doug_Rail]

I only use a really light coat of wax. I like having my feet as close to the board as possible.

[streetdaddy]

are you talking on the tail? all over? sheesh it's been a while since I saw anyone with a full deckgrip! I use wax, but with a tail pad with a nice kicker for far superior back foot control (IMHO)... That said, Dean Morrison doesn't use a tail pad and the lad schralps!

[_cant_touch_this]

i only use a tailpad...iv got a x-trak on 1 board which is OK but on my nu stick iv got a mick fanning model creatures grip-its perfect! no front foot grip-havent seen many of em neway

[Dave]

Wax deck with tailpad grip (like 99.9% prob)

I was keeping my old 6'3" with the original gorilla grip full deck setup which I was planning to turn into a coffee table...the f***wit that robbed my house left my good boards behind but took the old one...

If you see a junkie twat riding a fluro green and pink (it was the '80s) board...thats my coffee table.

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I have mostly use tail pad with wax deck. I think I am lazy and drag my back foot over the tail when getting up, if I don't have the tail pad I get some serious bruising on my right foot? Currently using one of those new gen Mrs Palmer with the air in it. The missus bought it so I had to put it on. The kick and arch feel pretty good but damn it rips at your knees. It is like I am back in the 90's with the G Grip that used to give mad rashes.

[hammer time]

taj sums it up"

"if i didn't have a tail pad i wouldn't have a shinbone"

[Nikko]

I thought Ide never has to buy wax again when gorrilla grip was invented !
Got a new board and covered the deck with the stuff. About a month in I was bleeding on both nipples and the knee I used for duck diving.
Couldn't take it off the board cause it tends to peel off the glass. Had to get rid of the board in the end because of the grip !! I will NEVER do that again.
There is nothing as good as a carefully applied cover of wax. (Maybe except strapped in- specialist stuff that though).

[maddog]

wax, but i would like a grip, anyone know which is better wax or grip, for staying on the board??

[joshalohasurf]

Creatures Tail Pad, palmers wax the perfect combo.

[lrsa_04]

i reckon creatures tasilpad on the back with red and green sex wax on top

[Jessep]

wax its lighter

[Hawkeye]

I use full deck grip, squid grip all over. I NEVER have a problem with my feet slipping off the board. My feet feel really well planted. I'm a bit of a shocker for putting dents in the deck of my board, and I like the extra protection it provides.

My old man has skin cancers regularly cut out of his face and torso (served in Darwin and PNG during WWII), so I wear a rashy regardless during summer. Full grip probably wouldn't be so good if surfing with a bare chest, but I used to get a rash anyway off waxed decks when I first started surfing, and bruised ribs to boot.

With a rash shirt I don't get any rash off the deck grip - ever - and I don't have to worry about buised ribs. A bit of vaso on the knee helps with duckdiving rash on a new board during summer, and after awhile you don't need it. It seems to absorb just enough into the deck grip material to stop the rash, but without compromising the traction between your feet and the board.

[BigMog]

i think hawkeye is just an advertising bot placed her by big business.... meh. always have used tail pads, but am considering wax and a kicker for newboard....

[k_boarder]

I put down a big full deck grip and wax it. Works fine both on my knees and feet.

[mad]

I gota schecky pad with an asl subscribe bribe, probably the only way I'd subscribe or fork out 50 bucks for a tail pad nowadays. I cut a good third off the top half of the pad and leave that part of me board unwaxed and this sort of helps my backfoot locate on the ridge section of the tailpad which is the sweetspot. Seems to working ok when I was using full size tailpads me backfoot would tend to anchor where it landed on the pad, not like wax where its easier to shift. the tailpad ridge really comes into its own surfing backhand, can really bury the farker hard