Hatchnam wrote:I hate the look of them and don't like the whole 90% backfoot weighted principle behind it, with both feet being glued in the one spot.
That's not how they surf. The standard 6'3 allround nugget I have (still, but haven't ridden for a few years), I just used to surf it like a normal shortboard, moving my back foot from right back on the kicktail of the pad to probably just in front of the pad and all points in between and never making any conscious effort to not weight the front foot. The old Lazor Zaps - if that's what the surftech zap design is -
are very back footed although again, you don't have to keep your back foot in the same place, it's just that the majority of drive comes from pushing it forward with your back foot. I had to make a fairly big adjustment to surf it, even coming off riding a nugget
The potbelly reportedly accepts a more even balance of front foot/back foot anyway, so if you're curious about how McCoys ride that might be the one to go for
Oh and the Rodgers-shaped McCoys carry a bit less volume, or so I've heard. Looking at that one it's closer to two and half inches thick than the three inches you'd normally expect on a potbelly of those dims
Edit: here we go, this is from an email reply from Geoff McCoy in 2007:
"the Pot Belly design allows for standing more evenly weighted, because of the fuller nose, for its individual length they can draw long arcs, because of the more parallel out line, for sure the 5' 10"will not paddle well as well as your 6' 3", maybe is 15 ~20% less volume, if you can deal with that you could be ok to try the 5' 10", yes the Pot Belly would be quite different to your 6' 3" nugget, the P/B when surfed off the back foot will surf quicker shorter arcs than the 6' 3""