Pipeline Surf Point

• Ultra-lightweight street surfing board that blends surfing, skateboarding, and snowboarding techniques
• Lets riders perform precision 360s or ollies, carve downhill, and even ride uphill
• Spring-oriented torsion bar controls front and rear panels; pair of 360-degree wheels
• Wide concave platform adds stability and traction; sleek body design boosts speed

Product Description
The Wave is an inline action board that fuses surfing, snowboarding and skateboarding. The Wave’s two wheel rotating design makes it fun for sharp turns and 360’s. The flexible platform allows you to carve uphill and downhill. The Wave is for ages 10 and up.

Street Surfing Wave LX Board, Blue

Gary Siskar recommends the JC Hawaii 5′10″ SD-3 in TL2 because “it is off the hook for me and kiting. It makes me surf like Dorian! Ha. No, really the board is great. I don’t know if it is my mind playing games but it feels really good under my feet. The TL2 feels like it has a bit of flew. I have rode the thing in everything from ankle slappers to about 3 feet overhead and it has been dreamy”.

Josh Mulcoy says the only board he ride is his TL2 model; the Stretch Mulcoy 6′0″ TL2. “For myself it is the perfect board. It is my favourite board for surf. So it crosses over perfect for kite. In kiting I want to ride the wave like I do surfing, it turn really well and holds the power of the kite. Also going upwind is quicker than ever before and not too bouncy as some boards the same size are. I have ridden this board for surf and kiting for half a year and haven’t even buckled it, super strong.” So for all you guys who like to really throw your board around this sounds like a great choice from Mulcoy.

Two times PKRA freestyle world champion in kitesurfing Martin Vari has two boards to recommend from the Surftech Lineup. The first being the JC Hawaii SD-3 6′0″as it’s “one of my favourite boards, it has more speed on the turns, than many of the other boards. It gives you the control, you can manouver the board at any point of the wave with control and its gonna hold the rail as long as you want but when you want to tail slide it takes a fine touch”.

Vari’s second board is the Channel Islands KS 6′1″, as he says it’s a great Board, supper skatty. “It’s one board that I can surf and kite-surf with no problem. The kind of setup that I like”.

Pro Kitesurfer Cameron Dietrich has three great board from the Surftech range to round off our listing with, they are; Webber Squash 6′0″, Channel Islands KS 6′1″ and the Rusty 6′1″ Project. First of the Webber Squash Deitrich says the “board is an all time board. It will shine in all conditions; I have kited this board in sloppy head high onshore conditions, to triple overhead conditions on the outer reefs. This board really is a great board, if your kiting it be sure to ride glass fins”.

Dietrich also has some encouraging words about the Channel Islands KS as it is the favourite board he used. “It was the best overall board with its low entry rocker and high exit rocker. This allowed for clean overall riding with clean crisp turns. This board controlled both big and small surf with ease”.

And finally the Rusty 6′1″ Project: “this board pin tail holds so much through the turns, you really need to ride smaller fins. I ride Future F3 glass fins, these fins don’t bend through the high speed turns that this board will give you. I have used this board in indo to Hawaii, it’s a really great al around board.It does it all. A very nice board”.

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Let’s try to keep it real. You are getting way ahead of yourself with some of these questions. Surfing is an ocean sport, that should only be practiced by persons who are already competent ocean swimmers. Swimming in a pool is neat, but it’s not ocean swimming, with undertows, rip tides and sometimes BIG waves. I have seen lots of great pool swimmers get rescued. So, my first tip on how to surf is to be at home in the ocean. It doesn’t matter how fast you can swim in a pool or run on a track, it matters how well can you swim in a rip current in overhead waves.There are way too many dangerous people in the water now. They are a danger to themselves and other surfers, don’t join their ranks.
Lessons are the best way to start. Lessons can come from a professional instructor, or surfing family members. You have to learn surf etiquette (so the experienced surfers in the line up don’t want to drown you), how to paddle and take off on a wave, and how to ride a wave. The last thing experienced surfers want is for inexperienced people to just grab a board, rush into the surf and get in our way.
Lessons shorten the learning curve significantly. And they help keep ignorant, un-prepared kooks out of the water and out of the way of more experienced surfers. Lessons can come from friends or family members who surf. I taught my kids and grandkids and a bunch of nieces and nephews.
Beginners should take advantage of renting boards and wetsuits while taking lessons. If it turns out you don’t like surfing, you haven’t wasted a whole lot of money on gear that you are not going to use. When you are ready to buy, don’t waste your time on line, go to a good local surf shop to discuss your size (weight is import, height isn’t), skill level and local wave conditions. And if possible, avoid popouts, and boards made in sweat shops in China (like NSP), unless that’s just all you can afford. And don’t forget, there are always used boards for sale in every surf shop. After almost 43 years of surfing, I still get my surfboard buying advice at good local shops in the places where I surf.
NOBODY on line can tell you the exact size/style board you should ride. Anybody who tries to tell you so is a fool. Anybody who listens to hat advice is a bigger fool. get lessosn, then let the folks in a shop where you surf get you set up.

I am just learning to surf (so easy to ride is essential). I am 5′1″. . . on a good day. I weigh about 137lbs, and I would be surfing near the beach at Ocean City, MD. I heard the bigger the board the better, but is a 9′ or so board really needed because I’m so short? Thanks.