Skateboards / Longboards / Carveboards..

[Laguna]

I know ive asked this a few times before but which is the best to do when the surf is flat? Which one improves your surfing the most?
The carveboards are meant to be exactly the same when pumping the board in surfing...and id guess you cant really do that on a skateboard. As for the longboards I dont know much about them.

I want something that I can do when theres no surf to make my balance (for sharp turns) and speed (pumping) better.

[boardofwork]

Check out the 'sector 9 or what?' post on the general chat page. May convert you to longboards. I've just bought myself one thanks to that post! Great fun, just wish there weren't kids out playing on my street so i could get a good run!

[Bad Beat Maker]

I think I'm gonna pick up a carveboard, those look ridic.

[tomcat360]

I've actually never ridden a true carveboard. I've ridden things that have been modified to be like them, they were decent.

I've ridden Flowbords, they are supposed to be like snowboarding, but I don't really snowboard. It was tough, but my friend who's a great snowboarder thought it was tough too.

I also tried a Tierney board (only 2 wheels, one of them pivots) and it's supposed to be "just like surfing" but I thought it just felt like a really wobbly longboard with it's trucks too tight. I mean I got the hang of it, but I still didn't like it.

[bluesnowcone]

personaly i just ride a longboard down hills, iv set my trucks to be loose and my board has abit of spring on it so it feels abit like like turning a longboard, but i do it more for fun than improving my surfing. iv ridden my longboard in a real mellow bowl thing and thats alot more like surfing.

[essex sucks]

i have one of these and it rocks good board

http://www.lushlongboards.com/06-conten ... &page=MAKO

[Mitur Bin'esderty]

the only down point for the carve boards is the price..A brilliant board and it actually gives you that feeling of carving waves.

[Bad Beat Maker]

Carvestik is $100 cheaper. $259 for the longstik.

[Mitur Bin'esderty]

yeah i have the carve stik but i still paid £175 which is a lot to me.

[nsidla]

Yo dude get a wave board, they're sick and can carve amazingly, good workout too. Definitely consider one.

[Bad Beat Maker]

I hate wave boards. It's just for fun but look up reviews on google, it doesn't receive good ones from most surfing publications. The physics of it just aren't right.

[tazman76]

i havr a hydra from sector 9 and its is fckin fast.

[nsidla]

Actually in response to bad beat maker ( who I would say probably just isn't able to ride a wave board if he hates them so much because everyone I have ever met, including several of my friends who are surfers and snowboarders like myself are in love with them) there is absolutely no way you could possible say a wave board would in no way whatsoever help you with surfing skills and using those key muscles when you're not in the water. What's better than carving up a steep driveway, hill, or quarter pipe like you would a head high wave when there's no surf?

[miamisurfer]

Wave boards are pretty fun.

[tomcat360]

i havr a hydra from sector 9 and its is fckin fast.

has almost nothing to do with the board.....it's the guy riding it. And sometimes wheels can make a bit of a difference.

[Bad Beat Maker]

Actually in response to bad beat maker ( who I would say probably just isn't able to ride a wave board if he hates them so much because everyone I have ever met, including several of my friends who are surfers and snowboarders like myself are in love with them) there is absolutely no way you could possible say a wave board would in no way whatsoever help you with surfing skills and using those key muscles when you're not in the water. What's better than carving up a steep driveway, hill, or quarter pipe like you would a head high wave when there's no surf?

Sorry to disappoint but yes I have ridden them. Three friends that live in my apartment complex have them. Now lets not turn this into a flame thread, but thank God we have this thing called an opinion. Should look up the definition of that before you flame someone for theirs. lol - You act like getting a waveboard going is hard; now I can't do tricks or anything I'll admit especially since I never have tried, but to act like it's something that an athletic and agile person would have much trouble riding is just ridiculous.

[tazman76]

Actually it does tomcat. I have owned 2 diffrent carving type boards. 1 a smoothstar with a very stiff maple deck that had no rebound or spring coming out of turns what so ever. The main carving equipment on the board was the front truck which pivoted horizontally as well as vertically where the rear truck was just a normal skateboard truck. Good for really tight turns at medium speeds. The hydra has 2 identical trucks which are double bushed. combine this with the deck concave and u have a board that comes out of turns with tonnes of speed and pumps and carves like mad. Dont know much about the wave boards tho as i havent ridden one but they look like fun. Next board I would love is a raynor timeline(sick).

[thaya]

I'd love a carveboard (but I wouldn't love the price )

[essex sucks]

no thaya no you will kill your self

[IdRatherBeSurfing]

no thaya no you will kill your self

i agree