Im a 1x a month sup surfer who likes stability. Intermediate skill . Surfing 2-3 foot waves
currently ride a smik hipster twin v2 9'3" 153 litres I'm 100kg board is good but time to replace .
I was thinking of moving to the smik hipster twin 8'10" rounded pin 145 litres to get more turning ability.
My friend said Hey don't buy a new board he has Naish Hokua9'1" 150 litres carbon. Almost new I can have for $800 no dings. It is 2016 so old but perfect condition. It is far lighter than my Smik 9'3".
any thoughts on if better to just buy a new more modern shape board? I don't see many Naish boards anymore in the surf. I think this board was a bit slower as it had a fair bit of rocker ?
Take it out for a day and see if you like it better. You might love it or it might not be good for your style of surfing. At 100kg and surfing once a month you are probably looking at the 140-150 liter range.
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Im a 1x a month sup surfer who likes stability. Intermediate skill . Surfing 2-3 foot waves
currently ride a smik hipster twin v2 9'3" 153 litres I'm 100kg board is good but time to replace .
I was thinking of moving to the smik hipster twin 8'10" rounded pin 145 litres to get more turning ability.
My friend said Hey don't buy a new board he has Naish Hokua9'1" 150 litres carbon. Almost new I can have for $800 no dings. It is 2016 so old but perfect condition. It is far lighter than my Smik 9'3".
any thoughts on if better to just buy a new more modern shape board? I don't see many Naish boards anymore in the surf. I think this board was a bit slower as it had a fair bit of rocker ?
I would go the SMIK every day. I had a 9'1 Hokua back in the day great board, stable, a lot of rocker, good performance but the SMIK will a much better choice. I would even potentially look at the next size down. Iam about your weight and ride boards around 135 -125 lt with no worries.
Had an 8'10" hipster twin swallow and loved it. Sold it on to my sup mate who rips on it, he's more advanced than me-prick;-).
If you're once a month and want stability and manouverability couldn't recommend this board highly enough. Sticking with the same board but at your preferred size should make for an easy transition too I'd imagine.
Would your mate let you try before you buy? More rocker means more manouverability, maybe at the sacrifice of speed. At that price you could have the hokua, move on your board and then open up further decisions. I've seen blokes rip on hokua's but have a couple of sessions first.
2-3ft and surfing once a month would probs guide my decisions-wouldn't go smaller and would want stability
The Hokua 9'29" carbon LE Lopez design I had seemed a timeless shape, very easy to catch waves and push into bottom turns and cutbacks but super fragile board, creased and repaired twice then retired the 3rd time.
I think Naish boards (Hokua) are very well designed boards, I had two and loved the performance, one was a x 32 , 8.8 and it rips, however, the deck off my naish boards was not made strong enough so heel dent's turned into delam etc..
With Sunova or Smik I did not have dents at all, I hope the construction of Naish wil be better cause the performance is good
