Need some advice please,
Looking at getting a smaller board for my girlfriend to move onto, as she has outgrown the very large JP 144L (i might get to ride this new board on the very windy days too, he he). Looking at getting a 85 to 100 L board. We sail flat water, mostly botany, which can get quite choppy at times. The boards we ride now are both jp freemoves, which fall into the freeride catagory i guess. My question is in regards to the different categories of boards available (freeride, wave, freestyle, etc), should i be just looking for freeride boards or are some of these other board categories suitable as well?, what are the main differences?
Cheers
Corkers - Boards (UK WS MAG) have a good article http://www.boards.co.uk/articles/index.asp?ID_A=118&article_type=3
Starboard have a board chooser/helper page
www.star-board.com/2009/pages/products/myboard.php
Differences:
Wave (boards) - big rocker, don't catch/trip on swell/chop but don't plane early
Freeride - early planning, easy to use
Freestyle - will 'break out' to slide sideways and has good 'pop', short length but not best speed
Freemove - is between freeride and freestyle (I think)
Freewave - freeride/wave mix
Threestyle - freeride, freemove and freestyle (I think)
What do others ride at Botany?
Keep with freemove if your doing jumps or tricks but maybe look at more dedicated freeride boards if just blasting
