Howdy,
Im hoping somone can help me decide what freestyle board to buy. ALthough im not carve gybing yet im pretty confident at freeride. I really want to get into freestyle as its pretty hard on an excite ride. I have found a 100ltr Joker and 100 ltr twin tip, it seems the joker has a slightly better alround use than the twin tip but i have heard that the twin is a great board for learning. I sail around sydney, mainly botnay where finding flat water is limited to the first 60 mtrs and then it gets kind of choppy although i have heard of a few places, im yet to find them?
ANy advice would be greatly recieved
Thanks
Lee
youre probably better off going for a freeride board till you can gybe comfortably the joker is a better option as it has freeride straps on the outside and a better wind and fin range...
At your level Lee, stick with the basics.
You need watertime and practice before getting to technical with your equipment.
Chad
Hi, if your keen on learning freestyle, you should get a dedicated freestyle board even if you are still learning, they are great to even learn the basics on, they are so stable to tack and gybe.
I bought my first freestyle board this year and love it for just blasting around on flat water, when carving through a gybe you can basically do what you like on them, it's great for trying all different kinds of new gybes..
Just don't run a fin to small or to large on them, good freestyle guys will run a 17 to 19cm fin, i like to run a 20cm wave fin so it grips more through gybes at speed, but a 23cm still be fine don't go any bigger, you will need to get used to the loose slidy feel for tricks later anyway, you sails these boards more weighting the front foot and using the rails more so small fins work well.
My board is the 09 Starboard Flare 98.. great board..
Totaly agree!!!!
THey are so stable and so fast and so quick to get going!! I bought a 09 FSW JP 92L...sold it and bought a JP Freestyle 99L..incredible board for flat water and that board with a smaller fin can carve quite well and can handle some small surf. Moderate Freestyle board are way better than freeride board to my opinion for lower level riders..in fact I still wonder why those board exist? (small freeride)
good luck, if you can give a try would be better..but I'm sure you're doing the right move.
nord_roi
hi mate i am a wavesailer personaly i dont like boards too wide and would go for a bit narrower board with fraction more rocker and sweet outline and my ultimate fin set up witch takes presise calculation so you can have fun in flat water and also keep board for futcher if you progress into waveriding
how much time do you spend on the water,do you have any surfing experience
if u give me details i can tune u in to where u should at ,i was aus wavesailing champ a few years back and would like u to get as much enjoyment out of the sport as possible
