What are your recommendations?
Obviously you get what you pay for.

i will say softech only for the fact all the schools use them and they stand up to some abuse. i have flogged the one i have and it is still calling me weak

www.softlite.com.au/

What is the performance difference of these compared to a glass board? If you just want to simply ride the face of the wave, nothing fancy, are they reasonable or possibly even better because of their ability catch the white water, etc?

Cheers 6'0" Softlite on the way.