SP said..McHenry said...thedrip said..McHenry said...
Thinking 7.3 to 7.6 eggy type shape. Do you guys think it will be good for beachies??
Thinking kind of a mct sumo type board.
Any other suggestions?
I bought a similar shape as the Sumo for East Coast beachies. Mine was 6'10" but it is fantastic. I have surfed it in knee high beachies up to triple head high reefs. It's versatility has amazed me. The fat nose paddles so well and the pintail turns surprisingly well. It was my first longboard shape - while acknowledging a 6'10" is a short mid-length.
Yeah it seems like its kind of what I want. Either McT Sumo, Tak Scorpion, those type of boards.
I went for a grovel the other day, surf was small fat and weak and a bloke on a 7ftish Tak out paddled me, out surfed me and looked like he was having a bucket load more fun then me in the sumo (6'8)
Having said that IMO the scorp and suno are 2 different boards the Tak is a shrunken lb good up to head highish I'd guess. Wider nose then the sumo and more of a cut down mal type board where the sumo looks to have bit more range. Sumo seemed more pulled in in the tail and not as wide overall.
For me the sumo is an all rounder type board and the sumo is a bit of a small wave fun board.
Id own either of them.
With the utmost of respect to SP, I would go for the Scorpion (after owning a 6'10" for a year, and regularly trying out a good mates 7' Sumo).
The Scorpion has much finer shortboard style rails and a quite refined foil. The Sumo is chunky in all aspects and is really just a nicer looking mini mal. It does not cope with the range of conditions that the Scorpion can.
