Hey guys, looking at getting an aloha bean short board..anyone got any advice on this little board? or is there other boards of the same style that i should consider?

cheers

Rusty magic door hands down.
Be wary of the bean, shape is good but it's a gsi and their glass jobs are ****house.

Give a Hypto Krypto a go if you get chance, been through 6 boards in my short 3 year surfing career and this thing is cheating. Don't be put off going short either, I came of a 6' 38L hybrid fish thing and my 5'8 Hypto 31L is just as easy to paddle, catches waves easier and flies (I'm 180cm and 70kg)! You will make sections you never thought you would. Future flex construction is not chattery and stiff like pop out epoxy boards.

Time to see your local shaper son.

Dont fall for marketing hype!

I was dead keen on the hypto, but i have heard there glass jobs are week and also not to keen on folking out 920 bucks for somthing thats not going to last. can any one recomend a quality shaper in and around sydney??

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Danielson said..

I was dead keen on the hypto, but i have heard there glass jobs are week and also not to keen on folking out 920 bucks for somthing thats not going to last. can any one recomend a quality shaper in and around sydney??

Sure.....where are you - north or south ?

Yeah I like in Randwick ? Thoughts ?

Andrew Harris.

I have a 6'2 x 21 x 3 CI Biscuit and its far and away one of the best boards I have ever owned....great in the slop and will hang in there when it gets uo to 5 foot...gets vertical and generally flys where ever you point it.....

Sorry. Was the closest shaper I could think of to Randwick. Is there something I don't know???

I'd Take a trip out to the northern beaches mate...

If you google shapers in the northern beaches you'll find a fair few that know there way around a blank...

No worries there ! I don't mind doing a few miles for a good shaper

Hi Aussies Surfers, nice to talk about hibryd board, as a 59'years old surfer who garage shaped mostly of my board since my thirteen , i did shape that thing 5'1"/21.75 with EPS and a tail made with parts of an old bodyboard for my son surfer.
This board is made to take off easy , hold good bottom turn and fly off the lip, my 30years old son tell me: I d'ont give you back

http://www.surf4all.net/surfboard/matos-shape-surf/flextail-t21910.html

Did you see something like this, what's matter about?

Ive been on a mayhem mini driver 6-4, firewire construction for 6 months now and its great!!! goes really well in all waves, i did an indo trip in may and it went really good at g-land!! It has made me surf alot better, I was riding alot of shorter hybirds... but this thing has me surfing alot better in all types of waves...plus im using it as an alrounder!!!

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pro346 said..
Ive been on a mayhem mini driver 6-4, firewire construction for 6 months now and its great!!! goes really well in all waves, i did an indo trip in may and it went really good at g-land!! It has made me surf alot better, I was riding alot of shorter hybirds... but this thing has me surfing alot better in all types of waves...plus im using it as an alrounder!!!

Nice looking board that model, I like it

I'm still pretty chuffed with my 5'10 Katana Skud, and will probably look at getting something similar but slightly smaller to throw around in the summer.

On the topic of which, if I were looking for a board best suited to the choppy onshore conditions we get most summer afternoon, what would I look for?

Getting out of town isn't always practical, so surfing when the seabreeze is in has been a proven way of dodging summer crowds. What sort/style of board best suits these conditions, have any of you guys got a go-to shape?

Doubled glasses eps summer fun, as light as the others just freaking tougher yeeew

Can't go wrong with either a rusty magic door or a clearwater monkey chop for summer fun. If you want a pop out maybe the CI dumpster diver ? Deep single to double comcave is your friend. There is nothing worse than a pin tail in small waves and both the rusty and the CW have wide arse squares. Add a quad option for good measure I reckon.

If you like katanas boards I reckon his squad model looks the goods. The skud with its pin would go better in gpod waves rather than summer ****e I reckon.

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Deep single to double comcave is your friend.

I like just singles.

http://katanasurf.com/skud/

Mines over 12 months old and like new. Been hammered.

Guess what I'm saying is go local shaper.

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Can't go wrong with either a rusty magic door or a clearwater monkey chop for summer fun. If you want a pop out maybe the CI dumpster diver ? Deep single to double comcave is your friend. There is nothing worse than a pin tail in small waves and both the rusty and the CW have wide arse squares. Add a quad option for good measure I reckon.

If you like katanas boards I reckon his squad model looks the goods. The skud with its pin would go better in gpod waves rather than summer ****e I reckon.

that rounded pin tail on the skud is 15 1/4 goes good in the mush but defineltly goes better in powerful waves

I really like the look of that Skud.

A while back I bought a 5'9 fish with a pin tail for $200. It's my go-to board for small waves now. I sold my JS small wave board with all the hype marketing.

I like the pin-tail for WA. We don't get mushy/weak waves here - or I don't bother. Also I'm not doing big punts etc that require the tail width.

Here's my gumtree special. Super light epoxy. Pin tail. Goes sick.