For a long time I havn't really seen the point in tail pads. Didn't need them when I was a kid, so why are they so popular now? Last few boards I've bought one out of a kind of celebration on buying the new board, even though I thought they're a waste of money. Popping on Ebay & shopping for one that looks like it would look cool on the new board.

Then your waxing the bloody thing up with winter wax in the winter coz the colds making it a bit slippery or your hacking off the middle foot arch lump coz its a bit oversized. Super gluing the edges as the damn thing starts peeling off & eventually ripping the thing off in frustation only to find its made no difference to your surfing whatsoever. If anything your grips improved coz you've applied a base coat of wax & got a thin layer of winter wax you touch up every second or third surf & give a good scrape with your wax comb.

Received the last board before I had a chance to get a tail pad for it. With a good swell the day after I got it there was no way I was holding off the froth of taking the newy for a ride. Somehow I managed to surf without the tailpad, unsurprisingly I noticed no difference.

So thats it, I'm not wasting money on a tail pad ever again...wax for the win

But how do you do airs n whizzy dizzy thingies if you ain't got no Stomp Pad???

ps I use deck grips but still can't do whizzy dizzy thingies

Wow I think you've just identified the problem I had every time I tryed to do an air an ate sh1t...musta been the stomp pads fault

Yep, I've gone clean skin with my last board. I'm not good enough to notice any change in performance.

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MickPC said..
For a long time I havn't really seen the point in tail pads. Didn't need them when I was a kid, so why are they so popular now? Last few boards I've bought one out of a kind of celebration on buying the new board, even though I thought they're a waste of money. Popping on Ebay & shopping for one that looks like it would look cool on the new board.

Then your waxing the bloody thing up with winter wax in the winter coz the colds making it a bit slippery or your hacking off the middle foot arch lump coz its a bit oversized. Super gluing the edges as the damn thing starts peeling off & eventually ripping the thing off in frustation only to find its made no difference to your surfing whatsoever. If anything your grips improved coz you've applied a base coat of wax & got a thin layer of winter wax you touch up every second or third surf & give a good scrape with your wax comb.

Received the last board before I had a chance to get a tail pad for it. With a good swell the day after I got it there was no way I was holding off the froth of taking the newy for a ride. Somehow I managed to surf without the tailpad, unsurprisingly I noticed no difference.

So thats it, I'm not wasting money on a tail pad ever again...wax for the win

I'm with you. Didn't have them for years, tried them for two boards, had everything you describe happen, then went back to wax for every bird since.

Airs? What are they? Don't you just lay rail and throw buckets asbyou exit a barrel? Isn't that real surfing?

Any board under 7 foot for me gets a tailpad

Any down the line board over 7 foot is a cleanskin ( couple 6,8 fall into this as well)

comp mal tailpad
log no tailpad
back up battle Malibu no tail pad

Any of my retro boards no tail pad, I ride them when I want to do a bit of time travel and having a tail pad really detracts from that experience.

I reckon if it was critical you could get a board shaped with a ridge on the back glassed in so you could tuck half ya back foot under it, million buck idea and it'll come along when someone thinks of it, an unstrapped/strap for mctwistys


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Razzonater said..
Any board under 7 foot for me gets a tailpad

Any down the line board over 7 foot is a cleanskin ( couple 6,8 fall into this as well)

comp mal tailpad
log no tailpad
back up battle Malibu no tail pad

Any of my retro boards no tail pad, I ride them when I want to do a bit of time travel and having a tail pad really detracts from that experience.

I reckon if it was critical you could get a board shaped with a ridge on the back glassed in so you could tuck half ya back foot under it, million buck idea and it'll come along when someone thinks of it, an unstrapped/strap for mctwistys


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Battle Malibu? That scares me. But also inspires me. I may have to get one.

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JulianRoss said..
Yep, I've gone clean skin with my last board. I'm not good enough to notice any change in performance.

I usually don't have time to notice what my back foot is standing on. Plus its one less thing to trip over .

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MickPC said..
Super gluing the edges as the damn thing starts peeling off


wax for the win

You aren't prepping the board properly


wax for a mess