The Ultimate Guide in Choosing a Longboard Once you understand the difference between the different types of longboards, you still have to decide what board is right for you. Choosing the wrong board can negatively affect your surfing experience, because today’s boards are highly specialized, being built for specific styles of surfing and sizes of surfers.     If you are a beginner, then the best option is likely a user-friendly high-performance board. These tend to be lightweight but still have the volume you need to help you catch waves, and the 2+1 fin setup, modern rockers and bottom contours, and edge in the rails makes them easier to turn and more forgiving. For those who are between 100-150 pounds, you are probably looking for around a 9'0", while heavier or more powerful surfers might want to move up to around a 9'6". If you are over 200 pounds, then something in the 10'0"+ range will help increase your paddle speed and make you more likely to catch waves.   Once you develop a basic proficiency in surfing, you may decide that you want to move to something a bit more advanced. While entry-level high-performance longboards are pretty universal and...

🍒 Cherry Picker 🍒 Ben Skinner is one of the world’s best performance longboarders, and a master shaper as well. But lately he has had to step outside of his comfort zone and focus more on traditional logging. Over the past year, the Longboard World Tour (under the guidance of Devon Howard) transitioned away from performance surfing and more toward traditional surfing, emphasizing single fin logs, extended noserides, and powerful, traditional turns. Ben loves logging as much as the next guy, and is an excellent noserider, but over the years had specifically focused on performance longboarding because that’s what was required in world tour events. Now with the focus returning to traditional surfing, he started tinkering with a single fin log, which he ultimately took with him to New York for the world tour event last year. After that event, Ben realized that this was the perfect time for him to really focus on developing a great traditional longboard—both for himself as a surfer and for his customers as a shaper. He took the board from New York and started refining it, going through three or four different versions before finally settling on the shape that would become the Cherry Picker....