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By Sean | May 29, 2010
Hey guys, been looking around and found another great surfboard for beginners that is sure to bring you countless hours of wave shredding fun.
The board is called the Roxy Softop 7′6 and it’s made by Surftech. What makes this board worth recommending and posting about? Because I like it, thats why!
Seriously though, one of the young surfers I I give surf lessons to came by with this board — he had just gotten it 2 weeks ago — and he told me how much it’s helping him practice. Before, he was using a cheap, USED surfboard (hard-top) and he would tell me how he was ALWAYS getting bumps, bruises, and your typical dings. After hearing about softtop beginner surfboards from me weeks earlier, he naturally told his mom he wanted a new board for his birthday and VIOLA, he got what he wished for — the Roxy Softop 7′6 Surfboard!
Now, you guys know I don’t recommend boards willy-nilly, so here is my REAL explanation of why I am posting about his beginners surfboard….
During our last session — before he got this board — this kid was a TOTAL wipe-out spaz, and more importantly, he knew it. No matter what I told him, what advice I gave him, what tricks I showed him, he always managed to wipeout in the harshest of ways. But hey, that’s how it goes right? You don’t start out as a surfing god, you have to build your way up. Anyways…
This session was a complete turn around. This kid had gone from complete newbie surfer to “surfer with skills” in just two short weeks. How can this be explained? CONFIDENCE! Although the board was a big part of how he improved, the kid was NOW confident in his surfing equipment. He isn’t using some crappy, used surfboard that he picked up for $69.95 — he’s using a QUALITY beginners surfboard, one he can trust and depend on for months & months to come.
Now, am I going to tell you to go out and buy the Roxy Softop Surfboard just to be more confident? No, not at all. What I WILL tell you is that you need to buy a surfboard that you can feel confident in using day in and day out. One that will make surfing EASIER as opposed to harder and possibly more painful.
As I always says, you can get your beginner surf board from anywhere you’d like. A local surf-shop, ebay, amazon, a friend, a hand-me-down, or even from online surfboard dealers. But, if you’re really smart, you’ll get your board the same place I get mine from — BeckerSurf.
They’ve got the best boards I’ve seen to date and they offer free shipping on all their high-quality boards. I actually live about 10 minutes away (walking distance) from a reliable surf-shop yet I STILL get my boards from becker!
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