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Surfboards 101 Everything You Need to Know About Looking, Picking, and Buying the Perfect Surfboards for You “If Youʼre Ready To Buy A Surfboard But Arenʼt Sure Which One Will Be The Perfect Fit For You... This will Be The Most Important Guide Youʼll Ever Read!” Surfboards 101 Everything you need to know about looking, picking, and buying the perfect surfboards for you. by Luc & Holly Stokes Owners & Founders of DEGR33 www.Degree33Surfboards.com Copyright © 2010 DEGR33 (Degree 33) a division of Incite LLC - All rights reserved Intro - Who is this guide for? 4 Who We Are and What Weʼre About 5 All Surfboards are NOT Created Equal (Donʼt Skip This) 7 Ride & Love it OR Weʼll Buy it Back (Exclusive 30 Day Guarantee) 10 USED Surfboards... Be Careful... PLEASE 11 Beginners - Where to start 13 Stable Surf System and why itʼs important for beginners 13 Height & Weight = Length & Thickness 13 The Perfect Surfboard for ALL Beginners 14 “Transition-ers” - What Surfboard is Next? 16 Stable Surf System and why itʼs important for you 16 Height & Weight = Length & Thickness 16 Popular Transition Surfboards 16 Youth (Groms) 18 Surfboards - The Basics 19 Surfboard Construction 19 Poly (Traditional Glass) vs Epoxy 19 Pop-out VS Machine Shaped VS Hand-Shaped 23 Board Shapes 24 Stand Up Paddle Board 24 Longboard (Malibu or Mals) 25 Mini-Longboards (Mini-Mals) 25 Funboards 26 Hybrids 26 Fish 27 Shortboards 27 Copyright © 2010 Degree33 a division of Incite LLC - All rights reserved 2 Foam or Soft Top 28 Essential Surfboard Accessories 29 Leashes 29 Bags 30 Wax 31 Ding Repair 32 Rash Guard/Wetsuit 32 Traction 33 Surf Racks 33 Surfboards - The Next Level of Understanding 34 Width 34 Thickness 34 Nose Shapes 34 Tail Shapes 35 Squash or Square 35 Rounded Pin 35 Fish or Swallow 35 Fin Setups 35 Thruster (Classic 3 fin) 35 Quad 35 2+1 35 Single 36 Concaves 36 Single 36 V-Type 36 Nose 36 Single to Double 36 Flat or No Reference or Unknown 36 Summary 37 Copyright © 2010 Degree33 a division of Incite LLC - All rights reserved 3 Intro - Who is this guide for? Surfing isn't just another sport. Surfing is lifestyle. Surfing is a tribe of people that understand that when you're in the water... everything is right. It doesn't matter what else is going on, it's just you, the board, and your maker. There's something very "cleansing" about that. It's the one activity that is rejuvenating, active, and yet so centering at the same time. Surfing is one of those things that once you've tasted the fruit, all you do is crave it. Itʼs an inexpensive way to enjoy your exercise (you spend the money once and then the surfing is free the rest of the time), reduce your stress, and bring you closer to that place when time stands still and everything is right. Our goal with this guide is to either introduce, re-introduce, or bring you up current with all the latest tested trends in surfing. Regardless of whether you have been MIA from the surfing world for a while, are a regular, or never even seen the ocean but want to learn how to surf, this guide will give you all the details you need to make that next step. If youʼre brand new to the surfing world it can be a little overwhelming. New vocabulary, new equipment, and new experiences mean that there is a lot of info for you to digest. Reading this guide will open up the surfing world and reveal everything from where to start and what to expect when youʼre just getting going to even more advanced info if youʼre really a technical guy. Honestly, the best way to to use this guide is going to be to just read the whole thing. Weʼll cover the basics to more advanced info. If youʼve been out of the loop for a while and youʼre needing to get caught up with all the latest trends, this guide is for you too. Maybe youʼre trying to figure out what this epoxy thing is all about, or what the benefits to a quad fin setup is... regardless of the info youʼre looking for, the best way for you to digest this guide is to use the table of contents and just read the sections that you need a refresher on. Itʼs also possible that youʼre someone who surfs all the time and just looking for that next step but donʼt know all the elements of a surfboard you need to consider for that magic stick... and if thatʼs you, let us help you navigate all the things you need to look at. This guide is definitely for you, and weʼll cover the many attributes to a surfboard. With all that said, without further ado, hereʼs Surfboards 101. Copyright © 2010 Degree33 a division of Incite LLC - All rights reserved 4 Who We Are and What We’re About When I was looking at surfboards for the first time I remember how frustrating it was to get all the information that I needed to pick the right surfboard. I looked on multiple websites trying to gather all the details to make a good decision. IT TOOK FOREVER!! I knew there had to be a better way to not only find all the details that I needed to consider, but also a good solution to buy the right surfboard once I figured out what that would be... but I just couldn't find it out there. We are not like other surfboard companies. We are here to pass our low overhead discounts on to you. Why would you go to a retail surf shop and pay $300 - $500 MORE for a surfboard when you don't need to? We couldn't think of a good answer either. That's why we started Degree33 Surfboards. Let me tell you a story... Late in 2005 we moved down to San Diego, CA to chase the California dream... live where it was warm and surf our brains out. The only problem was that buying new surfboards when we got down here was a nightmare. We went to both online and retail surf shops, looked on eBay, checked out Craigslist, and any other classified places you can think of, trying to find good surfboards without paying a fortune. And you know what we found out? If you wanted to buy new surfboards from a retail shop you were going to spend anywhere from $600 to $900. If you wanted to buy a used surfboard, you were still going to pay anywhere from $300 to $500, unless the surfboard was in really bad shape. We decided there had to be a better way. So we took the next 11 months, did our research, and found out that we could get high quality, hand shaped surfboards, at a fraction of the cost. But there was a catch... we had to come up with A LOT of cash to make it happen. We had to get materials... hire shapers to cut the lines... get an artist to come up with some killer graphics. No easy task for anyone, let alone newlywed surfers. So here's what we did... Copyright © 2010 Degree33 a division of Incite LLC - All rights reserved 5 We partnered with our parents (thanks Mom and Dad), the bank, and other big name surf companies to start our online surf shop, Degree33 Surfboards. Not so that we could get rich, but so that we could share the love. Listen, Iʼm just like you. Iʼm not a pro, I donʼt need the $1000 board to surf on, I certainly donʼt care if I surf on the exact same board that I see in the mags, in fact, Iʼm probably not good enough to surf on that stuff anyways. Iʼm just a regular guy that loves to surf and wanted to get a good board at a good price. We thought it just wasn't right that the retail surf shops were charging so much for a new piece of fiberglass and foam called a surfboard. Neither of these things cost much money, why did a surfboard cost so much... especially since the majority of surfboards get made by the same team of shapers that I use? OVERHEAD! Employees to pay, lights to keep on, rent to pay... the list goes on. So we cut out the overhead, and went straight to the factory so that we could pass our savings on to you. No really, we started this little business in our home, selling surfboards out of our little 1 bedroom apt... talk about keeping the overhead low... at one point we had 97 surfboards in our apt and people coming to pick up stuff everyday! It was a circus! We since have moved on from there (Hollyʼs excited about not having surfboards surrounding the kitchen table :) because we have grown in popularity really fast. We still manage to keep our overhead low and promise to continue to offer great surfboards at a great price... you just wont be coming to my house anymore to pick it up. :) So that's our story. I hope it helps you know a little bit about us and in some way makes you feel a little more comfortable about doing business with us, because in all honesty, we did this for you. Copyright © 2010 Degree33 a division of Incite LLC - All rights reserved 6 All Surfboards are NOT Created Equal (Don’t Skip This) Don’t buy a surfboard without “Stable Surf System” Stable Surf System is our unique combination of concaves (bottom conture), rails (sides), nose shapes, tail shapes, rocker, fin setups and other surfboard design elements, all working together to make the most stable, versatile, and maneuverable surfboards available.
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