Boards

I’m doing this post on the different board shapes and types because I mentioned that you need other boards for the different weather conditions. 
 
Longboards are mainly used for when the surf is down and shortboards are for bigger waves and are used for more fancy tricks as they are nippier and more manoeuvrable than the long boards. Starter boards are usually foam and then you move on to fiberglass coatings to make them more lightweight and to make them glide. When making a surfboard you start off with a foam blank, give it a fiberglass coating and finally finish it with an epoxy resin. Epoxy is defined by Wikipedia as:
 
‘A common name for a type of strong adhesive used for sticking things together and covering surfaces, typically two resins that need to be mixed together before use.’
 
The old Hawaiian boards were just like flattened cylinders with one end square as seen in my last blog post.