Step it up Mate
In a surfing world where boards are getting shorter, wider, and weirder — we go the other way and probe the idea of riding a slightly longer board (aka a step-up) and what that might do to improve our technique.
When I was a young competing grom I’d often jump on my longest board a couple days out from competition. The premise was that the bigger and generally heavier board was harder to turn, required a fuller extension of the rail for complete turns and when switching back, the shorter board would feel faster, looser and more manoeuvrable by comparison. The exercise seemed to work in principle back then, but we wondered if it still held true in this modern surfing age we find ourselves in.
