The first factor that is commonly thought of when finding the proper volume for a surfer is the surfer’s weight. Surfboard Volume according to your Weight Riding a board that doesn’t have enough volume for your weight and skill level will make you look like you surf worse than you do. Less experienced surfers will lose speed as soon as they surf outside the “sweet spot” (steep area on the waves face that provides more power). To ride small surfboards, you need the experience to catch waves later, at a steeper stage. Less foam means slower paddling and surfing. Not enough volume = Doesn’t float enough. It makes it difficult to dig a rail in the water when carving. Advanced surfers will find it harder to go from edge to edge on a board that floats too much for their skill level. Once you have enough experience to start doing turns and manoeuvers, you realize that bigger boards are harder to move around. Floating more means you will paddle faster, catch waves faster with less effort, and surf faster down the line. How much you float on your surfboard changes everything: how fast you paddle, how the board turns, how many waves you catch, how the board keeps its speed in weaker waves, etc. Why is your surfboard’s volume so important? Because it determines how buoyant the board is. As you look towards the nose and the tail, surfboards have different widths and thicknesses. The reason for this is that the board’s width and thickness are only measured at the widest and thickest point of the surfboards. In fact, two boards can have the exact same dimensions but have different volumes (see example below)Īs you can see on this example above, these two surfboards have the same length, the same width and the same thickness, but have very different volumes. By simply looking at length, width and thickness, you can’t really know if a surfboard is right for you.
For example, a 6’1 shortboard can have less volume than a 5’2 board designed for small waves. A surfboard might look big, have a lot of width, thickness and length, but still not have much volume. “So, this means that I must check the surfboard’s length, width and thickness?” At Barefoot Surf Travel, we very commonly hear novice surfers focusing on the length of a surfboard when estimating what surfboard could be right for them: “I’ve been riding a 7’2, but I think I’m ready to try a 6’8…” While length is important and does affect the volume, it’s only one of the many factors that affect the surfboard’s buoyancy. Understanding volume is the best way for you to evaluate how big your surfboards really are.
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