Epoxy Surfboards: 5 Reasons Why NO Beginner Should Be In The Water Without One

Everyone knows that when you’re learning to surf, you start off on a longboard. What people seem to forget is that it should be an EPOXY longboard. Epoxy surfboards are perfectly suited for new surfers. Here’s why:

1. Epoxy surfboards are lighter than fiberglass: when you’re new to surfing, THE. HARDEST. PART. is always paddling out through the waves so you can start surfing. With a heavier surfboard, it’ll take you more energy to paddle out—and that’s energy you could be using to rip up waves

2. On a related note, epoxy surfboards have an easier time catching waves. Since paddling takes you further and faster than on an alternative surfboard, it should be much more consistent in its wave catching.

3. Consistency is what you want, and nothing says consistency like an epoxy surfboard. Because its so easy to paddle and balance, you’ll have more time to pay attention to wave patterns, timing your wave catching, and the whole gauntlet of other unique challenges that come with surfing.

4. Epoxy surfboards are durable. It’s hard learning how to manage a 8ft+ behemoth of a surfboard for the first time. Understandably, your board will be spending a lotta time smacking into all kinds of things: your car frame, rocks, other people. This kind of treatment will WRECK your fiberglass surfboard. Your epoxy, will take the hits like a champ—probably a scratch or two at most.

5. Never buy another surfboard (unless you want to). The extra durability of an epoxy board means that you’ll be able to ride your surfboard for as many years as you want and NEVER have to retire your board because its sustained too much damage.