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Mariah Almond is an Amiga from Texas who came to the Philippines for her third retreat with Surf With Amigas. We’ve watched her surfing seriously improve over the last couple of years. During this trip she was shredding. She credits a lot of her performance to her awesome surfboard which she has named “lady parts”. It’s modeled after an Al Merrick Sperm Whale but sized down for a lady.
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Picking the right surfboard can be challenging. Ideally you’d test drive before you buy, but unfortunately that’s rarely an option. I get a lot of ladies asking me for advice on the perfect board. It seems that most advanced beginners (someone who can paddle beyond the whitewash and is trying to catch green waves) are dealing with similar issues. They want to be able to ride a board small enough to duckdive but big enough to allow them to catch a wave.
That perfect combination can be a tricky thing to find. I often see ladies picking boards that are too small for them just so that they can duckdive, but what good is getting out past the whitewash if the board is too small to get them into waves?
The solution: get a Rusty Dwart!
The Dwart is a surfboard model by Rusty Surfboards that is relatively short, wide, and thick. It’s short enough to duckdive, but still wide enough to have sufficient volume for paddling into waves and gliding across mushy sections. Most Dwarts come with 5 fin boxes so you can experiment with the fast and loose feel of a quad setup, or the traditional but stiffer tri-fin.
See video above for Lindsay talking about why she loves her Dwart as she shreds on wave after wave in El Salvador.
If you want to see why I love my Dwart, click play below!
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