SURFER TRIGGER WARNING ⚠️ Surfboard Volume Challenged By 40 Year Shaping Legend Glenn Pang

This was so informative and easy to understand! Gonna treat myself to a custom board next season and will definitely refer back to this video!

Glenn DID NOT say that volume doesn't matter that much... Contrary to the title and T&C guy. What Glenn said was you can't specify desired dimensions/shape AND volume separately... They are related. Volume is indeed important...

All good , I am 58 and 195 so in my case if I don’t get the volume I won’t catch enough waves. That is my 40 plus years experience riding waves.

At around seven minutes, he says he would go wider and thicker for a heavier surfer of the same height. Isn’t that just the same as increasing volume? Doing that will definitely add volume. Seems like he’s splitting hairs.

if anyone doesn’t get this, any board at any (specific) dimensions is essentially a piece of ‘space’. ie you can not have 3ftx3ftx3ft cube which does not have a volume of 9 cubic ft. its just with surfboards we measure the volume in litres instead of cubic feet/inches which confuses things.

This is the best explanation I’ve seen for changing dimensions on a surfboard. I’ve surfed a lot in the last 10 years (tried to work it out over 30+ different boards) but I still haven’t made sense of it in my head even after speaking to all the experts I’ve met along the way.

When I order a board, I always tell the shaper to make the board feel thin, but be on the thicker side, and to keep it so the width makes it loose but is also has a really stable feeling, like the board is wide... I usually include, that I want the board to feel really light, but be strong with a big stringer and extra glass, but I mostly just listen to the shaper and what he suggests

Great video in the last 12 months ive ridden boards from 29 litres all the way to 40l but and they all worked for the purpose they were designed for. Then you throw in rocker and you can get a 34l board that paddles better than a 40l board.

I'm 6'4 230 65yrs old Started riding a monster at 60. Board 8"10 4" thick pulled in nose tail quad. What a difference the board made flys turns. Starter riding longboards at at 55 along with my short boards 7.0 7.6 Now i exclusively ride my monsta. Catch wave pumping turing so different than longboard. Old man hotdog model 😊

This has to be the best explanation of surfboard design VS volume.

Super helpful! Fun quick watch and great points addressed. Mahalo T&C!

Volume definitely matters to an extent. It's a handy reference point to work around regarding what works for you regarding your weight, ability etc. Volume of course is always determined by the dimensions of a board, which may not be obvious to everybody.

I have a swear jar in my workshop. The only word that customers have to pay for is ''volume''! I made a buddy of mine who's a bit of a heavier build a 6'2 quad with a pretty wide square tail as he kept sinking narrower tails on his pop up and killing all his speed by the time he got to his feet. The board works well for him with that wide tail. A few weeks late another buddy asked if I could make the same board for him but with less volume. I told him ''no worries, I'll just shape it exactly the same but I'll give it a fish tail and then it'll have less volume as most of the tail foam will be removed''. He didn't want that, obviously, but he couldn't tell me where he wanted the volume removed from. Not the tail, so then what, the centre point, the chest, the nose, the width, the length?! In the end, we agreed that instead of shaping it at 2 3/4'' I'd shape it at 2 1/2'' at the same width and in this conversation the lesson was learn't that thickness, width and length are more important and accurate specifications that ''volume'', especially if you have no clue where you want volume placed or taken away from.

Thank you guys this was super informative and so cool to watch!! it helps with the visualization perfectly

Super interesting and useful explanations about the scientific technicalities of board design!

I think saying volume doesn't matter is a little bit unfair. I think it's a useful rough guideline because for a lot of us it's difficult to know exactly what length/width/thickness we need, especially if you're getting a quiver for different waves/conditions. If you know you usually ride 28-32 liters, then you can use that as a guideline and fine tune from there depending on the model and specific waves you want to surf.

Most detailed video about this subject. Great job!

I'm so happy to see this video with clear explanation. The volume discussions made me crazy. Thank you for making this great video.

Finally !! A great video that simplifies Dims/ vol

Yewww, sick video T&C! Cool hearing Glenn's perspective.