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Kolohe Andino (our noble Stab High Japan judge) at the start of this year's Stab in the Dark. Photo: Nate Lawrence

What’s The Best Surfboard You’ve Ridden This Year?

Send us a pic, and you might win a new custom.

premium // Oct 15, 2024
Words by Stab
Reading Time: 2 minutes

We posted this questionaire a few weeks before our annual Audience Survey. They are two seperate surveys — and this one is much shorter. Some of you may have already taken this. Most of you have not.

If you have taken it (and submitted a photo of your magic board) then we’ve automatically entered your name in the running to win a free new surfboard. If you haven’t taken it yet, click here to help us understand which surfboards are truly working for our community — and to enter the giveaway.

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Surfboards are a centerpiece of our lives — if only in the metaphysical form.

We talk about the hits too much, but we have Stab in the Dark (watch here), Electric Acid (coming soon!), Joyride, and a zillion stories on site focusing on the boards of surfers both everyday and elite.

But there’s only so much testing we can do. Only so many designs we can declare the best that year. So, we wanted to hear from you in granular detail. What are you riding? And more importantly, what are you loving?

Coco and Mason Ho on set for their iteration of Electric Acid Surfboard Test

The goal of this survey is to figure out which singular surfboard model connects for you and see how different board models trend around different parts of the world. It’s a flawed science, we understand*, but asking our entire audience to share what board has worked best for them in the past 12 or so months is fascinating to us surf dorks (if it’s three years old, that’s fine too).

Shaun Manners, preparing for work.

We appreciate your help and we’ll start crunching the numbers — keep an eye out for the full article in the near future. Also, so this isn’t skewed by surfboard brands or individuals trying to sway results, we need you to upload a photo of your favorite board. We also like to see what kinda grip and wax setup you roll with…

We appreciate your help. Thanks!

Click Here To Fill Out The 2024 Stab Surfboard Survey — and enter yourself to win a free surfboard

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