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Roy, are you suggesting that heavier board and/or rider will go faster than a lighter board/rider merely because they are heavier? If so, then please forgive my ignorance, but I thought this rather mistaken notion was dispensed with by Galilei Galileo several centuries ago! A heavier board rider wi...

Nice one Flexman. Strictly speaking though, that surfcraft consists of George and his mat combined, so we should say that the craft weighs one G. Greenough + 16oz. Are you a flex freak? (I am).

Kneeboards are faster on both a subjective and an objective level. To show that kneeboards are faster than standup boards you would have to demonstrate that a surfboard designed for kneeling will always have a better thrust/drag ratio than a surfboard designed for standing. I very much doubt that k...

Pumping per se does not necessarily increase your speed. Some board designs require pumping to attain THEIR maximum speed in certain situations, but that is an idiosyncrasy of that particular design, nothing more. Surfboards do have a Terminal Velocity, that is, a maximum possible speed they can po...

Roy, I do believe there is a cap on velocity for a given wave. You may want to read the thread "20 statements re tri vs quad..." in the Kneeboard Design section. Start at about page 10 or so. I understand that max velocity would be acheived in freefall of the wave being ridden, ie the lea...

From the friction point of view the kneeboarder definitely has an advantage due to a low profile and thus less wind resistance. I was wondering about differences in technique between kneeling and standing. An obvious difference is that a front facing posture gives excellent rail to rail control, bet...

From what I gather there is a cap on the velocity that any waverider can achieve on a given wave. This is a really interesting thread. I hope that you won't mind me pointing out that there is no 'cap' on the speed which can be achieved on a given wave. The maximum speed which can be achieved on a g...