Symmetrical Surfboards

[knee-rider]

Hi --- I have seen NOT only in the shortboard designs but now also in the Kneeboard world the development of the symmetrical hull shapes slowly appearing on the market.
I was wondering from a design and riding point of view --
WOULDN'T A SYMMETRICAL HULL favour riding a board on a face of a wave more on one side then the other????

By the same token if you have buy a board in the northern hemisphere where waves are predominantly oriented in one direction wouldn't it be useless to travel with this type of board in the Southern Hemisphere where waves break predominantly in a different/opposite direction

Get it??? Hope i've explained myself well enough
Anybody can enlighten me on this Symmetrical Hull design????

[joe]

Lots of discussion on Asymmetric shapes below.

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http://www.swaylocks.com/forums/unoffic ... sign-forum

http://www.surfresearch.com.au/1978_McT ... g_p38.html

[analbirth]

yeah the waves break upside down here too

[Andy]

Ive been looking at assymetric designs on the net for a bit. For standups, the theory seems to revolve around the difference in feeling between toeside and heelside, eg a goofyfooter going left would be doing a bottom turn with his toeside/left rail and going right he would bottom turn with his heelside/right rail.

Where this makes less sense to me is that aforesaid goofyfoot surfer will be using his toeside for bottom turns going left but the same rail for top turns going right.

Us kneelos (unless you have an assymetric stance) should only really need assymetric boards if you surf a wave which is predominantly left or right only.

I go left 99.9% of the time so this concept definitely interests me.

cheers

Andy

PS Im in the southern hemisphere. Dunno if thats a factor