San Onofre is a good testing ground for these particular surfboards. Photo: YouTube//Screenshot
San Onofre is a fantastic place. The vibes there are just about as surfy as surfy gets. The waves are not exactly fantastic, but with the right surfboard on the right day, there’s a lot of fun to be had. Hell, even if you have the wrong surfboard on the wrong day, SanO is such a fantastic place that it’s hard not to have fun. Kevin Schulz, Firewire’s resident board tester, recently took two Rob Machado shapes down to have a little test drive — and he had fun.
The surfboards he brought were a stock 5’2″ Too Fish and a stock 5’2″ Machadocado. Both made for waves not of consequence, but for the everyday surfer in everyday waves. Schulz, of course, is a little better than the everyday surfer, and he had some thoughts.
“While both shapes have similar outlines, volumes, and are both best-suited for small-wave sessions,” he said, “the Too Fish is your choice when you want to stay cruisey and go down-the-line, and the Machadocado is your choice for more performance and versatility.”
These two surfboards in particular are a good representation of the shift from slanging high-performance sleds that the pros ride in the best waves on Earth to slanging sleds made more for the Average Joe. Unless you’re one of those pros surfing the best waves on Earth, it benefits you to ride something a little more suited to both the conditions and your skill level.
Proof? Hit play.
