Cause l can not seem to find a decent board.
l mean, l can rip like alien with a really light board and it is f'n fantastic, but it will be broken within a week!!!!!
(l even broke one while duck-diving a heavy slab once!!!how is that for breakin ya balls?)

And most boards are just a tad too heavy...boring....

l hope, in the future, they will be manufactured in a ''super aluminum'' type fabric.... (sorry for shapers)

yea

This may help you.

Ever since the end of Clark Foam in 2005, the surf market has been flooded with new technology, & its not just epoxy & PU anymore.To break usage down:

P/U: 70%
Epoxy (Individually shaped, EPS or XTR constrution) 6%
Sandwhich Molded (aka Surftech, Placebo, NSP) 22%
High-End Composite (Firewire, Aviso, TL2) 2%

Clark Foam pretty much provided 90% ( l am guessing) of all PU blanks. No one company can match Clark is (rumored) 1000 blanks a day, & most shapers r buying from at least two different shapers. Do not get me wrong, there is no shortage of foam, just not a supreme king company like Clark. PU boards, in my opinion, have better flex than epoxy boards, though they r a lot less durable. You will get a lot more pressure dents & dings with a PU than an epoxy. Rely on ur PU, use ur epoxy for fun.

But with Clark is closing, there is probably been about a ten percent increase in all other technologies. Most increased would be sandwhich molded, where the market has always been reliable just not big enough, until late 2005. These boards, like Tuflite etc, r reliable & durable, & therefore their long life makes them popular among beginners, & some r priced accordingly.

Epoxy is tricky. A lot of surfers r reluctant to switch from PU to epoxy (EPS, XTR), even with Preisendorfer pushing 40% in his EPS production, & others like .Lost & Channel Islands making a big switch. In addition, the majority of epoxy boards post-Clark have been custom orders, there is just not a huge market out for it. In general, epoxy boards r stiffer (absence of a stringer) & more durable. Also, a bunch have Future Fins, which allow for less flex in the tail.

High-End composites such as Firewire, etc, r pretty expensive, & with Soloman gone, Firewire, Aviso, & TL2 r fighting to be top. At least in the US. Australian imports like DHD, JS & Chilli r a cheaper alternative. l do not know much about how they ride though.

As far as l know, pro is do not have any ''top secret'' boards, then again, l would not know if they did. But l do not think there is any uniform type of board used by all pro's. What l can tell u is that they r mostly all custom boards, not pop-outs.

Yeah, epoxy. You have to work pretty hard to break one. my best friend has had the same epoxy board for 2 or 3 years, and l have not noticed a scratch on it. There a bit more expensive, but it is worth it if your buying new boards every week.

most pros use fibre glass because of performance reasons.

dont know but my board is a bic board wich is almost indistructable and pretty light

No, they just go through 100 boards a year.