Inflatable Surfboards? Pump It Up

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Rant - Inflatable Surfboards? Pump It Up

Anyone who has ever traveled with a surfboard can attest to the suffocating anxiety that accompanies turning one of your most prized possessions over to a baggage handler. It’s not pretty. I’ve seen boards destroyed, board bags melted, and heard countless other horror stories of airlines mishandling equipment. Moreover, it’s hard to come to terms with the heartache associated with sacrificing hard-earned money to get your stick a seat in the cargo area of a plane. One hundred fifty dollars each way? Really, Delta? I swear that guy just loaded a 125 lb. German Shepherd and full set of golf clubs for free. C’mon!

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rant by burro
4 comments

sandcastle
22 weeks ago

I highly doubt it. But I could be wrong.

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piss_shiver
22 weeks ago

"Comedy Editor"

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paddleout
22 weeks ago

interesting concept. Assuming this really exists, it still looks like a terrible board. Beats nothing, I suppose, although that's probably what it is.

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broughten
22 weeks ago

I've seen people use inflatable SUPs on the river around here for downriver SUPing. But then I've seen those same people take those same SUPs into the standing wave at Glenwood -- a wave which is stout enough to surf a shortboard on -- and those inflatable SUPs just plain suck. They bounce around and bend and have no rail. They're also about 4 inches thick. Downscaling them and making them more rigid seems highly unlikely.

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