Best Shortstick Surfboard 5'6

This Best Tri-Fin Surfboards will help you make your surfing as much fun as possible. The Short Stick features a subtle bottom concave to help balance fin drive and rail bite, allowing you to maximize edge-to-edge control for harder, tighter carving.

The 5'6" Shortstick is more of an all-around board for everyday sloppy-choppy conditions and lighter riders. A thinner Progressive Rail helps reduce bounce in choppy conditions, while the Swallow Tail is perfectly suited to work in waves up to head high increasing paddling power and drive in smaller waves. A touch of Fish in the board outline and extending the waist towards the front foot helps to maximize stability and low wind ability, allowing you to ride a smaller, more responsive kite and make the most of every session. This also helps with board control when doing strapless airs.

Seamlessly constructed with a lightweight EPS core, the 5'6" Shortstick benefit from Tactical Glass reinforcements that provide ding resistance to the upper deck and rails. Center line inserts give you the option of riding the board strapped for more control in heavy conditions or riding strapless for a purer surf feel.

A UV-resistant surface finish that sheds water for reduced drag providing you with a durable finish that will last and last. With the proven durability of our production board designs, blended with the ride you'd expect from your favorite pure-surf short board shaper, the 5'6" Shortstick delivers.

The Shortstick surfboard is intended for strapless riding. They come with high performance fins using the FCS attachment system and fitted rear deck-pad. A front deck-pad is included in the package for riders who wish to fit this and their own choice of straps for strapped riding. Foot strap screw is a M6X23 Stainless.

Dimensions: 5'6" x 18.5" x 2"

Best Short Stick Features:

Eps Wave Core:
Offering the perfect blend of flow and drive, our EPS Wave Core takes foam core waveboard design to the next level. An optimized stiffness-to-density ratio delivers outstanding handling and feedback whatever size waves you ride, giving the feel of a hand-shape board with production board durability. The reduced density of an EPS core also gives you bigger board float from a reduced volume board.

Progressive Rail:
A progressively tuned tip to tail rail profile reduces drag whenever you ride the board hard on the fins, helping with easy planing and aiding stability. Reducing the rail curvature across the length of the board also provides improved handling in choppy conditions, reducing bounce and making strapless riding as easy as possible

Thruster Tri-fin:
A tri-fin thruster set-up provides control for carving without having to trade stability at speed. With less fin drag than a quad-fin set-up, the Thruster fin set-up provides an ideal balance of performance and maneuverability for riders who want a powerful, hard carving surfboard-feel underfoot.

Squashed tail outline:
The Swallow Tail is perfectly suited to work in waves up to head high, as it helps increase paddling power and drive in smaller waves. A touch of Fish in the board outline and extending the waist towards the front foot helps to maximize stability and low wind ability, allowing you to ride a smaller, more responsive kite and make the most of every session.

Tactical Glass patches:
A 200gsm Tactical glass patch covers 3/4 of the upper deck surface of both the Shortstick and Spacekraft surfboards providing outrageous ding-resistance without piling on the pounds. Our EPS core and carefully selected glass lay-up provide a more ding resistance deck surface than a typical hand-shaped board, while weighing considerably less than a typical pop-out board.

Surf Deck inserts:
Different riders want different set-ups and the Shortstick provides just that. It can be ridden either fully strapped, or with a front strap and back pad, or completely strapless with a back pad and waxed deck. Our discreet Surf-Insert setup gives you the flexibility to rig your board however you want, without compromising the strength of the board or its feel underfoot by using large insert blocks.