First off, this board is for surfing chest to double head high waves. If you are primarily doing something else you want a different board. On bigger waves you want a gun and on smaller you want a longboard. On flat water you want a down winder. But if you are a bigger person and you want to aggressively surf reasonable sized waves on a SUB this is your board and nothing else really comes close.

Its counter intuitive, but if you are around 180+ lbs you want to buy the shorter 9'3. Its thicker so it actually displaces more water and that means it floats bigger people. the longer 9'6 is thinner and the one to go for if you are closer to 160 than 180.

I'm sitting at 210 lbs right now, bought this board when I was 200 lbs (gained muscle mass from paddling it. yeah!). On calm water and clean surf it is totally do-able if you are an intermediate 200 lbs paddler or a beginner 180 pounder. On choppy water you need a little more skill, but once you have it down you will never want to go back.

Pro Tip: This board loves a quad fin set up, look to buy a set of Controller (for smaller waves) or Gerry Lopez (for bigger waves) quad fins to go with it at some point. They make a huge difference over the stand fins.

Summary: If you weight between 180-225 lbs and want to surf a stand up board you buy this board in the 9'3 size and put some quad fins on it. It is the only option worth considering besides a custom board. If you weight less than 180 the 9'6 is a good choice but there are some other good choices out there to research.

With cellphones these days the only reason to own a watch is as a conversation starter. Nixon seems to understand that. You'll have to decide for yourself if this watch is your style. I will say that the leather panels do tend to come off. I'd recommend a preemptive dab of super glue to make sure they don't come off unexpectedly. If you are feeling real crafty you could just peel them off and design your own panels. I did some out of butterfly wings and resin that really upped the conversation factor, which is the whole point anyway. The battery seems to go fairly quickly on these watches for some reason, I think I've replaced mine twice in 2 1/2 years.

I've put 10 days on my legacy-r and at this point it is the best board I've ever owned. It's stable at any speed and holds edges on any terrain. Having owned top of the line boards from burton, lib-tech, arbor, K2 and others I can say that the rocker that Never Summer has put in on their boards is the most significant improvement I have seen in snowboard development in the past 5 years. The fact that Never Summer gives a 3 year warranty can't be over looked either. I went back and forth between this and Lib Tech's skunk ape and it was Never Summer's warranty that sold me. I loved my old Lib Tech but it was dead after a season and a half. With the rocker keeping your nose and tail up you can go down a size and not get bogged down in powder. Or you can keep the same size and hit powder like you were on a larger board, which is what I would recommend.