How to Buy a Bodyboard

Learning how to buy the right bodyboard can be tricky. But there are a few easy tips that can get you shredding in no time.

Buy Right

1. Is your bodyboard the correct size? Stand your board at your feet and make sure the top of your bodyboard comes just about to your belly button.

This insures your board is large enough to float you and small enough to be maneuvered.

Buy Smart

2. Don't blow your cash on a big budget bodyboard, but stay away from Wal-Mart cheapos too. Buying a bodyboard that is too cheap is essentially useless since it will not last and not ride properly.

Listen to your Friends

3. Check out what your friends are riding or look at what the shredders at your local break are riding. This is solid since more experienced riders have already made their bodyboard buying mistakes.