5/23/2023 0 Comments Running on Empty by L.B. Simmons![]() I wanted just a hair more volume, I’m 230lbs on a good day (short, fat, and draggy (me, not the board)). Then, around my birthday in March, I started thinking about ways to “get my mini on”…my lovely wife Kathy said “Get it, you’ve been drooling over it all winter, go ahead and order it, for your birthday, for god’s sake order it!” So I did, put in my order for a 6’6” Mini Simmons. I hemmed and hawed, and researched a good portion of the winter while I surfed my short board (10’2” Austin Blunt), and my longboard (11’0” Austin Soul Glide). I looked at the Simmons in the shop, and started talking to Austin about it. It is a beautiful shape, simple, and elegant, and still futuristic looking more than fifty years after conception. My shaper Austin Saunders must have had the same idea, because out of nowhere, there appeared a white, 6’6”, Mini Simmons Planing Hull design over Christmas. ![]() I was interested in learning to ride a shorter board, just to broaden my surfing. ![]()
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