Now your phone is your designer.
Ever wondered how much your surfing would improve if you had access to the same boards as the pros? BoardLine, a new free appthat will adapt a pro’s actual board to your own body, just launched.”From a given pro model, BoardLine scales it, conserving all its proportions and shapes, so your weight and the board’s volume come in at the same ratio as for the pro surfers,” the company says. It takes into account your weight, technical ability, and surfing frequency. In the future, the company plans to suggest where users can buy the boards BoardLine computes for them.
BoardLine calculates a board model for you used by the pros, potentially giving everyday surfers access design inspiration professionals are getting from some of the top shapers in the world. Their innovation raises the question, if the everyday surfer is given a board designed for a professional, what happens? BoardLine thinks by providing everyday surfers with models inspired by professional boards, they will help everyday surfers improve their surfing. But board shape is meant to help a surfer improve their performance, and professionals need less help in their design, so are professional board models really going to help everyday surfers improve?
