One of the worst feelings to experience whilst surfing is the sensation of your board buckling beneath you–whether (attempting to) land an air or taking a heavy wave on the dome. It hurts even more when the board, up until that point, rode like magic in the form of foam and fiberglass. Jack Robinson recently had an equipment snafu, when his board snapped in half after hitting the lip on an air attempt, seen below in his latest TikTok vid:
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Thankfully, guys like Robbo have plenty of back-up sticks on tap in the event of such breakage. Still, never fun to wreck a board that’s working well.