Surfboard bags are something of a major industry, these days – designer surfboard bags, multi-board surfboard bags, travel surfboard bags, hard surfboard bags, soft surfboard bags:  the list is as endless as a roster of practical applications and clever marketing ideas allows.  So how is a person supposed to pick the right one?  If there are 300 surfboard bags on offer, ranging in price from a few quid to half a grand, how do you know which one is best for you?

A good rule of thumb when picking surfboard bags:  you get what you pay for.  It’s a hard thing to say in an age of overloaded consumerism (particularly when we’re talking about a sport that is supposed to be about freedom), but surfboard bags made by people you’ve never heard of are probably rubbish.  And rubbish surfboard bags mean broken boards.  Pick a name you know, preferably a name associated only with the construction of surfboard bags and board hardware.  Surfboard bags made by people who also produce trendy hoodies and beach shorts are not reliable.

Don’t let yourself be swayed into purchasing surfboard bags full of features you’ll never use.  Yes – full-on travel surfboard bags are great, if you’re trying to transport three very breakable sticks halfway round the world to an island where the nearest thing you’ll find to a board repair kit is a coconut.  You don’t need hardcore travel surfboard bags to drive to the UK coast on Bank Holiday Monday.  Your Bank Holiday surf needs surfboard bags that don’t take up much room but do protect stacked board from hurting each other – sock style surfboard bags for the little fellers and midrange dayrunners for the big guns.  Buying surfboard bags with any more intended use than these for average, everyday surfing is a total waste of money.  Money, indeed, that could be spent on wax and petrol.

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