Soft flex or hard flex pattern ?

Flex enables the surfer to propel the board through a pumping action, this is well known.More flexibility gives greater deflection and a softer twang, the board takes more time to spring back.The advantage of this kind of flex is that it responds to even the most subtle weighting and unweighting movements, so that the board is in a constant springing motion even when it appears to be in trin with little happeningA very tight or hard flex response cannot utilise this range of more subtle input, and can only respond to very hard and aggressive input.A soft flex pattern is also able to respond to aggressive rider input, and gives the best of both worlds.More about this later.