A soft surfboard or “foamie” makes a perfect beginners surfboard because it has everything you need to succeed when learning to surf, including lots of volume and buoyancy for stability, and a soft foam outer to help prevent bruises and bangs as you learn to control your surfboard.

The Osprey 8’ foamie range is the best all round beginner’s soft surfboard, and the perfect length for adults, teenagers and older children, making it the perfect family surfboard.

Starting on a beginner’s surfboard, like an 8’ Osprey foamie, can help your surfing progress even faster as you will find it easier to catch waves and more waves means more practice, and with more practice you have quicker progression. The large volume surfboard will also have better stability when surfing.

Osprey foam surfboards have integral wooden stringers to strengthen and stiffen the lightweight EPS core, with a closed cell foam construction which means your surfboard won’t absorb water if it takes too much rough treatment while learning to surf.

The surfboard deck is covered in a soft foam to give you protection from bangs and bruises, and has a semi-smooth finish for better traction – you just need a small amount of surfboard wax. The bottom side of the surfboard is a smooth, durable, plastic “slick” for better hydrodynamics, to give your soft surfboard greater glide and speed on a wave.

The Osprey Wood collection of foam surfboards comes in a range of sizes and different tail shapes, with a blue wood grain print and stringer pinstripes, for a retro surfboard design which disguises you beginner foamie surfboard as a vintage classic.