User-friendly rocker
Medium Low nose rocker blends into low tail rocker, helping the board glide over flatter sections while retaining enough curve to surf vertically.
Pyzel White Tiger Surfboard
Pyzel Surfboards · Funformance
White Tiger
A short, wide Funformance shape built to catch waves easily, carry speed through weaker sections and still let you attack the lip.
Funformance 1–6ft Thruster · Quad · 5-Fin Beginner → Advanced
The White Tiger
A compact, high-volume Funformance shape built to catch waves easily, carry speed and keep everyday surf fun.
The White Tiger is a compact, stubby Funformance shape designed around making everyday waves easier and more enjoyable. Its very full nose and wide squash tail create plenty of surface area and lift, while the wide point sits 1½" forward of centre and the thickness is concentrated towards the front for extra paddle power.
The rocker is relatively flat and even through the board, helping it get up and moving quickly while carrying speed through weaker sections. Underneath, a single/double concave runs through the front two-thirds before transitioning into pronounced Vee/double concave through the fins and off the tail. This gives the wider outline plenty of lift while helping it roll from rail to rail and turn up into the lip without feeling cumbersome.
The relatively flat deck blends into tapered rails, keeping useful volume in the board while maintaining sensitivity through turns. The result is a short, lively board that can be ridden well below your normal shortboard length without losing the ability to pump, carve and attack the lip.
Wave Range 1–6ft
Designed to cover a broad range of everyday surf from points to reefs and beach breaks.
Rocker Medium
Medium Low nose rocker blends into a low tail rocker, allowing the board to glide easily and carry speed through flatter sections while still surfing vertically.
Bottom Single with Double → Deep Vee
A single/double concave runs into moderate Vee and four channels through the tail, helping the board roll from rail to rail with extra bite and release.
Fin Setup Twin
The White Tiger is a twin-fin-only design.
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Fast paddling, fast surfing and a loose twin-fin feel — the White Tiger is built to make weaker waves look more inviting.
Bob Gnarly White Tiger · Editorial Take
What makes it work
Easy speed first. Performance still very much included.
Pyzel's current description centres the White Tiger around its clean forward-wide outline, moderate rocker and Spiral Vee bottom. The idea is simple: paddle fast, generate speed easily and keep the board flowing through turns.
Fuller nose & wider tail
The wide point is 1½ inches forward of centre. The nose is very full and the squash tail is wide, with the tail only slightly wider than the nose. There is no hip.
Single with Double → Deep Vee
Single/double concave runs through the front two-thirds, transitioning into pronounced V/double concave through the final third. The Vee helps the wide outline tip from rail to rail at speed.
The shape
Stubby by design, serious about speed.
The outline is a long, clean curve with no hips or wings. Pyzel keeps the board wide-point-forward for stability and glide, while pulling the nose in slightly to add more curve and carve.
A rolled deck keeps the meat through the centre for paddling, while thinned-out rails add sensitivity and bite.
Outline Wide point 1½" forward of centre; very full nose and wide squash tail
Rocker Medium Low nose rocker blending into low tail rocker
Bottom Single with Double → Deep Vee
Deck & rails Relatively flat deck blending into tapered rails
Tail Wide squash tail
Why the White Tiger?
A fun board that still surfs like a shortboard.
The White Tiger is not simply an old-school twin template. The fin placement, pulled-in nose and added nose rocker were refined specifically to make the twin setup more controlled and useful in tighter sections.
Pyzel positions it from 1–6ft, with enough glide for weaker surf but enough response to handle long, lined-up waves and tighter pockets.
Who is the White Tiger for?
One stubby shape, a surprisingly broad range of surfers.
One board for a lot of conditions
The 1–6ft range and moderate rocker make the White Tiger a natural choice for smaller, weaker and more playful surf.
Ride it shorter, wider and fuller
Pyzel recommends riding the White Tiger 2–5 inches shorter than your regular shortboard, depending on ability, ½–1 inch wider, and with a little more volume.
Small-wave speed without the boaty feel
The White Tiger is designed to carry speed through softer sections while still offering enough response for snappy, pivoted turns and sweeping carves.
Sizing
White Tiger dimensions.
These are the current standard White Tiger dimensions published by Pyzel.
| Size | Width | Thickness | Volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5'0" | 18 3/4" | 2 1/4" | 24.00L |
| 5'2" | 19" | 2 5/16" | 25.50L |
| 5'3" | 19 1/8" | 2 3/8" | 26.90L |
| 5'4" | 19 1/4" | 2 7/16" | 28.20L |
| 5'5" | 19 3/8" | 2 1/2" | 29.50L |
| 5'6" | 19 1/2" | 2 1/2" | 30.10L |
| 5'7" | 19 3/4" | 2 9/16" | 31.70L |
| 5'8" | 20" | 2 5/8" | 33.50L |
| 5'10" | 20 3/8" | 2 11/16" | 35.90L |
| 5'11" | 20 1/2" | 2 3/4" | 37.50L |
| 6'0" | 20 3/4" | 2 3/4" | 38.40L |
| 6'2" | 21" | 2 13/16" | 40.90L |
| 6'4" | 21 1/2" | 2 7/8" | 44.10L |
| 6'6" | 21 3/4" | 3" | 47.90L |
| 6'8" | 22" | 3 1/16" | 50.40L |
Watch the White Tiger
See the White Tiger in action.
White Tiger · Pyzel Surfboards
Jon Pyzel compares the White Tiger with the Tiger Twin and explains the key characteristics of the two twin-fin designs.
White Tiger · Pyzel Surfboards
The second White Tiger video currently linked from Pyzel's model page.
Two useful tools
Know your volume. Then build your White Tiger.
Find your guide volume.
Start with a recommended volume range based on your weight, ability, fitness and the waves you normally surf, then use that as a starting point for your White Tiger dimensions.
Find My Volume →Build your White Tiger.
Take your guide volume into the Bob Gnarly Board Builder and work through the available White Tiger options.
Open Board Builder →Bob's Take
A small-wave board with a big personality.
The White Tiger is interesting because it deliberately puts useful volume and width into a very short package, then uses the bottom contour and rails to keep that volume responsive. Pyzel designed the whole package around speed, flow and a more natural twin-fin feel.
The design is deliberately compact and full-bodied: a clean stubby outline, very full nose, wide squash tail and a wide point 1½ inches forward of centre. Volume is concentrated forward around the beak nose to improve paddle power, while tapered rails keep the board sensitive through turns.
For UK surfers, the 1–6ft range is especially appealing. This is the kind of board that can make small, weaker or slightly funky days feel more worth paddling out for.
We'd start with your guide volume, then use Pyzel's sizing guidance: 2–5 inches shorter than your regular shortboard, ½–1 inch wider, and with a little more volume.
Ready to ride one?
Build your White Tiger.
Start with your volume, then head into the Bob Gnarly Board Builder and create the White Tiger you're looking for.
