NOHO Surf Trainer Alternative: Why Riders Choose Indo Board
Looking for a Surf Trainer? Here's What Surfers Have Chosen for Over 25 years
You were researching the NOHO surf trainer. That tells us something important about you: you're serious about your surfing, and you want to train when you can't be in the water.
That's exactly who Indo Board was built for.
In 1975, Hunter Joslin — a competitive surfer and lifelong waterman — mounted a skimboard on a roller in his garage. He wasn't trying to build a product. He was trying to get better at surfing. What he discovered was that the balance and proprioception he developed on that board gave him an edge over surfers who spent twice as much time in the water.
He launched Indo Board commercially in 1998. Nearly 30 years later, it's the most recognized surf training balance board in the world.
Built from surf culture, not borrowed from it.
A lot of balance trainers are designed for the gym and marketed to surfers. Indo Board works the other way around. Every product in the lineup was developed from a surfing foundation — the rocker shapes, the roller diameters, the deck dimensions — all of it is informed by decades of feedback from real surfers training for real waves.
The result is a training tool that feels like surfing, not like exercise.
The Indo Board lineup for surf training:
The Original is where most surfers start. The cylindrical roller and flat deck create a dynamic that closely mimics the unstable surface of a wave. It builds the hip and ankle responses that make you faster and more reactive in the water.
The Rocker takes it further. The concave deck shape replicates the rocker of a surfboard, making every balance drill feel closer to the real thing. Intermediate and advanced surfers who want the most surf-specific training tool in the line reach for this one.
What surfers say
Riders who train on Indo Board consistently report the same thing: the off-season stops feeling like the off-season. Balance, edge control, and pop all carry over directly to time in the water. Many have trained on Indo Board for years — not because they have to, but because it works.
Ready to find your board?
If you came here looking for a surf trainer, you're in the right place. Browse the full surf training lineup and find the board that matches where you are in your surfing.
