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The 5'8" will feel a bit livelier than the 5'10"
What's your fitness/surfing level???. The 5'10" will be a safe play and those extra 2lts will help you on the paddle when it's not that good. I don't think performance will be affected much.It all depends on the conditions you are planning to surf the board on
Stevie. I doubt you'd really notice any difference to be honest in 4 foot surf. I assume here you are talking about 4 foot faces, not 4 foot in the so called Hawaiian scale. 2 inches difference in length is hardly anything. The main difference isn't so much the length as the extra volume. Even then it's only two litres so not a lot of difference.
At 2 foot faces the 5'8" will probably be struggling a little in terms of getting you into the wave cleanly and providing a stable platform to drive from. By contrast the 5'10" will get you into the wave earlier and provide a better platform to make dead sections and generate drive.
At 4 foot faces each board will be in its element and you'd barely notice a difference between the two.
At 6 foot faces the boards will still be in their element and you'll probably not notice much difference, but the 5'10" will probably have reached its realistic performance limit.
At 8 foot faces the 5'10" will have probably exceeded its realistic limit and you'll be nursing it through turns. The 5'8" will be around its limit but not yet exceeding it.
Alright cool and my surfing is average I guess and my fitness is very good. I really have been going back and forth between the spitfire, the dom, and the el fuego.
and I'm kinda looking for any everyday board without losing too much performance. Anything from 2-6 faces days
Spitfire
yup
All are really good options. Of those 3, I think I ride the Dominator and El Fuego equally and the Spitfire ranks third. Because you are riding slightly bigger surf though, the Spitfire might trump the Dom though. The Elfuego is worth a look though if you surf a slot of slopey waves!!!
Cheers