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I know what you mean, I used to play golf with a bloke who had the most diabolical swing Iv ever seen. He went and got a bunch of lessons from a pro, who got him to keep his arm straight, strengthened his grip and had him rotate properly through the ball. A couple of months later old mate was havin...

Iv ridden that horrible mal and a zot and nugget and hated them all. I tried to like them but they are just so different.

I know what you mean, I used to play golf with a bloke who had the most diabolical swing Iv ever seen. He went and got a bunch of lessons from a pro, who got him to keep his arm straight, strengthened his grip and had him rotate properly through the ball. A couple of months later old mate was having...

With infinitely better competition.

What is it with Geoff Mcoy and massive volume? a mate of mine has a heap of them and they are all so thick that duckdiving in not an option. He has a 9' mal that is 4" thick and you have to ride the thing like a Canadian lumberjack rolling logs down a river. Odd.

Pretty good, some minor deck dents in the front foot area, that's it. It was the shop owners board, he was too heavy for it -96kg! Anyway, looking forward to riding it.

Thanks guys, ended up with the JS 'dropped Swallow' 5'11" 33.8 ltrs, paid $480 for it S/H with tailpad so quite a bargain imho.

Anyone ridden one?

Ok, lets put our 3 pages of knowledge together and design my ideal board. My dims: 70kgx5'7'x58yrs average surfer, aka: can do frontside reo's (sort of) and can surf in the pocket is the wave is not too quick. So I'd like around 31-33ltrs, 6'1"x19x15/8" roundtail thruster. The deck will be domed to ...

I mentioned somewhere before about board weight and fin size. I said something like "I had two Merrick biscuits with the same dims but one was wood and slightly heavier. It required G5 fins whereas I used 3's in the PU one". There was a discernible difference in the way the boards turned, which I pu...

At the end of the day volume effects buoyancy, where its distributed and how much there is. 40ltrs is a lot of buoyancy in a 5'10" but not much in a 9' mal.

JSREVOCUST-JS-INDUSTRIES-1.jpg bourton.jpg Be wary of the Bourton ones with the cathedral hull in the nose. I don't recon they work that well in NSW beachies. A mate has one sitting in the garage after trying to make it work for 12 months and finally giving up and buying the JS revolution 6'1" whic...

Its up there with BUPA and Anusol haemorrhoid cream.

Nice post oldman, I think the step up/down thing is, as Steve says, a marketing tool but I see it as less manipulative and just a term of reference ie: similar volume but shorter and flatter for step down or similar volume but longer and more bite from pintail for step up? I also had a similar exper...

Took this picture of a whale out the front. It appears that she uses Roys BLEF template and doesn't mind showing them off.

Davros, open them with office picture viewer and click compress pictures, easy.

Its a bit like footy/soccer/RahRah coaches et al, not many of them played at a very high level either.

There is no easy way Tonks, my daughter has just got a job in Eden so I guess I'm gonna be testing myself at Merimbula bay sometime in the future.