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I was feeling that way a couple of weeks ago. Dane's getting fat, we're all sliding down the razors edge of mortality towards obliteration. Dust to dust. But somehow, hope keeps springing eternal, against all evidence to the contrary. It'll only take one wave to refill the well. Surely he's got that...

yeah, I filmed him when he was aspiring to be a Pro.....his style had none of that.

It's hard not to think he added it on later to complete the look.

Anyway, loved the change from inside to outside rail grab under the hook at Deserts. That was class. Bit of JJF style.

really nice but why oh why does it have to be done with all the spastic-look at moi-seventies aping-hand jive over exaggerations?

Good luck to Ellis though, he's building a career out of it.

Lucky Al wrote: iggy with his mid-length stick, now useless.

Impossible!

sounds functional. and doable.

No, serious Braithy..I always held to this fantasy that Climate Change would deliver copious ten foot days at the Point so it wouldn't matter so much if we left an uninhabitable planet for our kids.

Now the awful realisation has dawned. Climate Change means a never ending Spring.

yeah, but I reckon he was dead wrong on that. And a lot of cradle to grave sponno surfers are clueless about board design. They can surf at a very high level but don't have a clue what does what and why. Take Hog for eg: it was obvious the slingshot was coming from the lift generated during those e...

yeah, but I reckon he was dead wrong on that. And a lot of cradle to grave sponno surfers are clueless about board design. They can surf at a very high level but don't have a clue what does what and why. Take Hog for eg: it was obvious the slingshot was coming from the lift generated during those ex...

Sorry Karlos but the average Joe is just not as good copy as an ex pro or aspiring pro.

there's no money in it.

But it would make way more sense as far as an actual credible board test goes.

at two for thirty that's more than ten pairs of boardies from Bylsey's surf shop.

btw NIck..I'll be the one wearing the groucho marx 'stache at the QuikPro if you're looking for me.

I will shut the fcuk up about this I promise. BUt the board test/bible was trumpeted as a summer board range test and then they tested them in perfect waves-moreorless- in the Telos........about as far from typical summer conditions as you can get. Here's Hog riding a board being spruiked as a go-to...

yeah sure, it's small beer. Not worth getting worked up over.

It's just I hear a very different narrative from some very experienced shaper/designers around here.

alot actually.

yeah. I've got them ready too Bombie.

got a real nice skipping, pencil/garfish imitation that will be swallowed if I can get it in front of a pelagic.

twenty knot northerlies in late Feb...this is seriously fcuked up.

oh yeah, I meant I haven't quite been able to intersect the feeding fish and baitball yet.

They've been just out of casting range.

yeah, there are some solid longtails around and lots of spanish.

still trying to get a hookup.

damm this fcuking northerly.

how was the water colour and temp hey.

big blue water eddy from the EAC.