Redbull Decades - iconic boards

[dazbloke]

interesting hearing about these old iconic boards

http://www.redbull.com/au/en/surfing/st ... -episode-1

http://www.redbull.com/us/en/surfing/st ... -episode-2

[Topher]

Saw this yesterday. Great idea, but why would RedBull go to the trouble and expense of buying a bunch of Gerry Lopez hand shapes .....only to film the surfers in onshore slop?

[dazbloke]

i would hate to think how much it cost for each board ... but it is Redbull. Yep would have been nice to see the Lopez in good conditions

[speedneedle]

It's interesting seeing those guys restricted on those boards - they would learn more about board design than on a dozen different 6'1 thrusters.

[dazbloke]

spot on JD .... will be interesting to see what they deem as iconic boards ... Cambell Bros "Bonzer" ?? .... JD "Baumgartner" ???

[Topher]

In the opening sequence I saw a Tomo, MC, mayhem, almerick thrusters and one if those whacky looking meyerhoffer single fins.

[speedneedle]

I'm not quite there yet Daz!

Thinking about it for five mins... my nominations would be - not necessarily restricted to...

MR - world championship twin fins.
Michael Petersen - fang tail.
Terry Fitzgerald - winged pintail (with psychedelic airbrush, of course!)
Geoff McCoy - Cheyne Horan bumtail/starfin.
Col Smith - Channel bottom.
Bob McTavish - Vee bottom fantastic plastic machine.
George Greenough - spoon.
Simon Anderson - original Energy thruster.
Al Merrick - Curren hip squashtail/black beauty.

AND -

Colonel Sanders - Foamie!!!

LOL

JD

[Jakaul]

What an awesome board was the Colonel Sanders foamie. It was the first surfcraft I rode a wave on and got me addicted to a buzz I still can't get enough of. Probably started a lot of us on a life long pursuit.
It would be pretty cool to see some of these Redbull surfers on one at a pitching reef break, even if the board may not survive.