Re: Winter Guns... Wherefore art thou ..?
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 10:43 pm
Fark, not this again.steve shearer wrote:He also said the same thing on a Bali blog post he wrote.
Fcuk I hope it doesn't go into mass circulation. I want the herd to remain on their undergunned indo guns when it's pumping.
Another reason, which he alludes to and has been thrashed out on here a bit, is the whole volume question.
Volume has become a bit of a touchstone for surfers, in the sense that you find the "correct" volume for how you surf and then you stick with that, through shortboards, guns etc etc.
I've always called total bullshitt on that .....you want a range of volumes in your quiver depending on what conditions you are intending them for.
This constriction of surfboard dimension according to a correct volume is just caca thinking.
But again, for purely selfish reasons I hope that realisation doesn't attain popular acceptance.
God forbid that a surfer should have information about his board that is highly relevant to how it will go.
Why, oh why, would you assume that because volumes are now displayed on boards that the corollary is that everyone will assume that one volume fits all.
As though one length fits all.
Get over it already. Having a volume number on your board is hugely useful to thinking surfers, and a complete con to numbskulls, just like every other aspect of design, life, love, humanity, work.
