Slater, Greg Webber & Shane Herring
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Watch this space to see if Kelly continues his long term agreement with CI (Burton).
Interesting on that forum how people were against the banana board concept, then as soon as GW chimes in people start agreeing with him and saying how great it is.
Interesting on that forum how people were against the banana board concept, then as soon as GW chimes in people start agreeing with him and saying how great it is.
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Re: Slater, Greg Webber & Shane Herring
well for the record I reckon the banana style boards are great, Greg made me one about six years ago, a beautiful round pin, I've ridden the fcuken thing into the ground quite literally, it's creased, been fixed, creased again etc and is currently in the rack awaiting some good waves so I can snap it and force Webber to make me another one.
and re GW going for a bit of PR, I'm not saying it's bad! I mean if you were a shaper and Kelly asked you to make him a board, you would probably tell someone about it. - it does just so happen that he making updated ones now all of a sudden though. Carpe Diem I guess.
and re GW going for a bit of PR, I'm not saying it's bad! I mean if you were a shaper and Kelly asked you to make him a board, you would probably tell someone about it. - it does just so happen that he making updated ones now all of a sudden though. Carpe Diem I guess.
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Well the people who bag them tend to be the people who can't ride them. They still suit certain surfers in certain conditions but suck for surfers who don't have the skill to ride one.
Mind you Kelly could rip on a broken dunny door. Get Kelly riding one and winning a few comps on one, chuck his signature on it and boom....it will sell like hot cakes. Every kook will suddenly want one.
Mind you Kelly could rip on a broken dunny door. Get Kelly riding one and winning a few comps on one, chuck his signature on it and boom....it will sell like hot cakes. Every kook will suddenly want one.
Re: Slater, Greg Webber & Shane Herring
True, though I think he prefers tables.Natho wrote: Mind you Kelly could rip on a broken dunny door.
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Not wanting to state the obvious but...Natho wrote:Well the people who bag them tend to be the people who can't ride them. They still suit certain surfers in certain conditions but suck for surfers who don't have the skill to ride one.
Mind you Kelly could rip on a broken dunny door. Get Kelly riding one and winning a few comps on one, chuck his signature on it and boom....it will sell like hot cakes. Every kook will suddenly want one.
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how old are those pics shep?
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they're stills from a vid on mccoy's site brendo http://www.mccoysurfboards.com/mccoy-ph ... coy-design - middle row first one. @ 2.40 and 3.50 (no idea when they were taken, sorry)
edit: steve's pics are from different vid actually. probably on the same page though
edit: steve's pics are from different vid actually. probably on the same page though
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GSTQ, probably not questions with simple answers.
But briefly, what is the board design situation in Wales and in GB? Do people ride a lot of locally shaped boards? Is there a locally popular general purpose board style?
But briefly, what is the board design situation in Wales and in GB? Do people ride a lot of locally shaped boards? Is there a locally popular general purpose board style?
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Banana boards: the genesis of the Mal revival.
Put your big boy pants on
I mean, tastebuds? WGAF?
I mean, tastebuds? WGAF?
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it's a mix really foamy. there's a few local manufacturers who turn out decent boards - nothing earth shattering design-wise but well put together. merricks, rustys, losts, firewires etc are all easily available online and there's a couple of places like Down the Line in Cornwall who do own account imports of more esoteric stuff like McCoy, DVS, Christenson, Ryan Lovelace etc.foamy wrote:GSTQ, probably not questions with simple answers.
But briefly, what is the board design situation in Wales and in GB? Do people ride a lot of locally shaped boards? Is there a locally popular general purpose board style?
there's typically lots of talk on UK forums about supporting your local shaper because they make the boards suited to our conditions blah blah blah but really, most of them just copy what's happening elsewhere. so they'll all have a hypto krypto copy, a sweet potato copy etc etc. and no, there's no one popular board - back in the early '90s maybe when everything came out of a Clark 6'5R but not any more
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Thanks GTSQ, very good response.
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no worries.
sorry steve, I hadn't realised the footage was yours
sorry steve, I hadn't realised the footage was yours
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Far as I can tell GSTQ all the surfing footage on Geoff vids was shot by me in 97/98. Most of it around here and South Straddie. I happily handed it over to someone to help Geoff out. Would've been nice to get a filming/photo credit but c'est la vie.
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I was down the Gower in 2009, and had a look in at JP surfboards. He took the time to show me the shaping room and the designs he was doing at the time knowing that he wasn't going to get a sale. Good bloke - lots of designs being offered and he obviously took pride in his work.godsavethequeen wrote:it's a mix really foamy. there's a few local manufacturers who turn out decent boards - nothing earth shattering design-wise but well put together. merricks, rustys, losts, firewires etc are all easily available online and there's a couple of places like Down the Line in Cornwall who do own account imports of more esoteric stuff like McCoy, DVS, Christenson, Ryan Lovelace etc.foamy wrote:GSTQ, probably not questions with simple answers.
But briefly, what is the board design situation in Wales and in GB? Do people ride a lot of locally shaped boards? Is there a locally popular general purpose board style?
there's typically lots of talk on UK forums about supporting your local shaper because they make the boards suited to our conditions blah blah blah but really, most of them just copy what's happening elsewhere. so they'll all have a hypto krypto copy, a sweet potato copy etc etc. and no, there's no one popular board - back in the early '90s maybe when everything came out of a Clark 6'5R but not any more
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Re: Slater, Greg Webber & Shane Herring
Call me an aesthete hipster all you like but McCoy's boards are greatly improved visually with a nice spray and minimalist logos like that one.
this is a Lovelace which looks similar from this angle
compared to the usual McCoy graphic abortion:
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Re: Slater, Greg Webber & Shane Herring
Yeah jp has been in the game a long time. He was the glasser at wave graffiti - carwyn williams's old sponsor - then set up on his own when that went tits up
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Talking of Lovelace, have you ridden one of his v bowls el Rancho? Are they difficult to surf?
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Re: Slater, Greg Webber & Shane Herring
I see less and less McCoys in Sydney. Reckon they have been eaten up by the Hypto monster. How did this become a McCoy thread anyway? Oh you sneaky Mccoy buffs have done it again.......
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