A bloke called Jack was using footstraps on boards well over 30 years ago. Surfed the contest scene around the same time Daffy Cadden and Darcy were doing the rounds. Knacker Carroll would probably know him, or know of him. He's a good fella, and from memory his wife is closely related to the late Bobby Brown, the renowned southside longboard stylist that was tragically killed back in 1967.Beanpole wrote:Funny you should say that....his point was he had dreamed of having footstraps on your board......so obviously that means he thought of it first. Someone else reckoned they taught Ray Gleave how to drop knee turn......that one was obvious bullcrap too.Womble wrote:Maybe he meant toe-in boards ?Beanpole wrote:Yep.....I had a mate who reckoned he invented tow in boards.......twenty years before tow ins......and jet skis.
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The moving finger writes and having writ moves on ... now all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel even half a line ... nor all thy tears wash out a single word of it.
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so maybe some insight to the Owen Wright injury on Australian Story on the ABC next Monday
http://www.swellnet.com/news/swellnet-d ... lian-story
http://www.swellnet.com/news/swellnet-d ... lian-story
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Should be a nice story
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My old mate Rockerdick had the same idea as I said.Womble wrote:A bloke called Jack was using footstraps on boards well over 30 years ago. Surfed the contest scene around the same time Daffy Cadden and Darcy were doing the rounds. Knacker Carroll would probably know him, or know of him. He's a good fella, and from memory his wife is closely related to the late Bobby Brown, the renowned southside longboard stylist that was tragically killed back in 1967.Beanpole wrote:Funny you should say that....his point was he had dreamed of having footstraps on your board......so obviously that means he thought of it first. Someone else reckoned they taught Ray Gleave how to drop knee turn......that one was obvious bullcrap too.Womble wrote:Maybe he meant toe-in boards ?Beanpole wrote:Yep.....I had a mate who reckoned he invented tow in boards.......twenty years before tow ins......and jet skis.
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I mean, tastebuds? WGAF?
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