Everyone IS an expert ... on what they like.rmshapes wrote:The problem is everyone on these forums think they are experts and prefer to believe journos for their board advice over shapers. This pisses me off!
I kind of think this is one of the big points of the past 10 years or so in surfboard making. If you're selling something to someone, you don't wanna be thinking of them as no-account dummies, or as problems. I know you don't really think that way rex, but a lot of old school boardmakers do have more than a shade of contempt for their potential customers...and it's cost 'em plenty in the past decade.
Guys who bag Surftechs for instance, do they get that they're bagging everyone out there who's got a surftech and really likes it? Wouldn't it make more sense as a boardmaker to try to find out why they like it?
And what's the issue with journalists, I'm one of 'em and also a highly experienced surfer who's been through hundreds and hundreds of boards over many years of design trends, which of those qualifications makes my advice on boards of less account than a shaper's? Heck, most surfboard reporting is just quoting shapers' opinions in the first place.