Just general surfing stuff
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Re: Just general surfing stuff
https://stabmag.com/style/meet-the-man- ... sterpiece/
https://www.swellnet.com/news/swellnet- ... made-video
https://www.surfer.com/features/game-changing-rides/
its all well documented.
https://www.swellnet.com/news/swellnet- ... made-video
https://www.surfer.com/features/game-changing-rides/
its all well documented.
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anymore questions from the peanut gallery?
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Re: Just general surfing stuff
How's the surf at The Ox?
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Re: Just general surfing stuff
Just a comment from Rabbidge:
“To this day I still don’t think guys should be riding a lot of concave in fast or bigger waves,” he says.
“If you can push volume you’ll go so much better; you’ll go faster, you’ll do bigger manoeuvres, you’ll do everything. Boards I made for Sunny (Garcia) and Barton (Lynch) back in the ’91, ’92, ’93 were 2’5/8s thick. That’d be unheard of a couple of years ago. They were big boards but they liked to throw ‘em down the line and they could get em moving,” he says.
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Do you have any peanuts?
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Wish I hadn't sold off my Rabbidge FatBoy years ago. Really good all round board.
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I’ve got one under the house. Has these weird screw in fins.
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How big?
Mine was 7'
Mine was 7'
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I like that quote.Cranked wrote: ↑Mon Feb 01, 2021 7:26 pmJust a comment from Rabbidge:
“To this day I still don’t think guys should be riding a lot of concave in fast or bigger waves,” he says.
“If you can push volume you’ll go so much better; you’ll go faster, you’ll do bigger manoeuvres, you’ll do everything. Boards I made for Sunny (Garcia) and Barton (Lynch) back in the ’91, ’92, ’93 were 2’5/8s thick. That’d be unheard of a couple of years ago. They were big boards but they liked to throw ‘em down the line and they could get em moving,” he says.
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Re: Just general surfing stuff
Rabbidge is a dickhead in my opinion after meeting him a few times. Pam is golden on the other hand.
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Everyone I know down there seems to hate him but I've got a few boards off him. Always seemed okay to me. I don't buy boards to make friends with the shaper.
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Seriously ... its no wonder that everyone hates you.
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Re: Just general surfing stuff
From the McKee Homepage:
The footage at the right hander ‘Jeffrey’s Bay’ with Tom wearing a wetsuit colored with pink flanks shows Tom riding a four-finned ‘McKee Quattro’ 6’11″ x 18″ x 1-5/16″ swallow-tailed gun. The board is a 1992 version characterized by a fairly spread-out fin cluster with the rear fins being larger than the fronts and set back fairly close together on the tail. This gave the board amazing hold and drive but Tom needed a back foot on the tail to get it to pivot well of the top.
Tom combines his talent with this rare and strangely obscured surfboard technology of the era, to provide some epic footage
Not saying its true/ Just saying they make the claim.
The footage at the right hander ‘Jeffrey’s Bay’ with Tom wearing a wetsuit colored with pink flanks shows Tom riding a four-finned ‘McKee Quattro’ 6’11″ x 18″ x 1-5/16″ swallow-tailed gun. The board is a 1992 version characterized by a fairly spread-out fin cluster with the rear fins being larger than the fronts and set back fairly close together on the tail. This gave the board amazing hold and drive but Tom needed a back foot on the tail to get it to pivot well of the top.
Tom combines his talent with this rare and strangely obscured surfboard technology of the era, to provide some epic footage
Not saying its true/ Just saying they make the claim.
Put your big boy pants on
I mean, tastebuds? WGAF?
I mean, tastebuds? WGAF?
Re: Just general surfing stuff
Hey I don’t hate Beans. It’s not even close to a loathe. More like a itch under a plaster that I have to scratch with a long sharp tool.
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And there’s a film clip on YouTube highlighting the 4 fins.Beanpole wrote: ↑Tue Feb 02, 2021 9:20 amFrom the McKee Homepage:
The footage at the right hander ‘Jeffrey’s Bay’ with Tom wearing a wetsuit colored with pink flanks shows Tom riding a four-finned ‘McKee Quattro’ 6’11″ x 18″ x 1-5/16″ swallow-tailed gun. The board is a 1992 version characterized by a fairly spread-out fin cluster with the rear fins being larger than the fronts and set back fairly close together on the tail. This gave the board amazing hold and drive but Tom needed a back foot on the tail to get it to pivot well of the top.
Tom combines his talent with this rare and strangely obscured surfboard technology of the era, to provide some epic footage
Not saying its true/ Just saying they make the claim.
Maybe Rabbidge made the board but it was too meat and potatoes for Curren so he went for the quad.
I guess we’ll never know the real story unless Curren pipes up.
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