Discussing Roy's surfboard designs.

Certainly.. and futile.

I would never attempt to give you fellows direct orders, it's not cool...the most I'd do is make a suggestion.... it's a matter of manners, mostly.

Anyway as I said you can follow the travels of the board on Jam longboarding or surfermag.

 

Yeah I'd rather have Dale do it than all the pros in the cage, I hope he signs the board bag!

Are you saying that SurfCat from ther erbb is Dale?

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Brew I do have some video from 2008 of a couple of the Dunedin NZ crew, Jay and Beano riding the 13 footer. They don't have her dialled in but had a great time anyway. I'll dig it up if you like.

 

Here you go:

[video=youtube;fWUwZk8e22E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWUwZk8e22E[/video]

 

Epoxy is part of the medium, the weight is as designed to be, and rough joints are stronger than planed joints.

No it isn't.

I'm not sure where you got that idea.

 

A ridiculous comment considering that I've posted video of my boards being ridden by myself far more competently.

What was your argument for ignoring videos of me riding my boards while concentrating on video of those who have not reached a competent level?

The video does not show that the board is slow, and re turning the riders are beginners, they are trying to turn from too far back.... a typical error which newbies make.

An impressive comeback, compelling and well supported.

 

I have one video of the only few waves which I have ridden on the 13 foot Ghost, it shows the correct riding position, on waves which the malibus and shortboards can't make it through on. One major advantage i have over you in this debate is that unlike you I have not only ridden both longboard types but I surf with malibu riders all the time, so I know the difference whereas you are just assuming. In the majority of sessions the malibus simply can't make the waves which I'm making successfully. This causes the other riders a lot of frustration. It's easy to look at a video and go 'Oh yeah I'd be making that AND doing lots of turns as well' but experience shows otherwise.


[video=youtube;8MwFGrCW-Aw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MwFGrCW-Aw[/video]

 

The tunnels are symmetrical I assure you, and yes they go left AND right.

The 4 inch tunnel on the Makaha improves speed greatly, we've had 37mph out of a 10-9 Makaha in head high short period beach break waves... they fly...

Is this the picture you are referring to?

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None of those goons know the first thing about flex, they just use it as a marketing buzzword. There's a lot more to it than their clay footed designers realise.

Glass isn't ideal as it is compresses and stretches less than the wood... if the board is flexible it will eventually delaminate, we don't use it we simply resin coat as the resin moves with the wood.

We realised this and id it decades before firewire did, and a long time before Mr Burger... firewire are full of sh*t pretending that they thought of it. They haven't understood that functional flex is the province of longboards either... it won't work with mainstream 'Malibu' derived longboard shapes though.

 

Here's some flex on a Redwood and Monterey Pine 13-9 Dragon... the board is only 1.75 inches thick. In the water flex is a lot less, due to the pressure and load distribution... the land test is merely an indicator.

The parallel profile was designed for flex in 1994. Tapered profile boards are not ideal for it.

[video=youtube;EhPJMEod6oc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhPJMEod6oc[/video]

 

I don't.

Fortunately for you you haven't encountered the Dragon, Ghost or Makaha with myself on board or your bubble of delusion would be burst.

I'm probably related to Will by the way.

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It's symmetrical though, but keep trolling by all means.

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