gnome boards have many fine selling features, with one being that nothing beats a great beach bonfire with kindling from your last sesh....
I think he told the forum a while back that he used to ride short board thrusters but then got burnt out on it or something and then fell in love with long hard wood and came out of the closet
He is the most self promoting ,every entry i ever saw from him include a link to his web site.He is a royal jac%%%%