Glassoff sorry to hear about your mates problems
Could you tell me about your surfshapes board??just got mine last week which model you have or the dimensions and what type surf you have been using it in.
Got a ding in the rail of mine within 2 hours didnt hit anythng or losr the board think could be from Paddle blade.HAvve never dinged a board that way though so not sure
Thank you for any info

Yeah I hear you - the stresses of waves on a board etc, but this brands type of construction was too lightly built - I would go so far as to say it's a disposable type of constuction & it's up to luck if a wave smashes it on your first session or your 71st session... I think it certainly WILL break sooner than a board built with a good quality of glass-fibre lamination.

I guess I'm just pissed off with this situation 'cos my mates stuck with no board - friggin borrowing my boards while he waits for his latest board from this enourmousdinosaurmachinelike company... & he's dumb enough to stay faithfull to this brand & continue to be involved with marketing it when he KNOWS their whole philosophy sucks

I personally have no affiliation to any brand.

I have a 25+ yrs experience with surfing - riding surfboards, breaking,fixing & building them. I have also built / re-built windsurf boards & surfboards to withstand the stresses of windwhacking .... So I believe I have enough of an understanding to call B/S on the construction of this knobby rash of boards

Really have to agree with paul on this one.

Any board can break and I've broken and creased many boards. It's a fact of surfing and unless it broke on a small powerless wave I wouldn't be that pissed off toward the brand. Boards break very easily if they are in the wrong spot and as paul said the person I would be pissed off at would be myself for putting it in that position. I creased a board that was glassed as heavy as it gets just because a wave landed on it wrong.

You have to realise that these things happen with any boards and a lot of the time it's not the board, it's the wave that lands on the board. I'm sure there are a lot of people on here that would have broken boards and feel the same way.

Keahi

Huge call right there, Iv had surfboards that have lasted 3 seconds and some that have lasted 3 years. All depends on what type of waves he was using it in, how he looked after it, was it left in the sun on heaps of occasions, maybe it was a powerfull sucky 4 ft beachie like boodji in wa (you must know where it is, it says your from there)which would snap a tinnie in half if caught inside.

Big call about barring a brand after a year when there is so many variables about snapping a board, any board will snap if caught in the wrong spot.

hate to keep dredging the s..t
but got a mate who has had 5 maybe 6 surfs on his and it is already creased, the veneer is soft and paper like, weak as p... i would have sent it baCK BUT HE DONT CARE.so its all good

Yes i do sell them pretty sure most people know that, but i don't have to pimp them my policy is if it works and does what it is supposed to do I'll sell it. If its a piece of siht then i wont touch it. Now i have owned most of the boards that are mentioned in this post i had a 9'6 and flogged the arse of it took it out in all kind of heavy surf it even fell of the back of my ute while going up greenmount hill and its still in one piece, I have a 9'3 and have surfed this board everywhere from the alley to straddie and there is still not so much as a mark on it i also lend this board out to anyone who wants to try it and no one has broke it yet. I also have had a 10'6 and i creased this board out in solid 6 foot surf when a set wave broke on my head it was probably 4 weeks old no one gave me a new one i got it fixed and dealt with my **** up. These boards are light but not weak if they were weak as some would like us to believe then i would snap them all the time.

If you do crease or snap a board then take it back to where you got it from let them take photo's so they can send this kind of stuff back to the company it all goes towards R&D and this way it is recorded so if for some reason there is a problem then they can fix it. All companies like to know whats going on with there boards.

Jacko

Guys I wouldn't over-react to our Green Friend, have a look at the 6 posts he's made. Don't think he could ever be accused of being "constructive". Not even worth responding to IMO - bugger I think I can hear that shirt ripping......

Sulk was a goose I doubt he could surf anyway

laurie said...

It's sad to see "The Hulk" is a sponsored rider for another brand using an alias ... login has been suspended.

You should out them. Seriously.