Freeflight said..
Good interview, he speaks very well and was a great windsurfer by the sounds, also a valuable asset to any surf company
Bit below the belt sledging cobra, seabreeze is a better place to vent that
Just listened to it today during a long car ride. I more got the impression it was meant to be an opportunity for Cobra to lay out their side of things as it's difficult to do that on line or in social media. Maciek's questions seemed to be about popular internet "Cobra tropes" and Bruce was able to address them. Maciek didn't seem to challenge his responses which would have been more adversarial. Some people on forums can be irrational and even when a company tries to give their side of things, posters will just scream louder and louder making any sort of adult conversation challenging. Seen it happen here when a company tries to respond to something.
If there was any awkwardness, it seemed more that Bruce seemed to be guarded in his statements as opposed to the Peter Thommen podcast I listened to afterwards. Bruce is in a more corporate position than most in the industry. He's responsible, if I remember the numbers correctly, for the production of 40,000 boards a year. What he can or can't say is going to be different than an individual shaper, brand manager or custom builder.
If brands are underspeccing boards (as Peter suggested - he seems fond of Cobra), Bruce isn't going to chuck his best customers under the bus for not adding that last layer of carbon that the board probably needed but someone at the brand decided would impact margins too much. The brands, not us, are Cobra's customers.
