I love this stuff
it makes me so happy to read the words here…
newbies take note
this is really important stuff going on here
I hope everyone is soaking this in…
cause it’s getting beyond all the hype and BS
regarding the change occurring now…
the thing I’ve learned the most over the couple years and ten’s of thousands I’ve thrown away playing with all this new vacuum bagging stuff(cause it can be expensive if you don’t know what you’re doing), is that you really need to nail the design part of the art of shaping before you start monkeying around with drastic material or design changes. This isn’t something most of us can to get overnight although we all here dream about it. And that’s the illusion that something like swaylocks creates.
The thing that comes across when that light finally clicks off in the heads of of all us dreamers looking for surfboard nirvana, is the greatest success comes from the smallest amount of change and in keeping things simple versus trying to jump the universe with some crazy radical design change. To get where Bert and CMP are at today takes decades of small RD changes over a very long time. Same thing with any great shaper… They got the shaping thing down first before starting to mess with their designs too much…
Keep it simple and do two so you always have a control sample(like Resinhead did) to compare what’s going on…
that’s what Dave(Meecrafty) and Mike(Sabs) taught me with what they were willing to share.
The question that’s been bothering me the most is how the ego most of us have developed here thinking that our feable attempts will be that much of an improvement than working directly with a guy like Loehr, Brewer, Griffin, Arakawa, Merrick or any of a hundred others in a true surfer to shaper relationship to have them craft a board specifically design for our surfing style and breaks we surf…
Keep it simple and understand that most of this is for fun.
If you want to get to design nirvana overnight your best chance is to go to a seasoned pro, not an over night pro but an open minded one that’s seens all the fluff come and go and had their designs in the feet of many testers over many wave situations.
This is the best thread…
we’re finally getting back on track again and I love it…