I have to apologize, for the longest time, I thought you were an 11 year old child trolling the internet and claiming credit with someone elses idea. – I dont think many would blame me! After some digging, I find I was wrong , your( T.E. and T.Emmerton) really associated with the Fat Penguin, but your really annoying. I wonder how many people dismissed this concept board out of hand because of your lack of professionalism, lack of a commercial web page, and your ‘Snake Oil Salesman’ way of presenting yourself. As to having people shape their own FP, I cant’ imagine ‘Shaping Blind’ to be ever so true with the intracies assoc. with that very involved design.–You’d have to be sure of your ability to interpolate and be very, very brave. Very Risky! As to P. Cole I have respect for him and his design. As to whatever your stake is and what you are(most of the time)…its clearly unprofessional. But its a dead concept…so I guess you have nothing to lose. My guess is that you were the former ‘Money Man’. However, I do appreciate the pics and plans for the FP its a very intriguing board, but you seem to wear out welcomes. Adios.
No worries…give me the feedback when you are finnished…HAL And to put it gently you are an Assitance to my goal…damn did I spell that right? My credibility is insignificiant compared to the “Power of the Force” so please rate my performance, it just puts you in a box too ! http://www.geocities.com/wunderboyi/ninetysixpercent.html
T.E. wrote: And to put it gently you are an Assitance to my goal…damn did I spell that right? I guess your trying to write ‘ASS’. I’ve been involved with projects where some of the most annoying and business ignorant people were the novice ‘Money Men’, they were tolerated because you had to tolerate them…but mostly because of one thing$$.
Hey check my tax record buddy Ive not earnt more than an average of AU$14,000 for the past 9 years thanks to Labour overspending in the 80s…money man Im not but it does allure one somewhat…You know where the design is and the designers name thats all I need to do. One of you will succumb to the anticipation of somthing that is different in fact its just about complete…The only thing stopping the advent of the FP in the Mass market is viablilty…I sell 250 boards Im into the next league. Your praise and distaste have no bearing in the overall acceptance of the FP only sales will make the difference. Im here to make sure none of the Big Kids have a carte blanche on the IP…Give it to the shapers they give it to the surfers the surfers give it to the manufacturers. Anyone fool enough to go and totaly hand build these designs will go BROKE they are the type of shape that lends itself to milling and pre-forming, moulding etc… Finnaly to HAL keep up the good work with the lead ins…I just have an answer for everything ! http://www.geocities.com/wunderboyi/ninetysixpercent.html
TE- Please don’t go away mad… just go away. You are clogging things up here, you think you have such a clever mind… Swaylocks is far too valuable to have you annoyingly pitching that stupid FP ( and who came up with that name? talk about a way to guarantee failure). You can’t sell the idea based on success, but sure there might be a handful of fools who try it to be contrarian- just as VW sold “The Thing”). There are just too few fools here on Swaylocks for it to be your avenue. Try somewhere else. God you must be desperate for attention. I’m sure you’ll have some “I’m so clever, mentally” retort, but I for one won’t be looking anymore.
the public will swallow anything they are fed …anyone can get sales through propaganda and working the media …if any designer wants any real industry credibility…get a surfer or two and see how they stand up in competition ,if they win they must work… simple as that regards BERT
…I got something on the way that’s going to out run his FP. …I’m sure if he truly has an open mind he’ll love it. …Interceptor(I coined the name from an oz movie, can you guess which one?).Herb
was it Mad Max?
Wizard of OZ?
The Road Warrior.
Mad Max cost the producers AU$90,000 and took over 50 mill in the first 12 months… The interceptor V8 was a Ford XC modified with Nitrus Oxide and supercharged…Very heavy wont paddle. http://www.geocities.com/wunderboyi/ninetysixpercent.html
“I always wondered why I surfed like shit, but then I rode the Fat Penguin and fell in love. From then on, I vowed never to ride a normal surfboard again. I don’t like feeling like a kook out in the water, but with the Fat Penguin, I have confidence. Some old dude said I even surfed like my hero Kelly Slater. I’m stoked! Now I rep the Fat Penguin in the PNW. Also, watch for the first ever advertisement at www.altsurfing.org, coming soon. I love my Fat Penguin, you should to.” - superfly®
I also get the feeling that the public are considered as a second rate culture…Tell them anything? arent all of you guys the public too? are some posters of the opinion that they can tell any of you anything and you will belive it? Closed ranked and superior complexe to boot ! I just state my truths and you state yours. If my truths are unbelivable I dont see why any of yours would be either… We have made some interesting points in this thread, obviously there are no shreds of imperical data to quantify any performance levels for any boards at all…This is very interesting since some shapers are addimant that PC FP is a waste of time. I like to see their imperical data. I think what we all have here is problem of communication of performance. I thank the contributor who forwarded the formulas from NASA I showed them to Paul and he said he had already been there and done that. The answer was 0. That should shine a light to anyone who can calculate lift/drag coefficients. http://www.geocities.com/wunderboyi/ninetysixpercent.html
did i win? huh, herb? i got it right, right?
…Oh My Interceptor will float,paddle,glide,turn and fly in and out of the waves. …A history lesson…My dog label is of my own art creation(see photo archives).I modeled it after my Blue Heeler ,“Shelby”.I’ll bet you know why I named her Shelby,The same reason I named my new board ,“Interceptor” Yes,You got it mate! To run down penguins,especially fat ones.See you on the road…Bronze! Herb
quote from the Penguin Promo Man --Tony: “Ive spent over AUD$100,000 to get it this far.” from Swaylocks. Maybe you should be a fertilizer rep. You’ve lie about your involvement …yeah your the tolerated stupid former money man with dreams of grandeur and self-promotion. As to that alt.surfing stuff, I guess you tired them out over there too. But I’m sure P.Cole likes it all the same when you can , on occasion, generate someone interested in making one or maybe buying one. --On Occasion!
Howzit Rob, Wasn’t Red-x originally the Rip Curl fin system. Aloha, Kokua