daddio , you just made my day …
your comments showed an understanding of whats happening …once you ride a morphboard , well lets say you now understand why others are doing things on surfboards you cant …
kenz , im not sure if you were just offering advice to oneula on stiffening up his board or if you advocate a more structually sound style board , but creating a stiff structure just kills the whole performance aspect of a surfboard …
having a core that transfers load onto the skins does have certain strength benifits in a static enviroment , say for wall panels or a floor in a boeing jet …
in a surfboard it has no place , remove shear = no flex = no spring back = limited ability …
one of my team guys , seen in a few pics here and there that i post sometimes , wont even ride a board if he thinks it wont bend far enough , he was onto the whole flex thing years before me , he was complaining about spring issues and flex when i was still trying to overcome the problem with static shape properties …
it wasnt till i started riding my flex longboards mid 90s that i got it …
hows this , hes about 17 , 10 years ago …
im making him a board and as im laying up the glass that went under the wood the roll ran out , so i started another roll , so there was an area across the middle of the board where the glass over lapped by a few inches , once the board was complete and there was more glass on the outside of the bottom and of coarse all the deck glass , you had your finished board …
about 6 weeks after he got the board , hes telling me " i dont know what it is ? but something is going on in the middle of this board , like a kink in the rocker or a stiff spot or a funny slow bit i just cant get the same speed when i load from the centre " i said it was his imagination and didnt say anything , i came away from that conversation blown away by his level of sensitivity , it was like the princess and the pea under all those mattresses …
to work with such a gifted surfer has made it so much easier for me to tune in these areas , and even tho hes 10 years younger than me , ive learnt alot from him , coz hes doing stuff on boards that i cant do anymore without facing serious injury , so it allows me to continue fine tuning the same concept …
oneula , your doing some great stuff , it may be flexy now , but wait till youve finished glassing it , dont over do it early , dont make a judgement on flex till its finished …
meecrafty , systems …
once youve done something thousands of times you get a routine …
anyone ever make there first board in 3 1/2 hours ???
i know it goes against logic , but a stiff woody is a flop , and a stiff board of any other kind is an even bigger flop …
flex with positive flex return …
daddio has peered into the realm of the hidden booster … just build it and they will awaken …
regards
BERT