okay …
I just received this issue of “Surfer” in the mail today … thanks heaps , ‘Rooster’ Mike !!
Yep , it was a fairly interesting article …
now I know he is the son of Mark Thomson [flextail man from lennox head], and George Greenough is in his neighbourhood , the experimentation and lineage all makes sense .
And, being that he was 22 , and a thruster shaper / rider when he first hopped on a fish (with no preconceived ideas about how to ride it ) …this to me helps explain the ‘modern manouevres’ , and vertical aspect of his fish surfing . [On what , evidently , are still short , wide , flat twin keel fishes , did I get that right ??]
…good stuff ! Nice to see someone ELSE besides Dave Rastovich ripping on a fish …
this quote was interesting too , I thought …
" I wouldn’t be riding these things if I didn’t really believe they can be surfed as good or better than a top-grade Thruster in most conditions" .
…HE evidently can , but I guess , as he pointed out , a lot of people who use fishes coming off mals will tend to surf them more like a mal than a thruster . [Plus , the fact that he has down the line , fast , hollow pointbreaks as his testing grounds can’t hurt , either !]
I look forward to seeing “Hydrodynamica” , the fish movie , here in Australia one day , hopefully !
ben