yet more fish vid fun...

General Discussion
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ8WmVEUGuQ

or search youtube for daniel thompson. The kid surfs good.

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thanks for posting that consafos. like you said, he sure can surf.

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Whew!

Bloody hell, that was impressive. Hey Consafos, Chipper Ben says you’re the one to ask about the Swift Movement. I can’t seem to find much info about them and their boards.

Thanks for posting that video clip, it made me hungry to surf, and to shape a couple of new boards before my Indo trip

Maz

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…I see a very good surfer and a machined shape…

finisher is not a shaper

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Reverb,

you can’t fault the guys credentials- he’s been shaping since his teens with his dad (Aussie underground legend Mark Thomson) and George Greenough guiding him. He does some amazing high performance fish-ish shapes and is largely ignored by the internet set- not enough swishy resin tints and pinlines I guess, but definitely a good shaper/designer/surfer, and he’s still just a kid really. It’ll be interesting to see what he’s doing in ten years. (hopefully not working in a Brisbane surfshop selling t-shirts!)

I’m told that’s Pavel’s space he’s working in so the machined blanks all over would be Rich’s and I wouldn’t consider him a finisher either!

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…ok, so may be he s a good designer.

but believe me that most of the “big” fish shapers are now finishers

the machine is the shaper

whats the point to use a couple of sandpaper, sign the shape and earn a lot of money?

to do a special fish you need to spend more time than a couple of sandpaper passes on the tail

also to glass and sandfinish the whole board / s

so is not pim pum pam, and you know here is the fish, blah blah blah

cheers

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Longboard TV did a spot on the retro movement a while back and it featured Dan Thompson, among others. Good episode.

Here’s a link to a clip from that episode with Dan’s interview…

http://www.longboardtv.com/video/clip/EP23.html Select the ‘Culture’ clip on the left nav bar when the media player launches.

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Wow wide point - that clip featuring Bonga almost made me want to break out my log again…that longboard clip was great!

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There’s another Longboard TV episode entirely on Bonga. He’s a great guy. Every lineup should have a Bonga in it.

He makes it look way too easy on that wave at Ehukai.