Ha ha...he gets banned from the forum for weeks..and his very first post is bagging out Bert!
How one eyed of you fellows... I said FACT and fiction... you allege that he's speaking only the gospel truth?
Anyway it's an antidote to the usual yeah guy stuff.
carry on....
Select to expand quoteRoyStuart said..
How one eyed of you fellows... I said FACT and fiction... you allege that he's speaking only the gospel truth?
Anyway it's an antidote to the usual yeah guy stuff.
carry on....
Roy don't include me in any of this I only listen to Bobby mc 
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Roy, why do you bag every shaper on seabreeze.
I havent heard him bag Tux or Ted,oh you mean on the site seabreezegot it
Anyway I estimate the truth to fiction ratio as about 80/20 and i enjoyed the series. Bert's no fool.
Good on ya Roy, I enjoyed it too...I think he's making very different boards to you though from an outline, shape, weight & construction point of view. So what you have found in your experience in riding your boards & tailoring certain components like rail, rocker etc would be different to Bert's. Plus surfing styles, which are also different. Point being people can have different opinions on what works for them personally...Personally I can't stand riding Al Merrick boards, they just don't work for me. But Kelly Slater would probably have a different opinion.
Yeah although I've always been on the same page as Bert as far as going thinner and wider, and having thicker fins goes. Plus I was using balsa for the first 6 years or so, specifically for the flex... we started on the flex thing at about the same time too.
Here it is guys the final instalment on Bert's in depth discussion on board design.
Here he breaks down a few myths and talks about fin design and how it affects the perfomance of your board.
Select to expand quoteRoyStuart said..
AA said..
Yeah they need to wheel out Bert more often. He's a walking, talking encyclopaedia.
On the Flex note, you can feel the flex in his SUP's but it is way more subtle due to the thickness of the board.
On a Mal it is a whole different ball game. I rode his JR 9'2 Pro today in some decent waves down our way and wow - there is life in there!
I have always loved my epoxy Mal's for their swing weight but nothing compares with a light board which also gives back
It felt like carving a snowboard.
If the flex is ruined by fin boxes tying up the tail as claimed then what's the long central box doing there?
Its a custom jobby.
Select to expand quoteAA said..
Here it is guys the final instalment on Bert's in depth discussion on board design.
Here he breaks down a few myths and talks about fin design and how it affects the perfomance of your board.
Enjoy
lol we were in fits of laughter over this one, the BS to truth ratio just went up big time.
There's a classic myth 101 clanger being used ( the equal tranist time notion, which we were all subjected to in high school) and a classic contradiction, plus some other beauties. To be fair I should respond in the same medium so will do a video response, without beer though, as that's obviously part of the problem due to the fact that ingesting alcohol dissolves brain cells ( which are then pissed out).
No mercy sorry, and I expect none myself.
I love my extra large Shapers S9 fins, so much drive & not tight at all...only prob is you can't slide the tail out when you want unless your pushing in whitewater. But flying round close out sections is totally worth it 
It was very interesting to hear Bert talk abound surface area verses volume,what do you guys think on this subject?
Select to expand quoteMacaha said..
It was very interesting to hear Bert talk abound surface area verses volume,what do you guys think on this subject?
I think about it
Select to expand quotelaceys lane said..Macaha said..
It was very interesting to hear Bert talk abound surface area verses volume,what do you guys think on this subject?
I think about it
It was posted after I ordered my shorter board with the extra meat in the guts got me thinking at the time and still has.
