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You'll all be riding popouts in the future :) Or starting a GoFundMe.
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Yeah, it was actual alternative technology.I remember when thrusters were alternative technology.
Not a gimmick like the alternative constructions at the core of this sidetrack conversation.
Maybe I should pull out all the mags from the 60s and 70s and post up some "alternative technology" showing the Firewire gimmick is as old as surfboard marketing.
What me and the other Yuris of the world want is a durable, fairly lightweight surfboard. O.G Surftech and Firewire Anabolic fits the criteria. CI Ultra Light doesn't.
You think I'm making this up? That popouts are a product of modern timez?
that thing reminds me of a Catch SurfDon't confuse mockery with anger.
Maybe @Northern_Shores and Ryan should have a shape-off.
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The Gougeons and Burt Rutan invented most of the stuff we're using now back in the '70s.
It's great that you enjoy the "new" "tech".
I also have a strong opinion.... Personally, I've gone back to stringered PU for all wave types and sizes. I prefer it with epoxy resin, but PE is fine.
Feels great
Not corky
doesn't suck in 50% of the pacific ocean when you get a ding
cheaper
Better durability (I mean this)
I'd almost bet my house on it being made somewhere in Asia.
seems like there's nothing new under the sun
so, again, based on the economics of surfboard building, the way to make a living in surfboards is-
A). have a recognizable enough pedigree of shaper to occupy a large portion of the market share and produce a high enough volume of OTR & custom boards made in factories local to each of your main markets
B.) establish the majority of your production to Asia where the cost of labor and materials is cheaper than it would be elsewhere, call it a different tech
C.) create the perception of scarcity, or one-of-a-kind works of art, in the boards you build and charge 150-300% more, produce lower volume
D.) produce boards in a different tech, but license it out to several shapers in categories A & C and don't produce them in Asia, charge 50-70% more than an OTR PU
E.) be a small to midrange shaper and produce boards mainly for your local market
so, again, based on the economics of surfboard building, the way to make a living in surfboards is-
A). have a recognizable enough pedigree of shaper to occupy a large portion of the market share and produce a high enough volume of OTR & custom boards made in factories local to each of your main markets
B.) establish the majority of your production to Asia where the cost of labor and materials is cheaper than it would be elsewhere, call it a different tech
C.) create the perception of scarcity, or one-of-a-kind works of art, in the boards you build and charge 150-300% more, produce lower volume
D.) produce boards in a different tech, but license it out to several shapers in categories A & C and don't produce them in Asia, charge 50-70% more than an OTR PU
E.) be a small to midrange shaper and produce boards mainly for your local market
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maybe. but more erbb/casa hyperbole than reality.
today. typical sunday morning crowd for small clean kine. 3hrs. spanning three bars. about a dozen guys came and went. name basis with all but a couple.
out of that all but 2 were on stringered pu with 5 local backyard boards, a couple stamps, 1 pyzel, a rawson, and a baja shaper whose name i forget.
other than the rawson i guarantee you that the pop outs cost more than any of the other boards in the water and 8 were customs
As a footnote to B: keep the country of production as quiet as possible by either making the country of origin on the board nigh on un-readable or not have one at all.