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Endtimes for the Surfboard Industry?
- Thread starter vanrysss
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I could probably surf for another decade or more without the need to buy another board.
There will be fat years, and there will be lean years, but it is going to rain.....
economy in the shithole doesnt stop the waves, waves break boards, shapers will shape and sell new ones...from their moms kitchen peninsula, their garages, their detached shaping rooms, their storefront shops, their commercial spaces, their factories, their overseas factories....best thing about dire financial circumstances is that the waves keep coming.
economy in the shithole doesnt stop the waves, waves break boards, shapers will shape and sell new ones...from their moms kitchen peninsula, their garages, their detached shaping rooms, their storefront shops, their commercial spaces, their factories, their overseas factories....best thing about dire financial circumstances is that the waves keep coming.
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This is not the shithole. Never been better. Maybe 2006-2007 right before the crash was better, but life for Americans is great.
Doom fantasies?
If North Shore's quiver is any representation...Mad Max is already a reality:
So now they're being eaten by rats in storage before they can be sold, a year ago people were shaping their more hydrodynamic household items into rideable craft because orders took four months to fill
Happened upon a Volcom pop-up store last weekend while shopping for a fancy bath faucet. In the back of the room, no tags. Sigh, I didn't inquire...
It's funny that you'd pay that much for the sh1ttiest construction available, with no flex and a dead feeling and covered by a thick amount of resin...
I've never seen an average / good surfer happy with a Lib Tech, and hate them myself. The only happy owners I see are windsurfers who surf occasionally and want a tough board and germans who like a board that can throw into a plane and make it safe even if it surfs like sh1t...
Says someone who sells not only Firewire but NSP and SUP's.It's funny that you'd pay that much for the sh1ttiest construction available, with no flex and a dead feeling and covered by a thick amount of resin...
I've never seen an average / good surfer happy with a Lib Tech, and hate them myself. The only happy owners I see are windsurfers who surf occasionally and want a tough board and germans who like a board that can throw into a plane and make it safe even if it surfs like sh1t...
Pot meet kettle!
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Flex and "dead feeling" is relevant to maybe the 100 best surfers in the world. The rest of us are not able to apply enough force onto the board for any of that stuff to matter. The flex debate died many years ago after people realized a spongy material like a surfboard is not like a spring.
That's me
It's funny that you'd pay that much for the sh1ttiest construction available, with no flex and a dead feeling and covered by a thick amount of resin...
I've never seen an average / good surfer happy with a Lib Tech, and hate them myself. The only happy owners I see are windsurfers who surf occasionally and want a tough board and germans who like a board that can throw into a plane and make it safe even if it surfs like sh1t...
FWIW I've known som decent surfers that dig the Drew Baggett construction. Not sure if it's the Libtech or just something similar coming out of the same factory.
It feels different to me. I don't see very many kids in the water anymore but that's totally anecdotal and the stats are the stats.
Speaking of stats. I found this SIMA tidbit interesting.
Maybe a good chunk of the surfing population can afford a $1,200 board.
This.
"Surfing is dominated by youth – as 71 percent of the total surfing participants are in the 6- to 34-year-old age range. "
"In fact, 87 percent of all surfers are younger than 44 years old. "
But at least half of that demographic is getting their boards paid for by their over 44 year old parents. And all of them are living close to the coast which most likely puts them in an upper income bracket household.
On another note, I always ask the kids working at ET Surfboards (South Bay's largest surf shop?) what's selling. The answer is always "Channel Islands and Lost." I would have thought Pyzel would have a moment or Sharpeye, ut the answer is always the same. What's that about? Marketing?
I don't think Drew has any association with Lib tech. He does c4, black dart and other pretty rad stuff https://instagram.com/inspiredshaper?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA==
I'll definitely agree that lib tech feels like sh!t. Heavy, dead feeling. Priobably okay for a midlength though. @Northern_Shores you really don't feel a difference? I'm a pretty average surfer but can tell instantly whether a board is poly or eps and whether I like the flex or not.
Unless you are Claw Slater this is all in your head. As you say yourself "whether I like the flex or not.". If you could blind test the boards, there is no way you could differentiate between constructions of otherwise identical boards.
If you are an average surfer you are not applying enough force to the boards for them to even twist a millimeter. You are basically going straight compared to Medina or Kelly. How could flex come into play at the recreational level?
Hmmm. I thought there was some overlap. Obviously, it's an oversimplification, but they're all variations of bagging strategies. I could be wrong.
Claw slater, I like that idea....minus the baldness though please.
Not sure I'd be able to differentiate a stringerless glassed epoxy from another, but if we're talking eps vs pu, heavy glass, surftech etc I'd be pretty confident.
I can flex a board by putting the nose on the grund, holding the tail with one hand and pushing the deck with the other. My 195lbs surely will get the job done too.
I'll ask for you as the shaper of that double blind test though
