If you need to ask anyone but your shaper and welling to spend $150. You do not deserve the $150 any way....
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Surfboard Consultation by Noel
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Maybe he can offer a program where he charges a fee to stop catching every wave he sees at Lowers.
I’d pay for that.
I mean, I realize he’s “working” out there but jeezus...
I’d pay for that.
I mean, I realize he’s “working” out there but jeezus...
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An experienced shaper addressing a specific type of board seems more useful than his consultation
how many kelly posters do you think this guy has on the walls in his room?
So he is doing what a local shaper does but not making a board for you. 
For 1-3' surf you need a 5'3" to fit in the pocket with my custom designed nvs fin in an epoxy with carbon stripes for that pop.
Noa Deane, decades younger than me and about the same weight and height rides more volume than me.
I'd rather take cues from him than a guy in his 50's still over-working potato chips.
I'd rather take cues from him than a guy in his 50's still over-working potato chips.
I assume
1: He's not 176 / 79KG anymore (particularly given the chubby cheek look he had in the last acid test mebop)
2: You both ride more than 27L, because that's some Salsa levels of weight to foam ratio at 80KG
Noa Deane's Gold Coast Quiver - SURFER Magazine
Noa Deane breaks down three boards he favors at home.
www.surfer.com
edit: From LSD's website: Noa's been riding his at 6'3" x 19 1/8 x 2 1/2 @31.1L, on the new Hammer model... that's not particularly bloated for someone ... what shall we say Noa is, 83ish, maybe more?
Not defending Salsa per say, but that falls squarely in his recommended volume range calculation (i.e: take your weight in LBS and divide by 6, which gets you your base level from where you tweak it)
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In Nate's new vid he said he's riding 29l at 172lbs, and wants more foam in his next boards like 30 - 31l. That puts him straight into weekend warrior/desk jockey territory.
The erBB takes no prisoners. Lol.
I've surfed with him and he's not that bad. I've seen him give up waves plenty of times. But when he has his eye on one, he definitely claims it - but I think thats par for the course at Lowers.
lol
Let's put it this way.
He's on the most waves of anyone out there.
It's really silly competing with him for an insider after he just pulled out of a wave just because he's "working."
He's a nice enough guy but I think his SurfNShow cred is the only reason he gets away with this sort of thing. Thus a lot of people aren't willing to challenge him.
he used to ride the right volume and now he looks oddly large and oversized lumbering over a tiny board LOL
If I were running this scam I'd have the payee fill out a questionnaire and I would run the data from the questionnaire into Biolos' volume calculator. The result would be spit-out into an Ad Lib thing that I would have a voice algorithm read to the customer. That way everything would scale and I could spend more time being an entitled wavehog at Lowers.
