Now imagine how much better that session would've been if you had alternative tech under your feet.
Or a swallow cut into the nose (so you can poke two eyes out instead of one).
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You'll all be riding popouts in the future :) Or starting a GoFundMe.
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Or a swallow cut into the nose (so you can poke two eyes out instead of one).
session woulda been better with fewer guys, more waves and less tide. clear poly stamps custom (3 fins, 1 nose) and <6 bills worked greatNow imagine how much better that session would've been if you had alternative tech under your feet.
Or a swallow cut into the nose (so you can poke two eyes out instead of one).
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Is that a Northern Shores or a Burch?Don't confuse mockery with anger.
Maybe @Northern_Shores and Ryan should have a shape-off.
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I'm wondering at what point the cost of packing and shipping a board offsets the saving made by using cheap overseas labor?
have had the same experience with kazuma. it's nice that the shaper goes shape right after you talk. i've had too many times where a shaper makes my board months after we talked and what comes out of it is nothing like we discussed. makes me question if they forgot over that 2 months.
i think the alternative technology can be very beneficial for specific types of conditions, but that the PU is the best bet on average, goes well in all type conditions.
What makes you enjoy a glass of champagne, a fresh oyster, or the tasting menu at a luxury restaurant? While taste and personal preference play a part, they might not tell the whole story.
There's something else that gives you pleasure — the price.
It's tough news for our wallets, but studies show that we tend to value expensive items over their cheaper counterparts. It's known as the "marketing placebo effect."
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There's something else that gives you pleasure — the price.
It's tough news for our wallets, but studies show that we tend to value expensive items over their cheaper counterparts. It's known as the "marketing placebo effect."
Here’s the psychology behind why we like expensive things
Studies show that we value expensive items over cheaper ones. It’s known as the “marketing placebo effect.”
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PT Barnum said it more succinctlyWhat makes you enjoy a glass of champagne, a fresh oyster, or the tasting menu at a luxury restaurant? While taste and personal preference play a part, they might not tell the whole story.
There's something else that gives you pleasure — the price.
It's tough news for our wallets, but studies show that we tend to value expensive items over their cheaper counterparts. It's known as the "marketing placebo effect."
Here’s the psychology behind why we like expensive things
Studies show that we value expensive items over cheaper ones. It’s known as the “marketing placebo effect.”
I don't like expensive things.
I'd rather pay less.
I'd rather pay less.
Forget the ghost shapers. Buy a $30k machine. Much cheaper than surfer labor and always on time for work.
I can assure you they did in the Gidget era.
Better yet, you order boards for your grom and they take 6-months to get instead of 6-weeks and by the time they arrive, they've been outgrown. Had that happen twice.
"The green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on."Don't confuse mockery with anger.
Maybe @Northern_Shores and Ryan should have a shape-off.
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No need to get personal lol, but in that case you can concoct whatever scenario that makes you feel better about the $20K you've spent on boards you noted had sandthroughs/exposed weave.
The only selling points for his boards are their looks and RB rips on them.
They look totally average under the feet of very good surfers.
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Yup, plenty of shapers selling loads of units even back then.
It always boggles my mind how many surfboards get made, or have been made.
Seems way more boards get made than there are surfer's surfers.
I have no idea where the hell they all go. Just sitting in someone's garage or storage unit somewhere?
At last count there were over 60 at my house. About 10 of them are in active use between the 4 surfers in the household.
When I was young I worked at a shop and often thought the same - even more so with things like leashes. Why are guys always buying leashes?
Yeah but you have two kids who have been growing like weeds over the past decades, plus yourself, so it figures there'd be a ton.
Three kids. Now there is a foil board in the board room too. Damn do those things take up a sh!t ton of space. One foil board takes up as much space as six shortboards. No good way to store that thing.