hedmekanik
March 2007
First board was a Laser 2 - before the pink one there was a blue one with yellow rails, white bottom. 60 bucks, whoohoo big spender
Also had a Wave Warrior with black & white 'zebra' stripes, thing weighed a fugn ton, had an orange fibreglass bottom, cut me to the bone across the forehead once as I surfaced after a thick barrel in front of Bay pier. Chucked it after that.
Mach 20 RX, the silver o with the rainbow stripes, pink bottom and the retractable skegs...shees, wonder if anyone even has one on the lurk anywhere...probli not.
Mach 10, with the stringers and the little 'wings' style indents by the tail...
then a blue Scott, and a few BZ's...ag please daddy wontcha take me to memory lane...
If anyone knows of old boards for sale (not secondhand - old. Like O.L.D - from the 80's, like, china bean) I'm always interested - get me on 079 490 9391
hundreds
Peter Lambert
March 2007
What a classic thread.... here are some of the boards from back in the day.
The Laser 2 CX... first "Propper" board
(ridden using a diving wetsuit and diving flippers hahaha!!!!)
The Laser 2 MJ... lumo colours, no slick... Mike van H model??? went down to cape plastics and glued a sheet of polyeth to give it a "slick"
The super wide Scott Dominator... first board with a slick... sick!!!
trusty waps!!!
HP Big... a moster stiff thick board from hot butterd that cost the earth
HP Vee... a kak flexy board, and RipCurl fins - yeah!!!
The Mach 7-7 the all time best seller... yellow deck red slick!!!
The Mach VF... Veriable Flex... sick sick board that came out for riding pipe... black deck with white slcik and flex ribbs by the nose.
The Mach 8TX... a green board with a slilver slick and wierd dimples
The Mach SCX... some wierd white comp board with some wierd channels and silver dimped bottom... wierd wierd board.
The Pro Comp in black and red... no channels... spin to win!!!
The Turbo 3 (still have one in the roof) sickest old board ever...
then mike left morey and morey got bought by matel... and it was the begining of the end of the old school....... good times!!!!
ADD
March 2007
Scott Dominator! The evolution began.....
Most classic of all time the Wave Warrior! They got the name seriously
right as it was feared by most bathers who had any encounters with one on their summer holiday!
Manta blades, the most vicious fin the foot ever saw, think a lot of us have the battle scares to proove it.
And the Morey Launch Vehicle, think old mike had already seen the future!
scroffmeister
March 2007
Rip Curl fins, well I know they are old but I still have and use my original pair. Have tried other fins but nothing matches my trusty Rip Curls.
Wave Warrior with the black and white zebra deck was so cool, I loved that board.
byron777
March 2007
Cool thread ou's.
first decent board was a dave ballard speed from manta.
who remembers the morey steve bullet mckenzie model,blue deck white and black rails with the dimpled silver bottom.that was a classic.
Rip curl body-torque wetsuits were the in thing at the time i started bodyboarding.
manta blades were pretty comfy for me,i had big hassles with redleys though,still got 2 huge bumps on the top of my feet to this day,that was 11yrs ago.they disfigured my feet for life.still digged them though,only cause i wanted to be like tamega.
KellyMarch 2007My first real board was a Lazer 2 MJ + WAP fins + a leg leash ... man, I still have a passionate hate for leg leashes!!! Maybe just me, but perhaps a few other DK'ers out there can remember killing their shin on the leg leash plug ... think I even covered it in wetsuit material for a while.
For my next board, I followed the multi-coloured lumo MJ up with the lumo pink bottom deck/rail Wave Warrior ... totally flat rocker which was like having to start sponging all over again after riding the Lazer 2 banana ... I can still remember nose pegging my first wave on it. All class!!!
Lumo boards, lumo wetsuits ... lumo clothing ... man we were cool!
ElementreeMarch 2007Guys my folks tried to kill me... They got me some dodgy board made by Macski(i think thats their name), the company that makes paddle ski's.
This thing was solid fibre glass, with skegs!!!
I was like 8 and nearly died trying to use the thing...
I wasn't even cool enough to get a Lazer2 so i bought the sticker and stuck it underneath that mammoth-i thought it was soooo hardcore, the Lazer graphic with the robot ripping his chest open. "Rip with your body"
After that i got the same kinda junk Wave Warrior that Kelly did, still emarrassed cos i was 12 at the time and starting to take things seriously...i got my first barrel on that board...also rode with some diving flippers.
Then i got a Mike Stewart 7-40...sick board until i took it to Durban and it turned into a flexi-sponge-40billion creases later. Got some Manta Blades while i was there-best fins ever!!!
Later rode a Mach25, my favourite board to date...only problem-no stringers and no flex-mesh...also creased to sh*t.
MachF1 was next. What a piece of poo...sold it for crack!!!
Now i'm riding a Elemenophee-Virtue, nice shape, enough flex, sick to launch with, but i hate the bat-tail...i'm too old-school-i love crescents!
Next board is gonna be a ATD.
Chinnychinchin
March 2007
Now you ou's are talking my language.....
My first board was a lazer 1, I got it from Hypermarket by the Sea in Durbs....no slick, it would get so water-logged that I could squeeze out the water like a sponge, friggin cressi-sub flippers.....oh yeah!!! Then I found a pair of the yellow, blue and red Scott flippers, in a cheezy holiday maker store in Amamzimtoti, they were so cool, they basically took a pound of flesh from my ankles every time I used them ha ha ha and bru you were the man if you wore white socks with your fins at North Beach...ha ha ha I then had a slick bottom put on through on tof the surf shops in Durbs, ha ha ha I kneelo'ed that piece of crap to pieces at Addington and South beach.....
Lycra pants like Danny kim......wooohooo Pink and Black Lazer 2 CX
Mach 7-7 with blue/yellow Churchills
Mach 20 RS, silver Vinal deck, I still recon those retrackable fins were the bussiness, I DK'ed solid 6ft Derde Steen on that thing ater I moved to CT. I would def buy a board with those things again.
Rip Curl Fins, till they broke in half
Then I had another board, but I can't remember the name it was bright yellow with a blue and pink splash right across the deck and it had a fiberglass slick bottom and the rails felt like neoprene, with an ankle leash of course. Loved that machine, used to ramp it at 4ft caves until I got boosted in the head. Oh and matching yellow paddeling gloves.....and matching yellow/black Zero wettie, that was 5 sizes too big and would take it's pound of flesh every time I surfed.
Hotbuttered Vee, Reef Stinger wettie and Manta Blades
Turbo 3....epic board....with ankle leash....still got it somewhere.
Morey Pro Comp....nice and bought the "new" Blue/black Scott fins, my big toe went straight thru them surfing Strand.....
Manta Blade, a board I bought in the U.K., with 5 channels.....I left that board at "Surf Zone" in CT for them to sell on consignment and when I went back there a week later someone had trashed it, there was even a dirty foot print on it, slick was scratched and the ou's just said to me "bad luck u leave it here at your own risk".....wan*ers.
Morey Mez Mach 7x, lovely board till I left it in the boot of my Citi golf and it got roasted, 2 massive bubbles the size dinner plates, sold it to a grom....ha ha ha
Custom X Booth
Cartel (used it once and ditched it, cause it was too stiff for CT water)
Now a Skippy Comp cresent tail.
I recon that at the next Cape Classic they must introduce a "hand-drag" division, just to remind the groms of the horror us bullies went thru to make BBing as classic as it is today. Then all the hard core ou's can come out with all our old crappy lumo gear...
ChilternburtMarch 2007lol classic thread...
right 1st up was a lazer 2 MJ and same with dodgy diving fins
then got a Ocean and Earth Razor 2 with waps, my 1st proper board
then got a wave rebel tamaga, traded that for a steve mckenzie "bullet" by morey when i started working for Island Style, then had a sucession of boards from the Jay Reale Unreal to the Mach 25, Spencer Skipper, Pro Comp 42 then the cockwells hooked me up on Custom X and so had 2 x Fred Booth's 1 of which is my current board with Vipers and well i won a compo on this site 2 weeks ago so got a killer new pair of cphynz which i only got to test once on my trip home cause of the massive swell, but they were very sweet...
jbs
March 2007
My first "real" board was a Lazer2 TEAM EXTREME!!! The deck was so slippery you might as well have put a huge sheet of cling-wrap over the top and smeared it with vaseline! Goodtimes!!!
scroffmeister
March 2007
I still have my old Mach 7-x board from back in the day and it still has my old leg leash attached. Surfed it when I was last back in Cape Town and made for an interesting session at Krans, forgot just how useless those leg leashes really were
JdV
March 2007
My first board was a Custom X x-ray 39 inch navy blue with a silver bottom,now it seems really new school compared with the antiques some of you guys had
Oh and WAP fins,they cut my feet so bad,I still have the scars today.
that NINJA kid
March 2007
Hahaha
I remember deciding I wanted my first sponge and looking at a Manta Planet, and my ballie just wouldn't cough up for it...
Then as if by magic some random guy turned up at my door peddling a Morey SuperMach and my ballie gave him R200 for it, and I got 1 free Manta Blade...
That thing was so big for me I couldn't carry it under my arm and have my fingers round the bottom haha but I rode it for a good 4 years or so and slowly grew into it, but not much til I just gave up and didn't surf for most of my December holidays to work and save for a new one...
That SuperMach is still around though, although it has been reslicked by Rossi, so no more mesh slick.
Did anyone ever see the Supermach advert in the old-school hawaii vid LOADED? So cheesy! Guys taking off and pulling in and it cuts to all the riders queueing with their boards to get into this club, THE GREEN ROOM, and the bouncers pretty much bounce like 3 guys till some Morey rider arrives with a SuperMach and they compliment it's solid rails, mesh slick and gnarly colours and let him in... I saw that towards the end of my SuperMachs life abnd even though I almost hated that old thing I felt a loyal pride!
hedmekanik
March 2007
Saw that Green Room story, lmao - super cheesy!
Talking about old vids - anyone remember Bodyboarding With The Pro's? JP Patterson, Jack Lindholm, Haouli Reeves, Kieth Sasaki, Stewart, Reale...jeez, now that's some vintage-ass memory....
ChilternburtMarch 2007 Haouli Reeves was a legend, i reckon with out insulting either of them that Fred Booth is like a younger version, both are hard core chargers that just get on with letting the bodyboarding do the talking...i also seem to remember that Haouli Reeves got dropped from morey for banging the team videographers wife, the guy who made the raw vids...
tjokka
March 2007
HAHA! Thats funny! I always thought Haouli Reeves was dropped from morey because he punched some pro surfer in public because of him dropping in on everyone. Think I read it in a old zigzag bodyboarding mag. I remember in the video "fuel" there is a riptide advert where Haouli claims:"Im the guy that sticks up for the rights of bodyboarders"
That made me think it had something to do with it.
But still, he is a legend for sure!!
So he banged Tim bonythons wife..Classic
byron777
March 2007
TIM BONYTHON,Was the producer, videographer of raw,bio and loaded.
he made some sick videos back then.also produced some good surf vids aswell,most well known was the snuff series.
JmoMarch 2007Back in the day i got my aunt in Aus to send me a vid called Blast Off - Phase 3. Only old school okes in there: Haouli Reeves section with him cruising in his car, Hawaii sections and a sweet French Polynesia section with MS, Lanson, Seamus Mercado and Eppo... that shit got us all so amped when we were lighties.
Even mote crusty than that is my vid of Bodyboarding On The Edge, the morey vid of the first Pipeline comps... all the Pro's caught on film doing hand drags and shit, such a lag.
Jmo
ansteys local
March 2008
I can remember using a small blue morey pocket rocket back in the early 1980's. I had baby fins at the back. I borrowed from craig jeeves ( rob jeeves son) He also had a black one .At the time there was only a few bodyboarders in durban . They were paul Brown ,mach 7 (yellow top ,black rails ,black bottom) warren Johnson (rode mainly fiberglass boards) & myself which started on a blue moulded board with two black fins stuck underneath (1979).It was riddable up to about 10ft before it started to bend. I've rode many different boards from :
mach 7 (brown bottom)
morey proline ( twin fins) , mach 10 (bad)
mach 20 ( had retractable fins but was rubbish)
manta (next)
wave warrior (fiberglass bottom from trish daniels)
danny kim bz ( to die for) , rode 10ft cave rock drop knee with it) It had pink rails,50/50,9inch nose,no rocker, double stringer 3inches thick & went like a bat out of hell
I've have had many others but currently ride a ben player with stringers & deep rear channels.Found it in france. It handles steep hossegor dk barrels (most boards tend to slide out)Even at 37 I still get chance to travel all over the world when corner (ansteys) goes off , I would rather be at home
keep surfing... andy(bluff local)
morrisminorMarch 2008Someone who really needs to contribute to this thread is Craig Maree.........I remeber the first time i saw him, he was at that stage of his life approaching his full height of 4'3" in Std 7, and he had a Turbo winger design, with twin Lok-box skegs on the bottom.He was already dominating the South Coast scene. his next board was doomed as well....an Aquila (Al Taylors early brand), all glued, some weird top and very, very heavy. He continued to dominate the contest scene. Thank god for his forst sponsor, Toobs.
Classic boards:
Wave warrior tiger top thing
Mach 7-7
Stewart 40 (absolute legend - so stoked to get a 40 inch as a grom, that was the first 40" production model (i think))
8-TX (for glassy mornings, so glidey)
Paul roach toobs DK:the first one
Skipp (Legendary shape, really well made...John McD probably still dreams of it)
Morey Aviator, the green with gold pin-rails.........was that designed by AT?
Challenger Dynalites
....and dynaflites, with a more solid core and some weird ribbing on the bottom
Mach 20s sound killer.....retractable fins....
what was that morey (real, real early) that had some weird 'sluice' channel on the bottom, that you pretty much opened up and let water drain from its path on the slick, through a hole in the core onto the top deck?
craigtrilivasMarch 2008Wow my mind is runnin now
Lets see...First was the Lazer 2 team Xtreem
Then another Lazer 2 which i got from a mate for R60 which was supposed to be yellow but was an off white instead from all the sand embedded innit.
Then came a sweetass wave warrior with like this old skool tapered fish back part of the rails(think swallow tail)
Then Ocean & earths were the oreder of the day.Had 1 0r 2 of those cant recall the names tho.
Then the Scott Domonator came about,how can u not buy one with a name as awesome as that!!!???
So I had 2
Then it was the Toobs era which had me buying the Mini then the Roach oooooohhhhhhh........
The Rossi made his very first boards called Power bodyboards which came out in 1 shape but u could choose ur colours which was sick.
Then i got given a challenger dynalite which was rad,a lil stiff and dead straight as an arrow too.
I started to skate more than surf so i got outta touch for a while but when i got back into it i managed to hook up an old Rheopaipo Ben Holland which was good,a lil flexi and got quite a rocker towards the end but a good ride nonetheless.
Then it was all bout Morey and the hottest team around (lanson,skipp,mike etc...)
I had the turbo 3,the bullet with the dimple bottom and a 25 micrilight or fibrecell i think it was from Lyall Coburn aswell.
After that Custom X was the shizzle so i got the DUG which was EPIC!!!
A booth which was ok and the RNX(a round nose full crescent DK model)
That was ok.
Mantas were always my fav boards and when i got my next like 5 they were all Mantas.
Phirana,Mirage(yes late i know but still sick LOL),skipp and of cousre the ROACH which is still my fav shape to this day.
Have been experimenting with different brands and shapes for the past 7 yrs i guess and now I ride ATD's.
There's no question to their commitment is all i can say.
When i rode another brand(which i wont mention cos im a nice guy) the store told me that the rep didnt believe me that my brand new stik went BANANA within the very 1st session.
I thought it was a bit of a slap in the face so i told him i would take a picture to prove it.
In the end and after no response from them time after time i eventually decided to cut my losses and trade the thing in for a good second hand board.
I managed to find a manta mirage in perfect nick to trade it for!!!
Sumone must hav had this baby chillin in their garage for like 15 yrs and now it was all mine Moohahahahaha!!!
Rode good,a lil sluggish but rad in bigger swell.
I'll never forget a single board i hav owned cos they were all good to me,thye deserve that much.
RussellMarch 2008Been bodyboarding since I was 8, now 35 so thats a good 27 odd years. Besides the usual white polystyrene boards with red plastic fins and the surf o planes you could hire down at the beach my favorite boards I owned and that I remember were:
1. Lazer 2 (Rip with your Body Model). it had a graphic of an alien/predator on the top deck tearing his chest apart. I had my first proper DK barrel on that board at Snake Park. Such a bad board if I look back at it now but at the time it was the business!
2. Wave Warrior - white top deck, fluro pink rails and flouro pink surlyn. Bought it from Larmont, my first board with proper slick. It went like a dog.
3. Turbo Z - scoop nose, crescent tail with cut in rails halfway down. Most radical design at the time.
3. Eliminator Bodyboard - Pat Caldwell model I think.
4. Madrid Bodyboard - Kevin Baker Model - got it from the USA, it was a DK board mostly, I only bought it cause I thought I'd be cool with the only guy in Durban with one, never mind the fact that I was 100 prone. What a dork.
5. BZ Danny Kim Model - totally slick board, top, bottom and rails were covered in a flouro wood grain type effect slick. That board looked so hot but once again I bought it for the looks and not my style.
6. Rheopaipo - Ben Holland Model, I bought this board on a Friday from the surfstore I worked at, Surfed on Saterday at the best Bay of Plenty Shorbreak ever with the Cockwells, Darrel Nelson and Paul Sartorius. The board was so fast but by the end of the session after plenty of thumping closeouts it died and folded in two. That board cost me bigs and only lasted one session.
7. My all time favorite board owned was a BZ Chad Barba Model which I bought from Phil Rodriguez, he brought it back from the Original BZ factory, I have so many memorable sessions on that board, one that stands out was Bay, Crystal Clear Tap Water 4ft Barrels. Just one of those days where everything comes together and you get out of the water feeling untouchable. That's what a good board can do you for you!
craigtrilivasMarch 2008 Thats my werd dawg.
A board u feel untouchable on can do so much for ur riding man.
When Chris Won came down and stayed with Darren i knew this guy who bought his standup board with only one channel.
Didnt understand why but hey,watever floats ur boat i guess.
Bay and snake park shorey....aaaaaahhhhhhh i miss thsoe days.
U could get up DK drop down line urself up and just sit there waiting for the big warm liquid heaven to wrap over u.
Im about to shed a tear right about now weeoo weeoo.
the old skool makes me proud
lyle
March 2008
my list is quite short:
pick n pay special when i was like 7/8.
wave warrior black deck white fiber glass bottom.(pro line i think)
then rossi rbt.
then rossi custom.
i can see an age gap here in this forum
craigtrilivasMarch 2008 Hmmm yes maybe in this thread
I turned 28 today
Heavy days.
bboard1
March 2008
Elementree wrote:
the Lazer graphic with the robot ripping his chest open. "Rip with your body"
l:
That's my first board a Lazer 2 with a rocker that looked like a banana. I took it out the other day and while i used to think it was the business, i now realize how kak it really was
Chinnychinchin
March 2008
This thread is SO funny.....
I remember borrowing a Lazer 2 CX (vinal deck with rainbow stripes) during a session at Sunkist, first wave I busted 2 airs and roll....yes on the same wave. I thought that board was the STUFF.....ha ha ha ha ha ha Was I the only one who thought that zebra stripe deck from Wave Warrior was SO kiff, I think my next ATD custom must have those stripes and if someone has a Wave Warrior logo they can send me I'll put it on as well.......ha ha ha
Does anyone know what the purpose of the winger rails were? On the Wave Warriors and Mach 10?
morrisminorMarch 2008 According to the hazes of my memory, and the indominantable Craig maree (who answered this question for me 15 years ago.....yeah, there may be an age gap in this thread) the wingers serve to draw water flowing down the rails in, giving the board more 'bite' during turns.I imagine that the narrowing pintail of flow pattern would serve to increase the flow speed (a la bernoullis equation ....i think...that is not my specific field) of a volume of water previously confined to a larger cross sectional area of board.Similar to shooting water from a wide pipe into a narrow, as it leaves the wide section and narrows, the flow speed must increase if there is no decrease in pressure. Similarly, water flowing on the underside of a bodyboard is cinfined to the surface of the bottom skin.The analogy holds, except in the case of a rider, there is the allowance for the release of pressure.
You can also visualise that the narrow/wide junction provides a point of balance, both in and out of the water. It would make it the most likely point of pivot. Placing near the hips would maxinise results.
These are just musings, not really sure. yyou know what, the sport reaally, really needs to reach the level where companies are sponsoring bachelor and masters degrees where the research project is based on the physics of bodyboard riding. mathematically, it has all been done before to a far more precise level than bodyboarders will ever need, being used for ship hull design etc.
morrisminorMarch 2008 just to clarify, the increase in flow speed (i think) does not increase overall speed. It would integrate nto the same amount of water, in te same previously defined time frame (therefore:same overall speed)....but confining it to a narrower area would .....damn....don't know the actual phenomenon, maybe cappilation or something.......'bond' the board closer to the water, as an increase in speed would mean more pressure on the water wrapping around the bottom rail and chine (the '40' bit of the 60/40...normally), hence more 'bite'
Also, wingers are an efficient method to enable groms to carry the unavoidable (in the past) oversize board
craigtrilivasMarch 2008 Dang!!!
Im definately doin sum brushing up on my knowledge of the fundamentals of fluid mechanics this weekend!!!
Na but seriously,why dont the guys with degrees in all this stuff put it to good use in our industry?
Im sure there must be a booger amongst all those peeps that werk in the harbours or for marine tech companies?
C'mon there must be.
So instead of just designing a boat that cruises a bit better than the next,why not draw up sum theories and test those hypotheses.
b kiff.
Chinnychinchin
March 2008
Wow bru you obviously put some thought into that....maybe a bit too much I dunno. If what you say holds true (scuz the pun) then how come all boogies don't have wingers....? ha ha ha ha Now, if I DK lefts and prone rights, could my boards have different profiles on each side? A DK board profile and prone profile all in one board, 2 different rail configerations? Now thats something to think about. I think I've gone off the subject.....um......2 Lazers, 4 Moreys, 1 Rip n Tear, 2 Mantas,1 Hot Buttered, 1 Cartel, 1 Custom X, 1 LMNOP and 1 ATD.
Ok we're back.
morrisminorMarch 2008 I think that a board with wingers is probably impractical as it would have such a small surface area for landing moves....it would be the reverse concept of a bat-tail.Good for control, I guess. Anyone ridden one? Boards with different profiles......see,this is why we need sponsored research....oh my gosh, how hard would you have studies math and science if you knew that you were going to be a sponge scientist?
morrisminorMarch 2008 sorry for taking this thread so off topic with the ramblings of a mad man....
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