Jamie's New Sprint DS9

This is my new 6'3" x 19" x 2" 1/2  Sprint Model with a diamond tail to give me allot of  pivot when deep in the pocket. I got Dave to make this board for me to take to Bali in the next three weeks and also as a good all rounder for the next few months of swell on the Gold Coast!

Fresh boards of the Day!

A nice 7'0" monster Mullet & a 6'4" Sprint for the shop.

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8 new boards for James Hollmer Cross

James picked up his new Quiver today... let hope we see lots of nice video footage in some of the new RipCurl seach movies.

Fresh new sprays for this week!

Dave is all sprayed up!

The cheap price of a new board!

We found a Quote on the net today " just found an old receipt from 1994. (un-named brand) $435. this was my favorite thruster and worth every penny. at the time is was a good $20 more than any other board i saw. i rode that board to hell and back. snapped it in 2..dowled it and fixed it...rode it for another 4 months snapped of the nose in the infamous windansea shore break ( south side) on an ill fated right barrel to the sand. duct taped it and got a couple more weeks out of it.

that board was magical and i would gladly pay $700 for that thruster again..

So we started having a discussion today about new surfboard prices...

lets see the math. So average price of a new shortboard at DIVERSE is $660. lets say it lasts for 1 year, ok how much has it cost you? $1.80 a day... yep half the price of a coffee or 2/3rds of a can of coke!

You all know about our 50% trade in for 12 months dont you...? So lets do the math again. $660 for a new board then if prices dont go up in the next 12 months, your back for your trade in... another $330 later your out the door with another newie!.. so total spend for 2 years $990= $1.35 a day! ludicrous.
keep that going for another year... $1.20 a day....


The moral of the story is this...

life is short.

Your life as a surfer is even shorter.

Get the #$%&ing surfboard you really want. Get it NOW!

Come on into our shop , Organize a demo or a session with our Shaper.. get what you really need in a board...

Dodgy thieves in Gold coast today!

If you see this board it is Stolen! with a dodgy credit card today at 3:52pm. LOOK OUT FOR IT & kindly give us a call on 07 55984848 or 0419246595 once you see it. We have the owner of the card and his friends who would be very happy to take some recovery action.

Creatures of Leisure Special Pack

Sold out......
We have a great Deal on a Board cover, legrope and Deck Grip from Creatures of Leisure at the moment. $100aud.
... normal retail value around $170.00aud check out our online store for the sizes available

New Team Photos of James Hollmer Cross

I Just uploaded a few new pics from our Tassie team rider James Hollmer Cross. James is fortunate enough to be part of the Ripcurl Search team. you may have seen him recently on 60 minutes with Tom Carroll & Ross Clarke Jones heading down to surf crazy big faraway breaks...  check out his stuff in the team rider gallery...

fresh graphic of the day..

Heres another fine looking selection of boards rolling out of the Diverse factory...

 Digital imaging is great!

Graphic board pic of the day!

Here is a example of the fine detail you can get on a spray for your board, Click on the board to see the detail...Dave has been playing around with different patterns on these two simple sprays. 

PNG Photo's

Here’s a couple of shots from PNG. I rode the 6’3 for most of the trip but busted out the 5’11 at Nago left on one of the good days. The 6’3 went so good, really fast and held it’s line so well in critical positions.
 
That right hander was super quick and shallow, it’s definitely the best wave around the island. We’d followed a storm up the river from another break, thinking we’d just have a look. We pulled up and it’s pissing down rain, about 4ft plus on the sets and pumping. The local groms were all over it, riding half boards, quarters of boards, boards with fins missing, no fins and even a kid on a full size “wahu” Kmart special trying to charge the bigger sets right out the back. In between sets they’d swap boards, body surf over the super shallow razor blade of a reef and laugh at us soft whitey’s with our booty’s and leggy’s! One kid had his own custom dug out canoe – sick!
 
The picture was taken on the end section after a solid speed run. Blow it up a bit and you can actually see the boils and how shallow it is. I was just doing laid over bottom turns into big speed hooks – absolutely frickin’ flying on my backhand! Lou told me later that if you make one mistake there or if you don’t commit totally no matter what the size you’re going to lose some serious skin.
 
That left is Nago. It’s got a decent take off on it, followed by a juicy middle section that you could just wind up on, and then on the bigger sets a solid short barrel on the end section. Pretty shallow at the end but once I got it sussed no dramas. This wave worked the most while we were there. Had a four hour session out there with just me and Payney one day. Sets were head high + and just rolling through for about 100 metres. This day was kid of pulsey – no sets for 20 minutes and then five 2-3 footers would come through, then nothing for another ten or twenty minutes. Not as good as Nusa Left but still heaps of fun though!
 
Video to come soon.
 
Thanks again for the magic 6”3 Dave!
 
Daz

Thanks for the nice boards Dave

To Dave san
I received Boards today.
Thank you for the Beautiful art work. We are very Happy.
I already have 2 more custom order. These will fax soon.

This Photo is from my friends wedding!

My new board looks very good & light. Can't wait to try it!

Thank you very much for your very Professionally work.

Yuichi

This is a nice day in China...

On of our Diverse friends is teaching English in China the the moment... She
has had a good few weekends surfing. She even won the first Womens titles
held in China... Go Rose

Take a fish home today

Currumbin fish fry is only a few weeks away... march 8th to be exact...