DQ quad feed back from a trip to Indo

Hi Dave n Crew

Just to say thanks for all! back from a dream trip to the Mentawai's, fun times on my DQ

got me in n out so many waves, it just loved the Indo perfection :)

Can't wait to give my custom Sprint ago

Cheers

Mick St Clair

NOTE TO ALL..
This board is a DQ Retro style Quad.. short and fat and wide with a big slit shape tail..

WAVE DOMINATOR HITS THE SHELVES THIS WEEK!!!

Roger Salmoggi of Tugan on the Gold coast was stoked to be the first person to pick up a new WAVE DOMINATER surfboard from our Tugun store. This board Features an extra wide diamond tail and 5 fin set up. This board is works excellent as a thruster in good conditions and ideal for sloppy days as a quad set up. Dave has been testing this model with team riders such as Dale Richards. We now have a full range in stock ready to be ridden and pleasured.

Quads may just change your Day!

Quads have been around for a long time now..
I have always had a few in my private testing collection...
here is a shot from 1984

and some feedback from a customer today...
Daniel Binskin
"Hey Dave , I rode that new 6'0 demo quad today . The one with the pulled on tail with green and black checkers on it . I want it . Please sell it to me . "

Daves reply... in short. no sorry mate. there is a newie on the shelf made from the same file. that one you rode is a demo at present but i colored it specific for a movie project i have coming up in a couple of weeks.. and i want to ride it some more too!

Daniel Binskin
"Hey Dave , I bought the board off the shelf today . It looks a bit ugly but goes unreal . I take back everything I said about quads. I am genuinely excited about going surfing on it again . Stoked ! "

My Sprint in Lombok

From: "Woodberry, Jake"
Hey Dave
How's things? Loving surfing the sprint, they seem to turn with plenty of
speed regardless of wave quality.
Here's my 6'4" on an average wave off south Lombok.
Cheers jake

Feedback on the Monster Mullet

Dave,
just some feedback on my monster mullet I purchased several months
ago. Went to Bali in March/April for the first time in 23 years & it
went unreal at Ulu in the varying conditions (2ft to 5ft) - surfed
virtually every day for 2-3 hours at Ulu & felt like I was in my teens
again not a 49 year old !
Regards,
Chris Locke

Padang Padang

From: Grant Pearce
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009
Hi Dave,

Just wanted to send through a few pics of Padang Padang when I was over there last month…the board I am riding is only a 5’10 which I was riding with a twin fin setup making it loose as anything but super fun… My first time surfing padang in Indo..will be back for sure… Grant Pearce




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Fwd: cheers dave

Begin forwarded message:

From: Robby Wales

Date: 21 June 2009 7:43:22 PM

To: feral dave <dave@diversesurf.com.au>

Subject: cheers dave

Hey Dave,

I bought a 6'2 shorty from you a while ago and finally was able to ride it in Bali a week or so ago. So happy with it, I wouldn't have wanted to ride anything else that day. Some 2-3 ft sliders at ulus was super fun. Had to send you a pic. I'll be in your shop in the next few weeks to try get my hands on one of your DK Kwads.

cheers,

Robby Wales

Cheers for the Quad Dave...

Hi Dave,
 Thanx for building this great board.. In the usualy small and gutless surf here in the Netherlands this puppy just goes sweet! I bought it last october after I've had testdriven a DQ6 and a DK6. Frank from CellBlock in Utrecht pretty much challenged me into trying one. He figured I would get 20% more waves and way more fun than on my standard shortboard(6'2 18-1/2 2-1/2) in the dutch surf. Too bad he was wrong.. I actually get almost 50% more waves and heaps more fun than ever imagined just by changing boards.. so it's working out realy well. While testing I found the DQ to responded better to the smaller wave conditions than the DK which needs more steepness on the face to accelerate. The DQ allows you to catch a wave early and setup a good line down the face and accelerate smoothly. All in all heaps of fun in a tiny package :-)
 Grtz,
 Carlo Kuip
Board#8247 DQ7

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

happy customers

Heres a happy Rossco with a new yellow Custom Sprint... the board next to it is a sample digital print of one of our upcoming artists BEN EVERETT. the board is our 2009 model release the "SS" known as the Super Sprint, its great for any surf under 5 foot! we have a few stocked in the shop at the moment. Cmon in and check them out...

Oil Prices and Surfboards...!

Just a Few Days Ago, we recieved a letter from one of the Major Suppliers of surfboard materials, informing us of the impending price rises in surfboard materials! Its actually been a long time coming considering how much petrol and other things have gone up over the last couple years. Any way the bottom line is we are going to offer the same or better quality, service & surfboard shapes we always have, Until we do all our sums properly you should expect a rise in prices in October, hopefully we can contain the rise to around $20-$30. So the Pressure is on for you guys to order up those customs now... or clean out the stock shelves before its going to affect your purchase power too!

happy customers

Dave and Jamie,
I bought a new board off you when we were on holidays a few weeks back. just thought i'd send you this picture of it's second surf. thanks heaps
Ben G

Introducing the Diverse PREMIUM series

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Diverse now offer that service to you the customer! Dave and our staff are constantly seeing guys coming in riding the wrong boards. Maybe its been from a impulse decision or from a lack of knowledge about your surfing shape, Whatever the reason, we want to change your surf sessions from frustrating to FUN. We will take the time to go surfing with you and take aselection of boards, test them all out, then sit down and work out the best design for you. Then when you feel confident we can make the right choice in boards, we shape it, glass it, spray it with your chose custom art, get it into your hands and then the water.

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feedback for our Classic longboard

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Steve & Cecily *******" 

Date: 6 May 2008 6:15:33 AM

To: <dave@diversesurf.com.au>

Subject: Classic

Hi Dave,

 

I bought a 9'4" blue Classic from you on Sunday and thought I'd drop a line re the ride – it's brilliant! Not have ridden for over 30 yrs, I was really unsure how I'd go. The classic is soooo easy for catching waves and, after about 3 or 4 waves, I was turning and sliding across the face of some magic little stuff at Broken Head. The board exceeded my expectations. I've still got such a long way to go but I'm really glad I've taken this first step – thankyou.

 

Steve Webster