Peter Neely's new board

Author Peter Neely, of the famous indonesian surf guidebook “INDO SURF & LINGO” shows off his new flat top/step deck custom board. This board has evolved annually with input from both Peter and Dave. As we all get older a little more volume helps us catch waves a little earlier. Peter still travels to Bali regularly and does’nt mind a tube or two. Keeping his board shorter and maintaining floatation helps it fit into the well renown indian ocean tubes! see more at www.indosurf.com.au

Tbd board art prints

Here is an example of the prints we do on boards. They are printed by TBD. the Board is a DQ7 5’11”x20 3/4”x2 3/4” quad fin. This one is a Raffle board as a fundraiser for Currumbin surf life savers club. If you would like to see more examples of Troy Bremners work you can find him here at
http://www.tbdgroup.net/

Jason Gayle joins Diverse

Snapper rocks stalwart Jason Gayle has joined the Diverse Team! Jason brings a wealth of experience both in competition and boards. Jason has won pretty much any contest locally and is a usual choice for any teams event Snapper boardriders enter. Jason has a japanese wetsuit sponsor BE WET who send him to Japan and Bali for photos, contests and promo. We look forward to posting some great pics of Jason surfing his new boards soon....

Bam Pop Flash

The ever creative Andrew Shields was at it again last week. He is an amazing surf photographer ... here is some of his work with remote flash of Dru Adler at the spit on the Gold Coast.

Jamie Drew

This is Jamie Drew. Who the @#%& is Jamie Drew. He is our Store manager and a great ambassador of our products. Jamie rides Quads and Twins like the Thruster was never invented! he is pictured here with two of his mad boards...
look out for him in the surf at Palmy or Casurina with a big grin on his face and lots of waves under his belt! drop in on him(at the shop) and see what test board he can get you on that will make you out paddle him and raise your fun level too.

Alex & his new board.

Alex Swadling picked up a couple new boards on friday 13th july, He liked the look of them and his dad and himself headed back down to Coffs Harbour where they live. Anyway bang on monday morning in my email inbox is a couple nice shots of Alex on his new board and a nice note saying how well they go. Cheers to Shane, Alex’s dad for taking the time out of the water to get some shots too!

Greenmount Fun

Dru Adler had some fun in this current swell at Greenmount. the trusty photographer Andrew Shields was there in shoot mode with the boat and camera...
This shot ended up in ASL September issue!

the BIG Fin

For all those Aussies proud of the Big things here in Australia, Here is something to add to your visit to the Gold coast! The oversize FIN SOLUTIONS fin was made by Steve Herbert from Australian fin company. Steve’s fin system is one of the strongest around. The plugs accept FCS fins as well and use the same allen key... look out for the board to match it! Now thats something not to drop in on!
Come by our shop any time and check out the system. As well as the FIN SOLUTIONS fins, we have a FCS and FUTURES test drive centres and lots of bits and pieces of other stuff from Speeed fins, Redex, Lokbox & Official. we even carry a large range of FLUID DYNAMICS box fins for Longboards and Quads...

Wayno shines at Cronulla point

Wayno Cleveland called me this morning with some news of yesterdays surf.. he told me of some great shots online at
http://www.surfimages.com.au/Images/point_session9/content/ thats Wayne setting himself up for a lovely tube...
cheers to Greg McCarthy for some great shots and look out for them in Tracks next issue...

Small surf = new board Art

Here is a quick sample of some of the new art Teena has under way, the surf has been small and its a little cooler giving her and Dave a little more time in front of the computer and airbrushes... drop in to the shop anytime to check out some of the always changing ever amazing graphics we do here at DIVERSE

ASL & the Bali grommets

Check out Alex Swadling & Mega and a few other groms in bali from the last few weeks. cheers to Australian Surfing Life for the story. the link is here..
http://www.surfinglife.com.au/cms/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=170

Bali Video

Just a short clip of some of one days waves at Uluwatu and Bingin. an average day in paradise....

Waves board buyers guide

Its Out on the newstands now! with a hot review of our DQ7 and some really cool pics, dont miss your copy! p.s. if your wondering if he gave the board back, the answer is no! the buggers still got it.

Jet pilot makes the local paper

Jet pilots new Factory made the business section of the Gold coast Bulletin newspaper along with one of Drus Quad fin boards

Isaac gets a nice set-up

Heres a taste of winters finest swells. Issac Paddon sets himself up for another tube on his HP7 9’1” longboard. He went on a surfari with Beau Young this last few days down the coast and scored some awesome waves...

Bali is over

All good things come to an end... thats right we are heading home to winter on the gold coast and good waves with Wetsuits on! heres a parting shot of Jason Blewitt at Airport reef on a 5’10” DQ7 quad fin.

Volcom contest

There is always a contest on here in Bali. this was a junior event (under 17). Mega made it thru a few rounds but it was really small and high tide on the beach breaks at halfway.
i was really cool to see a different approach to making the event fun. There was kids painting area and everyone had fancy dress and really crazy costumes on!

Airport reef

Still small waves around. After the boys had a bit of a late one for the obligatory Saturday night at M bar Go, we headed out to score some inconsistent 2-3 footers. we got a couple photos and were in nice temperature water... so who can complain?

Mega flys

This is one of the shots of Mega i took at Bingin. the local boys have the place wired so well. the air shows some nice commitment as there is lots of sharp reef below. Mega is 17 & a Ripcurl Indonesia rider and lives on the Bukit. (lucky fella huh!)

Longboard waves

Well its smaller again...this is Dale trying his hand a longboarding.. He is not too bad either... managed a couple hang tens & a helicopter or two!. The boys had a little tour of the town last night. So it just as well it wasnt 10 foot! The boys are heading back to Bingin or Dreamland this arvo to find a few ramps.

Ulus is on?

The promised swell arrived... but a high tide and long lulls! We got a few waves and a couple nice shots.. then went to Bingin, Dale & Mega (our local teamrider) managed to get a few nice pits and we got quite a few pics...

Small and frustrating

Another small windy day... this is a secret spot that wasnt to crash hot then...

Bali Arrival

Dale Richards, Jason Blewitt & myself arrived to find the waves pretty small on the beachies in legian...

Mike from Globe

Hey Guys,
Just wanted to shoot you all a pic of the illustrious GLOBE surf team manager Mike X getting slotted on Friday arvo during our after work office bonding session at south straddy. As seen on www.swellnet.com.au

Sheridan wins the phillipines

Sheridan won the contest! heres a few happy snaps of her triumphant trip...

Riversurfing video

This is one of our mates at Diverse. Yohannes Terhorst or YOYO as we all know him. his local break is in Munich, Germany...! Thats right he is a riversurfer. His board is a riverboard... he has a double ender with fins on either end! some times he uses a ST model (stealth) with the back fin taken out too. The yoyo riversurfing clip is him in the local town break. the big riverwave yoyo is a “bigwave” spot that only works rarely in the fall. Enjoy the difference and appreciate your onshore sloppy surfs in the sea....

Sheridans off to the Phillipines

Sheridan Shields, our resident Ladies WQS campaign girl, is off to the Phillipines this week to defend her title from her win last year. She just picked her new boards up for the trip this morning and is heading over today! The boards are 2 by 5’9” x 17 3/4” x 2” = 20.2 litres one with a Rounded Square and one with a Pintail. Her other board is a 5’11” x 17 3/4” x 2” = 20.7 litres rounded pintail for the slightly better waves. they look great and will go even better...

Bali's big swell

This is Mega, one of our Bali boys making the most of last weeks big swell at Padang Padang..the pic below is Andy Campbell on the same day at Uluwatu... photo credits to surfermag.com

Krystal clear polishes

I thought i would take the opportunity to introduce one of our staff now and again... Todays pic is Krystal the polisher. She  does all our polishing and wetrubbing in the factory. Krystal has been making her own boards for a couple years now and also studies part time at Uni. We really like her attention to detail and attentiveness when she is being taught something new. Krystal surfs great too... she has a smile on her face here as yesterday she made it too the quarters in the open womens at the Malfunction. I will update this when she wins it today! UPDATE... KRYSTAL  CAME THIRD IN THE OPEN WOMENS MALFUNCTION! one of her first contest’s too!

Amy Hart goes to Portugal for the World Titles

Amy Hart hails from Palm beach, on the gold coast. She qualified for the Aussie junior team (she is 17 y/o)  for the ISA junior world titles. the event is in Portugal, Europe from the 4th May to the 10th May. at the time of writing this she had won her opening heat and progressed thru to the third round.
 Recently Amy has undergone coaching with “Richo” Mark Richardson & has improved her contest skills immensely. Dave has made her boards for nearly 2 years now &
 We have also made the most of the board riding experiance Richo has helping Amy to give us great feedback about her boards & give her the best chances of progressing more... sorry about the quality of pics, i ripped them from Amy’s myspace till she gets me some better ones...