Got Wood?

Dave has been working on a Paulonia (Kiri) wood Quad. It is made of solid pieces then rough shaped. Then we pulled it apart and cut out most of the centre leaving ribs. This pic is as we are starting to glue it back together. We will post some more pics as it gets finished in the next few Days.

Little Lifeguard...

Daves Daughter Teena with a look of anticapation!

kirra tow ins...

nice to see swell! looking forward to the next couple days as it settles and cleans up... make sure you come in and test drive a board while theres good waves around!

kirra tow ins...

happy times to all out there...heres whats happening at kirra today...wish i got a ski for xmas...rj out...

alex swadling video

new video of me surfing at diggers.in december.

alex reporting from coffs

hi dave merry christmas to you and your family and pj,jamie we had a good time on the gold coast the surf was ok. thanks for fixing dads board it fell off the roof of the motorhome.were leaving today for curl curl,for the ocean@earth teenage rampage after that were driving around the south coast surfing and camping untill we arrive at bells for the kustom cadet cup and my first pro junior at bells beach so ill let you know how it goes and send some new photos of surf on the way so my boards a waxed and ready cant wait, so have a happy new year alex swadling

Jaidens new video

Hey Dave and crew, heres some footage from this year at the last state titles where i placed 5th

Staff Smiles with new boards

Heres our shop manager Jamie and retail cohort RJ with their nice shiny new Christmas boards.

the other side of the world this week...

more sweet Quad stock

alex reporting from coffs

hi dave the surf has been pumping all week with this easterly swell,we had 6 + foot lefts and rights all week ,the new 5.11 sprint been powering,we getting ready to leave coffs for the ripcurl gromsearch at d bah ,on the way up we check out a few spots. so i see you latter today or tomorrow so talk to alex swadling

Happy Quad customers...

Dave- got the board last Friday. it is Great- thanks a lot.

 Man it is quick. Got it out in good waves today and ive never been so fast in all my life! hacked out a big cutback and did not lose a bit of speed. i love it. thanks a lot  Best regards. Cameron

Quads for Christmas!

Here are some of the amazing Christmas presents waiting for collection at the Diverse Store at Tugun!

alex swadling reporting from coffs harbour

hi dave,the swell came up for a few days,and the surf was pumping.we had our last sawtell boardriders for the year,,in 6 foot + easterly swell at sawtell in the u16 ipicked up two bomb waves scoring a 9 and 8 so i won the under 16. in the opens i wasent a lucky with the waves. but it was still close, tommy 1st and me 3rd. so i was pretty happy with my surfing.my new 5-11 went geat in the bigger surf

sunpatch christmas party

hi dave we had the sunpatch christmas party on saturday night at the bowling alley. There were 30 of us and we all had to dress up as pirates or princess the photo is of me tommy,and mark and his baby. We bowled and eat until 11.00 pm that was when i went home.The surf has been ok in the mornings small but good shape.my training at martin dunn went great he showed us a lot of small adjustments with turns and airs. So it was great to attend. We talked to ben whos injured at the moment. My new boards go great i think having the nose narrower and the wigth less has made the board very lose.On my backhand it turns up much more vert. The ds7 is working out great. talk later alex swadling

Amee pulls 2nd place at the Roxy Pro Hawaii

Part time Diverse team rider Amee Donahue, has moved up to 5th position on the ASP world tour ratings. She is in a great position to win her 2nd triple crown too! Go Hard...

Shezza's wild Hawaii trip

Diverse Team Rider Sheridan Shields celebrating Diverseness in Hawaii this week at the Oneill challenge. a fun event to help take the seriousness off the ending of the ASP world tour for the year.

alex swadling reporting from coffs harbour

hi dave my new board arrived the 5.11. i took it out at our last board riders of the year and went great the photo is from diggers the left in the corner,i just came back fron the train station as the train is 2 hours late going to old bar for the camp with martin dunn so the final event for the year and 2 of us were tied with the same points and we boath ride diverse boards and he won today and i came second it was soo close well ill let you know how the training goes alex swadling

Hawaii here we come

Diverse Team Rider Dale Richards is off to Hawaii today. He is staying there for a month on the North Shore! This is Dale's first trip to the rock... you can see the excited look on his face! i suppose it may have something to do with his shaper dropping of a load of new boards & goodies for the trip too!

Aussie fish Fry 2008

The Currumbin FishFry is on again!

Jaiden Elgey photos

This photo is from one of the alleyboardriders clubrounds on my 5'7, the club round was at palm beach the surf stayed clean all day and also picked up. Cant wait to ride my two new boards 5'8 and 5'10.
Talk to u soon.

Machine Man is Coming

 
The APS3000 is ready to rumble. This machine is the best thing that can happen to any shaper. it cuts a perfect board from whatever I design... This shot is from when we were half way thru installation. We have been using a cutting service for the last 4 years. Now we have our own! If you want a demo , Or you want to see your custom getting designed and cut. Call Dave for a look-see.

alex swadling reporting from coffs harbour

hi guys this is a photo from wednesday at shellys the boards going great and carnt wait for my new sprint 5 11,the northeries have been blowing all weekend and the surf been rubbish so ive been fishing and swimming the water temp droped and wetsuits back on.this week iam catching the train down to old bar to a training camp with martin dunn for some coaching to tune up my comp surfing for the rip curl gromsearch,ocean@ earth tean age rampage at curl curl then to bells for the cadet cup,i hope the swell come up before the weekend for the camp so ill let you know how it goes on the weekend talk to you soon alex

krystal

Krystal polishes, and is learning board design here at Diverse. Krystal placed 3rd at the 2007 malfunction here at rainbow bay.

Teena Mcilveen

Surfboard Shaper, Artist, factory Manager. Plays Touch football for Australia

alex swadling reporting from coffs harbour

hi dave on the weekend we had the teams chalange between boardriders clubs from woopi tp cresent heads i surfed for sewtell and we were overall winners $250 first prize for the club with coffs 2nd cresent 3rd it was very close and was decided with the tage team and we won by just 10 points,today sunday we had our coffs boardriders 5-6 foot light on shore difficult conditions with very lumpy swell i finished 2nd in the u16s and 4th in the u18s.so talk to you latter alex

Vernon Ahkee board art

These boards have Digital printed artwork of the Indigenous artist Vernon Ahkee. he does his work on grey canvas then sketches with charcoal and white pastel. The origional images are 2 metres high!

Postcards from Outside Corner

alex swadling trip to cabarita gold coast

hi dave we left friday for the cabarita comp the boards went well got through a few rounds,we stayed in our motorhome,then in the morning we drove onto the barge to go over to south wall ballina as the northerly had pick up we had a bit of trouble getting off the barge as the toe ball got stuck in the barge ramp we took the toe ball off and go out of there with the barge driver happy to see the end of us the waves were small sucky lefts heaps of fun ,were back in coffs and the swell picked up 4 foot great lefts today its my sports day so iam surfing for sport talk to you soon alex swadling

help the majority in Japan to stop this Killing

most of Japan do not know this is happening... they would be against it and stop it if they knew about it! even the poison levels of mercury are 15 times higher than allowed in any other fish meat in japan...please help spread the truth about Dolphins!