Once in a lifetime mad stimulation package sale!

you will kick yourself if you miss this one.. old Ruddy has convinced us that its time to spend your money on good quality Australian made products... We are doing our best to pass on the deals to you for a couple weeks only, we present the STIMULATION PACKAGE SALE... 2 Custom boards for $1100 bucks! call the shop on 07 5598 4848 or call in and set your self on fire!

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

Another happy customer!

Dave is a local customer of ours who is very happy with his new purchase on a 6'2 DS9 Sprint model. Enjoy!!!!!!!

James Hollmer-cross is nominated for XXXL biggest tube of the year

James has been nominated for the equivilent to the grammys for
surfing.... $55,000 usd prize.. lets hope he wins!

Cutback carving coldwater

James Holmer Cross running in his new Sprint model in some painted perfection courtesy of www.swellnet.com.au

Alex's New Board!

hi Dave
A photo from shelly's the other day on my New board.

Going Great
Alex Swadling

Dru Surfing is not always about getting air!

Here is some great shots from his local club round on Sunday at Palm Beach
by Simon from simsurf.com

Alex New Sprint goes great!

Here is some pics from Alex Swadling in Coffs harbour. Alex just qualified
in his regional titles to go in the State team Later in the year!

Kelly Slater, Rounded pins, Quads & Boobies

So a friend of Diverse is on the Qld breast cancer council, a benifit/charity organization to raise funding for research etc. She asked if we could get a board autographed by Kelly Slater for a charity auction. so thru a friend of a friend we got it all organized and i made a 5'9"quad just like i thought i would like to see Kelly ride.
here is my #2 daughter Teena holding the result... i thought it was pretty cool what he wrote on it!... it raised $4000 dollars tonight!

Fish Feedback

Hi Dave,

My girlfriend was playin around with her new camera and snapped some shots
of me on my diverse fish. The board shreds.

I'll be up for a new shortboard in the next couple of months so I'll catchya
then.
Such a fun board! Peace.

Best Regards,
Chris Beath BJus

Free your Inner Fish....

I Did Myself a new board for the Currumbin Fish Fry. its a Mini Simmons Style Twin Fin. 5'6"x 22"x 2 3/4"=35.6L
hope you like it... im looking forward to these stormy conditions to abate to get out there on it!

fresh fish... or dimsims?

This is Jamie's Offering for the fish fry 09, a Simmons style 5'8"x 20 3/8" x 2 11/16" twin keel.

Currumbin Fish fry is on ... sunday the 8th march

The Nightrider Returns...!

So I have been busy in the lab with the crying & the screaming that the pro circus brings to town... you know it gets pretty crowded with all the visitors in town here. on of my team riders (Alex Swadling) Dad gave me an idea. so after a few gyro gearloose moments i can anounce the Nightrider....

my big yellow Gun

Hey Dave
Had a bit of fun on that 7'2" yellow thing up the west coast of tassie.
Holds in really well and will perform well when it gets bigger and hollower.
Here's a few shots of it in action!
Keep up the good work
Cheers Jake

fresh boards for Dale Richards

21st birthday boy Dale is off to a fine start. heres a few of his new boards.... all with digital art Courtesy of Ben Everett & Quiksilver.

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...