Time to bookyour board for Indo.. Diverse are working on having Demos onboard the Pelagic this season...
http://www.pelagic-charters.com/ contact the guys here

Pelagic Office ( Australia ):

Al DaviesMob: 0418 978 378

Email: alan200@bigpond.com

Getting ready for a fun Indo Season!, here is a teaser of some fun waves in Bali last week. Diverse Rider Sima Rae mixing it up with his mates!

Bali Report 11th Feb from Black Market Productions on Vimeo.

Hi Dave
I have attached some pics of my wedding cake which my wife surprised me with on our wedding day ..... it is a replica of my "Australia" board you made me for my indo trip back in 2005.

Cheers

Brett

Subject: Channel Ten Totally Wild Interview

Hey Guys,
As you may know the show Totally Wild on Channel Ten are doing a segment on me and my surfing,
Filming happened at Currumbin Alley on the 23rd of February 2010.
I had a total ball, was a lot of fun! Had to teach the presenter, Ranger Stacey, how to surf
It was her first time but surprisingly she was a natural and stood up first time
I'll let everyone know when its suppose to air on tv :)
The new diverse board went awesome!! I'm so happy with it!
Here are a couple of pictures my mum took form the day
Thanks
Jess Roberts
 

Small Waves today.. Daisuke made the most of the Magic Mullets Small wave abilitys. With 5mm wetsuits and very powerless waves, it really takes patience & the right tools to get a fun surf session in!

In between visits to Surfshop customers We have been Surfing a couple times with customers too over the last days. its kind of duanting driving for 2 hours past snow capped mountains, watching steam come out of vents in the road!. i woke up at 6 am and saw outside completly coverered with snow, i went back to the warm bed thinking i would get some great pics later! , but up at 9 am and its sunny and all gone! I really begin to understand what my customers have to go thru here and other parts of the world!not even feeling my fingers.. before i get in the water, the hot water buckets to take to shower with at the beach, the Amazing custom order process to get a wetsuit! Oh another thing happened too. i Woke up to the whole house shaking. it was an earthquake. it was over pretty quick, it was only a 3.5! almost everyone slept thru it, its such a normal part of life here!

Hi Guys its Dave reporting from Cold Yokoham,a in Japan. The temp is 3 degrees outside! Heres a quick glimpse of yesterdays action.

The NEW WD Model
Wave Domination... Dave designed this board with inspiration from one of the hottest surfers on the ASP world tour who likes to have fun surfing too! Dane Reynolds rides a Roberts White Diamond model Surfboard when he wants to play.
The Wave Dominator or WD for short is a hybrid shortboard designed to catch all the waves you paddle for, meanwhile performing at an extremly high level. The wider outline with a pulled in nose give great flow & speed, round this off with the snappy response of the Diamond Tail. The WD features a deck with a flat crown tapering off to a modern foiled rail creating volume to spare... We make them with 5 fin plugs so your options of a Quad fin or even a Twin fin setup on smaller waves thru to a thruster for the juice sets you up for any day. Best Ridden 4-6" shorter & 1-1.5" wider, Now you can choose which waves your going to leave for others to scrap over, while you Dominate the best of the sets.
Suggested Sizing
The following are suggested measurements only and should only be used as a guide. Please feel free to adjust them as you see fit.
WEIGHT BUILD LENGTH WIDTH THICKNESS LITRES
45-55 SMALL 5'6 19 1/4 2 1/4 26.3
45-55 AVERAGE 5'6 19 1/4 2 5/16 26.7
45-55 LANKY 5'7 19 3/8 2 5/16 27.3
45-55 STOCKY 5'7 19 3/8 2 3/8 27.7
45-55 BIG 5'8 19 1/2 2 3/8 28.7
55-65 SMALL 5'7 19 3/8 2 3/8 27.7
55-65 AVERAGE 5'8 19 1/2 2 3/8 28.7
55-65 LANKY 5'9 19 5/8 2 3/8 29.3
55-65 STOCKY 5'9 19 5/8 2 1/2 30.2
55-65 BIG 5’10 19 3/4 2 1/2 30.8
65-75 SMALL 5'9 19 5/8 2 1/2 30.2
65-75 AVERAGE 5’10 19 3/4 2 1/2 30.8
65-75 LANKY 5’11 19 3/4 2 1/2 31.2
65-75 STOCKY 5’11 19 7/8 2 1/2 31.4
65-75 BIG 6’0 20 2 1/2 32.9
75-85 SMALL 5’11 19 7/8 2 1/2 31.4
75-85 AVERAGE 6’0 20 2 1/2 32.9
75-85 LANKY 6’1 20 1/8 2 1/2 33.5
75-85 STOCKY 6’2 20 1/4 2 1/2 34.2
75-85 BIG 6'2 20 1/4 2 5/8 35.2
85-95 SMALL 6’2 20 1/4 2 1/2 34.2
85-95 AVERAGE 6'2 20 1/4 2 9/16 34.7
85-95 LANKY 6'3 20 3/8 2 9/16 35.4
85-95 STOCKY 6'3 20 3/8 2 5/8 36.1
85-95 BIG 6'4 20 1/2 2 5/8 36.7
95-105 SMALL 6'3 20 3/8 2 5/8 36.1
95-105 AVERAGE 6'4 20 1/2 2 5/8 36.7
95-105 LANKY 6'5 20 5/8 2 5/8 37.4
95-105 STOCKY 6’6 20 3/4 2 5/8 38.1
95-105 BIG 6’8 21 2 3/4 41.4

Jason Blewitt RidesJ-Lo our Quad longboard... we make this on from 6'8" thru to 9'1" so easy to ride, great performance... we have several tester instore at Tugun! Come ride with us....

Have you heard Richo speaking our advert on Sea-FM this week? listen out for him just before the news in the mornings & pop in the shop to see the deals we have instore for you! Aloso this week we made a batch of promo boards for Bundy Red... better grab a can or 2 & see if it tastes any good!

Hopefully we can all see a new swell hit the Gold Coast of Australia on sunday/Monday this week! , which means change of thought, change of direction, change of board style, a time to get out there and try new styles of boards , or just to feel life again after our very long flat spell. we'll see! If you're feeling stale? Or Adventurous, or even just a user? /Why not try a free demo board out this weekend from our Tugan Store? We have at least 3 new models of boards only released to the public in the last month. New gig dates have also been added to my website www.isaacpaddon.com. if you manage to get some time out to chill

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.

Mattia Di Bitonto Morri "YeWiE" from mattia di Bitonto on Vimeo.

New years day 2010 4am- Kuta, Bali

Alarm on my Phone rings... No Power on in town again, i have to catch a 6am flight so the quick shower & pack bags in the dark routine begins. First time i had stayed in my mates Villa so the scramble with the Iphone as a torch got me by.
Out to the front of the villa complex, waking up the security boys to give me an Ojek (motorcycle taxi) to the busy Denpasar airport. There was clear skies with no wind & still a few leftover bangs, pops & whistles from the Revelers who had left over fireworks & energy from NYE. 5 minutes short of the airport the solitary cloud in the dimly lit sky found us & loaded buckets of rain! All moist and checked in fine, Gotta love priority seating on AirAsia!

Thru turnstiles in Singapore airport moving with Cues of pensive jet-setters, doing their own personal security scanning of fellow travelers with eyeballs of judgement, along with Immigration, Customs & Health officials doing their official stamping & screening. Hello its Luggage collection time! As this was one of several legs of my promo tour i had sent fresh boards ahead of me from the Diverse Factory at home via unaccompanied baggage. I had sent them on 21st dec to make sure i had left plenty of time for them to arrive before me.

1st hurdle, The cargo office was not answering the phone! it was new years day... oh-oh, public holiday! The helpful information desk sent us in the direction of the freight terminal, as there were planes coming in she thought we might find someone to help us. The Taxi ride was pretty much a whole loop around the airport. Once we were thru the security checks leaving our passports etc, we found our way to the office manned by a 13 y/o kid with a PSP who went to work with his dad! His Dad came thru with some info on the office computer. The boards had not left Australia yet! “maybe tonight sir, please come back tomorrow”. Not good enough, as we were leaving in about 1 hour on the ferry to Malaysia! Ok no new boards, promo material, T-shirts & banners to use at the Monsoon Madness Competition i was going too! Lucky i had a few customers with boards there already to borrow. Its cool I can sell my boards with my heart & hands & my laptop.

Next stop was back to the airport to meet 14 of the crew from Phuket board-riders, Thailand, They joined us for the 20 minute bus ride to the ferry terminal. After another cue-ing session with immigration, Customs etc we were on the Ferry leaving the harbour cruising past Sailboarders racing container ships. Desaru Beach here we come.

Thru the next cues of Customs etc & into 2x Pajeros, with the remainder of the boys & boards piling into a lorry winding along a coast reminiscent of Dunwich at north Straddie complete with calm waters & mangroves. Five minutes into the Drive we turned down a small single lane side road with the Driver explaining in simple english “shortcut” we found ourselves meandering thru palm plantation trees & small settlements of families playing in the afternoon sun. Road signs warned us of Monkeys, Wild Pigs & surprisingly Elephants! I was glad we didn't run into any of them playing in the afternoon sun. Brief glimpses of the ocean didn't look promising for swell as the coastal road took us past seaside hotels from the 80’s, we found our destination of Golden Beach Hotel @ Desaru, Johor, Malaysia. A 4star hotel with a couple of falling stars over years of weekend use with a small beach break right out the front!

a Quick surf check reveals a 1 foot sloppy beach break, but its low tide & looks to have potential banks for the morning! The young guys from Thailand slip out for a couple wet ones, then we are off in the back of a Hilux with 12 others to the local dinner choice. Spicy hot Rice & chicken washed down with ice cold fruit juices... Alcohol is illegal for Malaysians , But no problem for tourists. So for all of us who wanted a beer we drove 10km up the road to the market that had some liquor to buy. We were stopped by a police roadblock! All the visiting guys including myself had left our passports/ID in our room! I am sure the Police must have been happy for the contest to be in town as they let us all off & directed us to the Bottle shop/roadside cafe. $2 cans of Carlsberg special brew @8.8% filled our bags & a couple made sleep come quickly!

Rise & Shine 5am just like home. No-one is up so i take a little walk down to the water to see that the surf is clean & fun looking. Breakfast voucher in hand i head over to the buffet much like any other in the Asian arena. With a full stomach i am off to the contest site. After 10 minutes of looking around the Contest Director Ajill asked me to help out & judge, with five more i was 2nd head judge! A little dismayed on how to judge bodyboarding etc i took on the challenge & learnt pretty quick. I was impressed with the standard of short-boarding with current Malaysian champion Mamat & Bandah Aceh surfer Yudi setting the bar. The waves are much like a japanese beach break or an ordinary gold coast summer windswell beachie. Little left + right hand peaks good for a couple turns if your lucky!


Officially opening the event at 2pm was the minister for tourism Malaysia. Government interest is high in surfing & its related business channels. Pumping music reminicent of early mornings at Double six in Legian, with camo clad army officers patrolling the park & beach admiring the beauty of youth. Malaysia is a strong muslim country so there was a lot of the girls on the beach were wearing veils! Being a Tourist beach town things were pretty relaxed. Surfing Guest of honour for the Event was Dede Suryana from Cimaja in Indonesia
I had an opportunity for promo with Malaysian TV as they were on location filming at Getaway style program, The producer had asked me of the possibilitys of arranging a surf lesson for their “Jennifer Hawkins” style host. Quickly aided by Local surfer girl Brenda we set them up with basic instructions about paddling, standing up & using a legrope etc. My good friend Dede Suryana 2 x Indonesian surfing champ helped by taking the Sharmeen the host into the water to get wet surfing for the 1st time. As entertaining as i was watching her get pounded by the shore break almost loosing here wear the Film crew managed to get the shots they needed. Proceeding onto interviewing me on the merits of board type, design, style & basic construction, fortunatly i had a Diverse board from one of my customers for the high performance example. Making do with a Thailand made minimal for the beginners example. Nice to give a plug to DIVERSE on national Malaysian TV!

Dinner that night was a dodgy beachside resturant, with the hunger being quenched but the taste buds were not! one of the ladys with us managed to find a fly in her fried rice! Jokes aside she did not order Flies with that!
The contest organizers from Bigfoot Industries had arranged for beach party kicking off around 11pm, turning out to be a lot of fun not unlike a full moon party anywhere in Asia, with crew dancing until sunrise to well mixed jungle beats. I took my judging seriously and was in bed by 3am to the Doofing sounds of DJ’s pounding a good beat.

Ground hog breakfast buffet with the contest kicking off at the reasonable time of 9:30am. The waves were a little bigger with a bit more water on it making it fullish. Competition surfers seemed to make the most of the conditions riding the waves that came thru very well. Still struggling with the concept of judging the bodyboards i took a break & wandered the beach stalls looking at all kinds of things from food stalls to Hookah pipes while the sound systems pumped out amping music mixed with a live reggae band on the park stage!

by the afternoon finals the waves had deteriorated as most contests do, with the smaller younger guys looking like favourites to take out the event. Hailing from Cherating the boys were used to long right hand point break waves, getting long rides with perhaps a little too safe manouvres. Contest Winner Yudi from Bandah Aceh put down some powerfull turns taking chance with radical turns over safe long rides. His Gamble payed off winning quite convincingly over the billabong sponsored grommy from Cherating & Malaysian champ Mamet.
A quick speech from the Malaysian tourism minister, followed by retired local army General started the presentation, Handing over certificates of appreciation to sponsors & judges. With prizes being giving to all division winners, where nods & handshakes took prevalence over acceptance speeches. Good thing really as we had 30 mins to say goodbye to all the new friends, pack, checkout of the hotel & catch the last ferry back to Singapore for the day. We had plans of Surfing the Standing wave on Sentosa island at the WaveHouse in Singapore in the morning before our flights back to Bali that evening.
We made the ferry, of course being the last ones there! Once thru all the customs/Immigration rigmarole we had a mission getting 2x taxis with boards! Apparently they dont like to pick up from the ferry terminal because they miss out being able to charge the $10 airport terminal tax. Eventaully we caught one, Heading to our guide Arfian house. he had insisted we stay at his house. Arfian & his wife Radiah were awesome treating Myself & Dede to an amazing dinner in Arab st. By 1am we were in bed after adding countless new friends we had made over the weekend on facebook! So many hookups for new surfing destinations around south east Asia!

Monday morning starts off with a large chinese style breakfast spread prepared by the grandma who had magically appeared at 5am to cook breakfast for guests! Steamed pork buns thru to a dragonfruit salad we were treated like kings. a phone call from our friends at the Wavehouse , The barrel had been put out of action with a loose surface coating & would not be running today or for another 2 weeks! Fortunatly the Flowrider was still running so we went to Sentosa Island anyway. We met the owner and made arrangements for 2 hours on the Flowrider. We found it more difficult than it looked but a lot of fun, Tom (owner) explained to us that it was easier for non surfers to learn than for more experianced professionals becuase a lot of the actions & weight placement was the opposite. Quickly we found that to be true, watching young chinese boys who had never surfed, maybe not even swim before picking it up very quickly. Dede Suryana was blown away how good some of the local regulars were, flipping & sliding, making tricks look easy. I was intrigued by the board designs. Once the staff found out they had a visiting shaper they quickly brought out several shapes for me to try. Our local instructors who were also the current Champions were totally stoked for me to show some interest in making them some new design boards. Several ideas were running thru my head with concaves & sidecut etc. Out with my trusty mini tape measure & iphone to record some basic dimensions. I knew i was going to have trouble sleeping that night creating some new shapes in my head. Tom spoke of the new model wave they were working on installing in the future that may actually bring surfing to the Olympics in a few short years.


After a quick tasty lunch at the WaveHouse we were escorted VIP on a golf buggy limo to the Carpark & Airport promising to return with more time to enjoy thinhgs & a handful of boards to test out. If you have a couple hours spare when you stopover in Singapore, catch the train to Sentosa Island & have a go, you can hire boardies there, lock up your carry on in the baggage lockers & rip it up, you pay by the hour & it sure beats drinking at the Airport watching people while your in transit!
Back on the flight to Bali & a good nights sleep for me....
more Pics here...

Diverse Surfboards are continually getting more & more feedback from around the Globe. Just this week we had orders from Dubai, The Ivory Coast in Africa, Malaysia, Singapore & USA. as our international customer base grows & grows we are finding lots of Happy surfers totally stoked with the Durability of our boards, Along with being able to create & design any Graphic they want on a Custom board made the the Best Specs for them! Young People have such an amazing choice of futures within Surfing nowadays. Here is a Fortunate Student of the Super Surf Camps Being Held along the east coast this school Holidays. Students get to Design thier own boards and Spend a Entire weekend learning futuristic skills in Surfing.

hi Dave, Jamie, Isac.

That thingy board with the sticky up fins DQX I think, looks like a chicken drum stick, but goes like a cut cat.

Took the demo out at the alley last week, went surprisingly well in 2ft sloww slop, then took it to sraddie for a couple of days 3ft peaks went unreal, heaps of speed down the line, and up and over sections. Next step chunky stuff, with bigger fins maybe.

Ordered mine the next day. Got it yesterday, have to wait for it to cure, just as well there is no surf.

Cheers guys have a good xmas

Paul Webster

check out the spongebob squarepants board we made...

Its great to have your theorys backed up by other shaper/designers. I tried Hard rails all the way up on my boards about 15-18 years ago. i did a few for friends too. they all loved them Too. the only negative comments were before the board was ridden. Once they surfed the board it was all good...
But as always the marketplace dictates we do designs just like everyone else... Your welcome to discuss having hard rails on your next custom!

This is a reprint of A Surfline article by Maurice cole. Eminence grise of the designing set:

This innocent seeming question is hitting modern high performance design right on the nail. The logic of hard rails-versus-soft deserves to be challenged. Mark Richards once said, "Hard rails don't catch, bad rocker lines do." This would have been 20 years ago. I think we're only beginning to get a grip on what he said today.

Why do boards have softer front edges? It's simple. In traditional surfing style, the front half of the board is essentially irrelevant to the turn. Most of the time, you're lifting the nose out, and only using the last two feet of tail rail -- the hard bit -- to turn.

Rails have been left soft up front because many designers have believed that hard edges up front would "catch" -- ie., interfere and block water in turns. I think this is a fallacy on the modern high-performance surfboard. The softer front edge is designed to be forgiving. In fact, it's too forgiving. The softer the edge, the more the water wraps around and sucks onto it, the less control you have. It's like sloppy suspension on a car.

Here's an example: you've probably seen the footage and photos of the Jaws sessions late last year. What we (Ross Clarke-Jones rides MCs) found was amazing. Ross was riding 6'6"s and they actually felt too long! In 30-foot waves! Those boards had hard rails from nose to tail and yet they didn't catch -- in fact, they were incredibly lively. They felt too long because suddenly Ross was able to use the whole rail to turn off, not just the last two or three feet. We've cut lengths down to 5'10" and 6'3" and we'll probably cut more after the next swell.

Tow-ins have taught me over and over again that we don't know what we thought we knew. I believe we've gotta be able to translate that back to everyday surfboards. I went in on my high performance boards recently and started putting hard rails in way up, from nose to tail. All I found were improvements. The boards paddled better; they took hold of water and got it under the board quicker; reaction times improved. You could use all the board, all the time.

Surfboard rockers have improved tremendously since MR called it on 'em way back when. Maybe it's time we kissed the soft front rail goodbye.

Here is Dale Richards new batch of performance shortboards. Along with his
high performance Sprint Model boards for competition, Dale has been
trialling our latest release WD (Wave Dominator) ModeL & a super funky fun
board we call the Squid.
A famous guy said in 1895
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. Too change
something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."

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 ! "

this is not Wayne.. this is another happy guy with fresh custom off to Peru...

Dave
Surfed new ten foot Longboard at Wilsons on Sunday morning, strong north swell 3 to 4 foot right handers peeling towards corner on a funny angle real glassy and fun. At the time I was wondering how this board would go anyway It picked up the outer sets real fine and the board has control and speed on bottom turns pushes off possible the square tail. I quickly found that the extra thickness allowed stepping or walking about and pulling the board around left go right easy. I used the fin you supplied and will continue to use on this model thanks again I would also like to give the swallow mullet 7ft 10 ago maybe just a tad thicker when I get cashed up again.

PS: Some locals commented on the Longboard shape showed interest.

All the best
Pete Le Breton

And Another one...

G'day Jamie,

Just got a call from Wayne with some feed back on the board:

"It's a f&cken ripper mate, happy as a pig in shit I am.....best glass job
I've ever seen, love the Diverse logo and the fish graphic....."

One of the strangest customers we've had, but you guys have made him very
happy indeed, much appreciated.

Thanks! (Wes,Vic Diverse Retailer)

Heres a little taste of a couple new eggs lineing to make smiles on some lucky customers face.. the "style Commander" taking over a break near you!

Mattia "stratonto" morri-MONOPRODUCTION from mattia di Bitonto on Vimeo.

Here is some nice pics of Chris on his Sprint model at the Tweed Coast this morning...
Great pics by dan@oceanartwork.com

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