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- Sat Aug 10, 2013 3:27 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous Kneeboard Surfing ...
- Topic: Friar Tuck & Peter Ware
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7621
- Fri Aug 09, 2013 5:24 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous Kneeboard Surfing ...
- Topic: Friar Tuck & Peter Ware
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7621
Picture of John driving of the bottom at Little Avalon. John was a great free surfer who never enjoyed contests. He was a great designer and inventor. He was a perfectionist in everything he did. His first love was photography and cinematography. He designed aquaware water housings for camera's movi...
- Wed Aug 07, 2013 3:30 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Kneeboard Surfing ...
- Topic: Friar Tuck & Peter Ware
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7621
just put a picture of an early FT by John. This board was with a fin called a whiptail. The idea of the fin was to give you more drive off the bottom turn. This design was just before the twin fin. Kneeboarders were starting to push the limits and finding new directions as the sport was growing. I w...
- Sun Aug 04, 2013 1:14 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous Kneeboard Surfing ...
- Topic: Friar Tuck & Peter Ware
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7621
Crox for you. My Brother John. Friar Tuck Kneeboarder shaper designer photographer cinematographer
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- Fri Aug 02, 2013 4:37 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Kneeboard Surfing ...
- Topic: Friar Tuck & Peter Ware
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7621
I used to Glass and finish all gull surfboards in Sydney at FT's in the late 70's. Terry was a young school Boy who rode for Gull. Glen Crawford I first met at Duranbah in the early eighties and he used to ride one of my boards. I still can remember him driving his bongo van to contests. Dale I have...
- Fri Aug 02, 2013 3:07 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Kneeboard Surfing ...
- Topic: Friar Tuck & Peter Ware
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7621
I always surfed with small fins on the rails in front. Dals also surfed with the small fins in front on a FT. It excelerated you into the turns. The widest point was always in front of halfway and you drove into your turns, not pivot of the tail. Thrusters you pivot of the tail on your bottom turns....
- Wed Jul 31, 2013 4:13 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous Kneeboard Surfing ...
- Topic: Friar Tuck & Peter Ware
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7621
Crox thank you for updating the links. I am a luddite and my computer skills are not that great. Craig was N/Zealand champion and he came over in the late 70's to work with John, David and I and lived with me for a while. He had a great style and was great to have around and surf with. When I moved ...
- Wed Jul 31, 2013 3:29 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous Kneeboard Surfing ...
- Topic: Friar Tuck & Peter Ware
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7621
Thanks Womble for your kind words. Kneeboarding once in your blood you never forget or give up. At 63 I still live for that next wave. I move a little slower and do not have the fitness I used to have but still get stoked when i catch a good wave. We have a great low off the coast just now and the s...
- Mon Jul 29, 2013 3:37 pm
- Forum: Contests...
- Topic: DAVID PARKES wins WORLD TITLE
- Replies: 24
- Views: 9316
- Mon Jul 29, 2013 3:02 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Kneeboard Surfing ...
- Topic: Friar Tuck & Peter Ware
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7621
Glassed for Henri Surfboards on Harbord Road Brookvale 1973. Also glassed boards for Midget Farelly - Nat Young - Barry Bennett - Henri Manager at Bennett Surboards Opened Friar Tuck on Harbord Road Brookvale 1974 John my brother worked for Ft as a shaper designer. He was a Photographer and Cinemato...
- Sat Jul 27, 2013 1:12 am
- Forum: Contests...
- Topic: DAVID PARKES wins WORLD TITLE
- Replies: 24
- Views: 9316
- Thu Jul 25, 2013 7:55 pm
- Forum: Contests...
- Topic: DAVID PARKES wins WORLD TITLE
- Replies: 24
- Views: 9316
In the days of Kirra working before they wrecked the banks kneeboard standouts Paul Herriot and the late Neil Cameron. The early bird Peter Blom was always the first in the water. Peter Turner who owned Kirra Surf used to ring Blommie for the surf reports on the radio. If Kirra was not working D-bah...
- Thu Jul 25, 2013 8:00 am
- Forum: Contests...
- Topic: DAVID PARKES wins WORLD TITLE
- Replies: 24
- Views: 9316
- Tue Jul 23, 2013 3:27 pm
- Forum: Contests...
- Topic: DAVID PARKES wins WORLD TITLE
- Replies: 24
- Views: 9316
- Tue Jul 23, 2013 3:25 pm
- Forum: Contests...
- Topic: DAVID PARKES wins WORLD TITLE
- Replies: 24
- Views: 9316