for the sake of argument....re the "aussie"

john - · Post by **john -** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 4:40 pm

perhaps the aussie styled board should be called the Parkes style!

there are no standards of course but there are generalisations

Bud has on his website "aussie styled" boards in his design section

since DP was his distributor was there a time when the fin foward movement noted in some Parkes designs what gave Bud the idea?

Was Bud the first to have the idea of calling a style of his board "aussie"

Has Parkes noted moving fin fowards as a method on his website? ...cant remember...will go look

ps: if you "know" your an idiot feel free to argue...could be method in the madness.....if you dont "know"....me either!...whats the criteria?

pss... Q. when does a red quad look like a sheep?

A. when surfing is better than sex

surfhorn · Post by **surfhorn** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 4:48 pm

I think the term popped up in the 1980's when you Oz cats went with the slab styles with a big ol' fin pushed way up.

Personally, I've been isolated here in Santa Cruz County and a lot of what I ride has come from trial-and-error since the mid 1960s.

john - · Post by **john -** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 4:51 pm

SOMETHING FROM THE PARKES WEBSITE

I hope there is no copy right problem

The major design influences were obviously from John and Peter Ware's boards of the 70's , but I liked narrower, more drivey boards and hence started using wings and rounded pins to reduce tail area as influenced by Neil Luke and Steve Artis. The introduction of twin fins enabled me to turn harder and earlier but still retain a "free" feeling on the wave and use wider tails. This has been a combination that I have strived to maintain over the years hence my use of 4 fin and tri fins (with big side fins and small center fin).

The early days of a forward placed fin and a thin tail and rail have stayed with me which means that my boards are surfed more from the middle than the tail. These were integral parts of John and Peter Ware's design theories. Since then other shapers like Craig McDonald, Dale Ponsford and Albert Whiteman have added their contributions to the Friar Tuck story but my commitment to making boards that work in a wide variety of waves for all sorts of surfers has continued.

KenM · Post by **KenM** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 6:17 pm

Or maybe they should be called the PC style.

hart · Post by **hart** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 6:28 pm

KenM wrote:
Or maybe they should be called the PC style.

too true

W.G. Facenda · Post by **W.G. Facenda** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 6:32 pm

Did those single fin -forward slabs work good in Hawaiian juice ?

K-man · Post by **K-man** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 7:26 pm

Well....I'm gonna continue to call them aussie tri's.1-they come from oz 2-tri is shorter than saying thruster.And My understanding is that ''thruster ''refers to fins being on the tail,versus being pushed forward
My two cents..
Another shaggy dog story

ScottMac · Post by **ScottMac** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 8:41 pm

splashy · Post by **splashy** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 11:18 pm

Technically speaking, "Thruster" was the trade name used by Simon Anderson on his three-fin designs when he rode them to a world title.... bit like "Velcro" for hook and loop fasteners....

hart · Post by **hart** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 11:35 pm

splashy wrote:
Technically speaking, "Thruster" was the trade name used by Simon Anderson on his three-fin designs when he rode them to a world title.... ..

I'm afraid Simon never won a World Title

So your description is..technically inaccurate

hart

ps

any news on the kneeboard magazine, Craig?

pps

congrats on the Pa Bendell win

Smokin Rock · Post by **Smokin Rock** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:35 am

Bruce,
Simon Ando never won a world title but he did win Bells in 10' conditions and later on that year at Pipe. does anyone know (or care) who won the grovelers division (world champ) that year?

john - · Post by **john -** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 1:03 pm

if we take Bud, hart and Parkes as the three most prolific shapers discussed or ridden on this site then

...Bud calls his 3 fin tris

...Parkes calls his 3 fin tris

...hart calls his 3 fin thrusters, but Im also led to believe Bruce delivers them with a GAM FCS set up. I think that on different occasions both Red and Albert have mentioned that Simon Farrer has put in a GX (smaller) or something like that in the middle.

in kneeboarding, thrusters are different to tris as a generally understood principle by virtue of the centre fin being al ot smaller than the outside fins

PC style rather than aussie style sounds credible unless someone else has the drum on it!

KAVA · Post by **KAVA** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:05 am

At the next gathering im gonna wanna try a drift, parkes, and blast board :idea could they possibly impress me as much as FP has?

red · Post by **red** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:49 pm

Simon's thruster setup had a larger rear fin so technically none of us is riding one, but philisophy-wise many of us are because of the relative placement of the fins and similar sizes..

I'd say get over identifying the fin-forward design as Australian. It's now the standard in kneeboard design in much the way that multifins are the standard in all surfboards - nothing guarantees success like success. Sure there are fins-back kneeboards, but they are now the exception - just fondly remember the (Aussie) innovators and thank them in your dreams.

john - · Post by **john -** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 7:36 pm

red...i think we all got over it back in March and Kava was on a lateral rave about Australian boards in general

by the by I thought ye said that SF had a smaller centre (back)fin so it was not a "true" thruster set up..it was a while back though

me...Im all thruster on my FP...makes me manly

ah...i should say...feel manly

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for the sake of argument....re the "aussie"

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