Burnwater wrote:
Alan Watts said, "...for no two opposites can exist unless there is a relation between them."
Burnwater
That's a great quote and even greater response!
And in its trueism, the
opposite characteristics of the slab and fish do create similarities between them.
The basic component of similarity is, of course, the rider (assuming a surfboard is inert unless it is being ridden)..and each rider will search for the same things.
And in terms of shape, similar design elements are used..it's just that they exist in different places in each style of board.
I am certainly no expert on the California fish (and prepared to be corrected) but I kinda see it this way.
Both board designs used straight bottoms for intrinsic speed. The slab however had a dead-straight tail, yet the fish seemed straighter through the mid-point.
The slab had a planshape-straight through the front one third (and curve from there down into the tail) , yet the fish had its straightest-point in its planshape in the
back one third..with curve from there up into the nose.
While these observations seem to be working against one another, they in fact, strike on a strong common denominator.
And that is, that the straightest part(s) of the bottom curves (of both designs) was placed (under) and in relation to the
curviest part of the outline.
So, the same intelligence with different application will generate a
different result..
But its good to know that we are all
thinking the same way
hart
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