i have snapped 2 in half and creased 2. Snapped first cheap epoxy paddling out. Snapped second by riding right i to the shore break and have it break on the board.
As this is my return year to surfing after a 30 year break, 4 boards since.......March this year.......and 1 car stolen and burnt out with fins, wetsuits ect its been a bad year.

Zero some would say I don't go hard enough

Creased it badly but it didn't snap,I was actually in a right hand barrel at Diamond and knew I wouldn't make it out,so I flicked the board along the wave and dived through the back,only to watch the board go around with it and spear into the bank, probably should have just rode out of it!...

Interesting question. Not broken too many boards the last 20 years but broke three at one reef in the last year - never surf there on the low tide now days. Lessons learnt Luck of the draw.

Oh this may offend but I've only even owned Mctavish

You were right before....you dont go hard enough.
You understand you will probably snap your first board this week.

I have seen 4 firewire Longboards snapped and all at LM ??

I have seen a fair few creased ones. My hp one being one of them ...

Mac I have seen your brand creased on a few as well.

Generally you won't see Longboards in waves that will do any damage to them.. they are usually damaged by bad luck,kooks or if you are a stooge like me you will damage a board every time you bang it in a wall/gate/fence/lifeguard tower etc

Have broken one 9 footer.

It took me 3 destroyed longboards to realise you dont take em out in overhead beach breaks.

2, I think, 1 x Hot Buttered shaped by Rabbige and 1 x Skipp shaped by Latta, it was one of his ex comp boards and it was very lightly glassed.

Did both in the same spot a few years apart, Palm Beach Sydney, roughly in front of the amenities block and both the same way, stayed on for too long and let myself get caught under a 6ft close out.

The weight of the wave would have been bad enough, but the fat turd on top was really the straw that broke the stringers back.

Best snap I ever saw was at Collaroy point many years ago, this guy had a brand spanking new mactavish, the big M period, but not a pop out, this one was the genuine article, probably never seen wax before that day.

The guy decided he's going to launch off the rock pool at a half tide to save a 30 second paddle, now if you know that place, it's never a good idea for a LB to use the jump rock unless it's a small day and a big tide and usually you go off the side of the rock pool, not the front.

So because it's a half tide, he sees that jumping from the pool edge is not too good an option, so Einstein decides to shimmy down to the rock slab about 1200 mm down from the edge of the pool with his new weapon poised at the ready, then in a very short time he realizes that he has made a big mistake when the first set comes his way.

There's a few options our boy had at this point, one would have been a major jump over the top of the set, and if he made it, he would have had an armchair ride out the back, but it would have had to be a gravity defying Nijinsky like leap. Another option would be to push the board through the set and brace yourself against the wall for a hit. A third option would be to try to get the stick back up on the pool edge along with yourself.

Not our boy, he decides to double down on the bad decisions and instinctively places the board in front of his body and put his back against the pool wall.

After the wave had cleared, there he stood, wearing a brand new Mactavish like a Sarong.

That short walk back to the car park with a chuck of board under each arm must have seemed like a hike up Everest .

Thats too funny

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OlSteve said...
Thats too funny

+1

OB best story teller I know

100 % harsh tag at Chrispy

Great story ob
Always great entertainment seeing someone get cleaned up. Its one of those funny cause it isnt me situations..

Snapped a few... creased a couple more..
Used to have a thing for closeout floater re-entries when i was young and flexible..

I just used to put them back together. Snapped one of them 4 times before it went in the bin...

Havent broken one in years..

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2, I think, 1 x Hot Buttered shaped by Rabbige and 1 x Skipp shaped by Latta, it was one of his ex comp boards and it was very lightly glassed.

Did both in the same spot a few years apart, Palm Beach Sydney, roughly in front of the amenities block and both the same way, stayed on for too long and let myself get caught under a 6ft close out.

The weight of the wave would have been bad enough, but the fat turd on top was really the straw that broke the stringers back.

Best snap I ever saw was at Collaroy point many years ago, this guy had a brand spanking new mactavish, the big M period, but not a pop out, this one was the genuine article, probably never seen wax before that day.

Speaking of Collaroy OB. It was July 2015. I'd not had my Diverse very long, but decided it was the right board for one of those very rare "big days at Collaroy". Like the ones earlier this year that washed away people's back yards, but not quite that bad.....

Having not had a great deal of luck getting on anything because of the crowd, I decided to kook it in and give it a miss. I picked up a broken wave that reformed, so I stood up and then promptly lost it in the following close out. On surfacing, the front section of the nose had a giant crease right across about a foot from the point. Our mate Brad was just paddling out after a wave and I showed him the damage and said I was giving it a miss. He showed remarkable concern for about 3 seconds then burst into laughter, as we'd both said before going out that it could be a board snapping surf.

I delivered the board to a repair shop, as it was beyond my limited capabilities to repair it. I'm happy to say, that I've still got the board and whilst it looks a little rough around the edges it still goes well.

About half an hour after dropping the board to the repairers, I got a text message. It said "Thought this might make you feel better". A photo of Brad's board, clean in half, and it happened not 10 minutes after I got out. Call it karma, call it what you want, but he's got a new Bennett out of it and I'm still on my old Diverse.....

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