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Re: Your first board

Postby southern_rewards » Wed Apr 21, 2010 7:18 pm

Morey 138, the VERY 1st mass produced bodyboard. (I got it when the board was about 9 or 10 years old)
Square tail.no slick, no mesh stringer or anything at all for that matter, just a basic template,
blue bottom, orange deck with 10/90 chine/rails.
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Re: Your first board

Postby yutziy » Wed Apr 21, 2010 10:09 pm

Some board called a Blitz Monsoon 42 was one of those boards in between a Rebel sport board and a surf shop board. Served me well about 6 years even though the last 2 it had a massive crease in it
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Re: Your first board

Postby kc_bodyboard » Thu Apr 22, 2010 6:26 am

a generation board(probably about 40), red deck, yellow rails, white slick.
got when i was around 6 and still have it, although it was scratches(and tears) all along the deck from my dog standing on it in the pool.
Good for sliding down the dunes at sunshine and hand drag 360's on east side moreton at age 10.
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Re: Your first board

Postby Goliath » Thu Apr 22, 2010 7:41 am

2002 the kmart waveblaster, all foam 60/40 rails no slick no plug, it was great

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Re: Your first board

Postby ScottyT » Wed Sep 01, 2010 10:31 pm

Wahoo 34" board or something like that hah
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Re: Your first board

Postby Bax155 » Wed Feb 09, 2011 5:39 pm

O&E Razor 3 which got massive deck creases, I then got a Manta Eppo Classic which I still ride to this day! In the market 4 a new lid though!!
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Re: Your first board

Postby aboard2 » Wed Feb 09, 2011 6:24 pm

a manta someting from rebel all blue white slick square tail then as most kids i got a rawlins micro pe
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Re: Your first board

Postby beaverloop » Sat Mar 05, 2011 10:22 pm

Morey Red Edge with a plugset and a Morey wrist leash. My older sister made me a board bag out of something like polar fleece, with a drawstring opening at one end, for her home economics project. I had a set of 'Duck Feet' fins, orange and blue in colour. Made a trolley out of wood and some wheels off a golf buggy to transport my surfboard and bodyboard to the beach behind my own or my friends' BMX.

Pretty classic, it would take ages to load/reload the trolley with 2 surfboards and 2 or 3 bodyboards. The ride home after a surf was f##ked, just no other way to describe it.
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Re: Your first board

Postby kc_bodyboard » Sat Mar 05, 2011 10:37 pm

I cant believe how good my first(good) board was and still is, 07 4play RH, PP with mesh and two stringers, the slick is so hard.
still use this board at noosa, when it gets on the rail i can make any section no matter how fast, as long as it isnt crumbling.
it so freaking heavy though at least twice the weight of my nomad.
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Re: Your first board

Postby angryassdrummer » Sun Mar 06, 2011 12:22 am

first non k mart board lol was a late 70s/early 80s Morey with foam bottom hand me down from uncle who bodyboarded and knee boarded in the 70s. then it was a hand me down Scott..they were great tho i think they are gone for good now?
first board i bought myself was a 1990 Manta Team Rider...vinly deck, stiff, wide and big for me ( i was 12) but was fast and got better the cleaner/bigger the waves were
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Re: Your first board

Postby doclach » Sun Mar 06, 2011 10:14 am

Some bendy/floppy all green beastie that was the same material all the way through. No slick, no deck. Thought i had invented the wheel when i screwed a couple of fins in that were some almost fluoro orange colour. Would have made a massive difference, as i don't reckon it coulda held a rail in the scoop too well, haha. Still remember my first barrel in the sucker on my first ride (before the fins :shock: ) , was hooked from there, that magic see-through curtain. Late 70's/early 80's ruled for odd boog craft.
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Re: Your first board

Postby angryassdrummer » Sun Mar 06, 2011 10:25 am

I had a green bendy board in the late 80s too. got it for xmas, was hoping for a mach 7 when i asked for a bodyboard but mum didnt know the difference. used it for many years till i could afford a manta with my own money at 12/13. the green board was so bendy you could bend it in half while on a wave lolvery slow too but hey when your that age you dont know any better...plus makes you appreciate a good board all the better when you can afford it.
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Re: Your first board

Postby Chops » Sun Mar 06, 2011 12:14 pm

Gee going back into the archives now my first board from memory was a Hot Buttered HB VEE all i remember about it was it was coloured like a hippy's tshirt all shorts of tie die stuff going on on the slick.
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Re: Your first board

Postby Boogs » Sun Mar 06, 2011 5:31 pm

Ha... some sick boards mentioned already. Mine was a Yellow & Black Manta Colt, 41 inch, crescent tail. Mum brought it for me on a holiday in QLD.
41' HBoard - H2
42' NMD - Winny
42' Nomad - Chris James
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Re: Your first board

Postby jaceman5 » Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:00 pm

Haha, no old stuff for me. Since im still only young, I had a LMNOP flow, which is a couple of years old.
Grey and white, really wasnt a bad board.
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