MIKEY

When I see something weird I just want to ride it – this oddness makes me eager to try. It seemed like it could either go fast and good or no good at all, but I really liked the Diverse. It ran extremely fast and when you’d go for a carving turn it’d spear right through it. It doesn’t want you to go too sharp in turns, instead it likes you to do carves and smoother turns and pop airs.

ADAM

I have a semi-similar board to this at home, made by Chris Brock of Lennox Head; it’s got that channel along the top side of the rail. This one’s epoxy, and so even though it’s super thin it’s also pretty buoyant. It’s one of those boards that you might think on sight ‘Hmm, this could go either way’, but it’s actually really, really good. We rode it at a fun left reef and it was fast. You got a slingshot effect through turns, and if you pushed on the tail it would flick you into turns with a twang. Definitely a fun board! I think it’d go best in fat waves or a smaller beachie, but it worked fine where we surfed.

Diverse Feral Dave

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Dave Verrall
Gold Coast, QLD

DAVE'S CALL: “Occasionally we have computer lapses while cutting and this one was a fuckup – the nose and tail were too thin for the 6’3” it was supposed to be. I stuck it in a corner because I hate wasting things; that night I went home, started looking at a few surfboard forums and saw Daniel Thomson’s stuff, and thought, ‘Yeah I can try this’. The board’s thin and was going to flex a lot so I put deck channels in to counteract that a bit; I’ve always liked Japanese anime and that’s where that tail comes from. The boys at the shop got hold of it and came back raving, ‘You’re not getting this back!’ What we’re looking for with Dynocore is a dampening effect on epoxy’s habit of chattering and floppiness in choppy surf. This board is not a retro model, it’s for a good surfer with a higher consciousness to try for new feelings on a wave.”