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Surf Splendor

265 – Kinaroad’s Shaping Robot

Surf Splendor

David Lee Scales

Sports

4.8653 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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David visits the Gold Coast of Australia to chat with Scott Fenton of Kinaroad to learn about their shaping robot and their plans to fortify domestic board building, increase wages for laminators, eliminate inefficiencies in the traditional board building model, and improve replicability for higher volume board brands. Enjoy! Visit Kinaroad.com And support enter to … Continue reading "265 – Kinaroad’s Shaping Robot" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.6

It'll be really fun. We've never really done that before.

0:38.9

We never shaped the board together.

0:40.7

You have once.

0:41.6

What was the original, or do you remember,

0:44.4

the original kind of design theory when you build that board?

0:47.7

Because nobody had surfed in Wave pool before.

0:49.9

Totally.

0:50.4

I remember it really vividly because it was a completely different thing and Tom

0:55.6

come on board probably around about 79 or something like that and he was a good mate of my brother,

1:01.5

Chris, who was on the tour as well. Tom's sort of got better and better and better and started

1:06.8

win world titles and stuff like that. And he's come to me and he's gone I'm in this pool

1:11.9

wave pool I said what a wave pool and you said yeah they're going to have a contest in a pool and I

1:16.7

said wow that's really so we we started thinking about what are we going to do with boards for that so

1:21.5

we sat down we thought this is going to be really equipment based if we can come up with something

1:25.7

and that that we really research the way

1:28.4

we're going to do this and build this board. That was the father and son team of Phil and

1:33.1

Parrish Burn talking about a board that Phil originally built for Tom Carroll to compete on

1:38.5

in a wave pool event in Allentown, Pennsylvania in the 80s. We had that conversation as part of

1:44.0

the Shaper Shack, a four-part

1:45.6

series featuring 19 different shapers from around Australia, from the Burns to Simon

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