Team Riders

I have several surfers that I look after with boards but I prefer to keep my team small and not give boards away all over the place. I think surfers should come to a shaper coz he makes good boards, I think good boards should sell themselves instead of marketing or advertising , but in saying that, I like having a group of surfers to work with so I can fine tune their equipment to allow them to surf as well as possible. I have a variety of surfers who ride for me, they are of differing ages and skill levels and their feedback is invalueable ,but I dont see the point of only having rippers who ride only high performance shortboards when I make most of my boards for the average surfers and for average waves, makes sense to me.....

MORE Surfboards Team Riders

Quinn Bruce, 12 yrs old.
Quinn is a top young kid from Sunrise Beach, he is in Noosa Boardriders and just loves surfing. He is always in the waves and his surfing is progressing well. I am stoked to be shaping his boards and I enjoy following his results as he competes in all the junior events. He has alot of ability and when he puts it all together, he will be very hard to beat.

 MORE Surfboards team rider , Quinn Bruce wins Rip Curl GromSearch. He won all of his heats and finals, he got ' Wave of the Day' twice and surfed well above his 12 years of age. Here are some pics of him in the competition...Well done Quinn...

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Results as a 10 year old

1st Caloundra Surfabout Sunshine Coast
1st Parko Curra Gromfest Sunshine Coast
3rd Arnette Junior Surf Challenge 12&U Sunshine Coast
Most improved surfer of the year Noosa Boardriders

Results as an 11 year old
Semis Occy Grom Comp 12&U Gold Coast
1st Caloundra Surfabout Sunshine Coast
1st Parko Curra Gromfest Sunshine Coast
Semis Barton Lynchs Blast Off Sydney
1st Wahu 13&U Sunshine Coast

Results as a 12 year old
2nd Teenage Rampage 13&U qualifying for International Teenage Rampage Sydney
2nd Volcom VQS 14&U qualifying for series in Sydney

1st RipCurl Gromsearch Queensland U/ 13
1st Wahu Grom Comp Sunshine Coast U/13

pics by Ian 'Butts' Butler

Annabel Barratt- 17 yr old from Dee Why

She has got quite a few results but I dont have them and to be honest, I'm not that phased by comp results, she is a top chick and surfs well too. Annabel came into my shop and it was obvious she was stoked on surfing and I ended up lending her a board while on hols in Angourie, she really liked the board so I made her a custom and it has just grown from there.
She might shake things up a little next year when she has a good crack at competing, go get em ....

pics by Ian 'Butts' Butler

Nick Carroll is not a team rider but he does ride some of my boards. He is great to work with and gives possibly the best feedback that I have ever had from a surfer and its due to his very thorough knowledge of surfboards and also his journalism skills, so he can explain how a surfboard performs in a clear and detailed manner, that's gold for a shaper. He gives me honest feedback and then discuss possible adjustments and improvements for his next board. He knows the worlds best surfers and shapers and sees all the surfboard trends and its great for me to be able to discuss all this with him, here's a few pics of NC on one of his Fat-Bats....pics by Andrew Sheilds...

Steve Shearer , bit older than me ( haha ), Lennox Head
- Steve is a solid surfer with a ton of experience riding waves all over the world and he is also very clued into the weather and the waves, he does the forecast and surf reports for Swellnet.Steve is also a great writer and has recently interviewed Slater, Dane and co. when in Chopes for Swellnet. He is a family man and a dam good bloke too. He is also a very talented water photographer and has taken some great surfing footage and his editting is very impressive also. Anyway, enough pissing in his pocket, check out a little bit of footage of him surfing a Quadfather I shaped him a while ago...

Posca Art for MORE Surfboards

10 year old Cain Pridmore is now doing posca art on MORE Surfboards. Here are a few samples of some of his recent work and there will be MORE pics here soon. Cain loves surfing and art so why not combine the two ?, especially when your Dad is a shaper. Cains' art is available on custom boards and is very reasonably priced, these ones shown here are only $30 and a set of one of a kind fins are also $30 ( for artwork only ), so why not get a unique bit of colour on your next custom by Cain before he is famous and charging hundreds ??? Cains' art is done with posca pens and a clear lacquer is sprayed over the top to seal it. All money goes straight to Cain...cheers