A TRUE TALE OF THE LOVE OF SURFIN no shit!

Glynn Ritchie and Mitchel Raye moved to Nana Glenn in the early 70s and there they made some wonderfully crafted boards , amagine three stringers with noseblock and green tints at 7 foot and under. It was at this time when Bali was the true testing ground for boards,not the slop with the occaisional good wave here and ther that we got here, it was noticable the changes that were happening to both concaves and rails each time they came back. For reasons I do not fully know Glynn and Mitchel parted, with Mitchel continuing making boards and Glynn heading to Papua New Guinea, and around here was Mitchels FLEX tail which to this day is his first love with surfcraft. Down the road at Nambucca heads Paul Joske was a constant viwer of what was going on at Nana Glenn , and it influenced him immensly apart fom a few other shapers, Paul was hooked ,concave was speed ,which got you into tubes and got you out of them, so by the mid 70s,as far as the single fin was concerned ,boards were at there peak and so were the surfers for this was the era of one of Australias ,if not the world, greatest ever surfer The late Michael Peterson, who blasted everyone away including Nat  Young, THEN came legropes, and twinnies took hold again and Thrusters became King and here is where , with the rise of proffesional surfing, the soul of true surfing started to die.