Legend for so many reasons. I’ve probably told this story too many times but one day I didn’t watch the surf long enough to see the period was really far apart and I took this huge cheater nose rider out with no leash to Swamis. It was a step deck amd everything and had no hips. They were just wide and then ended at the tail so really the only thing this board was good for was one turn and a nose ride. So after a few sets rolled through I realized I had the wrong board so I just gracefully bowed out to the north and sat deeper than the crowd which had Rob riding what looked like a 4’11” potato chip and shredding. So I figured this is cool. Most people would pay for this seat at a sporting event. But then a more northerly single wave came and low and behold I was the only one sitting over there. With about 50 people on the inside people just started cheering me on so I had no choice. I took a couple paddles and dropped in and hung five and then proceeded to ride as far as humanly possible on the shoulder with this board in fear of killing someone. But the best part was when I first took off Rob was over there in the pack with both his hands raised up cheering. It was so cool to think a legend would be cheering an average surfer. I remember thinking this is cool but damn don’t lose this thing right here.
In the 1970's ('75/'76) several friends and I had boards that looked very similar to this (7' at about 21-22" W as I recall) custom shaped by Skip Frye. Back then you would fill out an order form with your description....I believe it had height/weight, style, use, length request, etc. and mail it in with payment. Seemed like about 6 weeks later he would ship. They were all white with just his signature, we were on the Gulf Coast of Florida and they worked great on those waves, also Sebastian Inlet and Cape Hatteras. The next year 2 of us with them moved to Encinitas and surfed them in N. County, they rode like a dream....single blue (or maybe black) fin of course. Used to surf Seaside Reef so, likely shared some waves with Rob M. since he would have been about 10 yrs old and I seem to recall that was one of main spots to surf.
Very stylish. But you know he would be even more incredible on a board a foot shorter. I am an old cruiser and appreciate Rob's natural ability to just power that rig for sure.
@@YogaWithChristian as is work in a Firewire Testcenter here in Canaries, I totally recomended, if u want the twin feeling, and still space in the pocket and nice turns, for more performance the flat earth its my best choice
@@firewiresurfboards siiick, I took my egg out (local handshape, heavy glass) sidebites only thinking it would be like finless training wheels but was surprised the board felt more like a loose twin in tiny waves Went up to thruster sides and it works in day to day socal waves, and I put the twins in when there's a swell and I just can't believe how good it works
Emirates sheet Catalan woman rob Machado didn t allowed me a healthy one to fly to Indo. what can I do now?; I will try to leave to Machado exile place in France if is possible but neither to turkey the allow me to leave. where are uuuuuuuu!!!!!
Poor Mexico. Hey, USA, how about we start helping out our neighbor so that its people want to _stay_ in it rather than trek north to mow our lawns and clean our tables?
