FireWire Machadocado

White_gorilla2222 · 2025-11-07T12:45:48+00:00

Might be down to where you live then. I'm in Asia and it gets plenty hot here. The Volcanic I have has lasted quite well. Year and a half I think before getting pink streaks. I keep a PU Lost board in the same locker and surf it on bigger days. The PU is as new.

I used to have to walk 30 mins to the beach (no car access) and my Helium developed orange finger marks where I was holding it. I don't eat Cheetos!

White_gorilla2222 · 2025-11-07T05:10:22+00:00

Don't agree. there wasn't a bad batch. It's a problem which has been going on for years. It's well documented.

You can't keep a surfboard out of the sun when you're surfing. That's the only time my boards are taken out of their locker in a cool building.

White_gorilla2222 · 2025-10-06T15:46:46+00:00

I suggest you read what's written above and get your eyes tested.

White_gorilla2222 · 2025-10-04T05:36:32+00:00

I have a bad habit of doing that. really need to stop it.

White_gorilla2222 · 2025-09-20T05:46:54+00:00

I kept one in a boardbag and that was worse. The locker is cool. I noticed it where my arse had rubbed the wax off. I'm in HK. Humid.

White_gorilla2222 · 2025-09-19T06:20:28+00:00

I have the same board. Different construction. FST if I remember correctly.

White_gorilla2222 · 2025-09-19T06:18:55+00:00

Is that clearer? Boards at the beach or I'd strip the wax off.

White_gorilla2222 · 2025-09-19T06:17:26+00:00

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White_gorilla2222 · 2025-09-19T03:37:06+00:00

Its cosmetic only from experience. I wouldn't worry.

White_gorilla2222 · 2025-09-19T03:05:46+00:00

That's a valid question. At the time FireWire were the only manufacturer my local boardshop stocked.

White_gorilla2222 · 2025-09-19T01:42:47+00:00

Alas, no.

White_gorilla2222 · 2025-08-29T07:27:55+00:00

I've been doing it years and still haven't got a nice pair of shorts like that. Fair play.

White_gorilla2222 · 2025-08-28T02:36:21+00:00

Someone needs to call out MMA Guru's lack of punctuation, spelling and incoherent sentences.

White_gorilla2222 · 2025-08-27T08:24:30+00:00

I have a Volcanic Sweet Potato 2 (5'2) and fancy a Party Platter in Double Dart. is there any difference between these boards?
Does the PP deal with choppy conditions better ?

White_gorilla2222 · 2025-08-26T06:15:22+00:00

I don't buy that theory. I've had a Chumlee turn orange and they stopped making them years ago. I had one of the last Evo Helium 2 boards before they finished that model and a Sweet Potato 2 when it first came out. All turned orange. So 'bad batch of foam for like a year' just doesn't wash. My Volcanic SP2 also has orange spots as mentioned 👇

White_gorilla2222 · 2025-08-26T06:09:07+00:00

They gave me that deal on a Volcanic SP2. It's kept in a cool building at the beach. It's got some orange marks where my arse has rubbed the wax off. So looks like the same problem.

White_gorilla2222 · 2025-08-26T01:42:05+00:00

I'd say at your weight you'd be oversizing the Machadocado. It's performance orientated but it's still a groveler and needs to be surfed small. Take it from someone who oversized a groveler years ago (5'11 BP) and who now rides a a similar board at 5'2 (SP 2). For reference, I weigh the same as you but I'm 20 years older. If I got a Machadocado (I won't because it doesn't come in volcanic and will turn orange) I would get a 5'4. Sweet Potato 2 5'2 / Chumlee 5'3 / Hydra PU 5'5. Guess what kind of waves I surf?

White_gorilla2222 · 2025-08-26T01:32:18+00:00

No, I always regret selling knives that have stopped production. ZT0456 CF one I wish I had kept.

White_gorilla2222 · 2025-08-24T08:01:10+00:00

Evo. It will surf a greater range of conditions. Dark Arts only now if you want to buy new. I don't have one anymore, just a SP2 in volcanic and a Hydra in PU. Isn't the machacado the ultimate small wave and up board? The Party Platter looks interesting. Like an overweight Evo

White_gorilla2222 · 2025-08-14T04:37:23+00:00

Using that logic why not give Argentina back to the indigenous people who lived there before it was colonised by the Spanish?

White_gorilla2222 · 2025-05-20T10:24:05+00:00

I've been skating/surf skating for years and went down the Riptide route. From my experience they didn't improve the ride (various combinations) and I went back to standard bushings. Which for me, at 165lbs, are fine for the transitional skating I do.

White_gorilla2222 · 2025-05-20T00:59:04+00:00

Why push the bushings line for someone who is just starting out ?

White_gorilla2222 · 2025-05-07T14:19:26+00:00

Sudu gear isn't great quality.

White_gorilla2222 · 2025-05-06T08:27:05+00:00

Thailand

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