Pants on Fire, or Maybe Not

Well, I just wanted to get off my chest the whole accusation of lying thing. My friends at Progressive Sports accused me of being a liar and, saying instead of babying my boards, I was mistreating my boards. I wanted to post some pics just to make it clear how careful I am in this rocky environment. I took these picture on Wednesday, August 21, 2013. There may be a little shimmering because I just washed it.

Here's the board. Doesn't look too bad. The one hole is on the right side, not far down from the NSP logo.

Some scratches very minor scratches and paint chips. They're easy to see against the blue background, but this is basically the condition of the board across the entire bottom.

Here is the repaired hole up close. It was done by East Coast Surf Products in Larchmont, NY. This is the one I mentioned several times and was told I must have several holes.

Here is the first impact I ever had with a rock. This happened in 2011. Notice the scratches across the NSP logo? There is no repair here. BTW, this impact threw me forward, off the board. The far worse impacts to my Exocet occurred without any feedback at all to me! I just took the board out of the water, and whoops!

The last this I want to mention is that this NSP board has been in the water for three seasons. (I bought it late spring 2011.) It has gone to Florida once and Cape Cod twice. This is the kind of construction I expect from my boards, and the level of construction I asked for.