The 11-time champ opens up about his recent interest in Greg Webber's highly rockered banana boards from the early-90s.

"If you're going to get chomped then you're going to get chomped - there's nothing you can do about it." 

So said WA surfer Andy Johnston after getting buzzed by this three-metre great white shark at Esperance last month.

In the fortnight since his previous surf rage article, blindboy has been trawlling the internet's forgotten back pages conducting his own by-the-numbers research.

After watching 1992 footage of Shane Herring, Kelly Slater has ordered two boards from Greg Webber. Is the design pendulum about to swing back to thin, highly rockered banana boards?

NPJ channels Baddy Treolar, doing the shaping, surfing, and playing the soundtrack to this short clip.