Nervous as hell, we pulled up to the Bing factory with our super 8 movies and our homemade garage Bonzers. We were confident about how well the boards worked. But this was the big time and we just hoped they would take us seriously. Bing and Mike Eaton were renowned shapers, so showing them our handy work was more than a bit nerve racking. After giving the films and the boards a good looking over, both Bing and Mike were pretty intrigued. They decided to make a couple and have their team riders give them a go. This included Jeff Hackman (who also rode for Dick Brewer), Tiger Makin, Dru Harrison, Steve Schlickenmeyer, Mike Stevenson, Jim "wild man" Neece and others.

On the first few boards I shaped the concaves and Mike shaped the rest of the board.  After a few anxious weeks we received word that the team guys were stoked. Bing let us know that they were going to launch an ad campaign and begin to get Bonzers out to their dealers. Along with this promotion, Drew Kampion was going to do an article on us for Surfing Magazine and Steve Pezman would do one for Surfer Magazine. Mike shaped Duncan and I each a board, on which I shaped the concaves. We had our first professionally made shortboards and the Bonzer was going to hit the big time. We were on cloud nine.