part pintail, part eagle, part nose rider. This board seems to do it all!
10'5 JR Comp Model for One foot Jo Jo
part pintail, part eagle, part nose rider. This board seems to do it all!
Le Animale
The newest collabo board with the flapper mike list. We've had quite the success with the JM Model we worked on so this is the latest creation. Now form the start I had my doubts, two deep wings, way up and out of alignment from the fins, flutes off the wing tips, single to double barrel vee, and newly acquired bamboo fins form Marlin. Crazy combo right? Well, my first wave it felt like I had been riding the board for months, in tune, lots of drive, and insane cut backs. It hard to tell what the combo is that worked, but I'll say the fins had were the majority of the reason. I had them flex in a roundhouse off the top cut back in a place in the lip that I'd never had fins load and unload before. Awesome awesome awesome. Thanks for the idea and art work flapper, and thanks to Marlin for the fins!
Lucas Dirkse
This is Lucas. You probably have seen him or his name on line or in mags. He kill's it. He lives at Windansea and rides anything you throw at him and has more style in his pinky then most of us can put together our whole lives. He also graces the pages of Richard Kenvin's blog quite a bit, http://hydrodynamica.blogspot.com/. Whether it be sliding pieces of wood or the newest created tri simster hulls coming out of the barnyard and stock corral. Thanks to his ever supportive Mom, Lucas brings his so co style and just cleans up at contests, local ones, club ones or the nssa (insert here, none of us care if he does contests or not). He has some guy named Rusty build his shorts boards and I've started to build him everything else, logs, fish and below as you'll see, and Alaia fish. It's been an honor to be able to hang, surf and build boards for such a stoked grom. It brings you back to the basics of it all, lets go surf! So with out any more ego inflating compliments, haha, here are some of what we've been up to.
Lucas with his 9'0 HP2 glassed by legend glasser Joe Roper.
Lucas with his 9'0 HP2 glassed by legend glasser Joe Roper.
Gotta keep your local bar tender stoked in the water!
If you've ever been to Cass St on any good night, you've seen Foster behind the bar slinging beers like nobody's business. Well now he's slinging cutties like nobody's on his new 7'something Fish Simmons Quad. Think he's stoked or what?
I'm Back on Line!
Finally fixed the computer and internet problem I've had for a few months now. I'll be back shortly with a whole world of new updates and happenings of late! Stay chuned as they say in NYC.
Pics from the Aussie Fish Fry
These are some pics I just received from Grant Newby (the man in charge of the Alley Fry). Super stoked to be apart of it via Tyler on his trip in Oz. Can't wait to see the film of it. I owe a pic up of well of the Manny Caro shaped for TW. It's the blue keel one below. Check out his blog for the water shots of the boys riding his board (www.theswallowtailsociety.blogspot.com)
Australia
So at what point do the shapers get to go on good trips? Tyler Warren test driving his new quad!
T Warren Experiments
A small little sneak peak.... I feel really fortunate to be included in the upcoming movie (hopefully summer 09) featuring Tyler Warren and created by Jon Smart. Both Manny Caro and I built Tyler a board for his upcoming Australia trip hoping to get some good footy and good waves. We'll see....below are some pics taken at the Moonbase of the boards being glassed. Stay tuned for update photos....
Capitan Tecate
This is my good friend Pier Moore. Depending where you surf on the west coast, from Santa Cruz to Cabo, at some point I'm sure you've been in the line up with Pier, not pierre, as most people mistake his name for, but I've had the honor of building all of his boards for the past 6 or 7 years. Long time local legend along with many others from my neck of the woods, the stories of Pier range from Todos, Scorpion Bay, 2 am surf sessions at head high 'Bu, trestle and Swamis, are of local lore. A good man, a great surfer, and an epic representative of team Tecate. Somehow at one point I had been dubbed the Corona Kid, I can't imagine why? Needless to say, for better or for worse, those who are his friends have a great memory somehow of Pier in his classic moments. And a spot in their hearts as well. I for sure have to many to write down in this blog, but I thought this picture might just give a hint...and as he reminded Jim and I this day, there were 18 of his best friends sitting shot gun! Long live Capitan Tecate!!!!!
note the 7'0 J Hall Long Fish strapped down on the hood!
Long boards...freshies
9'6 5 Stringer for Masaki!
9'6 Pintail for Wavesforever
9'6 3 Stringer for Wavesforever
9'6 Pintail for Wavesforever
9'6 3 Stringer for Wavesforever
New Blog
http://www.surfknowhow.blogspot.com/
This is a newer blog that I just was introduced to and I really like what I'm reading. Maybe you will too. MA is one of the smoothest goofy foots to ever come out of PB and can really wail on a Single Fin Frye egg!
This is a newer blog that I just was introduced to and I really like what I'm reading. Maybe you will too. MA is one of the smoothest goofy foots to ever come out of PB and can really wail on a Single Fin Frye egg!
Beware Cardiff, a speed blur will happen soon...
Custom for big Mike D. Going to be blasting around those reefs above THE Reef. Check em out. I believe he has a custom set of Bamboo Quads from Marlin! Can't wait to see that combo
7'0 by something by something else
New Slide the Glide logo via my good friend Andy Davis...Japan pics from the 3 Amigos Tokyo Tour 09/2008 coming soon....
7'0 by something by something else
New Slide the Glide logo via my good friend Andy Davis...Japan pics from the 3 Amigos Tokyo Tour 09/2008 coming soon....
Fins and Factory Sur-fin!
I'm really happy and fortunate to be working with Michael Miller getting some boards glassed at his factory now. Michael has laminated most of the insane boards by Chris Christenson for the last 5 years or so and now is on his own shaping and glassing. (http://www.factorysurfin.blogspot.com/) check him out! Right here is twin brother David laying up some freshly foiled fins by Dan Partch!
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New logo via Ando for Wavesforever (www.wavesforever.com) keep an eye out for a fresh batch of slide-able candy!
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