Thursday, January 24, 2013
Experiment No. 3 | Scrap Surf
Experiment No. 3 - Scrap Surf from Shwood Eyewear on Vimeo.
Shwood founder Eric Singer teams up with friends to create a unique wooden surfboard. Watch how Singer and company process and shape this functional one-of-a-kind board using reclaimed wood found on the Oregon coast.
The construction process was guided by the expertise of Joe Blecha, a bona fide virtuoso of custom surf and snowboard construction. www.blechaboardshop.com
Kahana Kalama, professional surfer turned shop-owner (www.alohasunday.com), was there to test the limits of the handmade board upon its completion.
Based in Portland, Oregon, Shwood creates handcrafted wooden eyewear using fine exotic hardwoods. Shwood’s in-house manufacturing process merges precision technology with classic skilled craftsmanship to create a timeless art form. Every step from veneering and precision lens cutting, to shaping and finishing is conducted in our own Portland-based workshop to promise an entirely handcrafted eyewear piece. View the collection at www.shwoodshop.com
Video:
Joe Stevens
www.joestevensmedia.com
Additional filming:
Wes Scheler
Music:
Sonny & The Sunsets – “Too Young To Burn (Instrumental)”
www.sonnysmith.com
The Black Tambourines – “27-25 Blues”
www.theblacktambourines.bandcamp.com
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
OLDEST by Drew Miller
OLDEST from Drew Miller on Vimeo.
Dolphins jumped, seagulls cheered and the lighthouse led us home.
Justin Quintal, Nick Collins and Chris Tincher share some waves at a very fickle spot in the nations OLDEST.
# Vanlife | Nick Dirks’ Van
Ass, Gas or Grass, Nobody Rides for Free. For the record these empties were from parked activities, not mobile.
Shutting the door, I grabbed my board and headed towards the lift line. They’ll be up in an hour I thought to myself.
The inside of #vanlife.
The Vantasy’s custom board rack. Pure Cambvibes.
in, A Restless Transplant and Van Life
Moto Grigio | Deus Australia
Deus ex Machina - Hand built in Woolie’s Workshop at The Emporium of Postmodern Activities, the Kawasaki W650 engine was punched out to 800cc, features FCR flat slide carburetors and stainless steel headers that flow into a Supertrapp exhaust kitted out with hand made hangers. The custom-made tank and seat marry ideas of new and old. The tank shape is inspired by classic TT style road racers while the seat models itself after current Moto2 bikes. The competition-spec inspiration extends throughout the build with a laundry list of race-ready parts. The wheels sport Sun rims, Buchanan stainless steel spokes and nipples, and knock off hubs from Durelle Racing. The adjustable offset triple clamps are also from Durelle Racing and link up with black anodized Ohlins forks that have been re-valved, re-lengthened, and re-sprung. A Motion Pro Revolver throttle, Brembo brake and ASV clutch lever call the Woodcraft clip-on bars home. The enormous flat track rear brake set-up incorporates a Grimeca caliper and Brembo master cylinder, while up front the Beringer six piston brake meets a Brembo rotor and lever for huge stopping power. A custom chromoly swingarm links up to Works Performance shocks. Finishing touches include a digital dashboard from Motogadget and custom seating from C&C Motorcycle Seats.
in, Deus ex Machina
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Rob Machado and Joel Tudor surfing Costa Rica | Sprout
Rob Machado & Joel Tudor surfing beautiful waves in Costa Rica, from the movie Sprout!
Simon Patchett | 9'4 Patchified Surf Thump
Almond Surfboards - Patchy, riding his 9’4 Patchified Surf Thump on a small, warm day in Australia.
Would gladly sign up for a small, warm surf session today.
Photos: Neil Patchett.
in, Almond Surfboards
Monday, January 21, 2013
Wooden Spoon by Jon Wegener
Jon - 4'6''. This model is really fast and does great turns.
It is heavily infuenced by George Greenoughs Velo spoon.
What is traditional longboarding? by CP
CP - When i was asked to write a "What is traditional longboarding" piece. It sounded pretty simple, it's just noseriding, one fin and drop knee cutbacks isn't it? Yet the more i sat and thought about it, the more difficult to pin down it became.
In it's original sense it's a term that defined a part of longboarding for a few years in the mid nineties. Back in the first "age of the longboard" there was just surfing and everyone rode longboards until Nat Young and chums changed things in 1966. When longboards started to become popular again in the nineties, it was driven by shapers like Bill Stewart applying the lessons learnt with the evolution of the shortboard to longer equipment. The focus was very much on emulating the "radicalness" of cutting edge shortboard surfing with a handful of throwback manouvers thrown in. The boards were light, often narrow nosed with shortboard style concave bottoms and multiple fins.
It wasn't until Joel Tudor and his contemporaries like Wingnut, Jimmy Gamboa, Kevin Connelly and others started to look backwards, sometimes riding vintage thrift store finds that things began to change. Longboarding begin to develop along two fairly seperate paths. While the hawaiians and aussies continued to develop the high performance school, Tudor led the charge back to black wetsuits, single fins, Volan and a focus on a style with it's feet firmly in the body english of the early 60's. Looking in magazines of the time, "traditional longboarding" really means trying to emulate David Nuuhiwa at his 1966 noseriding prime, hanging ten was once again paramount along with smooth footwork and drop knee cutbacks.Board Templates closely followed those of period noseriders with wide noses and tails, flat rocker, concave nose and paralell soft rails. Once again, first point Malibu became the focus of world wide attention.
The years tick by, things change and evolve, "pro" longboarding faltered from lack of corporate support and to a large extent stayed as a fringe activity in the surf media despite the ever increasing numbers boards over nine feet leaving the racks of surf shops world wide. Tudor retreated from the limelight a little and turned his attention to shorter equipment. Thomas Campbell made a couple of very influential surf films and huge numbers of surfers rediscovered the joy in the glide of a heavy board in high line trim. From where we (i) sit today, traditional longboarding is much more than emulating '66 vintage Nuuhiwa.
Almost all of today's top "loggers" are incredibly well rounded surfers, riding heavy single fins in small waves but shorter equipment when the waves get bigger or hollower, be that fish, egg, hull, simmons, even thrusters. Shapers like Tyler Hatzikian and Robbie Kegel have started to take single fin longboard design into different territory. Both these shapers say they use the zenith of 60's design as a jumping off point but aim to design shapes that continue the evolution of the longboard as though the shortboard revolution never happened. They are not alone. The last few years have seen a subtle shift in "log" shapes away from parallel templates and wide noses to more pig influenced shapes with wide points pulled back narrower noses and more defined hips to the board. The lines these boards draw on the wave is subtly different and surfers like knost and kegel have started to turn harder as a result while still retaining the essence of a traditional style. Noserides have become much more focused on being in the pocket not out on the shoulder and the standard of noseriding and the technicalty of the poses struck with toes over has gone through the roof.
Far from being old and stale, a dry study of glories past, traditional longboarding is more varied and alive than ever and that's where the difficulty in pinning it down lies. In fact it's one of the most vibrant parts of the whole of surfing in current times, with an almost punk ethos of experimentation and expression fuelled by a worldwide internet savvy community and not bound by corporate ideas and marketing plans.
So if we must try to pin down a definition what can we say? What is "traditional" today?
I think it's best to think of it as an approach, a "state of mind" if you forgive the cheesiness of that assertion, defined by some basic tenets. Fundamentally Style is important, . Surfing with style is paramount whether it's the Steve Bigler-esque exaggerated body English of Alex Knost or the Phil Edwards style smoothness of Tyler Warren. It's an adherence to the principles of good trim, harnessing the waves energy with good positioning and without needless flapping. It's working with the wave, harmonizing with it's form in more lateral lines rather than attempting to bend it to your will or slice it to pieces. It's about using the extra three feet of your longboard for it's intended purpose and noseriding the hell out of any suitable section. It's about believing a good bottom turn is far more important than whatever maneuver you can do at the top of the wave. It's about weight, glide, momentum and grace under pressure.
It's not about being retro or being overly consumed with looking backwards, it's about taking the essence of Surfing's history and treating those reference points with due reverence but taking them somewhere new.
Unsurprisingly perhaps, people are beginning to take notice and the big surf Companies are perhaps beginning to sniff opportunity. Vans have poured a fair amount of money into Joel Tudors unashamedly traditional duct tape contests and Billabong, one of the "big 3", just sponsored Tyler Warren one of the best "all boards" surfers in the world and something that would have been unthinkable even 5 years ago. Whether this is ultimately a good thing remains to be seen but one thing is for sure. Style is alive and kicking.
(Rejects) by Avthentic Films
(Rejects) from Avthentic Films on Vimeo.
B-side images from The Avthentic Story.
More infos: http://www.avthentic.com/
Surfers:
Clovis Donizetti (fiasco-kid.blogspot.com)
Steven Dunn Videau (spanner-mc.blogspot.com)
The Polite Pandora (thepolitepandora.blogspot.com)
Cyril Arnaud
Music:
Sonic Youth "Au café" - Simon Werner a disparu
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Dick Van Straalen | InnerViews
Dick Van Straalen - InnerViews from www.KORDUROY.tv on Vimeo.
Dick Van is a classic shaper and surfer from Australia's Gold Coast. He's been hunting dredging sand bottom tubes since the good old days and has never stop experimenting with surfboard shapes and designs. He's been working refining hollow carbon fiber boards and fin configurations with test pilot Dave Rastovich for the past few years and together they've been making some cool shapes which push the definition of a modern surfboard.
Surf Footage from the forthcoming film "Under the Sun"
www.dickvanstraalen.com
Friday, January 18, 2013
Mexico Logging in December | Regressing Forward
Mexico Logging in December- Regressing Forward from Cyrus Sutton on Vimeo.
After miles of suspension wreaking roads I pulled up to this secluded bay with 66 degree water and only a couple girls out.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Agave Surfboards
Agave Surfboards | English subtitles from Capim Filmes on Vimeo.
Tom Scott busca a fórmula perfeita entre o surf e a natureza.
A Capim Filmes teve um grande prazer de produzir esse curta documentário.
Thomas Scott é um grande personagem. Sua paixão pelo surf e a natureza, sem hipocrisia, levou o designer a buscar uma melhor relação entre o surf e o meio ambiente com suas pranchas de agave e outros materiais.
Além de serem pranchas funcionais e quase tão leves quanto uma de poliuretano (só 30% mais pesada), as pranchas de Agave são verdadeiras obras de arte.
ENGLISH
Tom Scott Looks for the perfect relationship between surf and the nature.
Capim Filmes had a great pleasure to produce this short documentary. Thomas Scott is a great character. His passion for surfing and nature, without hypocrisy, led the designer to seek a better relationship between the environment and the surf with their boards of agave and other materials. Besides being functional boards and almost as light as a polyurethane (only 30% heavier), the Agave surfboards are true works of art.
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Thomas Scott:
http://studiocaturama.blogspot.com.br/
tscottsurfboards@gmail.com
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Sean Tully + 9'10 Zamora PMP
Sean Tully + 9'10 Zamora PMP from Zamora Surf on Vimeo.
Sean Tully gives the 9'10 Zamora PMP a spin at the bu.
The Zamora PMP model is a pig inspired log with a a twist of the modern noseriders. Wide point back, fuller deck , deep blended nose concave, flatter rocker with just enough tail kick for your perching needs...
Zamorasurf.com
Ryan Lovelace | Surfcraft
Ryan Lovelace | Surfcraft from Tom Contarino on Vimeo.
Ryan Lovelace is a freelance surf craft builder from Santa Barbara California who I was fortunate enough to meet and shoot while he was here in New Jersey shaping surfboards for Glide Surf Co. over at Charles Mencel's surfboard factory. Ryan is an all around great guy who takes his craft seriously, but can still joke with the best of em. His creativity and innovation in modern surf craft is surely something to be admired and this short gives some insight to his life, opinions and craft.
http://rlovelace.com/
http://www.glidesurfco.com/
http://tomcontarino.tumblr.com/
http://coveredclosely.wordpress.com/
BANGER X RETROMOVEMENT
Banger - It's been a long month and a half of work ... many hours in the workshop. But still everything has its reward. And so, after the passing of our friend Daniel Costa have experienced the most intense, juicy and incredible December regarding refers waves s ... We have not been absent but much less work with the dimension of this, should be taken in stride. Such blanks and designs, could not ignore the affection that we have given.
The result of all, makes us very happy to have worked with this great artist. Others will come, who knows! BANGER .... hope you enjoy it from our collaboration with RETROMOVEMENT.
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