We’ve all seen the video from the last contest and expression session at Teahupoo but was trolling through the Surfermag site and came across this gem of an image and had to share it. Its got nothing to do with custom surfboards, surfboard shapers, and other stuff like that but sheez this is completely mental….
Folks please bear with us as we build out our new website. We had to cut over from the old site and the new one wasn’t quite ready. You can still order custom surfboards from great shapers but we are still adding surfboards and shapers as well as store items.
When I was shaping at Chanin’s…from 1977 to 1984. From about 1980 to 1984 Diff (Mike Diffenderfer) came back from the islands and he got talked in to shaping surfboards again. So he was in San Diego and we were shaping in the next room…it was about 1982. He was constantly borrowing shaping tools…he didn’t…
“This is Nixon’s house”…then President Nixon’s house. So then everyone is getting really nervous. We end up walking by a guard shack and we had to duck under the window of the guard shack where he was reading a magazine.
Back by request is our interview with shaper/big wave rider Gary Linden…. Big Wave Surfing: Insights from surfer/shaper legend Gary Linden Interview by surfboardbuilders.com 8/24/07 When did you start surfing big waves? It’s hard to put it into years because riding big waves has always been a state of mind. The size just got bigger…
“That afternoon we saw this goofy footer drop in and just rip apart the wave so I asked the other guys, “who is that.” They said, “that’s Lopez (Gerry Lopez).” Later down in Cabo I talked with him about it and he remembered that day.”
In August of 1974 we (Glen Horn and Bill Minard) went on a 2-month trip down to the tip of Baja and then back after they completed the new paved road. We knew that all the well-known places, like Scorpion Bay, would be inundated cause it was so easy to get there. We decide to…
We had to hold onto the railing as hard as we could to keep from getting sucked back under there. I thought for sure we were going to die.
People are happier now (with the new style custom surfboards). I’m making a lot of shorter surfboards with fuller noses.
Surfboard shaper Jeff “Doc” Lausch on MSNBC talking about shaping custom surfboards and living the surf lifestyle. Nice! Here is the video of “Doc” On the same page there’s also a story on how the economic downturn and the advent of alternate construction surfboards have affected the top shapers of custom surfboards…hint…the good ones have…
Here is a shaping room video from Cole Simler of Cole Surfboards. In the video he talks about the custom surfboards and getting ready to participate in the Billabong Art of Shaping contest at ASR/Sacred Craft in San Diego this weekend. Here is the link to the Sacred Craft Site. If you haven’t been its…
If you watched the webcast of the Quiksilver USA Championships at Trestles over the last week you saw some great surfing in amazing surf. You might have also noticed a new sponsor for the event, HDX Hydration Mix. HDX is a new type of sports performance drink made specifically for athletes and active people and…
Shea Webber in his latest update to the Surf Industry Manufacturers Association (SIMA) highlighted a company that gathers the discarded foam and dust from the surfboard shaping process and turns it into a product with amazing absorption properties. Spillinex creates a product called Monarch Green that is used to absorb industrial spills. Is this a…
Just back from the annual Surf Industry Manufacturers Association (SIMA) Surf Summit in Cabo…
Just had to share this because its pretty damn cool. If you haven’t seen this before, these guys have built a toy surfer that rips! Check out the serious air midway through the video. Enjoy!
Our main goal here at Surfboardbuilders is to provide access to the best custom surfboard builders we can find. One of our other services is building good, ride-able corporate logo surfboards for events, companies, etc….
Just got back from picking up a new surfboard for one of our customers (Clint) and the board was so nice I had to share it. It’s a 6’0″ Swavegg from Jeff”Doc” Lausch of Surf Prescriptions. For some reason I hadn’t seen this model before but…Wow! Doc added some “V” to the tail section, made…
Thanks to my friend John just finished watching a copy of “Who is J.O.B?” Its the life story of Jamie O’Brien with just insane surf video of Jamie at Pipe, HUGE Nias, Backdoor, Teahupoo, Tavarua, etc.
Has anybody else seen those Wave Garden videos on Vimeo? The thought of riding your favorite surfboard…on a perfect wave…albeit a smaller one…in your back yard is…insane! The stuff of dreams. Hopefully they’ve figured it out and have made it affordable. Imagine wave-gardens all over the country and one close by for you and your…
Remember the calls for the huge swell headed to Southern California this week? What happened? The surf was good but no where near the size forecasted…except in one place…solspot.com. Two days prior solspot was going out on a limb and accurately downgrading the swell for Southern California. What’s more forecaster Adam Wright, formerly of Surfline.com…
Over dinner about a month ago Wingnut was talking about this wild trip he was taking to China to surf the tidal bore there. The event went down a few days ago. Here is a link to a Chinese surfing site with pics. Here is the link to the video of the whole crew surfing…
If you are up for some great new surf video clips check out the contest at Innersection. If you are up for voting on a video check out Matt McCabe’s video (#236). He’s sponsored by our friends over at Filtrate Eyewear. If you haven’t hear of Filtrate yet they make polarized, great style/quality sunglasses for…
The Cardiff Kook made the Wall Street Journal today and NBC Online. Not bad for a really lame statue!
Last weekend at Sacred Craft in San Diego Billabong sponsored 3 different shaping contests. Here are some links to great videos on the show and the surfboards built for it. Billabong Art of Shaping http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEVUK69Dw_k Tribute to the Masters- Simon Anderson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNpdgdJqutI Young Guns of Shaping http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJjKv49lM5s
Over the last few weeks I’ve been getting these emails announcing sales on Seshday.com. Things have been hectic so I haven’t had a chance to log in and check it out. Then this weekend I ran into one of the co-founders of Seshday, Marcelo Bengoechea. Marcelo explained what they are doing. Seshday.com is a clearing…
Leading up to the Sacred Craft show here in San Diego Scott Bass just has it nailed. Here is a great article from Mike Lewis at Transworld Business.
The creative folks in Cardiff (Cardiff by the Sea, CA) have outdone their selves with the latest uhhh…. enhancement to the lamest surf statue in a surf town. Nice work mystery crew!
Lately surfboardbuilders.com has been doing lots of custom surfboards for companies with corporate logos. We’ve been using some new processes for small logos or logos covering the entire deck or bottom. The latest processes print your image directly onto rice paper (for small images) or directly onto fiberglass for incredibly detailed beautiful, photo quality images. Some…
OK in honor of summer, getting out of your wetsuit, and needing a little less float…surfboardbuilders has reduced the prices on most of their surfboards. Hope this help to make it easier to get that new custom surfboard…enjoy!
Ok, one more departure from custom surfboards and surfing. Johnny Gothard of Clarinova and I jumped off the Stratosphere in Las Vegas a couple weeks ago. Other than the people looking at you through the safety glass and shaking their heads, it’s a great ride and the folks at the Straosphere were awesome. They just…
When I asked him about the name, True Honor, his explanation was pretty cool. He said that the brand, styles, vibe, and overall concept is about integrity, living your life with honor, and doing what’s right.
Dane and other trend setters are riding fuller outline boards and they lead the way. Kelly Slater riding his stub nose at pipe last year has broadened the mass appeal of riding this type of board.
Folks we needed to do some upgrades to our blog and it looks like we lost the images we had up. I’ll work on adding some of these back over the next couple weeks. Good news is that you can now comment on articles, we will have some more features to work with going forward,…
Our friends over at Matuse are having their season end wetsuit sale in La Jolla this weekend…so we thought we would pass it along. Arbor, Surfrider and a couple other companies will be there too. Its a good opportunity to get a great wetsuit at a much better price. Here is the link: http://matuse.com/news/
If you haven’t had the chance to attend one of the Sacred Craft shows they are excellent! Unlike other shows in the industry shaping, shapers, and surfboards themselves are the focus. Its refreshing and lots of fun. Scott Bass and crew put on a really good show. If you have a chance the next one…
Here is some footage of good sized La Jolla Cove this winter and a quick interview with ys in the water, John Gothard.La Jolla Cove January 2010
Ok, a departure from surf again but on something that affects us all…the economy sucks. So what can we expect to come down the pipe. Here is a summary of a presentation last week by economist Alan Beaulieu. He has been extremely accurate so far. http://www.clarinova.com/blog
Some friends are in Tavarua surfing this week. We will have a link to some of their pics soon.. Ok totally unrelated to surfing but worth rerunning…Conan got the boot this week. In his honor, some classic Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x115u4_triumph-the-insult-comic-dog-star-w_fun
Some more great images of the surf Wednesday in La Jolla. From Coggan Creative in La Jolla via Chad (thanks!). It was a weird, great day! Blown out elsewhere…La Jolla offshore and going off.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDhR6X8K5U0Some good size waves and offshore winds today at La Jolla cove. Enjoy! Also wanted to give some feedback on the Taylor Knox Surf Exercises DVD. Its been a mission for a while to ditch the traditional gym workout for something different. It was time to take the plunge so ordered the DVD. The DVD…
Folks we are working on building a more interactive experience with shapers and people interested in everything about surfboards and surfing. Please join us on Facebook at Surfboardbuilders. We have some pics up from Pascuales in September from one of our friends and a ringing endorsement of FCS’s new fin system.
At the September ASR show here in San Diego Billabong sponsored The Art of Shaping event. The event was a custom surfboard auction with proceeds going to the SIMA Humanitarian Fund. The boards displayed were pretty insane and many of the shapers on Surfboardbuilders.com participated. Jim Phillips won the competition with the highest bid, some…
I took a B-Tail Quad to Costa Rica as one of a quiver of two. If you remember the B-Tail Quad is a new model from Bob Mitsven. It has a fishy type outline although is a bit different…just the outline and the rails which go from down at the tail to blady moving toward…
Here is some video from the late July swell in Costa Rica…just prior to the ISA World Surfing Games. Its got some beef! The video was taken from the Terrazza driveway in Playa Hermosa.
Jaco is so busy with the ISA World Surfing Games that I´ve headed up to Tamarindo. The drive was easy and upon arrival was greeted with 3-4´ Avellanas with a slight offshore and a manageable crowd. It was a beautiful site. Man things have changed in Costa Rica sice my first trip in 1991. For…
The World Surfing games started yesterday here in Playa Hermosa Costa Rica. The crowd was pretty big for this sleepy beach town and the waves decent. Here are a couple pics from Day 1. Pics coming as soon….
Here is a video from the site of the World Surfing Games in Playa Hermosa Costa Rica. Its from last week’s big swell and was taken at the contest site at the Terrazza. The games started today with a parade of the teams in Jaco. My apologies, some of the video is a little shaky…but…
After three accidents and and some spanish lessons I’ve left Cali Colombia (and some of the world’s most beautiful women) and am in Jaco Costa Rica near Playa Hermosa with a healthy swell pumping through the area. With its notoriously tough immigration policies getting in to Costa Rica was tough! Costa Rica has implemented a…
The new Larmo Squash is up and available. We don’t have the pic up on the site yet but had a chance to stop Larmo’s shaping room to snap a couple pictures for you here (thanks Mica!). Here is the description of the board from Larmo himself: At 5’3″ this board has the volume of…
Here is some pretty insane tow-in footage from what must be Jaws. Don’t have the info on the original source but Wow!
Hello from Cali Colombia! I’m here for a few weeks of spanish lessons, visiting family (my wife is from Cali), seeing the country, and getting ready for a few weeks of surf in Costa Rica. So far its been great. The people here are exceptional and Cali…its full of life! Over the next few weeks…
Maybe its the season or that everybody is just over it (worrying about the recession)…but things have been picking up for us at Surfboardbuilders.com lately. We just want to say thanks to all of our customers. It is a pleasure to work with you each day and the great group of shapers on the site….
Last weekend surfboardbuilders.com hosted a show of the incredible colored glasswork being produced by Greg Webster. Greg is pictured here standing below a Jim Phillips longboard with his handiwork. The showing, complimented by great BBQ and the sounds of Joe Wood and the Lonely Ones (aka Joe Woods from TSOL http://www.myspace.com/joewoodandthelonelyones), was a way of…
About a month ago I got my Larry Mabile Swinger model after seeing it at the demo event and ordering one. After trying it at a variety of waves I’m ready to give some feedback. It has a fishy feel but is a little bit stiffer in the mid and nose section. It paddles…
Tim Griffin of Griffin Surfboards and Wayne Lynch Surfboards is an enigma in an industry of characters. Often quiet and reserved, sometimes VERY outspoken. One thing is for certain, he is passionate about shaping and what he and others see as a tangent away from the roots of our sport. He also builds exceptional boards…something…
As we head into the Spring/Summer of 2008 and the time to dust off your fish, the folks here at surfboardbuilders are noticing some new entries to the fish world that are pretty cool and likely to make an impact this summer. Besides the normal array of fun swallow tails, some shapers have come out…
Congratulations Bob! For those of you that haven’t heard Bob Mitsven won the AB3 “Best in Show” prize for his Chambered Cedar Twin Fish. We were lucky enough to see this board in the various stages of being built. The process is pretty complex but the result is awesome!For those of you that don’t know…
Where do you see the direction of high performance surfboard design going?It’s going in more directions than ever. It’s pretty exciting for everyone in surfing. The high performance boards are getting extremely high performance…and those boards are becoming boards that only extremely talented surfers can even ride. It’s great because its giving them what they…
We are still working on some of the navigation but both of the new shapers are up on the site. If you are interested in taking a look at the Ezera boards by Dave Pearson including his new wake surfing line click on this link: http://www.surfboardbuilders.com/BrowseBoard.aspx?ShaperID=34 To take a look at the surfboards by Mike…
Last summer we sat down with a few of the shapers on surfboardbuilders.com to discuss among other things the growth of “pop out” boards. The interview ended up being too hot to get posted or covered in the usual spots….so here it is! There is a growing concern in the grass roots surf community within…
