Finless at Lennox

In this episode of Rabbit's Footery we've got mr.Ari Browne of Byron Bay, Australia...Give it a gander. Finless funkery at its finest, at one of the most photogenic places I've ever seen, Lennox Head:

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The First Foot Of Hare. from Michael Kew on Vimeo.

A quick edit of Dan Malloy and Trevor Gordon on the first and second versions of the Rabbit's Foot...dopesauce!

And a quick one of #5 here in Noosa a few days ago during the finless division @ the Noosa Festival...piloted by mr.Ari Browne:

Dreaming Of __________

currently floating around the Noosa festival, Australia is just as I left it; perfect.

Sorry for the lack of blog postage, internet powers are lacking and require more effort than I feel like exerting on my vacation leg of this adventure ;)

Staying with a pile of radical individuals. the enthusiasm for surf and culture is electric, watching Children of the Sun nightly with Matty Chojnacki is making me want to shape some involvement boards reeeeeeeeeal badly!

In the meantime, Morgan has thrown up a rather epical video of back home and it's got me all excited to surf good waves, though Noosa hasn't offered too much so far I'm hoping next week will bring the goods! Check Trevor and Travers' shred...sooooooooo rad!!!

Today's the Day!

I'm off on shaping/travel duty today, I'll be touring the North-East coast of Australia until April, holding down the fort in Byron Bay and Noosa; I've got a Rabbit's Foot with me as well as a v.Bowls and a few other funky machines for the journey! STOKING!!!!!!

Above we have Trevor Gordon and his 16 year old brotha' Spencer, plus Will and Travers Adler making for a whole bunch of shred.

There's a bit of Rabbits Footing, v.Bowlsing, ThrougHulling, and Travers putting it down on a White Owl.

Rabbits Foot Video

I've been very blessed lately in the realm of fun projects; this is one of them.

The Rabbits Foot is a finless surfboard that's been a really fun project between some finless-fanatics; Dan Malloy came to me with a half-started project that Dan was calling the Rabbits Foot, it was under way and there was a solid and very interesting design theory but it needed to be executed and wrapped up. I shaped and glassed the little monster with a substantial question mark in my head about it...then he and Trevor surfed it and the project had some legs to run on!

The orange board here is the second version, keeping the same basic design elements and altering the package pretty heavily, when compared with a discerning eye. Version 2 went to Trevor Gordon who got some really fun results, this video is a session in small waves, though this version seems to perform best on bigger waves. There are 2 other variations so far, Ryan Burch owns one, and Michael Kew owns the last. Another is in the works and will be heading with me to Australia shortly.

Travers!

Mr.Travers Adler, making the world fall in love with him, shot and edited by one Morgan Maassen. You can also catch a whiff of his stylings in the neat little header on this very blog. More very tasty Travers treats coming soon!

Turning On

'da boyz ripping it up, I was particularly impressed with the stylings of mr.Will Adler on this day...steeeeeeeez!

Capt. Lingcod!

Trevor and Johnny made a friend one evening while surfing a spot that we stumbled upon in the wilds.
Just as it fell dark the guys got out of the water and we hopped into the car to go head off the Captain at the launch ramp a few miles down the coast. He told us his name was Captain Lingcod and he just had to share a few waves with the guys before he went home for the evening. We bought a few live black Cod off of him and brought them back to the campsite for dinner!
Pretty nice little evening :)

Music by The White Buffalo [How the West Was Won]

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One mr.Johnny McCann ripping his squash-taily 5'7" t.Rev last week, yew!

Intuition and Reassurance

Around the New Year I usually write a little bit about the past and coming months; I was curious last night what I had written last year so I dug it up and read through. It was reassuring [as I read] to feel that I've stuck to my path and done justice to the hopes that I had set for myself in 2011. In fact, the last year has tested me a thousand times beyond what I had ever thought possible, and I'm proud that I've held up my end of the bargain.

Leaving Point Concept behind was a big deal to me. It was a choice based on honesty to myself and my chosen path as much as it was a choice to boil down the important parts of my 'job'... To make sure that I'm keeping myself true to my passions and curiosities so as to stay inspired and on an honest path and not one run by glossy marketing schemes, machine shapes and t-shirt lines. I may be naive, but I'm living for honesty right now over monetary profit.

I asked myself to trust in people's goodness and give them the benefit of the doubt as long as I hold up my end of the bargain; take out what I put in and trust that others will do the same. I have most definitely been shown that this kind of action is not always reciprocated, and has revealed some true ugliness in the past year; but it's also brought me the most surreal of opportunities and friends. Its like an automatic sifter of good and bad...You learn about yourself and about other people, then make an informed decision on what to do with the information from there. And thats exactly what I wanted to do when I started building surfboards for other people: Learn. About friends, surfing, myself, and about my path in life through surfboards.

As 2012 starts, I'm poised in front of as many new opportunities as ever. I am humbled and grateful to everyone who continues laying down the challenges in front of me, and flattered that somehow week after week I just have to keep building honest, good surfboards and everything will work out. I'm more than happy to do that. I want to be transparent, and I want what is inside of that to be honest and grateful. Thank you for supporting my ambitions, publicly or silently, I truly appreciate what my life has become.

So with all of that said and my slate clean, I want to share a short edit that I put together of some clips taken by mr.Kew. I've been holding this one in my back pocket for a couple of months for some reason, waiting for the right time to let it go...This feels as good of time as any. Trevor draws some beautifully clean and effortless lines on his v.bowls; Full-screen it and turn up the volume a little; it'll increase your mellow.

Intuition

getting the next video all ready...couldn't help but pause on this one.

Once more, mr.Trevor Gordon.

Oh Boy Oh HerBerTo

If you've ever come to see me and Herbie at the shop, you know the drill.

Power tools = music to his ears. Planer, router, anything that goes REEEEEEEeee3333333333rrrrrrrrRRRRRRrrrrrrrr and Herbs is on it with impeccable howling precision and unmatched tone. What a G.

Trevor and the ThrougHull

A small edit I did with some Michael Kew footage of Trevor Gordon grooving around on the througHull! Trevor lays down some beautiful cutbacks in this one (in this video it's ridden as a singlefin, by the way).

I highly suggest watching them a few times over to actually get something out of this short clip (if you're searching for higher understanding of surfboard/surfer application). You'll be able to tell what makes this board so different from a normal 'hull'. It's still got all kinds of down the line speed but that cutback is unmistakably more user friendly while at the same time projecting through the second half of the cutback where more traditional hulls just don't cut it:

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photo: Keith Novosel

...Had enough videos yet? If not I've got a good pile by now in my vimeo uploads of all kinds of surf goodness:

http://vimeo.com/ryanlovelace

Updates!

I've put a few things up on the website lately, one new section and some updates to the homepage; give it a looksee!

www. r l o v e l a c e .com

Weekday Bouree

enjoy :)

The footage was shot by Michael Kew on a recent weekday, the boys putting it down and having a ball in the early-season that we wait months for every year.

I'm truly blessed to be able to provide my best friends with the equipment necessary to have a really. good. time. in the water; this video is fun stuff and is what I love so much about the small community that we've built around friendship and surfing.

Contained is about 70% v.Bowls, 5% Silky Love, 10% Triplane Single and 15% Squashed t.Rev.

The song is Bouree by Jethro Tull, and if you really wanna see them get into it, check out this gem:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5_hZV9U4aA

Clovis and Trevor

Clovis Donizetti from way over in Biarritz (France) graced Santa Barbara with his presence just after my trip over there not that long ago. We found him a fun left to work with, and I lent him my Siddhartha-covered v.Bowls after watching him shred one to bits in France. Trevor snagged the same board and found some rights the next day...Two really unique styles that are 100% the product of the waves they surf regularly. I really dug watching them back to back on the same board in totally different kinds of waves so I threw together this clip to share!

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5'3" t|Rev with namesake Trevor Gordon in command mode.

Froth and Moth

One fine and funky wave of Johnny McCann and his 5'7 t.rev...I particularly like the little sling shot back into frame at the end of the wave.

His version of the t.Rev is a rounded squash that has a bit more snap to it, having a longer rail line and all. The normal template (super round) carves and flows in a short radius but lacks some of the release of a more angular tail shape; tomorrow's video will be an example of the round version's shred.

and one big fat thank-you to mr.Michael McCrary for lending me a hand with my board racks for the show this weekend, what a boss!

Oliver Parker

Sacred Craft-Clip week continues!

Oliver Park-ing it on this wave, and he's not coming off if he has anything to say about it.

Riding a borrowed board (my birthday v.bowls w/Siddartha inlayed)

All of these clips are part of a loop I'm editing for the Sacred Craft show this weekend in Del Mar, so far I've got 20 minutes of footage with more left to sort... :)

I'll be shaping saturday morning at 10am, so be there and watch me draw first blood for the weekend's live-shaping festivities!

Tuesday Needs...

this video.

...Are you kidding me!?!?!?!?