Follow Your Nose

Herbie says going left is good for your health every now and then........I guess he has a point.

get it?

a point?

'cause he's pointing....left...

...classic Herbie.

Visits

Alex Swanson shot some really nice photos while I shaped a new asym. board for myself and the useage of many other folks...

Trevor has been shredding one that we made a few weeks ago, this one will be a bit bigger; T's being 5'1" at the longest point.

Perfecting the 24 Hour Road Trip

First do some work to relive whatever guilty residue you may acquire from a thoroughly un-planned wednesday afternoon,

a 5' kneeboard will do the trick:

Then, keep your eyes on the horizon and find some waves..........................this is key.

Get at least one set wave, relax with your friends on the beach, and finish your evening with some fooding.

Then go see your outrageous friend's debut show at a seedy back alley, upstairs, UBER hip club and proceed to jam the F*CK out:

Sleep, or walk around Hollywood blvd. 'till the wee hours of the night.

In the morning, take Herbie to meet a new friend named Brutus who weighs in at around 120lbs...Yah thats 10 Herbies:

Eat something healthy, and enjoy the drive back home.............

ps- Don't mention Jason's issue with crumbs, it might give him a complex.

FIIIIIIIINZ!

I took Connor and Jason up to the True Ames fin headquarters and we came back with some goodies...That wood one is 75% bamboo (vs. fiberglass), vacuum bag laminated and weighs in at less than half of a regular fin.

Surfed it a few times now and am blown away with the smoothness of it; not a snapping flex at all in the 4a template like the glass ones but a flowing swooping flex that made me get back into a serious groove to keep the power on...very very very cool fin!!!

Filos

Its funny knowing how vastly different today is from just a year and a half ago, we all FEEL the same, right?

But everything, all the 'details' of life that orbit around the center (you), are a million miles from where you were before...I know I'm doing right because the feeling is the same every day, and the details grow and breathe around me and my visions of what's going on.

As long as your decisions are made from strength and not fear, somethingsomethingsomething......go surfing.

photos by:

1st: me (KL 'fro deep in trim)

2nd: Morgan Maassen (KL and I, shred sesh at the pre-warehouse house)

3rd: Kyle Lightner (me at work)

Seasons of Strange

I wonder how many hundreds of times I've done the walk...It's almost a sacred passage now, from the shaping room to the resin filled mine that is the glass shop...

Trays for Tubes

Connor Lyon...Project.ing.

7'Whun"

Daniel's got a spiffy new hullibut thats 7'1" x 22 3/4" x 2 7/8" and dressed in a fiiiiiiine key lime-ish green...super jealous of this one:

Dubs

Two from the past couple of days; one for Connor's brother Spencer, and then one that I shaped as a stocker but I'm falling deeply in love with it...

The second is a full on 6'11 1/2" hullibut with a triplane-hulled to single concave bottom; the difference on this one being that the planes aren't all flat surfaces but slightly curved, so it's three hulled surfaces...if that makes sense. a little bit techincally difficult to shape but far more hull-feel for good points than a regular triplane.

Daniella

Some silly little sandbars forming this week...this one was PUMPING all afternoon.

and now it's only a matter of time. Now equipped with a new vantage point, we are positioned for success this year...again.

and again.

and again.

Daniella