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"If you don't know, now you know, you know"

Blog: StudioNerasa.com

this is my friend Bobby's blog. He is an amazing photographer that I've had the pleasure and honor of assisting for the past year now. If you don't know his work then you should.

Site: RobertNethery.com

Show up, Get Down, Show Love, Bookmark and Enjoy your day.

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The 5%er

Its been a while since my last post huh? .....Sorry about that. I've just been busy shaping and/or sick. I'm better now and will be regularly posting.

The specimen shown above is a new model I'm working on called "The 5 Percenter". (Thanks for the name Franco!) This is the first one so far but I'm working on another one in EPS now. Its 5'5 x 19 1/4 x 2 1/4 It features a fairly hard edge throughout the whole board for a little extra bite and response through turns. Its also going to be setup with 5 FCS fusion plugs for an option for quad. I managed figured out a harmonious fin placement for the board to work properly as a quad and thruster without effecting one or the other in a negative way, however the placement seems to only work best on the smaller boards.

"i'll seek out the things that must have been magic to your little girl mind..."

The magic little Quevz model has been working quite well and all parties are please. Juan has been busting on it and giving good feedback. He won the Rockstock contest taking first place in the masters division and has been drumming up inquiries from curious sliders looking to shred like Quevz. Its the surfer not the board....or is it?

Caiazzo, Juan, Tony Farmer, Shawn Roche and I all surfed together the other day in onshore unfriendly conditions but managed to score unexpected pumping and dumping shorey in the [].

Knuckle Head "C" was busting as well. "He shred so hard he bust his stick"...Literally...Caiazzo came off a huge chunky heavy floater and smashed the first 3 inches off his 5'4" The board is now a snub nose 5'1.

All photo cred goes to Tommy "Wave Dancer" aka "Lunchbox"

Strong Island Wednesdays!

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Longer more girthy and slightly tweaked (basically completely different) version of the legendary collabo board for Rockville's Cesar.

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7'6 Speed Fish for Nice guy Craig. Lookout for the new logo in the shorey.

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5'6 for the ghost face himself. Juan Jose Heredia a.k.a. Quevz, a.k.a Malik Jazz, a.k.a. The Miami Kid

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5'8 "Popsicle" for Pat "The Rat" Conlon, ill equipped with the tough guy rat bones/back to back "GG" anchor spray for the righteous ones. Stay Chisled! Bay Weeezy Locals

Airbrush work done by: "The Rat" himself

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Today was a really amazing day. Ventured out to the Nature Shapes showroom where I just had my boards glassed by legendary Long Island surfer and craftsman Ed Fawess. Needless to say the work was tight! After that I headed out to Mastic Beach and met up with Mastic's most Mastastic resident, Lentini, the one and only Deebo (Homeboy is Lost On A Sandbar) and big boy frontiersman Tom who is a decorated fisherman and all around jack of all trades. We waded out at this beautiful little spot and just caught fish after fish for about 2 hours. We ended up with 20 or so blue fish that we later brought back to the Lentini household where we open fire cooked the fish and had frontiersman Tom showed us the ins and outs of filleting a fish and skinning it. I can equate today to a chest high glassy day of surfing. Totally epic. 

Today wouldn't be possible without the help and guidance of Deebo and Tom. Much appreciated! 

Behold the bold Soldier

Check out PhotoRoche blog for more.

My homeboy/local photog/all around rad dude, Shawn Roche took some photos of his good buddy/wildman/equally all around radical, Soren. Soren is from Barcelona and was in town visiting. While Soren was in town Shawn set a day with him for a photo shoot. Soren is sporting his custom Pink wetsuit and a Double Wing Quad Fish I shaped for Shawn a while back. As usual when Shawn gets behind the lens he manages to capture magic. Click the link just under the photo to see the rest of the shoot and bookmark PhotoRoche blog because its rad.

Enjoy your day!

Jordy!

Sorry for the lack of posts over the past week. I just got back into the country form a little get away. Tropical weather and amazing food.....However, No Waves! Which was fine actually because I got to do tons of other cool stuff like scuba dive and explore sunken WWII battleships! I can't say the would've happened if there were waves. Anyway.........I love it when your traditional pro surfer starts to experiment with new things such as adding 3 more fins to his typical setup. I guess Kelly's new love for surf design is rubbing off on the rest of the pack. This is Jordy blasting it! Obviously 6 fins works.......when your that good anything works.  JORDY! MAKIN' IT HAPPEN!

Aussie Gold

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I just got this awesome, strange, elegantly crafted, well executed, and completely functional board shaped by Mick Mackie. This is the same board you see just below.

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Carl Ekstrom assessing.

 Photo taken from Hydrodynamica

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 I was fortunate enough to have the board passed along to me after Kirk Gee (Mackie's Rep and Consafo's King Pin), RK, TA, Ekstrom and Mark Wolfinger had their way with it. Its now been passed along for me to explore and test. I have to say, I'm completely blow away at the speed you get on this board and its ability to turn on a dime at light speed without even compensating with your style or foot placement. 

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Above: Mark Wolfinger. Effortlessly executing a cutback

Photos taken from Hydrodynamica

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Since I'm such a light weight I felt the Rasta Keels we're a little too stiff for me and wouldn't allow me to rotate a full 180+ on my cutbacks unless I was going super fast or way down the line. So I made my own fins. These are the experimental rudders I personally hand foiled for the board. I got to test these out in a range of different surf in puerto rico for the past ten days and the verdict is bueno!! I found that they are much more punchy through turns and definitely compliment the flex characteristics of the boards tail. I was able to even hit the lip vertically and the board would just swing itself back around. 

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This board definitely gets an A++ in my book. If you are fortunate enough to get one of these or find yourself on Micks shaping queue I highly recommend one of his flex tail twin pins! 

I have to give a big thanks to Mick, Kirk, RK, and all the others involved in getting this board into my hands. I'm super stoked on it!