Colabo Bubbie Barrel

Bass in ya face!!! Bubbie Gentile tailoring a little green nugget. Styling hardy body on the "Colabo" board that I shaped with Josh Hall aka Josh Falcone

Photo cred to Tommy Wave Dancer aka Lunchbox 

The Popsicle

I named this model "The Popsicle". It is a shape that was born from the collaboration between my buddy Pat "The Rat" and I. I basically helped translate Pats vision into physical form. Pat is a local surfer that I've known since I'm a kid. He was like the older brother at my local break.  

"The Popsicle" 

Features a semi soft rail from nose to about just in front of the fin cluster with a slight edge underneath the roll. The bottom has slight belly in the nose with a shallow single into a deeper double under that back foot going to a rolled V just out the tail. This board will have the option for a few different fin setups. The shape is super versatile and will work with most fin setups. This prototype is going to outfitted with 5 fin boxes to accomplish a few different fin setups such as Thruster, Twin, Twin with a center stabilizer and last but not least quad for drive on the mushiest days. 

7'6 for Craig

7'6 Long fish. Built for speed and comfort.

For: Craig Roberts

Uncommon Journey

This book was given to my buddy Juan for his birthday by notable photog Bruce Webber. Juan thought I might find it interesting and let me borrow it for a bit. This book is quite interesting. The knowledge that Blake had back then, of hydro dynamics and hollow hull construction was pretty inspiring. 

Beautiful Noise

Cocorosie puts me in a good state of mind. I hope it does for you too. I find it inspiring how they make use of unconventional instruments that in any other hands would be considered toys or trash. Basically making something out of nothing. Thats what its all about.

Keep it real.

The Ghost and Bobby

Bobby Lurry in front of the Thunder Dome

Photos Courtesy of KLM & Shipworm

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I shape this board for my buddy Bobby. His son Jack is responsible for the totally awesome lam on the nose. Bobby is an extremely stoked dude and one of the funniest guys I know. To this day he is responsible for the best prank I've ever been a part of. I'll never forget that dude!

Good times...

Enjoy!

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!

Phoresia

Ricardo Salcedo of Phoresia.org honored me by asking me for a personal interview. It is up on Phoresia now. Check it HERE

above photo taken by: Terrance David