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Conscious about the fact one is not enough and all of us are needed to make a change, Numb surfboards, Polyola Surf Blank, Vans and my self have teamed up for a new adventure founded on friendship, innovation and a will to push the boundaries.
For many years, the art of surfing was practiced primarily by men. Female faces were too few. Lately, and thankfully there has been a shift with the new generation of shapers and surfers. Saioa Lorentz & Janire Gonzalez, born and raised in the Basque Country, where the mountains fall into the sea, are part of this change...
Surf shape meets art. This collaboration was born with the idea of using a surfboard as a moving medium for visual art. Lucie links up her shaper Oli, "Sel Surfboards", with her longtime friend Marynn, tattooist and renowned visual artist. Marynn froze her credo A M O U R in red hand painted letters and a snake print, under the gold colored glass of the board.
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In philosophy, poiesis is "the activity in which a person brings something into being that did not exist before.β
There was a time when surfboard brands had names that were either a shaperβs name, a location, or had a post-hippie tinge, like Serenity or Morning Star, or even Water Cooled, which is where I met a young Greg Brown way, way back when he was a grom. I canβt remember the exact moment I saw ROAR as a thing other than a noise jets and lions made. ROAR Surfboards instantly got my attention. Agressive logos β on great boards made by one of the, by then, most charismatic guys surfing at the time, in that same Greg Brown. Just as everyone was getting used to itβ¦ROAR suddenly became GASH, and my first thought was WTF. Before WTF was even a thing. I knew behind everything was a polar opposite to Greg - in Simon Buttonshaw.
Fahd Surfboards is the shaper you want to know about, when youΒ΄re surfing in the area of Thagazout. Not is this Moroccan shaper superbusy with repairing boards from people all over the world but also producing boards himself. We met for a tea on the roof of his factory on top of Tamraght (with a perfect view to the ocean) and started talking aboutβ¦
Here is our new minute, presenting a twin-fin we named Charlotte. Vincent (the shaper of Surfin Estate), wanted to make few changes on the model so he was going back on this board to feel her behaviour. Here was he thought about it : "The board is already sharp and really fast, but I think we can still add some volume by flattening a bit more the deck and enhance the bevel rail. I would also increase a tiny bit the lift to have more confort on the turns... Fins positionning, rails, rocker everyting sounds good to me!"
There are few things as exciting (and challenging at the same time) as making your own surfboard. Understanding the design and visualising how your craft will go. And then, of course, surfing it for the first time.
Patagoniaβs new film, Foam Dust β 25 Years of FCD, thumbs through the archives of FCD Surfboards. It looks back at the characters who embarked on an experimental journey in surfboard material and designβbuilding boards that leave the least amount of environmental harm.