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It’s all been done

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Contemplating nothing except the next few hours.
Contemplating nothing except the next few hours.

A lot of energy has been expended on “new” designs and “retro” re-inventions lately. I’ve just finished watching a video, kindly put together for me by my sander (you know who you are, and thanks!) and I have to say, there is not a lot that hasn’t been explored. I watched square tail twins in Florida in the 70’s, hulls in the 70’s (not to mention the “foil” from the 60’s that John Bishop showed me that is suspiciously similar to the later Liddles). All I’m saying is that time is not as linear as we might believe. Ideas come and go, and come again. It’s all good fun and shouldn’t be taken too seriously. This is supposed to be fun after all. Thanks

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ruminations

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I’m laying in the bus, my face is serving as a space heater, what with all the heat radiating from my sunburn. I surfed two sessions this morning. Sunny, almost glassy, and the tail end of a nice south pulse. Life is good.

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Hadji

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One of my personal heroes, Hadji, turns 91 this summer. He’s a Tourmaline local and I asked him if I could shoot some photos of him getting ready for our session on the day before he turned 89. We had a great session that day and I seem to recall him surfing on his 90th as well. I hope to get the chance to enjoy a few sessions with him this summer as well. It’s an honor to count him among my friends.

I remember, someone brought a monkey to the beach and, of course, it was the center of attention. A mutual friend was taking his turn bravely letting the monkey sit on his shoulder, when Hadji snuck up and dribbled warm rinse water onto the guys back. He jumped so fast, you’d have though a monkey was pissing on his back. We all fell out.

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my personal 7’11” hillbilly hull

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One of the earlier hillbilly hulls, shaped in 2004. I had shaped three boards from a 70s Frye egg that all surfed well but had too much tail width for anything approaching overhead. So I pulled in the tail and gave it more of a thinman nose and contoured the bottom with what is now my standard hillbilly hull bottom; belly-concave-double concave. There’s a lot of edge at the tail for release and a very flat rocker, especially down the center. This is easily the fasted board I’ve ever had and works from knee high Tourmaline to double overhead Cliffs.