Sacred Craft
Heading down to the Sacred Craft show this Saturday.
It's an interesting event, part trade show, part shaping competition, part antique roadshow and maybe the biggest corner surf shoppe in existence for two days.
I love surf craft of all sorts and as an unrepentant rail fondler I'm in heaven for a couple of hours.
This years exhibition also honors Carl Ekstrom who has been innovating and designing futuristic surfboards for decades
May be I will have an opportunity to discuss surf mats with Mr. Ekstrom.
I think he would like an actively shape changing surf vehicle with variable volume.
If Kelly Slater stood up on a mat everything would change.
Enjoy it while you can, in the 40's and 50's when surfing was a super fun fringe activity no one had any idea it would ever turn out like it has.
Years from now at the 2050 "Blow Up or Go Home Festival" this year honoring Greyman for his contributions to colorizing surf mats, Surfsister, now the publisher and editor-in-chief at SurfMatters Journal, will be lecturing on the early mat meets and the "Ohana of the Surfmatters" and how it relates to early Polynesian Culture.
It's an interesting event, part trade show, part shaping competition, part antique roadshow and maybe the biggest corner surf shoppe in existence for two days.
I love surf craft of all sorts and as an unrepentant rail fondler I'm in heaven for a couple of hours.
This years exhibition also honors Carl Ekstrom who has been innovating and designing futuristic surfboards for decades
May be I will have an opportunity to discuss surf mats with Mr. Ekstrom.
I think he would like an actively shape changing surf vehicle with variable volume.
If Kelly Slater stood up on a mat everything would change.
Enjoy it while you can, in the 40's and 50's when surfing was a super fun fringe activity no one had any idea it would ever turn out like it has.
Years from now at the 2050 "Blow Up or Go Home Festival" this year honoring Greyman for his contributions to colorizing surf mats, Surfsister, now the publisher and editor-in-chief at SurfMatters Journal, will be lecturing on the early mat meets and the "Ohana of the Surfmatters" and how it relates to early Polynesian Culture.
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I've used Soudal Fix All. The re-do with the layer of contact adhesive on first has promise but I won't know til a test drive.
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I do hope Kelly Slater never does stand up on a Mat. The fringe is where it's at.
Josh, We in the fringe are safe as long as Mr. Slater is contractually obliged to surf only the products of his corporate overlords.
2050? I'll be 87 years old, Prana—probably fully in the throes of Alzheimer's and deaf in one ear . . . with a limp from having worn out three titanium knees. And you expect me to lecture on top of that. If nothing else, it will be entertaining!
Take a while, think about it