Anything But Three Slideshow
This year’s Fish Fry (titled Anything But Three) was less commercial and had fewer attendees. What it lacked though, is what benefited it. With the majority of shapers represented being underground, independent or alt surfcraft specialists, a very freeform and BROtherly stoke was extended to everyone.
All Photos Maggie Marsek
Christenson, Mandala, Jake Moss, Shaun Ambrose, Ford, Ian Zamora and KG plus lots of other established and up and coming shapers had amazing boards at the event. Surfers got the chance to ride as many different shapes throughout the day as they could pick up. I personally surfed boards I’ve never imagine existed. How else are you going to know how an epoxy, hull bottomed, perimeter stringer bonzer will perform?
Without a doubt though, Marlin Bacon’s (101fins.com) featherlight bamboo fins made the biggest impression. Both the glass-on versions and the new loxbox removables were lightening bonzers, quads and twins all over the reef.
Such a high level of excitement over handcrafted boards and fins begs the question, why does this only happen once a year?
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June 4th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
Excellent reporting by surfing’s Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen.
June 5th, 2007 at 2:13 am
sorry i missed it. the “chinese zippi” freaks me out. i hope we never see another zippi knock off. scary…
June 5th, 2007 at 9:32 am
Hey, i made the didg’s!!
June 5th, 2007 at 9:36 am
Whoops… sorry popout bandit. I trust they weren’t made in china?
June 5th, 2007 at 11:12 am
nope not popout didg’s here.. All hand carved in my garage and glassed at the moonbase!!
June 5th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
great slideshow. i loved riding 7 boards that day. what a blast that was.
June 5th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
thanks for sharing. some awesome boards there…might have to figure a gathering in hawaii!
June 5th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
I surfed a full hour on my board. 2 hours and 3 other boards later, Marlin handed me his brand spanking new Daniel Thompson quad. I could only get 1 wave on it. What a dope.
Also, I didn’t ride a longboard. Doh!
June 5th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Gosh darn good time at the beach…we’ll have to do it again real soon! Still haven’t ridden my new Daniel Thompson.
June 5th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
I didn’t quite catch that you hadn’t ridden it yet when you handed it to me, if I had, I would have turned you down. Imagine the pressure not to ding it! :D
June 5th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
Marlin, go ride that thing!!
June 6th, 2007 at 5:35 am
who owns the “Glass Slipper”?
June 7th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Thanks for covering the event,
It was real a good time…..Its like a cool car show but you actuallly get to take them for a spin instead of just looking.
BTW: Everybody get on Marlin’s case because His fins rock.
They have to be the best fins I have ever tried.
Cheers
-B~
June 8th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
man,
i have watched this slideshow like 3 times!!!!
waaa, waaa i wanna live in california! waaaa!
just disgusting how much fun you guys have out there…