What happens when your hometown hero doesn’t place first in a shaping contest? If you are the Santa Cruz Sentinal’s Sentinel’s Leo Maxam you bag the guy who won because he’s from the East coast, where the surf always sucks and the shapers are amateurs. I bet Andreini cringes with embarrassment when he reads this crap.
Hey wow, check out this video of GH I found on Mollusk's site.
- #I want one of these surfboard slings for those long walks to trestles.
- #A three six zero preformed on nothing more than a belly button. (How's the commentary brah!?!) Here's an erBB thread with more video from this contest at Sandy's Beach in Hawaii.
- #Ryan Heywood releases Bodysurf v3. Spot-Fucking-On and not a logo to be found. Makes me want to go get some with just my skin on.
- #Remember the press release, email and social media campaign quk put out when Julian Wilson pulled that sushi rollshit? O'niel and redbull have a clone of that machine rolling for Jordy's rodeo flip. Here's the video on Yahoo sports.
- #A new episode of Hi Shredability with Chris Christenson and Brad Gerlach riding Harleys and looking for waves in New York.
- #Awesome spot logos! Just don't ask where they are.
- #Reminds me of byrne, the heads, arcade fire... etc. You can get their album for a buck through July 4th.
- #Why couldn't these guys take the Cardiff reef sup crew with them? We could have all chipped in to make it possible.
- #The End Of The Road. Why we'll have no seafood left in 50 years. I ate my entire seafood quota for the year the other week in North Carolina.
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October 28th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
It’s spelled “Sentinel,” with an “e” as in one who looks out and keeps a vigilant watch. Again, our town’s newspaper is the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
October 28th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Thanks. Too bad editors focus on spelling and grammar and not tact.
November 2nd, 2007 at 10:51 am
Kudos to RC for shaping a beautiful blank, but even he would tell you that a classic single fin gun won’t get much use around Satellite Beach, Florida. In fact on his own website, Carroll refers to his gun shapes as “travel” boards because, “your (sic) most likely going to have to travel to find waves that this board works in.” Don’t believe it? On your next surf trip, go to the East Coast, or just check out his website:
http://www.rickycarrollsurfboards.com/shortboard.htm
Irony isn’t necessarily a negative thing. Carroll’s win was ironic in the same sense that a kid from Cocoa Beach (Kelly) becoming one of the greatest Pipeline surfers of all time was ironic. Cheers to all the East Coast underdogs. I just wouldn’t want to live out there.
November 3rd, 2007 at 2:43 pm
Hey, I agree, irony isn’t necessarily negative, but the article sure ended that way.
Another way to look at East coasters successes is to recognize the extreme dedication, perseverance and a love of surfing and or shaping that compelled them to make it. I think that would have been a less negative and more appropriate ending to your article.
Thanks for stopping by to comment though. I’ll do you a favor and not delete it, even though you guys deleted my trackback on your article. Once again, very classy.
No hard feelings though. Hope you are getting swell.