Our sharp-dressed friend Scott stopped by after work to pick up his custom EPS Pendoflex moontail quad. He christened his new ride, surfing under the light of the full moon, hence its name Moonshine. M’tussie captured the photo of Scotty surfing at the reef. Thanks, Scott and Mike! Cowa-flexit!
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Sleek little 5’8″ arch tail single fin
Here’s Steve with a fun little 5’8″ single fin arch tail Pendoflex. This design of this board is inspired by boards we rode in the late 1960s and early 1970’s. Steve modified a template from one of our old boards and shaped this one using a contemporary thickness foil, rocker and rails. Cowa-flexit!
Catch a Wave for Peace
September 21 is International Peace Day, and a time to reflect on all of the blessings we have. This is an annual day dedicated to peace, or the absence of war, such as might be demonstrated by a temporary ceasefire during combat. It’s observed by many nations, political and military groups, and people around the […]
Flex in The Surfer’s Journal, Vol 18, No.4-Summer 09
Soundings VI: A Question of Flex Interviews and Portraits by Devon Howard and Andrew Kidman This text is excerpted from the contents on the TSJ web page for the issue: Like the weather, if seems that while everybody talks about flex nobody does anything about it. That’s been our read anyway. We gathered a Genius Congress […]
23 Amazing Shapers and Surfboards
Here are photos of the exquisite boards and the shaper displays at the Billabong Art of Shaping, San Diego Edition and a few of the people. Royce Cansler, Bird Huffman, and the folks at Billabong did an amazing job organizing this charity benefit. I was honored to donate time to shoot the portraits of all […]
Winter fish, high aspect twin
On Thursday and Friday, the Art of Shaping can be viewed on the show floor of ASR. At 2 PM on Friday the boards will be moved upstairs to the conference room for the reception and charity auction. The reception begins at 4 PM. We are grateful to Royce, Bird and the Billabong folks for […]
The Art of Shaping
The Art of Shaping 2009, San Diego Edition, presented by Billabong Reception: September 11, 2009, 4-6 PM San Diego Convention Center We are honored that Steve is one of the invited shapers. For more information see the earlier post from July. To see biographies and photos of the honored shapers, visit the Art of Shaping web […]
Step OFF! for Chapman
Family charger Chapman Murphey is stoked. . . he’s been scoring big barrels in Mainland Mex this summer, and he asked Steve to build him this rad, racey Pendoflex Step OFF. Steve used a heavy blank and glassed it with 7 layers of cloth, and Step OFF weighs in at about 13 pounds. Chapman is […]
Rasta’s Pendoflex fish
Dave Rastovich and Steve, with Rasta’s new Pendoflex Mako high aspect fish. On a Friday morning in early August we had a soul surf session at PB in waist to shoulder high beach break with Rasta and friends. So stoked that Dave loves his new board! Steve surfed his 4th Gear Flyer mat and I […]
Mitchell’s Pendoflex quad fish kneeboard
Here’s our good friend Mitchell with his Pendoflex quad fish kneeboard. We were stoked to be paddling out and see him air drop into his first wave on this board. . . pull into the barrel, and then go flying by as we paddled over the wave! Whooo! that was a fun morning! Steve makes […]
