http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuUccl5rTX8
In case you were worried about your rocker, fin, flex, etc…
This stokes me out!!! Sooooooooooooooooooooo cool!
Hacking up the roots of rainforest trees into surfboards. TV and surf tourism.
that is the essance of stoke . what surfing is all about . and you seem to find the need to knock it, working with what they have that is the beauty of it.
You seem to find the need to knock thinking about a bigger picture.
that is their bigger picture . these people use the same tree to make canoes cloths and many other things besides surfboards. and if you did not notice they took what they needed and left the rest to live and provide for them at a later time that is conservation.
It would be better to ship them a bunch of petroleum-derived products?
I think the whole point was that they know how to take the plank without harming the tree. Why so bitter?
Hey PPS,
People in third world countries injected with western cultural influence often go nearsighted about their traditional organic wealth and then a generation later their natural legacy is toast. This looks like a symptom of that (to me). My O.
For my part, I apologize for the sarcasm. Blatant sarcasm is foul. I’ll delete it.
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It would be better to ship them a bunch of petroleum-derived products?
I think the whole point was that they know how to take the plank without harming the tree.
They don’t harm the tree?
I see them sculpting tri-fins, and I think they’re getting some western taint, and that’s a slippery slope, esp. when youre an island people.
Not bitter, just thinking.
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I see them sculpting tri-fins, and that’s a slippery slope.
So what you’re saying is that they shoulda stayed with a single fin? I dunno about that.
resource management aside…
that is so cool
Very impressive manufacturing from a carbon footprint standpoint. Unlike Basswood, Balsa, etc, the wood they used did not require felling a tree. In fact very few roots are apparently even suitable so its not likely a tree would lose all it’s roots. (I particularly loved them using Mother Nature’s rocker.) They used hand tools to take the root not even requiring any gas to drive a chain saw nor power a milling operation. They walked into the forest to get the materials and walked the root back to the village. No trucks and again no gas. They saved the bark making good use of the waste. The only chemical they appeared to use was whatever it was they brushed on at the end. Other then this chemical it does not appear that any power was used in production of the final board. No electric tools were used and most of their tools were of simple design requiring minimal amounts of metal and metal working to produce. They didn’t even have to drive it to the beach to use.
Very green. Very sustainable. Very small carbon footprint. Very cool.
i wonder how long they last?
its kinda cool but would be better to just send a few foamies or plantation wood over there
That’s brilliant.
When a lot of guys you build boards for a worried about where and how deep you put in their concaves and whether their fins are carbon, glass or G10 and how that particular rocker will affect their developing style, you see something like this, and wish you could show it to everyone.
The majority of customers surf at a lower or similar skill level to most of those kids, and you need something like that to show them maybe they should get out there and surf and practice surfing, and that is what will make them good surfers , not the latest greatest fins that the world champs seem to need for the latest Mctwist rodeo flip inverted stalefish grab.
Thanks for posting that.
Regards
Daren
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Very green. Very sustainable. Very small carbon footprint. Very cool.
sorry mate but thats kinda bull
the canoe thing is cool cuz they need em to catch fish
its subsistence living, but it says on the vid they have fiberglass canoes
so they obviously have access to modern materials
surfing is a recreation
if you think that chopping the root out of a 200 year old rainforest tree for recreational use is green/sustainable
your tripping!
so there only a few trees that are big enough to make a full board
there are balsa plantations in newguinea
in fact thats where most of it comes from
balsa is sustainable
rainforest trees are not
New guinea is loosing rainforest very fast and it doesnt grow back
it might appeal to you for the very backyard nature of the whole trip
but its completely off the mark if you think its a good thing
the film maker should have droped off a few packs of paulownia seeds and some epoxy resin
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That’s brilliant.
When a lot of guys you build boards for a worried about where and how deep you put in their concaves and whether their fins are carbon, glass or G10 and how that particular rocker will affect their developing style, you see something like this, and wish you could show it to everyone.
The majority of customers surf at a lower or similar skill level to most of those kids, and you need something like that to show them maybe they should get out there and surf and practice surfing, and that is what will make them good surfers , not the latest greatest fins that the world champs seem to need for the latest Mctwist rodeo flip inverted stalefish grab.
Thanks for posting that.
Regards
Daren
You’re welcome, your post was my point exactly.
Sissano Lagoon: coral reef and fishing industry threatened by sedimentation after forest clearance 
Ease of access resulting from the incursion of a logging road has resulted in the complete loss of forest cover and subsequent soil erosion 
The effects of forest clearance on water quality
I saw the WORST ‘‘western taint’’ of all, A LEASH ! They are doomed!
Now, that being said, why not consider taking the club under Swaylocks wing, and members pool some boards they don’t want any more, and send them off to the kids.
Where’d the bananaboard shipping dollars ever end up?
I have a Rusty toothpick for the kids.
who was clearing forests in that vid? they cut a five foot piece of root and left the tree to live. the people who deforest these rainforest are westerners ozzies and kiwis because they already cut down there own old growth. these people have little to no money to buy our expensive surfboards let alone put cloths on there backs. and now who will be tainting who with western culture if we go and give them a bunch of surfboards? this vid was about stoke stoke of the youth using what they had and it looks like they found the right wood for the job. its so easy for some to say they should use this and use that but in all reality these kids would never in a million years be able to get there hands on the funds to purchase the materials needed to build much of anything. thanks for sharing this vid it was pure stoke,