if Velzy patented the process

yes patents are benchmarks in 'modern’inovation

getting a patent about 40 years after the inspiration is about right.

magazine articles are about 6 months late.

news stories are usually a week late.

surf reports are a day late

knowledge? after the fact

wisdom is omnipotent.

assemble patents,magazines,news stories, surf reports,and know-aledge

crumple that crap up wholesale … throw it into the krapper where it belongs

Access inspired intuition and transcend to creative thought …

protection of product is timly for " art " about to go mass market

in the mass market the squabbling gets really going

Or when its time to Really REALLY sell-out you gotta get yer money before Whammo or Kransco or Exon decides to rip yall off

you can sell’em the patent

and boast at the 19th hole

or the bar on the corner

where the lasting credit and credibility is founded like Bethlem Steel

…ambrose…

real Samurai swords were hand made.

the process was not aplicable to the patent office,or mass production

you wanna hula hoop?

a frisbee?

a whiffle ball?

dont even think of making em yerself!

you’ll be under threat and penalty of serious litigation

litigation has no place in the surfing of waves

or the making of the tools for doing so

surfing waves is

the last remaining freedom

True story, that I just made up.

I was talking to the cousin of the brother of the mother

of the step-son that pierced Angelina Jolene’s nipple

and He/she/it said that boogie boards will be making

a strong comeback on the planet XYZ and the marketing plan

is in place to utilize the tons of shaving cream scum collected from

the blue planet that will catalyze the foam that will fill the voids

in the walls of the great overseerer-sucker’s walls.

Joy - joy…

I can barely speak,

but I must say what I feel inside.

The crime would be holding for another

thirty to life

if not judged by the true creators tribunal

of forged blades cutting and to the core of the matter.

Who’s holding the handle now?

I did go all wide eyed and bushy tailed and ready to chase technology,

THE technology that Anne Bancroft’s husband said was the future -

PLASTICS, son.

God she was hot

to trot, dive into the pool to cool off. Me so horny.

Salt Creek.

One place where I learned of the calling, the connection.

The beyond of the paddle out and salt water in your mouth.

Group and THE LORD of all that is sacred and holy and good and take-off.

POSITION heart beat inside and out, to be covered and uncovered.

Running barefoot and flinging my very being at that which would

build to meet the desire deep inside my soul…

The waves were DIFFERENT then, the quality, the willingness to serve,

the innocence before the for sale signs pounded down, down,

apocalyptic drumbeat that hurt my heart and never ended,

just became a pad of paper with another pretty face saying that there

is NO TIME like the present to cash in on the REAL

ESTATE boom.

Hobie, genuine authorized “Gerry Lopez” Lightning Bolt, I was so proud.

And I slept near that perfection of blades, and I believed that the magic would

awaken when the sun rolled around for the gadzillamullonius TIME,

but who keeps track anymore?

I did buy a tool mold from the man himself,

god Velzy,

an old diamond tail hollow with that burning soul piercing smile thrown in gratis

for 100 skins and I made my interpretation of the twanger

in the late seventy’s, no less,

but mine was more of a flopper

mostly flex and not enough spring back,

and it was one of those

man did I LEARN A LOT with that

experience… it worked.

In one era and out.

Is this the reset we’ve been waiting for?

Go ahead, make those balsa boards and SELL EM?

Lien on in… and the chicks for free.

What I lost was the HEART,

deep inside Innocence of HAPPY feeling that overcame

that which cannot be overcome anymore.

The same feeling I get when the gas nozzle penetrates my

How bout you?

…If I had to do it over again…

…I think…

…I think…

… I’d rather be a fisherman…Herb

I am the 4th horseman