beyond effortless…
http://www.surfersjournal.com/video/terry-martin-and-perfect-40-minute-board
Super cool to see someone as stoked on his 75,000th shape as he was on his 1st… Thanks for posting this!
Terry is an awesome man who shapes better than you without the ego. One of the nicest men alive, and someone who can’t say a bad word about anyone, except maybe BS.
A cross between Bear and big Zee, my two favourite movie star/shapers, yea the shaping machine, I wanted to be like that. HH.
" My objective is to make someone happy in the water " Terry Martin
Now that my friends is a man who gets it. If you shape and sell boards for any other reason than to make someone stoked you just don’t get it.
All the truly great shapers have this as a goal IMHO.
Loved the vid by the way.
One of the best longboards I ever had was a 9’4’’ single done by Terry Martin. It was a Herbie Fletcher.
How f*cken cool is that!!!
"sculpting" "I know the board in the blank and I know how to go get it" "feel"
Bill B. also mentioned visualizing the board in 3D before starting a while back. Its in there.
On the original video Terry was getting loose with the planer doing this big S turn on the deck by the tail without lifting the tool or triggering. Also did a nice one hand flip. Maybe showboating a little but I liked it.
Terry Martin and Phil Becker most likely the best production shapers ever. The original shaping machines.
Nice lighting-shadowing tip in there also.
These guys are great. No doubt about it.
However, Spectrum had Rick Bullock, Steve Forstall and Natural Art had Rich Price and Ricky Carroll, G and S has Larry Mabile and Terry Goldsmith and that doesn’t even include Merrick and Rusty’s shapers like Allen Gibbons or Hawaii’s such as Griffin, Pang, and Minami or some of the fin shapers in Australian factories. Best production shapers ever has some big shoes to fill.
I love the casual no stress approach. And the one hand flip, and how close he cuts the outline. My goal is not to make thousands of boards, but to be as relaxed and as confident as he is. And maybe end up with 10% of his shaping abilities, that'll do me haha.
+++ Beerfan. This the shaper’s attitude at it’s best. Also the best approach to surfing.
For a real, true SURF ICON, Terry Martin is as sweet, mellow and unassuming as a guy can get. One of the best. In fact, his whole family oozes aloha.
I've never heard anybody say a cross word about the guy and that is pretty friggin' rare in the surf "industry".
Even though he's likely shaped more boards then anyone on the planet and really is a living, breathing shaping machine, he's still totally stoked about shaping surfboards of all kinds and he shapes them with the intuition and sensitivity of a truely accomplished artist.
If you really want to get him talking, tell him you're into didgeridoos..........
I thought the first fish I had was a great board, then I got a TM shaped fish and I realized what a REAL shape was. Have had so many great sessions on the board, one of the best purchases I have made in years.