The “New frontier” is making a board for Laird that he never asked for? Some how I hoped the future would be different.
the composer Bartok always intrigued me
it kinda sounded to me like what I observed on friday nights when me and my mom drove to Al’s Transbay Tavern at fourth and Bryant in the inner city of San Francisco,the Greatest city in the world.
yes Bar Talk where the topic swings to the left,the people accross forth street at KQED and peerhaps to the right up bryant at the City and County of San Francisco Water Department and further up bryant at the Hall of Justice…so the topic would range over my head as I ate of the finery of the tavern’s gracious hamburgers…
the criterion stretched to the limit as the friday night wore on and finally the loudest most self absorbed would be the last man standing … with a beer in his hand…Al Opatz would close at 2 am and reopen for the eye opener crowd at 6 am …
so mmany years lateer I actually was graced to attend a concert of a reputable quartet at the kauai community college concert facility …
sitting quiet and respectfully awaiting my first exposure to BARTOK ‘wow this has gotta be somthing swell’ and the elevated timber of this music bordered on unlistenable wildness …
Miles davis /coltrane xperimental progressive jazz were tame by comparrison …
the world is truely an infinite balancing act
there is a need for all the perimeter explorations
laird the kid grew up in an atmosphere of surfing ''Professionalism-Promotionalism…
his livlyhood revolves arround self promotion
he was rumored th be questing the part of HE-MAN the comic book come to screen
approached correctly laird might ride Emma’s new board…but from what I hear the rights to all photos of him are closly guarded…
the 100foot wave was made considerably more feasable when they standardized the measuring system of waves to essentially double the dimension [surely a covert plot on behalf of brazen promoters]
although I believe the likely hood of Ace Cool being the man for the job of paddlilng into the 100 foot wave is most likely…
I hear he is selling post cards and poseters of him self, at evening venues of an intoxicating atmosphere , surfing Kaena point on oahu’s western most geogaphy … much harder to photograph than Peahi …
BULLY …GO FOR BROKE…GEEVE UM …TALLY HO…PIP PIP and all that rot
while you guys do that Im going to bed and dreaming of ways to grow old gracfully…ambrose…Emma I am ALWAYS up lifted to hear your blatently feminine tones ,a true counterpoint to these testestorone soaked diatribes. My Imagination always dresses you in the finest dresses as a mother of many should be respectfully clad …,never in a kilt
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My Imagination always dresses you in the finest dresses as a mother of many should be respectfully clad …
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White cotton, right? And just a little shear, but not in a disrespectful way.
Ah, the masculine and the feminine. No contestation. The new frontier = Aloha = breathe with = not against. Not canceling each other out. Potentiating creativity together. No judges, no winners, no losers, obsolete categories anyway. Think together, the creation will emerge as reality.
I got to personally experience the concept of new technologies and materials will enhance/open traditional designs to a higher level. A buddy of mine is molding hollow boards of guys like Cordell, Lost and others. (I was riding a 7’1" Don Johnston) They are carbon prepreg with no stringer or internal bulk head. You could feel the bottom of the board compress and load then release and launch. Even on a crappy day like it was I could feel the thorough bred in the board just waiting to go. I have to admit, I was pretty impressed. The board must weigh about 6 lbs. Wet w/ leash and all.
Actually Roy is making a quiver of three 21 foot boards over the next 12 months. Doing them ‘for Laird’ doesn’t mean anything about who is going to ride them. Roy is definitely going to be riding them that’s for sure. Building them ‘For Laird’ is an act of devotion or inspiration, nothing more, and the contest is a just lark, we are smoking up some ideas and then ‘rattling the cage’ with them. We don’t stop there though, we build them and ride them too.
If you don’t dig our new/old frontier of big boards then that’s fine, go and enjoy your own!
The ‘Board of Boards’ quiver will all have ‘Laird’ written on them (Laird H or Laird S, or possibly even Laird Q, who knows)
Long live the Aristocracy!
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Ah, the masculine and the feminine. No contestation. The new frontier = Aloha = breathe with = not against. Not canceling each other out. Potentiating creativity together. No judges, no winners, no losers, obsolete categories anyway. Think together, the creation will emerge as reality.
Right on! (Serendipitous judging = Lots of winners!)
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Ah, the masculine and the feminine. No contestation. The new frontier = Aloha = breathe with = not against. Not canceling each other out. Potentiating creativity together. No judges, no winners, no losers, obsolete categories anyway. Think together, the creation will emerge as reality.
Right on, Clockman! (Serendipitous judging = lots of winners)
OOPs Sorry about the repetition.
OK, you have got 12 months to build your ‘Board of Boards’ for Laird. Paddle in only. Any other rules are up to you and apply only to yourself!
Get busy!
I told my wife after installing the fourth wall of shelves in her store that I was going to work in the surf laboratory and completeing long delayed projects… twelve foot board the first week two 8’ers the second week and week three three i 8’ and tw0 7’2’’ at this rate in four weeks of work that’s 38’ of surfboards…thats quite a change from the 1940’s or the 1960’s let alone the 1850’s…is the new frontier ?..us? are we the vanguard and not the materialsor the method / is it not the fact that we are engaged in the manefestation of individual dreams the actual measurable documemented < > new frontier/ … ambrose … Yes it is right here right now and we are more the same than we are different …good job emma
“You could feel the bottom of the board compress and load then release and launch. Even on a crappy day like it was I could feel the thorough bred in the board just waiting to go.”
Deja vu. Are you sure you weren’t riding one of Thinkmat’s surf mats? Greenough would be proud.
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Deja vu. Are you sure you weren’t riding one of Thinkmat’s surf mats? Greenough would be proud.
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Well from the stand point that they were both hollow air filled and consist of a thin membrane of an outer skin, I can see the mistaken identity. But I am pretty sure it wasn’t.
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If you want to be one with the wave then the future is a mat.
??? I’d think bodysurfing
At one in the wave? At one on the wave? I’d be at one if I could just see a wave at the moment!
New wave, old wave, the out-there new frontier always exists, waiting to be discovered by those who haven’t yet found it, and are willing to explore.
Different for everyone I guess.
Thank goodness, Dragon. Thought I was seeing double again. Serendipity is just what the doctor ordered. Is that a contradiction? Can serendipity be ordered, or does it have to be serendipitous?
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Emma I am ALWAYS up lifted to hear your blatently feminine tones ,a true counterpoint to these testestorone soaked diatribes. My Imagination always dresses you in the finest dresses as a mother of many should be respectfully clad …,never in a kilt
Well if you don’t want to see me in a kilt the n don’t go to
www.woodensurfboardbuilder.com/otemarakau-mar2005.html
Because I am on that page wearing one!
There are also pictures there of us doing the handwashing at our ‘Sandmine Beach camp’.
As a frontiersman yourself, I am sure that you will know what is going on.
A salude is in order, to perfect days. Thanks for sharing.
I prefer the blue.
but the choice
is up to you
as to the tartan
it too is a smart’un
fortunatly not quite the kilt I had in my minds eye.
but yet a respectable skirt
by another name would seem as sweet.
Good kids that help with the load
are surely worth their weight in gold
havn’t done the clothes by hand since 92
when the hurricane iniki made it the primary do
that frontier is behind me now
the one before me is of my own choosing
its only time I spend ,there is in deed no losing
luck to ya’ll on yer personal quest
may result and plan be only yer best
…ambrose…a friend to many