Jim Crooks' title is Quality Assurance Manager for Firestone Walker Brewing Co. in Paso Robles, California. His dimensions are 5'10" x 180 lbs and his main summertime vehicle is pictured here-a 6'0 13 ½ x 20 ½ (+3 above center) x 14 ¾ x 2 5/8" Stonefish. Its great to have someone in his field riding my boards, picking over every "quality control" aspect of the product. As we all know, good beers and great surfboards are important parts of a well lived life.

Ryk Kluver is a classic surfer, carpenter, and master wood worker. Here he is standing with his 10' modern classic series longboard (10' x 18 x 23 x 15 x 3 ¼) in his immaculate cactus garden in the hills of Cayucos. This board has soft 60/40 rails throughout and a domed deck making for a buttery and easy flowing feel.

Doctor Eric Jacobson is an Emergency Room doctor at French Hospital in San Luis Obispo. He is 6' x 185lbs and favors a 19 1/2" 80's flavored 6'2"s with big hips and flat rocker with vee. He also became fish addicted this last summer after ordering a Modern Classic series fish. 6' x 15 ¾ x 21x 16 x 2 ¾ with heaps of vee and thinned out little swallow tails…all the drive of the twin keels and all the rail to rail looseness you'd ever want. Eric also likes this design because he can catch more waves than the longboarders.

Tim Bluhm is a touring musician and songwriter in the San Francisco Bay area. His live music perfomances are amazing (with The Mother Hips or solo) and you can find him at www.timbluhm.com. Anyways, he is tall (6'5?) and skinny and surfs in a smooth laid-back manner. The board I made him is a 6'5 modern classic fish and it was great to see him get off his single fin and get some disco going on in his surfing. Again, these boards give you the paddle of a long board but the shortness and turning of a short board.

TJ Mortimer is the youngest brother of three great surfers from the sleepy beachtown of Cayucos. TJ had quite a bit of success as an amateur competitive surfer but has turned his sights on earning a college degree from Cal Poly. He still has time to knock the top of a couple sets at the pier though. Here he is riding the standard Stoneman.

Here is Trevor Hischer standing in front of his dad's place,Wavelengths Surf Shop in Morro Bay. He rides a 6'1 10 ¾ x 18 ¼ x 13 7/8 x 2 3/16ths. This board has a standard dose of single concave under the front foot leading into the double barrel with a smidgen of vee out the tail. The rocker and bottom configurations of my shortboards make for ridiculously fast and well-behaved surfboards.

Team rider, Christie Carter, has been doing some serious research and development for me down at his resort in the Mentawais. He is an easy going kiwi by land and a fearless charger by sea. He puts my shortboard designs into some heavy situations and I am proud to have him ripping on my boards. If you ever need a trip to paradise with a perfect left right in front of your tropical island resort and twenty more reachable by boat, contact Christie at www.wavepark.com and you will know bliss. He has been running this land based mentawai camp for a decade and it has it all...this is not camping --this is affordable luxury with tube riding.

       

The guy in the photo above is Anthony Circosta, a local skater and quad fin shredder on the central coast. He likes the quadropheenia design the best because it is so fast and allows him to do crazy airs like this with ease. He's also a bit of an inventor and is working on his product you can read more about at www.winewand.com.

This is me below trying out my 8'6" tri fin gun and my six fin on the photo below.