One year ago i wrote about our goal of shaping a few boards for each of us. This year I built four boards, one still needs some finishing, the other has to be glassed. Phips, Raphi and Trish were not lazy either and build themselves a couple nice boards as well and will test them in Sri Lanka and Indo soon. Hope to post some nice pics of them surfing nice and clean waves soon. Here are some boards of the crew…
No waves in italy yet, but some beautiful october weather in Munich. Time to test boards and fin set ups. Introducing: The modified mini driver by Phips. With the widened tail it has more an egg feeling to it. Featuring heavy double concaves, moderate rocker, sharp rails and a five fin set-up its really fast, making it quite a challenge to maneuver it on the small eisbach wave. I guess it will work really good in the ocean, but does look good on the Eisbach as well:
A few month ago I stumbled across this video about a DIY surfboard bike rack.
Of course I had to build it. I want to share some information in case someone wants to build his own. The video gives you a good idea of how to build the rack.
As you won’t find pvc fittings and pipes in a german hardware store, try online stores as pvc-welt.de instead.
Don’t be fooled by the expression 1″ pipe that is used in the video, the outer diameter is around 1.3″, matching the 32 mm pipe available at pvc-welt.de.
You end up spending around 40€ including rubber straps and pipe clamps.
I didn’t glue the pipes into the t-joints that sit on the bike frame to make the rack quickly removable. the rubber straps that also hold the surfboard in place keep the rack from slipping out of the t-joints. Total building time is around 1 hour.
I decided to take a surfboard to my recent 5-day trip to italy. Not expecting much, we scored some 3 ft waves in St. Marinella and Ansedonia. The waves were not perfect, but we were more than happy to surf some rare mediterranean waves.
I don’t post too much video links here, but i stumbled across this little documentary by Red Bull about the pre-season training of two of the best surfers in the world, Mick Fanning and Joel Parkinson and thougt i would share it. The documentary gives some insight on how hard these athletes train, what methods they use and what else goes on behind the scenes. Interesting stuff…
Ich glaubs erst wenn ich’s sehe, aber immerhin machen sich Leute Gedanken über eine künstliche Welle in Berlin: hier gehts zum Zeitungsartikel
thanks for following my little board building blog.
I just read in the stats that one third of my blog readers come from outside germany.
(Top 3 countries: US, France, Australia)
I will continue to write in english about the board building themes.
Some themes of mainly local interest will be written in german though. I’m looking forward to share some board building stoke with you in 2013!
Die Wellenvorhersage für Norditalien war also richtig, das konnte ein Blick auf diese Webcam bestätigen. Das nächste Mal würde ich gerne dabei sein. Ob dann das Wasser auch noch 25 Grad hat? Ich glaube nicht…
Facebook R.I.P., hast eigentlich recht…
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