What Are You Packing? Board Ordering with the Andino Team
2011 ASP Top 34 rookie Kolohe Andino - lots of moves, lots of boards.
SAN CLEMENTE, California/USA (Monday, January 9, 2012) – For most of us mere mortals, we’re lucky to get our hands on one new board a year…IF we’re lucky. However, members of the ASP Top 34 are different creatures altogether. These guys probably clock more barrel time, hang time and rail time in a single session than most of us do all year. Ergo, the boys need equipment quality and quantity to suit what they’re doing in the water. What follows is a copy of correspondence from master boardbuilder Matt Biolis to his team in preparation for 2012 ASP Dream Tour rookie Kolohe Andino’s start to 2012. This…is their story…
The last post was an example of how to order boards if your an “average” Joe , who’s serious about your surfing. I thought this might be a good time to show everyone how an 17 year old superstar, World Tour rookie, orders his boards….25 at a time!
Obviously this also really motivates me. After making boards for Kolohe since before he was born, and being intrinsically involved in the transformation over last three years from NSSA king pin to qualification on the WT at just 17, it seems like we just made the fist big goal happen a full year ahead of what we had hoped for. The thing is, it only took a week or two before its time to go back to work and get ready for the next step.
JERRY,
PLEASE WRITE UP THE FOLLOWING ORDERS FOR KA.
1. 8 Boards for surfing around Ca in Janurary (make asap)
– 4 x 6’0″ Driver 18.56″ 2.25″ UL Yellow ARC (measure blanks) – 3 glass ons + 1 Powerbase
(2 of them with touch more more foil and a bit more Rocker)
– 3 x 5’11″ SubDriver 18.88″ 2.25″ UL Yellow (measure blanks) -2 glass on +1 Powerbase
– 1 x 5’11.5″ SubDriver “MF” 18.75 2.25″ UL Yellow Powerbase.
(touch more rocker and foil)
– 8 total
2. 8 Boards to be shipped to Australia by FEB-10 (Snapper boards) Dino will add 2 existing boards to the boxes that we ship to Oz, DONT PACK UNTIL DINO KNOWS EXACTLY WHATS GOING IN THE BOX.
– 2 x 5’11″ Sub Drivers (hold for details)
– 1 x 5’11.5″ SubDriver “MF” 18.75 2.25″
– 5 x 6’0″ 18.56 2.25″ Drivers
(3 of the 5 with added rocker and a bit more foiled)
– ALL GLASS ONS.
3. Brazil boards. Ready by Feb 1st. (all FCS/Powerbase)
– 2 x 6’0 Driver Ultra Light
– 1 x 6’0 Driver with carbon strip/ extra strength (tubes)
– 1 x 6’1 Rpin UltraLight
– 1 x 6’1 Rpin Carbon strip/ extra strong (tubes)
– 5 total- all FCS/Powerbase
4. Hydroflex PU – Need some boards that are light and stronger, but still will PU Blanks.
– 1 x 6’1 Rpin
– 1 x 6’0 Driver
– 1 x 5’11.5 SubDriver MF
– 1 x 5’11″ SubDriver
– All FCS
For more details on Mayhem surfboards, check out Matt’s blog at MayhemBiolis.posterous.com
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Now there’s an unsustainable lifestyle!
The first thing I thought about when I read this was the environmental impact these 25 boards would have on our overburdened planet. How much raw material, energy and oil products are used to make these 25 surfboards? How about manufacturing and transportation? Whatever happened to that one magic surfboard that a pro would mostly rely on throughout the year? Do the pros really need 8 boards for a wave like Snapper Rocks??
That would be nice…
Funny how many surfers are so called environmentally aware…yet, if you calculate all of the airplane fuel they burn up hopping from one place to another and the surfboard consumption, they don’t actually live by what they preach!