operation amped.

yeah.

rob's current favorite and a glorious serving of chocolate milk!!!

rob sent this to me via surfapig@live.com: "Fwiw, here's my current favourite board... just can't seem to stay off it really. 9'6"x22"xeyeballed PMP all funked up with some wacky resin as usual! I'll bring it with me in January, along with a spin off model I've been working on.."my old beach break. seeing this picture brought me back. days like this are the stuff permanent memories are made from. i have old photos of days like this somewhere. the sky, the water, the shells/sand..the debris on the sand. the oil rig...
the underside of rob's pmp. rob is a resin mad man!!!!!!!

the clean shit.

crazy weekend. shared sliders today with a new friend.

evan comes up to me at the board swap yesterday and says "are you black?". for which i reply: "yea".

after chumming it up at the swap yesterday, we exchange numbers and viola! sliders sesh in the mornin. evan is based north of point conception. he seemed quite comfortable down here!
obligatory line up shot!
...uhh.. did i say this was the CLEAN SHIT?!
yeah.
clean template! (evan caught a few on my feral pig)
Evan!! cheers! it was great to meet you and share some stoke!!! (we exchanged boards today for a bit. i started off on my feral pig {fucking mental...had such a blast..nose rides, curl shoots, great cutbacks} then evan asked to give my board a go. i was stoked to swap. the first wave i caught on evan's ...the board felt kinda sticky. it was backside...and it was just a pure curl shooter... but i stuck it out and caught a few more. his board works well. it is quite alive when you are on the nose. it is great to live in a day where shapers are checking shit out, doing different things, figuring out this or that!)
then i received a text from my boy johnny. it said "ham sammich" with this pic attached. did i mention ...."the clean shit"?
i responded with this pic and the statement "toofless". back in june i got my two front teeth "repaired". i had busted them skateboarding and bmx-ing when i was a grom. i had to get root canals and crowns. last night on my way to bing's 1 year anniversary on the hill event, my wife , my daughter and i stopped to have some great sushi in ocean side. i was eating some edamame when my front crown came off. fuck it. we go to the event, and as i am trying to explain to margaret how my crown came off, it comes off and falls on the floor. i pick it up and put it back in and continue to try to talk. it comes off again and i try to catch it, juggling this front tooth. it was funny as fuck. 'corse there were people there with cameras. margaret, glen sakamoto, josh hall got a super fucked up video of my toofles ass! EPIC!!!!! any way, here is yet another toofles shot!
check the video!!!!
i poached these from the bing face book page. this shit was classic. the one time i get to get a pic with THE MAN, bing copeland...i am toofless. EHHH -- AHH -- PIC!

fuck yes.
yeah josh!!

doh board swap!!!! bing event!!!!!

doh board swap. this event makes sacred craft look like the fucked up circus it is. this quigg below ruined me. 3k. not today!

this board was rad too.
i held bing's jacket while he signed this board. HISTORY!!!!!!!! ha!!!
soon to go to bing's 1 year get up at surf indian.....

bing 1 year on the hill!!!

click on the pic it'll blow up so you can read it!

saturday at surf indian in san diego! 6 - 10!

11/27/11

check the new lams for the upcoming feral pigs. YEAH!

we blasted an 18.5 lb pig this past week. so good!
thank you sliders! its been fun round these here parts.
left overs into jambalaya!

pigs in the UK!!!

mister griffster sent this to me via surfapig@live.com:"Hey Mike, I've been following your blog for several years now, and been meaning to post these pigs to you for a while, I have no excuse apart from being a lazy ass... Here's 2 from the quiver, one that Rob Lion (Royal) shaped for me back last year - It's a Post Modern Pig 9'6" x 23 x 16 7/8 x 16 / 1/2. Nicely pinched rails, concave to belly roll with tail lift, with scooped tail and very slight S-deck about 22-25lb. Rocker is probably a little flatter up front than normal and absolutely flies when pressing the accelerator. Rob's now working over at Santa Cruz Board Builders so check him out if you're in the area. The other is your standard Michel Junod Pignar - 9 8 1/2 x 22 3/4 x 16 1/2 fore and aft with the standard step concave through to roll and traditional piggy rocker at about 25lb. Weighted beautifully to generate it's own trim speed and noserides better than some out and out noseriders I've ridden. Both boards leave you grinning from ear to ear! Keep up the good work Sir and long live the pig!"

it's post like this that validate this effort. i get so stoked to see what else is out there.