Ryan blew me away when I saw him ride the lord board foam slab in 2013. I have been riding finless and wacky ass boards ever since. I have sold my Merricks and Firewires and am having a freaking blast on unconventional boards. It really opens your mind to how you approach a wave. Thanks Ryan!
Dude, this is exactly what I was searching to see, homie rips shapes into open spaces for wisdoms hand to guide concept, heavy light fast and slow sloppy edgers by choice all through the shape made by hand. Thanks dude.
Too geek up the nice feel in this one with a correction ... In mathematics, the X-axis generally goes on the horizontal and the Y-axis is vertical. The displayed graph had this mixed up.
this reminds me of the person who asked me once - "whats the fastest boat hull bottom", and I thought about how to answer the question as stated, and said " a flat bottom". He was totally incredulous. ( I'm a lifetime surfboard and boat designer)
Back in the 70's , I would fly to San Diego and pick up a few Lis Fish . Take em back home to Maui, and they could handle Honolua up to about 10'. Very functional on rather large hollow barrels . My friends used to trip on me. But then wanna borrow it 🤔 Right on Ryan. Your lines are pleasing to watch. P.j. Napili Maui.
After the longboard era was abandoned in about 1967 and '68 everyone was cutting there longboards down into newfangled short boards of every variety. There were no short boards left in shops. Just longboards and many shops just closed up and went out of business. The fiberglass supply stores came out with surfboard kits with a blank and supplies to glass it with. And no body knew what direction to go in. Everyone was pissed off at the establishment and looking to do anything really offensive as they experimented with pot and hallucinogens for the first time. So they went in all directions design wise. The Steve Liss fish was the first board to launch into the short board world and eclipse longboards. The San Diego guys were standing up on them, and within a year everybody was trying them, and in Hawaii, by 1969 jimmy blears had won a world title on his that looked exactly like Ryan's rainbow fish here, fins and every thing.Another guy that was blowing minds shredding kaisers in that '68/'69 era was Mark Sedlack at Kaisers, on a trippy looking literally egg shape with really turned down hard rails. And from '69 through about '71 everyone got on an asymetric trip, doing every type of asymetric nos and tail they could think of. Fads came and went untill the emphasis started to weigh in on north shore boards and after an era of early seventies homemade guns and miniguns came out and professional versions of them at Surfline Hawaii surfboard shop, surfboards became really functional and purposeful and lightening bolt started pumping out beautiful professional shop boards for the north shore and many versions of short boards for town summer surf in Honolulu, and everyone eventually forgot about asymetrical surfboards. Then out of all that the guy that continued on later with asymetrical board designs quite successfully was Peter Townsend, with amazing designs and great results as a professional surfer. There was an era back in the late 1960's where he was by far one of the world's best surfers.
Ryan you should try a Moon tail. While it seems amazing to ride really small board's, for practical surfing I think go one's own height, or even bigger.... My. 02 BTW - my personal twinny + is a moon tail - which was an accidental asymmetrical design.... So far, she's rip able! Oh, the depth of my moon Tail is 1.5"....more release than a fish IMHO. I ride both tho...😂🏄🤙
Andrew B. . My advice is never again pass up a surf or wave. The wheels feel off for me at around 53. Ever since I’ve been grieving the loss of my surfing. Nothing can replace something that was the epicentre of my existence for 4 plus decades.
Okay call one the 'Loose Goose" or maybe Yodas as u can ride like how he jumps arouns all crazy with his lite sword thingy lol ... Finnless Joe jackson.. Hit me up if u like some mo brah
This guy embodifies what is great about surfing today: open mindedness coming from a foundation of having already mastered a normal shortboard- and moving into other realms from there. No limits!!
As I am just getting into the sport I can barely surf, I am also building my first surfboard for the experience and fun and I listen to this guys voice and to what he is saying then I look at his matted hippy hair I feel like I would rather punch him in the face then surf with him.
i believe, and is real, the waave , te body are not simetrics ... surf is about feel,create, freedom , donte need computer and perfect boards, the best surfers was realy better and all ... surf spitit aloha !
Yo Ryan come on down to pavones. I got a little shaping shack and a place to crash for ya. I havent made any asyms yet but I love making funky fishes. They work insane on all these sick little lefthanders we got around here. Would be a blast to watch you create a craft for the surf here
