November 21st. 2016

This past Sunday Shawn Tracht and I headed down to meet up with Ryan Lovelace, who is one of the hottest shapers in the business right now. He won "Shaper of the Year" last year, and is really down to Earth humble guy. He shapes just about everything from Asymetrical, 5' twiney fishes, to ten foot "Rhino Chasers." He has amazing riders that love his boards, and a fast growing and popular surf shop in "The Funk Zone." So after talking, shapes, business and politics for a while, we all headed down to Rincon for Shawn to ride one of Ryans very cool shapes for an upcoming "Board Tracting" column in the DEEP magazine. The wind was howling, and it sorta made for some pretty nice colors and a very sparkly ocean. I was very surprised at what I got. I think that super shredder Kariisa Meador was out RIPPING on a long board, and also doing some cool thing with her hair on the beach! Anyways, I had a blast under very challenging conditions, and also like to remind you all of my motto: "Stay Stoked, and Stay Forever Young." Da Lieb