Showing posts with label California. Show all posts
Showing posts with label California. Show all posts

Stranger than friction.....

Who needs doors when you've got Esky lids...
Check out this amazing footage of young Californian kid Ryan Burch having the ultimate fun on what looks like an Esky lid...always said a good surfer can ride a door but a better surfer can ride an Esky Lid...

Stranger than Friction... filming for "Stoked and Broke" from http://vimeo.com/apeel on Vimeo.

The Man who Loved Water

You'd be hard-pressed to find someone who loves water more than Tim Palmer. In fact, you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who loves the natural world more than Tim Palmer, who has authored twenty books on rivers, river conservation, mountains, California, the Sierra Nevada, Yosemite...etc. He grew up canoeing the waters of Pennsylvania, then bought a rad van (pictured in below photo), converted it into a mobile outdoor-lover/writer/photographer transport module, and set to exploring America's wild places.
Tim's as hardcore as it gets. He walks, runs, wades, backpacks, paddles, drifts, or floats every inch of his subject material. The guy's up before dawn each day, and has probably seen more sunrises than Robert Downey Jr. He is understated about his lifetime of adventures, but his speaking and slideshow tours always reveal some true narrative gems.
His new book, Rivers of California, is a gorgeous display of photography and writing at its finest and would make a great holiday gift for any nature lover. Check it here!
Our own Russian River even makes it into the edition.
Tim is currently touring with a slideshow. He's in Sonoma County tonight at Copperfield's Books in Sebastopol at 7pm. He'll have a mindblowing presentation, his new book Rivers of California, as well as some of his other offerings. They're all great. He can even sign one for you.
If you can't make it tonight, he'll be at Guerneville's River Reader at 7pm for the same deal. Still can't make it? Here are some tour dates.

PETROGLYPH SURFBOARDS


HONU, THE SEA TURTLE
© 2009 PETROGLYPH SURFBOARDS

Here is the first replica I made of the Ancient Hawaiian surfboard called an ALA'IA. This was created from a tracing of the template I got from the Bishop Museum in Honolulu in 1980. This one is based on Princess Ka'iulani's board of 1888. It is 7'-6" Long and about 18" wide x 3/4" thk.  It has no fin, so it has very fun slide at will character. Being much faster than a modern board, due to a very low drag factor, my appreciation for the Hawaiians who invented surfing has grown beyond measure.  I love riding inside the tube, a very temporay space on Earth, each one usually very private, relatively shortlived, and a place where no man has been before, and no man will be after.


I recently been extremely lucky to have found numerous ancient Koa Wood Slabs, Planks, and lumber that was collected from the Hawaiian islands prior to the turn of the twentith century.

Please contact me if you are interested in surfboard making! 

Greg Hall

Sunset Beach, Hawaii

New Smyrna Beach, Florida




© 2009  GREGORY HALL ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

WELCOME TO WAVERIDER


Greg Hall ripping...
the endless bottom turn
on his vintage Surf Bolt 2cyl. Jetboard! 
35 mph, 50 mile range,
no need tow or paddle!

Howzit Surfers! Here is a place for you to see the Koa Wood surfboards I make, and a forum for those who ride waves, involved in the industry of the sport and art of surfing!
© 2009 GREGORY HALL
407-222-9944