Here's the full transcripted interview from part one of 'Skip School: Life lesssons with Mr Frye:http://mollusksurfshop.com/2010/02/skip-school-life-lessons-with-mr-frye/" That board's got lift in the nose most of these are Simmonses this is a twin fin Simmons and this is a singlefin, this is Dave Sweet and ah Buzzy Trent, malibu, ( John Mollusk: that's Buzzy Trent ? ) yeah, ( John Mollusk: That's great ! ) yeah, young Buzzy Trent, teenage Buzzy Trent, you know I dunno how old he was but, I just really like that shot, the board's just slicing across the wave, afternoon at Malibu look how glassy it is, the sun's on the back. I stopped there for a second.You know I was influenced, influenced probably by Edwards as much as anybody, Hynson, you know Hynson I grew up with Hynson, I think Phil Edwards had probably as much influence in a lot of ways you know, just his kind of philosophy, of you know surfing you know. And it all came from the guys that mentored him, you know, Joe Quigg, Kivlin, Simmons. And I never really thought about it when I was young but as I got older, and just my, love of surfing, I wanted to ah expand my knowledge of who was in front of me you know, like the board design, and you know ah like I said Edwards was really an influence, and then who influenced him and right up the tree you know "This mindless name dropping ramble of Frye's does not qualify as a 'life lesson'. It's just an affirmation of the Californian old boy buddy network which has had a stranglehold on the surfing for the past 60 years. In the video Frye appears to struggle to remember the obligatory list of names in his area of the surftech 'shaper's tree', but eventually manages to recall a few of them. Calling this moronic ramble a 'life lesson' is an insult to surfers, and publishing it as such is typical of the arrogance and complacency of the surf industry cartel. Of course the majority of the gullible surfing public accept this sort of dribble without complaint, as they have all sold their minds and souls for places, however lowly and ingominious they are, as the bottom feeding consumers of the toxic surf industry hierarchy.The surftech shaper's tree was invented in order to propagate the myth that all surfboard shaping knowledge has been passed down from mentor to student, and to establish a list of all supposedly legitimate shapers which is controlled by the Californian old boy network.It's a fascist regime which allows no dissent or discord, with a carefully sanitised corporate facade designed to keep the consumer unaware that the 'variety' in their menu is all just the same potato served different ways.As part 2 of this series will show, there's really nothing intelligent behind the mask. In reality there's an abysmal lack of intelligence and hydrodynamic knowledge, married to a tired and worn out decree of what surfing is supposed to be and how one is supposed to feel about it..
Skip Frye interview with John Mollusk: the shaper's tree myth
Here's the full transcripted interview from part one of 'Skip School: Life lesssons with Mr Frye:http://mollusksurfshop.com/2010/02/skip-school-life-lessons-with-mr-frye/" That board's got lift in the nose most of these are Simmonses this is a twin fin Simmons and this is a singlefin, this is Dave Sweet and ah Buzzy Trent, malibu, ( John Mollusk: that's Buzzy Trent ? ) yeah, ( John Mollusk: That's great ! ) yeah, young Buzzy Trent, teenage Buzzy Trent, you know I dunno how old he was but, I just really like that shot, the board's just slicing across the wave, afternoon at Malibu look how glassy it is, the sun's on the back. I stopped there for a second.You know I was influenced, influenced probably by Edwards as much as anybody, Hynson, you know Hynson I grew up with Hynson, I think Phil Edwards had probably as much influence in a lot of ways you know, just his kind of philosophy, of you know surfing you know. And it all came from the guys that mentored him, you know, Joe Quigg, Kivlin, Simmons. And I never really thought about it when I was young but as I got older, and just my, love of surfing, I wanted to ah expand my knowledge of who was in front of me you know, like the board design, and you know ah like I said Edwards was really an influence, and then who influenced him and right up the tree you know "This mindless name dropping ramble of Frye's does not qualify as a 'life lesson'. It's just an affirmation of the Californian old boy buddy network which has had a stranglehold on the surfing for the past 60 years. In the video Frye appears to struggle to remember the obligatory list of names in his area of the surftech 'shaper's tree', but eventually manages to recall a few of them. Calling this moronic ramble a 'life lesson' is an insult to surfers, and publishing it as such is typical of the arrogance and complacency of the surf industry cartel. Of course the majority of the gullible surfing public accept this sort of dribble without complaint, as they have all sold their minds and souls for places, however lowly and ingominious they are, as the bottom feeding consumers of the toxic surf industry hierarchy.The surftech shaper's tree was invented in order to propagate the myth that all surfboard shaping knowledge has been passed down from mentor to student, and to establish a list of all supposedly legitimate shapers which is controlled by the Californian old boy network.It's a fascist regime which allows no dissent or discord, with a carefully sanitised corporate facade designed to keep the consumer unaware that the 'variety' in their menu is all just the same potato served different ways.As part 2 of this series will show, there's really nothing intelligent behind the mask. In reality there's an abysmal lack of intelligence and hydrodynamic knowledge, married to a tired and worn out decree of what surfing is supposed to be and how one is supposed to feel about it..
