Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Bing Surfboards has joined with Chris Del Moro to produce the BING LOVEBIRD COLAB PROJECT, a promotional film featuring the Bing Lovebird Model and the art and surfing of team rider, Chris Del Moro. This 15-minute short film was created by John Smart and is available to view on YouTube:
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Part 2 -
Andy B
outsideallday.com
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Saturday morning I got up early, dressed quietly, made my lunch, grabbed the dog, slipped quietly into the garage to hook the boat up to the truck, and proceeded to back out into a torrential downpour.
The wind was blowing 50 mph. I pulled back into the garage, turned on the radio, and discovered that the weather would be bad throughout the day.
I went back into the house, quietly undressed, and slipped back into bed. There I cuddled up to my wife’s back, now with a different anticipation, and whispered, “The weather out there is terrible.”
My loving wife of 20 years replied, “Can you believe my stupid husband is out fishing in that?”
I still don’t know if she was joking, but I’ve given up fishing.
Author unknown.
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
My brother picked up this Bing and headed north for some early fall surf. We will give a review after a few sessions on this beauty. Enjoy the pics.
Matt Smart
Outside All Day
Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Work has been just that.
Between meetings, prepping for meetings, and following up on meetings it has been a struggle to find energy and time to get the workouts in.
Scott Tinley’s Extreme Mountain Bike Tri is nearing a month from game time. If you haven’t signed up yet you should seriously consider it. There are a bunch of fun races for all of us (”King of the Hill”- Sprint & Extreme Mountain Bike Hill Climb On-Road Triathlons - International Distance* or Sprint Distance Off-Road Triathlons - Sprint Distance Tri-Cal Kids Triathlons) and the Tri-California crew - that brings us Wildflower is polished and able to provide a much more personal event. So I propose that those of us that won’t be at Incline Village, NV that first weekend in October meet-up in San Luis Obispo and have Tinley with the Eternal Timing System decide who is fastest.
Last year I went 2:01. A PR, being that it was my first race at that distance. This past week I have been slipping the training in and I’m mighty glad considering that I am now on for the Big Sur Half Marathon. My wife registered in the last two weeks with a bunch of her friends and has been trying to coax me into it. Tinley’s races are on October 4 and 5 and with Big Sur 1/2 on November 9 I have added another date onto my racing schedule.
Having gone to Cal Poly and spent hours driving miles across the coastal roads of the Central Coast looking for surf and camp spots I have added motivation for these races. I love being up there. Lake Lopez used by Tri-California for the race is where my Aunt windsurfs when the wind is up and where I fell back in love with triathlons last year. Big Sur has always been a place mentioned with reverence.
I started racing tri’s in junior high and had some good age group finishes throughout early high school before I burned out on it. Not sure if it was the speedo jokes from the guys I played beach volleyball with or the 30-year-old bike nerds that spent $6,000 on a bike and would fly past me age 14 after I had left them in the ocean. Either way, road tri’s weren’t for me. That has been the joy with mountain bike tri’s. A good swim, a challenging course requiring more than some training and a big budget, and a off-road run that takes everything.
Tomorrow we will be booking our hotel room in Pacific Grove for November 8 and 9 as the rooms must be almost gone. Everything I have heard pegs this as an amazing Fall race in Monterey. I am looking forward to running along Cannery Row and then staring off to sea and Monterey Bay. The 1/2 Marathon is nearing 70% capacity so don’t wait long to register.
Matt Smart
Outside All Day
Monday, August 11th, 2008
On Friday after work I headed down to Marine Street without my watch or running shoes. I put in a soft sand/hard pack run down to the Hermosa Pier through the middle of the US Lifeguarding Association National Championships. It was a run for fun and for Tinley’s Extreme Tri which is held in October. Back at Marine I grabbed my Jacobs and paddled into the warm summer surf. Small summer surf. Very small summer surf.
Without waves to occupy my mind I started thinking about an article I had just read. It appeared in a popular pub and was about a surfboard shaper here in California. The article was well written and I am not going to cancel my subscription but it gave a lot of credit to a guy who doesn’t hold a candle, in my opinion, to numerous guys shaping today - most notably Matt Calvani of Bing and Jacobs surfboard fame.
I maybe biased because I ride the boards he shapes for Bing Surf and Jacobs Surf (bias report - I am counted as a team rider) but I am sure there are a legion of guys and girls across the world that would agree. This guy who got the magazine article has an amazing company behind him and has surrounded himself with greatness. But it doesn’t extend to the those things that float and you can ride breakers on. So this is an invitation to meet a true surf legend - Bing Copeland at his book signing for “Bing Surfboards — Fifty Years of Craftsmanship and Innovation”.
Bing Surfboards is one of the longest-running and most progressive labels in the surfing world and its boards are still exclusively handcrafted in California. Its founder, Bing Copeland, played a major role in making surfing and the surfboard industry what they are today. At 13, he started helping out at pioneer surfboard maker Dale Velzy’s workshop in Manhattan Beach. During the mid-1950s he surfed the big waves of Oahu’s North Shore and Makaha in Hawaii in-front of the camera of Bruce Brown. In 1958 he sailed across the Pacific and introduced modern surfboards to New Zealand. By 1959, back in Southern California, he began making surfboards commercially. Bing has written his own book about, the business he built, the colorful cast of craftsmen he employed and the visionary surfboards they made and continue to make to this day.
August 23 4-8pm: Surfing Heritage Museum (San Clemente, CA) *Tickets required*
August 25 5-7pm: Bob’s Mission Surf Shop (Mission Beach, CA)
August 28 5-7pm: Foam, Fins and Fiberglass (Ventura, CA)
August 29 4-7 pm: Mollusk Surf Shop (Venice, CA)
August 30 4-7pm: Just Longboards (Hermosa Beach, CA)
September 4 4-6pm: Mitch’s Surf Shop (Solana Beach, CA)
September 4-5 10am-12pm/2-4pm: ASR Tradeshow (San Diego Convention Center, CA) *Passes required*
September 7 (TBD): Icons of Surf (San Clemente, CA)
Matt Smart
OutsideAllDay
Monday, August 11th, 2008
Matt Walls at Body Glove supplied the following to recap the Molokai race. Many thanks and Congrats to Matt from OutsideAllDay.
As you probably know by now we all finished the 2008 Molokai race and we all had a blast. Here is my recap of our trip.
Roebee, Iggy, Jon Loren, Kyle Daniels, and I all rented this killer house in Hawaii Kai right next to the finish of the race. We had a dock off of the back of the house so we could paddle right up to the house. Most of us got to the house Monday July 21st. We spent the next few days driving Roebee to Starbucks every few hours, picking up paddle boards at the docks, picking up people at the airport, and trying to tie up the final loose ends before the race.
The Hawaiian Paddling community welcomed us with open arms. Everyone over there was so nice and helpful to us. Keoni Watson and Mike Cote were insane. Keoni spent hours with us going over charts, tides and race strategies. Mike Cote spent tons of time helping us with anything we needed. He put together two separate groups of people for us to paddle with. The first group, which was made up of his son, Mikey and his friends, showed us the fast way through the last 5 miles of the course. Mikey went on to win the stock class of the race. He is so fast in the bump. The second group was made up of legendary watermen from that side of the island. They showed us their favorite down wind run that they do all the time. Mike also hooked me up with my escort boat and crew. I can not thank Mike enough.
There it is 6 hours 37minutes. 32 miles. 3rd place 40+ Stock. 2 years of training. 6 friends. Tons of laughs and enough memories to last a life time. Thanks guys for an amazing trip. Thanks Joe Bark for the great board for the race. Thanks Body Glove for giving me the time off to train and race. And most of all thank you to my family for all of the love and support they give me so I chase my dreams.
Friday, July 25th, 2008
This Sunday, July 27 on the island of Molokai ocean paddlers will embark for Oahu. This 32-mile rough water race across the Kaiwi Channel that separates the Hawaiian islands of Molokai and Oahu, from Kaluakoi to Koko Head, is one of the top two paddling events in the world. This year will be the 12th Annual running of the QuiksilverEdition Molokai to Oahu Paddle Board Race.
The update that follows outlines how three of my friends are prepping for one of the most grueling races held in the ocean. It is written by Body Glove wetsuit staffer and South Bay ripper Matt Walls (photo courtesy of Body Glove).
Just wanted to drop a line from the Donkey House (our local South Bay, paddleboard crew) here in Hawaii Kai. We have been here for a few days now and are having a blast. Kyle and my trip started out great by volunteering to get bumped off our first two flights to Hawaii and we received $1400.00 each in travel vouchers and upgraded to first class on our third flight. Good times.
Our house is beautiful. It is right on the water in a lagoon right behind the finish line. We have a dock on the back of the house and the finish line is about a few hundred yard paddle away. We did a finish line paddle two days ago. We got dropped off at sandy beach and paddle to the finish line. It is about 5 miles. The first few miles were so rough that it was really hard to even stay on your board. We learned a new paddle boarding term on that paddle,” alligator wrestling”. The next part felt a little better because the waves were only coming at you from 3 sides. After that it started to clean up. We paddled yesterday for a little while and caught some waves. It has been really windy and rainy but we have managed to have fun. We watch the Tour de France a few times a day, Roebee goes to Starbucks about every other hour and then we watch all of Kyles motivation movies that he brought. Today we are watching a documentary on Bruce Lee. Yesterday’s motivational movie was “Road to Paris” a documentary on Lance Armstrong’s battle to winning the Tour De France.
Kyle Daniels in training - courtesy of BarkOcean.com
We checked into the race last night and picked up our race numbers and jerseys. We will do our last paddle today, a three mile down wind run. The paddlers over here have been super helpful in showing us their routes and giving us tons of helpful hints to help us out during the race. The forecast for the race is supposed to be really good. Really windy with some pretty good sized waves. Hopefully it is fast.
Tomorrow we fly over to Molokai.
Many thanks to Matt Walls for providing the update.
Matt Smart
outsideallday contributor
Saturday, June 7th, 2008
On Saturday June 21, I will be teaming up with a few friends to compete in the Gaviota OCR. I am really looking forward to this. With this in mind I went out for a sample 7.5 mile run yesterday afternoon. I am stoked with the results - 2:15 quarters for a final time of 1h 7m. I hope I will be ready. This race is a bear - check it out: Ocean Paddleboard 9.5 miles from Refugio to Haskells. Beach Run 26 miles from Haskells to Hendry’s up Jesusita & Tunnel Canyons to Cumbre Peak. Mountain Bike 35 miles across the Ridge to Broadcast Peak and back to Refugio Beach. So this week I will be ordering up some Motor Tabs and Fluid. Let me know if you want to join in on the race. Would love to add you to the list. Oh, and no entry fee.
matt smart
outsideallday contributor
Sunday, April 6th, 2008
It’s a little slow but certainly worth watching.
Andy B
outsideallday.com
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