What do you prefer when it comes to surfing style?  The radical fast vertical stuff on shortboards? The slow direction moves of traditional longboards? or ??

When asked, my wife will tell you the sport she likes to watch most is surfing. Not sure why,  someday I'll have to ask her... if I can remember. Or maybe I have asked but don't remember her answer.

For me it's all about style. Good surfing is all about looking smooth even if you are doing radical maneuvers... the good surfers make it look easy, effortless, stylish.

One of the things we all wanted to accomplish when surfboards began evolving shorter was riding tight in the pocket. In, around and close to the curl.  It isn't exactly easy to ride tight in the pocket and be stylish at the same time.  The new board model I've been working on is designed for that cool trim and glide type of surfing that can keep you tight and in the pocket. Even though it is a longboard.

I can get so immersed shaping a new design that once the board is completed I don't want to let it go. Which of course is crazy because usually someone has ordered the board and is waiting for it... so I'm obligated.

I've finished 2 Trim and glide Sliders this past week and both have been hard to let go of. Ok, I could make one for myself but I won't, at least for awhile. Why?  Because I'll be starting another new design next month and the first one is going to be mine.

D.R.

The T and G Slider for in the pocket surfing.