TORTILLA CHIP

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Video by Ariel Willeford of Derek Dunfee riding his Alaia on a fun day in Mexico...
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Derek Dunfee 6'0 Alaia Mexico from Derek Dunfee on Vimeo.

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WE'RE NOT BORED YET...

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Ryan Burch surfs an alaia inspired board
of solid stringerless foam with poplar wood deck
hand shaped and glassed by Jeff Beck
of Nine Lights Surfboards to get an...
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alaia-like ride with
increased paddle-ability.
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30 SOMETHING GROM STOKE

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Copper Dove
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CLOSING IN ON FUN

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Some close-up crops of a sequence of Ryan Burch on the finless Nine Lights open-face-comp-sand experiment inspired by Alaias. The sequence is from the "pretty damn fun" session posted at Hydrodynamica blog.
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The handmade "Fauxlia" is EPS foam with a Poplar wood deck. More info about it at the Nine Lights blog.
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Sequence grabbed from video shot by Matt Shuster.
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RYAN BURCH... CAREFREE VORACITY

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Ryan Burch also did some Alaia riding, pictured above, on the day posted about below. And appropriately hooked up with Richard Kenvin two days ago, in San Diego proper, for a little Alaia session of carefree Tasmanian Devil-like voracity.
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COUNTERCLOCKWISE (A Round Trip Report from Ryan Burch)

Ryan Burch (who can be seen on Alaias here) just got back from a month in the land where screwfoots rule and the johns flush counterclockwise. Here's what he has to share about it:

"I had a great trip. We got a ton of surf on the Alaia boards, and because the waves where so long and clean you could pretty much make the boards do anything. We got to surf one wave where we could actually get barreled on the boards it was insane. At the end of our trip we ran into a couple of Aussie guys that had brought over a bunch of Alaias and a Hot Curl board and a Keko'o which is like an Olo. They where insane boards made buy Sage Joske and his father. All exactly like the ancient boards in Hawaii. They where filming with Nathan Oldfield, and it was a treat to surf with those guys. Here are a couple of shots that I took none of which are me and most of them are on the day after the good days because I was surfing when it was good."



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ON THE COPPER DOVE TRAIL

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Along with the hand made Composite Sandwich boards, The Copper Dove has also been shaping and surfing some beautiful Alaias.
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JONATHAN LIVINGSTON COPPER DOVE

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A lovely little quote from the book, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, "Begin by knowing you have already arrived." Below, Jeff "Copper Dove" Beck travels to the desired destination as he makes his way out on ancient beginnings...
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...and arrives at the highly revered level of Pelecanus occidentalis. When the ancients shaped the first surfboard, did they realize they were building a time machine? Time flies...
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Alaia pictured, shaped by Copper Dove from Wegener paulownia blank.
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