Photo: Guy Turk
Sort of boards of the week here as Mick Mackie has just paid the golden shores of the USA a visit, and left a trail of boards and serious happy surfers behind. Mick is pretty much focusing on shaping his sidecut fish now because they're incredible boards basically, and he's found a nice niche and rhythm with them (This means the two single fin hull-esque boards I have here are the proverbial hen's teeth now, but more on them at a later date). Mick is basically the reason we branched from surfing books into surfing boards- after trying his sidecut at the recommendation of Andrew Kidman, it was all on. The boards are an incredible ride: fast, flowing, responsive and super functional. Hooked is too mild a term, it was simply a case of wanting to help Mick get these amazing craft from his central NSW hideaway into the hands of the worldwide surfing public who had no idea what they were missing out on. Currently, we have 2 in stock- the pictured 6'6" x 22" x 3" EPS 5 box and a matching 6' version. Although that may seem like a lot of foam, Mick is a master at distributing it where it needs to be and the board feels great under the arm and beyond great in the water. The boards we have are $850 without fins, although we can definitely organise a set of hand crafted quad fins from Nine Lights at a very good price if required. Meanwhile, east coasters should go and check out Glide Surf Co. in New Jersey where Mick shaped a batch of boards including some flex tails, and if our sizes don't work for you Mick did a few for Ryan Lovelace's Trim Surfshop in Santa Barbara in both EPS and Poly construction, sizes 6'4" to 7' if I remember correctly. To enquire about the boards here (or anything else we have) the email is as always info @ foamandfunction.com.
4 comments:
...seems that still there s only 3 persons with the same (modern) fish concept and all doing their own approach: him, M. Daniels and me.
I had a debate couple of years ago after I traveled Japan, with couple of shapers from California, one was, now trendy, B Fowler, about all the hype to be from there, California (not good from other part of US...) and the marketing associated, so sometimes no matter how good, clean and innovative your work could be, there s no room in the "big leagues" or to make a decent living with your product if you are not from coastal mid / South California.
Every few months some of the Japanese mags have a few pages with one of these new hipster shapers and how cool are their boards...so cool because are made there if the same guy with the same work lived in the east coast or in Brazil (that have the big surf industry in the world) nothing would happened
Very true Reverb- shapers making very uninspired iterations of the fish/hull/Tomo whatever seem to suddenly become the next big thing out of the blue largely because of proximity to a decent point break with lots of photographers around. The really interesting stuff is coming from the corners- the Australians are off on their own trip and to my mind are consistently more innovative than 99% of the US shapers. I'm stunned by how conservative surfers here are too, anything slightly off the accepted path of what's cool is looked at like the proverbial turd in the punchbowl.....
...hope that Slater (due to the followers) does not finish knocking out the craft industry; we ll see what he does with Firewire, etc.
Very true Reverb- shapers making very uninspired iterations of the fish
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