Chemistry Surfboards

Phonte and 9th Wonder. They are not back working together but Phonte shared this old unreleased track on his SwiftFM page. Continue reading

Lately the crew has been testing a technology that is relatively new in the U.S. but has been around for a while in it’s country of origin, Brazil. Keahana Technology takes an EPS blank designed and manufactured by Keahana that is glued up with a special goldenrod stringer and then it is laminated with their patented process or “kit” as they call it. Continue reading

Cheyne Magnusson and a few friends saw a swell on the charts and decided to pack it up and head south of the border. Looks like they got some good ones.
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While you wait for Game’s fourth LP, The R.E.D. Album, to maybe one day drop, enjoy another free double mixtape entitled Purp & Patron. The tape, which you can stream below, was hosted by hip-hop legend Funkmaster Flex and Game’s long-time collaborator, DJ Skee.
Is it worth sharing? I’m going to bump it at the office as a test.
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Over the past 4 years I have been experimenting with all kinds of different concaves and rockers for my high performance boards. I’ve gone from super deep to slight concaves, and boards that have a ton of rocker to boards that have more relaxed rockers. I’m always searching for a perfect match between these two elements of surfboard design. I believe these two things make a board work amazing or absolutely horrible. I was stuck in a period where all I was doing was deep concaves and it seemed that was where everybody was headed and most of our customers where asking for it. I was making myself these designs and kept feeling the boards to be very inconsistent.
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A lot of people may not know who Xzibit was before he started making money pimpin’ rides on MTV. He actually was a really tight artist and member of the Alkoholic family.
I’m bringing it back to the west coast this week and the year is 1996. “Paparazzi” was one of the best tracks on Xzibit’s debut album “At the Speed of Life”, way before Lady Gaga’s stupid pop hit.
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Blacks Beach, California is a nudist beach. But if you go there hoping for the odd glimpse of a supple teat or well-maintained gluteus, think again. According to photog Jimmy Wilson, “Blacks is a nude beach, which might sound cool but it isn’t. Never would you see a smokin’ hot girl laying out naked. Typically it’s weirdo old dudes who prance around with their wangs flopping. Completely heinous.” Heinous indeed, but the beach sure makes for a smooth photo setting.
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The other night Stones Throw producer DJ J Rocc paid a visit to the BBC Radio 1 show to play a set and he ended up playing a snippet of a Black Star record produced by Madlib. Could this mean we will see Black Star in 2011? I hope so, the world needs Mos Def and Talib Kweli together again.
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PJ Raia has been in California for over a week now before he ventures off to Hawaii. Here is some footage called “One Session in Waist High Newport”. Looks like pretty fun waves but the swell we got didn’t live up to its hype in most places. Hopefully more to come.
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On Tuesday 18 surfers from Half Moon Bay made the paddle out to Mavericks as a building northwest swell began to hit the reef under sunny skies and windy conditions, all of them surfing for an opportunity to represent one of the two HMB local slots next to Ion Banner in the upcoming trials heat on contest day. Positive vibes and excited surfers filled the room at the pre-session meeting with Mavericks just a birds-eye view away in the distance. The details were set and everyone was frothing to see what Mother Nature would deliver on the reef out at Pillar Point. The swell was already showing at the outer buoy, 14 feet at 19 seconds, so we knew it was on.
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