DAN MANN ANSWERS QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS NO BRAINER MODEL Dan Mann is an avant garde surfboard designer and shaper who has recently joined the stable of shapers at Slater Designs. Dan recently took the time to answer some questions about his No Brainer model, covering topics such as fins, sizing, skill level, ideal wave, and more. If you’ve ever considered adding the No Brainer to your quiver, here are some guidelines straight from the man who created the board. Fins: The No Brainer works best with a quad setup, giving you drive and speed through flat sections when you are groveling. Use your favorite template upfront, and then a slightly smaller template for the trailing fins. The reason for this is that the board is pretty narrow up front (compared to Dan’s other boards), so you want slightly less fin in the trailer. If you decide to go with a thruster setup (which is better in the pocket), do the same thing in terms of fin selection—go with your favorite front fins, then use a slightly smaller trailing fin for your middle fin. Here at Hawaiian South Shore, we suggest the Power Twin with Trailer setup for the No Brainer....

The Slater Connection—How Akila Aipa Became a Household Name Akila Aipa was content to quietly create beautiful, custom boards in the Waialua Sugar Mill, without much fanfare or hype. But when you are a master craftsman (and an excellent surfer with an undeniable pedigree, to boot), people will eventually begin to take notice. A few years back, Kelly Slater (which is from the same generation of pro surfers as Akila) asked Akila if he would like to collaborate on a quiver of boards, to see if they couldn’t dial in something special. Akila ended up shaping seven boards for Slater—a handful of thrusters between 5'7" and 5'9", and a 5'5" twin-fin. Slater ended up surfing the boards in a number of events, and putting together amazing performances at Keramas and the Surf Ranch—and just like that, Akila’s name was on the map. From there, things started happening quickly. Demand for Akila’s boards skyrocketed, and suddenly he couldn’t keep up with demand from his small shaping bay in Waialua. He started looking for a larger area to produce boards, and at the same time began dialing in a twin-fin board to add to Slater Design’s quiver of models, produced by Firewire. ...

Helium Hydroshort  California’s Timmy Reyes has been a free surfing fixture for two decades. From his young days as an up-and-coming grom to his current legend status as a feral explorer of frigid barrels, Timmy has been shaping surf culture since he was an adolescent, and his edits continue to get us pumped up to drive a bit farther, pull on some rubber, and have an adventure. As it turns out, Timmy Reyes is influential in the surfboard design realm as well. Timmy got on one of Kelly Slater’s Hydroshorts (made by Tomo) a few years back, built in Firewire’s LFT construction. He connected with the board right off the bat, and ended up having Tomo make him one in Helium construction aswell. Timmy took both down to Baja with him to shoot an edit called Love Letter in Mexico, and had the chance to ride both boards in pumping waves—the perfect way to compare the two construction styles. While both construction styles have their benefits, Timmy felt like the Heliumconstruction just brought the Hydroshort alive—it made it feel livelier and moreresponsive, particularly good waves. The spot he was surfing has strong, consistent offshore winds, which are normally difficult to surf...

The Sci-Fi 2.0 - A New Daniel “Tomo” Thomson Shape With Input From Shane and Jackson Dorian

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The Black Baron JS's First Twin Fin   When JS works on a board for six years, you know it’s going to eventually become a classic. The Black Baron is JS Surfboards first dedicated twin fin, and delivers exactly what you’d hope from a classic design with a modern twist. Released in conjunction with Joel Parkinson’s retirement from tour, the Black Baron is the perfect board for a high-performance surfer looking to expand their quiver and perspective, and fall in love with surfing all over again. The Black Baron is built for fun—and there’s nothing more fun than going fast. It has foam for days, providing ample volume to float through fat sections and rip lined-up walls. The twin fin configuration turns this board into a rocket ship, providing acceleration no matter the section. And the flat rocker up front to veer through the tail adds to the board’s speed without compromising maneuverability.The Black Baron is my personal favorite board for summertime waves at the moment, and everyone I have let try my board loves it as well. Stock dimensions range from 5'2" x 19 ¼" x 2 1/8" to 6'4" x 22" x 3", so just about anyone can...

Kelly Slater's Surfboard Designer      Slater's Surfboard Designer When Kelly Slater calls you up and asks you to design a board for him, you know you have made it as a shaper. However, when Slater rides that board and then decides to add it to the Slater Designs line, you really know you have done something special. That’s exactly what happened to Dann Mann, when his FRK design became the latest in the Slater Designs arsenal. Mann had been around a long time before Slater invited him to join the SD team—in fact, he’s been a master shaper for nearly two decades!  The Coronado-based shaper has been building boards since 1996, under his own label “Mannkine” and for industry leader Channel Islands. He’s also glassed for Rusty, Xanadu, and Joel Tudor. In other words, this guy has credentials. Mann’s reputation really began to develop after the release of some of his early Firewire offerings, which became crowd favorites with the summertime grovel crowd. The Sweet Potato, Baked Potato, and Chumlee are three very different boards with some very similar characteristics—all of which are designed to make them super fun and super-fast. Wide, flat, and round, these boards provide trim...

NOW IN THE NEW MODEL PUDDLE JUMBER HIGH PERFORMANCE!  It's the WORLDS MOST Environmentally Friendly Surfboard Made in the USA. "If you are one of the thousands of surfers that enjoyed the Puddle Jumper Series, the PJHP allows you to take your small wave surfing to the next level."- Matt Biolos NEW LIBTECH PUDDLE JUMPER HP  A mainstay of the …Lost quiver, the Puddle Jumper HP is a revved up, slimmed down variation on the classic Puddle Jumper, designed for high performance surfing. The pulled-in nose and moved-back wide point allow the board to shred like a normal shortboard, but the volume of the Puddle Jumper is still maintained, providing paddle power and speed down the line, particularly when groveling through soft, slower sections. This board is the ultimate marriage of speed and maneuverability, bringing the fun back to summer time shredding with a high-performance groveler that is as fun to ride as it is easy to paddle.

Firewire- "It's one of our best selling small wave boards" Tomo’s EVO is a modern take on the classic double-ender, with a nearly symmetrical nose and tail. A tweaked-out version of the MPH, the EVO has softer design elements and more curve in the template to make it forgiving and maneuverable in the pocket. While the EVO also has a wider center point, allowing it to thrive in smaller, more gutless waves, like most Tomo designs, it also does well in overhead surf. The board’s bottom contours are quite unique, with a “double inside single concave into split quad concave” planing hull that gives the board extra lift and speed. Due to the responsive nature of the board, it becomes incredibly maneuverable as soon as it is put on rail. The EVO is intended to be ridden as small as possible, and is available from 4’8” to 6’4”. Don’t let the short length turn you off— there is a ton of volume packed into these boards, with the 4’8” running nearly 17 liters and the 6’4” topping out at 50 liters! While the EVO is available in all three of Firewire’s proprietary construction styles, we really like the Helium build. The...

This summer and fall seem like they’ve had more tropical storms than ever before—not a week goes by that there isn’t a hurricane bearing down on Hawaii or spinning off the coast of Mexico, or a typhoon running over Guam or the Philippines. All of that tropical storm activity means a lot of interesting swells from unique angles, and this week’s Walaka swell was no exception. The last remnants of the Walaka swell are slowing fading away, but there is already another hurricane churning in the east Pacific, and this one looks like a doozy. Hurricane Sergio is currently sending swell to Southern California, and is expected to double back on itself and send an even bigger pulse of SW swell late next week. With all of this hurricane activity, it can be tempting to start chasing swells full time. Why not score Walaka this week then fly to California for Sergio next week?! Of course, chasing swells like that can be a bit cost prohibitive, especially when you add board bag fees on top of your typical airfare costs. But it appears that United Airlines wants you to chase as many swells as possible, because on October 5, as...

HAWAIIAN SOUTH SHORE ADDS KELLY SLATER AND ROB MACHADO FIREWIRE’S TO ITS QUIVER   Here at Hawaiian South Shore, we like to stay on top of the latest advancements in board design and construction. From carbon rails and memory flex to the most cutting-edge fins in the industry, if it’s high-tech and high-performance, we probably carry it. So, it is a no-brainer that we would want to carry Firewire boards, which have been an industry leader in strength, weight, and sustainability for over a decade. As of June 2018, Firewire surfboards have been added to the Hawaiian South Shore quiver—and we are pretty excited about the models on our rack! Kelly Slater bought into Firewire a couple of years ago, and now produces various Slater Designs with the Firewire technology—including the Cymatic, Gamma, Omni, and Sci-Fi. Numerous world tour surfers have been seen on these boards, including Stu Kennedy and Kelly Slater himself. When it comes to thinking outside the box to develop the latest in high-performance shred sticks, this is about as good as it gets. Rob Machado has also joined the team at Firewire as a shaper/designer and has his own range of boards. His GoFish is a high-tech...

Hey check out this email I just received from Matt Biolos of Lost Surfboards…let me know if your interested, if you are just email me. sales@hawaiiansouthshore.com - David Hey Everyone…spread the word…. We can do them with any Classic MR air spray, or also with The Son Of Cobra resin art…or clear, light and  and white. Glass on twins…FCS2 or Futures, up to you. MARK RICHARDS U.S SHAPING TRIP | ORDER NOW! Feeling that Twin Fin resurgence bubbling up, but not confident enough of proven performance to pull the trigger? Why take a chance, here’s your opportunity to get a custom built Twin Fin with multiple World Title proven performance, hand built from the hands of the world greatest Surfer/Shaper and Four time ASP World Surfing Champion (and only World Champion to shape his own winning boards)   Mark ” MR ” Richards. MR is coming to California in August to shape a limited, signed and numbered,  run of his classic and modern Twin Fins. From his 1978, 1980 and 1982 World beating “Retro Twins” to his always popular, modern ” Super Twin”, ” Mega-Twin” and more, this is an opportunity not to be missed. MRs legendary Retro-80 TwinFin has...