Bird's Journal
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Bird's Journal
Stanley Pleskunas Extended Interview : FISH
Stanley Pleskunas Extended Interview from the FISH movie. Watch till the end when he shares the epic story of Bird bringing Stevie 5 blanks to get shaped in the late...
Stanley Pleskunas Extended Interview : FISH
Stanley Pleskunas Extended Interview from the FISH movie. Watch till the end when he shares the epic story of Bird bringing Stevie 5 blanks to get shaped in the late...
Who is Eric Huffman By Chris Ahrens
Who is Eric Huffman? There was this guy Bird whom I met decades ago while surfing the La Jolla reefs that he rode with passion, regularity and, often, brilliance. I...
Who is Eric Huffman By Chris Ahrens
Who is Eric Huffman? There was this guy Bird whom I met decades ago while surfing the La Jolla reefs that he rode with passion, regularity and, often, brilliance. I...
The Shed Archives: Bird & Mitsven Talk Surfboards
Bird Huffman & Bob Mitsven Theres been a lot of great moments of surfboard talk in The Shed over the last 11 years. Everyone has passed through the doorway into...
The Shed Archives: Bird & Mitsven Talk Surfboards
Bird Huffman & Bob Mitsven Theres been a lot of great moments of surfboard talk in The Shed over the last 11 years. Everyone has passed through the doorway into...
SURF LESSON: Surfing Etiquette 101
Surf Etiquette 101: How to Maximize Your Learning Experience Learn proper surf etiquette and the unwritten rules of the waves. In 2020, the surfing world experienced a boom that hasn’t...
SURF LESSON: Surfing Etiquette 101
Surf Etiquette 101: How to Maximize Your Learning Experience Learn proper surf etiquette and the unwritten rules of the waves. In 2020, the surfing world experienced a boom that hasn’t...
XGAMES: Eric Bird Huffman Interview
XGAMES: Eric Bird Huffman Interview Collectors exist at different levels of an aesthetic/psychological spectrum. Roughly speaking, their world is broken into thirds — on one end you’ve got the connoisseurs,...
XGAMES: Eric Bird Huffman Interview
XGAMES: Eric Bird Huffman Interview Collectors exist at different levels of an aesthetic/psychological spectrum. Roughly speaking, their world is broken into thirds — on one end you’ve got the connoisseurs,...
The Shed Sessions
Ever wonder what it would look like if todays top pros took some of Bird's favorite boards down and took them out for a ride?
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Newport Beach Edition
When Bird Huffman, of “Bird’s Surf Shed,” was asked to choose some boards from his collection for the punchy beach breaks of Newport Beach, he stuck with a motif of...
Newport Beach Edition
When Bird Huffman, of “Bird’s Surf Shed,” was asked to choose some boards from his collection for the punchy beach breaks of Newport Beach, he stuck with a motif of...
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Ellis Ericson at Malibu on 1972 Stevie Lis Fish
Ellis Ericson Borrows a sacred 1972 Stevie Lis Fish from Birds private reserve. The board was the first one Stevie shaped for Bird and from the looks of it, still...
Ellis Ericson at Malibu on 1972 Stevie Lis Fish
Ellis Ericson Borrows a sacred 1972 Stevie Lis Fish from Birds private reserve. The board was the first one Stevie shaped for Bird and from the looks of it, still...
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Santa Cruz Edition
Watch the boys as they test out four vintage surf-crafts in the waters of Santa Cruz. For Season 2 of Shed Sessions, we’re taking a slightly different approach. Rather...
Santa Cruz Edition
Watch the boys as they test out four vintage surf-crafts in the waters of Santa Cruz. For Season 2 of Shed Sessions, we’re taking a slightly different approach. Rather...
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ALBEE LAYER
Even among the 900 or so boards that line the rafters of the Surf Shed in San Diego, owner Bird Huffman has his favorites. His dearest fish of all –...
ALBEE LAYER
Even among the 900 or so boards that line the rafters of the Surf Shed in San Diego, owner Bird Huffman has his favorites. His dearest fish of all –...