SHED SESSIONS: SAN FRANCISCO
San Francisco is cold, sharky and is known more for its food and colorful neighborhoods more than its waves. Bird selects a few hearty boards to handle the cold juice or Northern Californias finest city.
San Francisco is cold, sharky and is known more for its food and colorful neighborhoods more than its waves. Bird selects a few hearty boards to handle the cold juice or Northern Californias finest city.
Dylan Graves has proven himself a glass-half-full kind of guy. Over several installments of Graves’s “Weird Waves” series, we’ve seen the Puerto Rico-bred surfer greet everything from barely rideable Arctic glacier pulses to Pacific Northwest standing waves with the sort of enthusiasm typically reserved for head-high-and-pumping.
He froths on weird waves, it’s clear. But what about weird boards?
In the latest installment of Shed Sessions, Graves’s brio for the bizarre meets a formidable challenger in a 70s-era Stanley Pleskunas single-fin with inlay flex deck. Handpicked for Graves by Bird’s Surf Shed patriarch “Bird” Huffman, the board–which features a rolled bottom, wide-based, glassed-in fin pushed back toward the tail, and a soft-deck meant to allow the board to flex and twist in imaginative ways–is truly otherworldly, a seemingly perfect foil for surfer bent on locating the outermost limits of pure fun.
Original Post: May 29, 2018
“Everything rides,” says Bird Huffman of Bird’s Surf Shed. “You should expand your surfing horizons and capabilities.” “Everything Rides” should maybe take over the “Ride Anything” moniker for our zeitgeist of board experimentation. Way cooler of a phrase. And hey, Bird gets it. One look at the smorgasbord of surfboards in the Shed tells you that. Speaking of which, for this episode of Shed Sessions, Bird picked about as random an assortments of boards as you could imagine, most of which are from North County, San Diego shapers. A bonzer from Leucadia wizard Gary Hanel. A progressive late ’60s single fin log from Don Hansen. A squirty little 5’2″ fish from Sunset Surf Shop’s Ed Wright. Even tossed in a flex-tail thingie as a non-North County wildcard from Allan Gibbons, a legendary figure who ghost shaped for Al Merrick for a long time, just to throw an even odder board into the mix. We sent Joel Tudor, Derrick Disney, Jake Marshall, and Duran Barr out to put ’em through their paces. Bird was right. Everything does ride. Here’s the quiver for this episode: Gary Hanel Bonzer 6’3″ x 19 1/2″ x 2 5/8″ Don Hansen “Hustler” 9’6″ x 22 3/4″ x 3 1/8″ Sunset Fish 5’2″ x 21″ x 2 3/4″ Alan Gibbons “Reflex”: 6’0″ x 19 1/2″ x 2 1/2″
One of our favorite Shed Sessions ever. Watch the legendary Matt Archbold and Taylor Knox take apart Lowers on two 25 year old boards from the Sheds library of boards. Some of the turns on the old Frye fish are among the best you will ever see.
posted originally on Dec. 19th 2016
Bird Huffman and the SHED SESSIONS – Pat, Dane, and Tanner Gudauskas put on a clinic at fun Lower Trestles on some of Birds private stash. Originally posted by Surfer Magazine December 18th 2016