I’ve always enjoyed riding new surfboards for the first time. There’s nothing better then preparing your new board for it’s maiden voyage. Most of the time the preparation begins after purchasing you board from one of your local surf shops. Then you get down to it,  you know, applying wax, trac-pads, fins, and leash, all that good stuff. But, if you’ve ever had a chance to design something custom with a board builder, then the preparation starts well before pulling the board off the rack.

I got together with Brian Heritage and designed the Hawk. We talked over what I wanted out of the board, what traits I liked from boards that had proven to work well before, and he put it all together on a block of foam before my eyes. We sent it over to Brian Wynn and had the stick glassed an in the water in under two weeks time.. I’m not gonna tell you to much more now, but check the frame grabs from the upcoming webisode thats in the works for a top secret web page launch coming this spring..