Makin stuff n' using it.

nice

30 Days without Surfing from Driftwood Collective on Vimeo.

Part time Pros

Killer footage, dangerously stylish budgie smugglers, ESPN style instant replays. Bodysurfing has gone pro...part time.

Danny Hess making Handplanes Fullstop

Hess shaving wood. I saw a few of these when bumming around the States last year...super light, lithe, proportioned..they look good, and things that look good tend to go good....but they were alot bigger than I expected..I've never used a handplane that big.. must be a pain in the ass to swim with.. I'd probably just mount it on the wall and tell lies about the monster waves I caught with it.


from Mollusk Surf Shop on Vimeo.

The Dunlop Hand Surfa - retro plastic

Not that they know it, but this is courtesy of the Surf City exhibition on at the muesum of Sydney at the moment. Surf City: Getting Radical in the 50's, 60's and 70's

Handplane Tree

Make someone a handplane for Christmas

Or you could could get one from Thomas off his Handplane tree.

Thomas Bexton makes sweet logs and sweet handplanes.

asymmetrical handplanes

These look SIIIIIIICK.
go get one at Almond Surfboards.. Someone tell me how they go.

gonna have to make one..wheres me plywood?

Handplanes - The Wegener Brothers

Jon in California



Tom in Queensland


So you have these brothers, one on one side, the other on the other side, both doing really similar stuff, pushing the use of wood, both a part of the alaias return to the water, and it seems churning out the odd hand plane, I'm sure if you called, they'd be able to make you one..

...And in the true handplane tradition, the buzz about making your own is also allowed, accepted and encouraged.. Jon with Cyrus Sutton will also sell you a little pack with paulownia which is here if you want one...And theres even a little instructional video... go have go. no excuses now.
Yes, you can just rip down a fence post, cut up old furniture, or steal mcdonalds trays, but sometimes, you wanna do things right.. and that means a nice hunk of wood. worth doing, worth doing right.

Handplanes -Ventana Surf, Santa Cruz

Theres so many epic handplane makers out there these days and I'll have to try them all eventually.

Ran across these the other day though, bueeewwwwwwwdiful.. dig that woodwork

By Ventana Surf Co, Santa Cruz

They have lots more on their site. go have a gander

Handplane to Rivermouth - a little film...

"The idea is simple. To use as little energy as possible to ride waves in a new way."









A film about handplanes and people and waves and a place in England and people and handplanes.

Drift surfing did a feature article on it....

Stranger Mag said some nice things about it.

...and it was shown recently at the London Surf film festival held this month where "Stoked and Broke" and "Come Hell or High Water" both had their UK debuts...



All content, ideas and thoughts expressed in this piece were borrowed, stolen or otherwise appropriated.

Big Wave Body Surfing >>DUNGEONS

DUNGEONS.. Scary.. big ugly unyielding waves, sharky, cold....all the best things that Cape Town has to offer.

Most people shit themselves at the sight of it.

Robin Möhr bodysurfs it with a hand gun.




An epic account worth reading.

Hand Guns At Dawn....




(Robin at Cape Towns Sunset reef)

How to make a Handplane -Deux

Go make your own.

This little video is from a bunch of creative woodworking frenchies from Hidden Wood out of Anglet on the south west French coast... pumping out alias, handplanes and other sliding devices..



If you are from the US, this video might be blocked...the mangy bastards have blocked it because of the song used in the clip
try this link instead...
orr...this one... Can someone in the US let me know if that worked?




where is Anglet? Have a look...even better, go there...one of the great surf regions.. epic waves, epic food, epic people. and breadbaskets full of bodysurfers... you could even take a non surfing missus and she'll be happy as hell... who'd say no to a trip to the french sea side?

The Bondi Warrior>>

Just look at that custom ply...


Theived from Uge at aquabumps. Go check out Aquabumps.

2011 Redwing handboarding championships

2011 Redwings Memorial events have been run and won.

wrap up

Some photos... get jealous.

Results..

...from 2009
Day1 -Part 1


Day1 -Part2



Day2

How to make a Handplane

Want to see a master at work?

ok.

Thomas Bexton, the bearded waveslider of the north...


Thomas Surfboards from Bird Man Media on Vimeo.


Water is still 20 degrees..... the swell is dropping...time to put the boards away... time to womp ...

The Double Hander

More homemade Handplane action..

In a brave and adventurous leap forward in handplane design...the man who gave the world the Dual Fireball Handpods now brings the double hander to life.

From the plywood kingdom of Billyboarder....www.deluxepaipo.com


Its time to rip down a fence post and hit the water.

Home Made Hand Planes

Ode to a handboard.

Bravo.

My hand boards from GotSurf.ca on Vimeo.

:::Spotted:::

In the deep south of Sydney lies a beach called Bondi.

Snapped by the chronicler of these parts, Eugene of Aquabumps...

...a bodysurfer and his plywood.


Go see www.aquabumps.com... there are also recent photos of Slater who was in town sampling some local sydney 6-8ft slabs last week.

I can’t remember the last time I was on a surfboard....

Intercourse With the Ocean

Words: Johnny Knapp

I can’t remember the last time I was on a surfboard. There have been waves, but none of my boards have left the corner in which they lean. Spiders have even taken to weaving a web that utilizes their dormant position.

My friends admitted that they are starting to worry about my absence from surfing. Because for some time now all I go to the beach with is a pair of swim fins and a piece of wood.

It all started when I tried a handplane,as they’re called, that belonged to a friend. I was always curious about them but never really gave it too much thought. I didn’t think it could be that different than the regular whopping of body surfing the shore break. Contrary to what I thought, I soon experienced a ride unique to anything I had experienced before. As vivid as my first ride was on a stand up surfboard, my first body surfing encounter with such a tool is equally ingrained. As the wave rose out of the ocean and across the sand bar, I managed to kick into it and glide across the face as one would on a board, in proper position the whole ride. Riding in the curl, the critical sections of the wave, never straying too far ahead.

Since that moment, I have dedicated myself to what I like to refer to as having intercourse with the ocean. There is a certain sensation that comes from skimming across the surface of the ocean with the water rushing across your body. The buffer of the surfboard as been removed. The ocean and your body are parallel to one another, becoming one during the act. There is a transfer of energy between the two, both feeding off one another. Through this developed energy, pleasure is received. The body’s sensory mechanisms are overloaded by what is happening in that brief and intense moment of the ride. Jolted, thrusted, and twisted into parts of the wave not seen or ridden by boards, it takes a special medium such as the body to get there.

The whole key to the gig is to have the eyes wide open during the whole ride. Even until the moment when the lip dumps upon you, the eyes must be open–alert to what is going on all around. It’s about the view. The lip is projected in the form of an aquatic cathedral with the curtain closing in, shimmering with light from the outside world. Droplets of water, though moving fast, appear to be in slow motion as time decelerates: an intimate moment with nature veiled under the cover of the lip. The ride climaxes with a tumble down to the ocean floor, bouncing up and gasping for air, wide-eyed and alive.

For now I’ve seem to have lost all desire to do a turn. Slashing and gashing the water seems like such rude thing to do to so a beautiful lady. Today I’d rather lie down and make love to her, face to face, touching one another in the glory of the moment.

All from the beautiful online surf magazine.. Driftsurfing.com ... all rights are theirs.

Driftsurfing.com
or
Driftsurfing.eu

>>>Measuring Stick II>>>

Go see the madness of Eef

www.monsterboardsorg.blogspot.com

Eef is a happy handplaner

Eef is a plywood magician

Eef wins regularly

::Gettin Started::

It starts...

The idea is to keep it small....keep it cheap...$5 hunk of offcut ply.....start with a thick piece so a deep concave can be carved into the tail... nice flat and round up front with rounded soft rails, all bite kept in the rear.
..it'll probably fail...its going to be fun finding out..