Aryeh rips!

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Beautiful day at the beach...trunkin' it in February...88*...

Aryeh was doing some testing on my 74" Mallet, 7'5" Jammer, & 7'10" Hammer surfboard X-over for his new custom SUP...we're gonna build him a Jammer around 6'8"...

http://blog.surfingsports.com/2016/02/grom-sup-ripper.html

[PonoBill]

Darn kids.

[stoneaxe]

Very cool, I love watching the kids surf. Anything goes.

[mrbig]

Rippah! Great to see..

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Cool kid...he rips short boards...long boards...SUPs...wins golf tournaments...loves math...and, his playlist is listenable...;-)
Little buggah isn't even a teenager yet...

[FeralInBaja]

Most of all for a kid that age: look at the style. Can't be taught, some practice at it for years when they realize they have a problem. That kid's born with it.
Feral

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Most of all for a kid that age: look at the style. Can't be taught, some practice at it for years when they realize they have a problem. That kid's born with it.
Feral

Naturally talented for sure...goofy footed Rincon rippah...he's starting to go switch foot...

First time on any of these boards...the smallest ones that I ride, just to get his custom dims right...

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Got Aryeh's new 6'8" Jammer finished up yesterday...came in a hair over 11#...look at the the stoke on that kid's face!
I should have some new footage pretty soon of him ripping it up like never before...

http://blog.surfingsports.com/2016/03/usa-made-custom-sups.html

[eastbound]

warpup ripper!

[mrbig]

We be Jammin' !!!

[PDLSFR]

Is that the new Anti-Shark repellant paint job !!!!

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Is that the new Anti-Shark repellant paint job !!!!

So the symbiotic relationship theory goes with the pilot fish and sharks...;-)

My theory is that I don't eat sharks...so, they don't eat me...;-)

Pic: Pilot fish swimming with an oceanic whitetip shark

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_fish#cite_note-27

The pilot fish is harmless to human beings and is said to taste good, but it is rarely available due to its erratic behavior when caught.

While pilot fish can be seen with all manner of sharks, they prefer accompanying the oceanic whitetip, Carcharhinus longimanus. The pilot fish's relationship with sharks is a mutualist one; the pilot fish gains protection from predators, while the shark gains freedom from parasites. It was often said by sailors that sharks and pilot fish share something like a "close companionship"; there were even tales of this fish following ships which had captured "their" shark for up to six weeks and showing signs of distress in its absence.

Whatever the veracity of such reports, it is extremely rare that a shark will feed on a pilot fish, and smaller pilot fish are frequently observed swimming into sharks' mouths to clean away fragments of food from between their teeth. As Herman Melville put it,

They have nothing of harm to dread,

But liquidly glide on his ghastly flank
Or before his Gorgonian head;
Or lurk in the port of serrated teeth
In white triple tiers of glittering gates,
And there find a haven when peril 's abroad,
An asylum in jaws of the Fates

These observations have led to the pilot fish's distinctive markings being copied for decals supplied as shark protection for surfboards.

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Aryeh's dad sent me some low rez iPhone footage from this afternoon of Aryeh on his baptismal sesh with his new ripper stick...pretty impressive how quick his turns were...

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Here's a much higher resolution edit...Aryeh's first sesh and he's tearing it up...pretty cool moonrise over Santa Barbara as well...