Hello true believers!
I hope all of the readers are doing well and staying safe during this very challenging time worldwide. I know it has personally effected me more than I ever thought it would and will probably change the world forever. In the beginning, surfing was allowed and it was definitely the best release from everything that is going on. Now that is it currently restricted to boat access only (I dont own a boat) I have found myself concentrating on house work and spending time with my wife. After a while, the house is pretty clean and we have found ourselves watching too many Netflix specials..
I had some decompression time last week and started polishing up my quiver and organizing my boardroom area. I thought, “Wow I haven’t posted a blog in almost two weeks… probably not good.” I did some thinking and have a couple queued up so I am fired up to get back to it! I hope you find these posts not only informative but also entertaining in these strange times.. I welcome feedback so let me know what you want to see! Matt@Surf-Station.com
Ok, let’s get to it! Today’s post has an interesting twist to it. Not only is it featuring one of our more tenured employees here at the Station but it is about a copy of an original CI model from the early 2000s. “Little Dave” as he is called with love around the shop joined the team a few years ago as a Flagler grad from Long Island. He is a passionate skater and his surfing has been elevated ten fold since starting at the shop. First he was known for riding retro shapes and longboards was effortless style but recently the lure of the dark side has taken him over and he has been looking into more high performance shapes. Recently ordering a Red Beauty for a day to day shortboard Davey also had an old favorite copied from CI and it turned out great. If you have an old board that you would like copied please let Josh at the shop know and he will do his absolute best to help you out! Josh@Surf-Station.com
surfer- David Smart
height- 5’6″
weight- 150 lbs
Board- CI Surfboards Pod (original model with updated dims, not the Pod Mod)
5’2” X 19.75″ X 2.75″, roughly 30L running Futures EA BlackStix tri fin set
With the serial number and average age of the board available, CI has the uncanny ability to copy your favorite board. Let us know if we can help you copy your favorite stick!
Updated logos and fresh resin tint on the new stick!
words from Davey on his beloved copy of his original Pod:
“My original Pod was a hand me down from a family friend that I got summer before high school (2009). It was more or less my first real surfboard. I’ve had a handful of boards over the years but it’s still my daily driver. It’s not stock dimensions, she thicc. I usually ride it with keel fins and (sometimes)a trailer fin, but it also goes great as a more standard tri-fin. I recently got an exact copy of the board shaped by CI because it’s really that good.”
Dave doing some research late winter on the fresh Pod.
The Pod was one of the first alternate shapes CI came out of with that was geared toward futuristic surfing and aerials but became a global favorite for small waves quite quickly. Wide point forward, moderate amount of rocker and pulled tail almost echoed the RNF from …Lost but with CIs curves and rail volume blended in it could remain a tri-fin vs a twin for a similar turning radius people were used to. I remember watching Kelly shred the heck out of one of these in the Quiksilver Pro in the mid-2000s and wondered what he could be riding. Come to find out he was a big fan of the Pod model and I bet it has influenced his current design thought process you see from Slater Designs today. While we carry the Pod Mod (shorter, wider fatter with a hip) today but the Pod is still currently available as a custom model from CI. I hope you enjoyed this post, and also hope to see everyone in the water sooner rather than later!!
