May 2011
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The fastest board in the Simon range. A high performance all rounder that’s adaptable to all surfers and all conditions. Featuring low soft rails and a single to double concave for deep carving turns. Ride it with any combination of tails. The 2011 XFC model retains the TSR Rocker, a little flatter in the belly section compared to the previous rocker, with the same overall tail and nose lift. The XFC remains our flagship all around small wave performance board.
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Take pictures at a moments notice and never worry about dropping your camera. The Wrist Pods patent pending design is the ideal solution for those of us who want to take great pictures, but don’t want to sit out of the action! * Easy to use * Waterproof * Easily attaches to any camera * Utilizes a camera’s universal tripod mount * No additional parts or modifications required * Camera not included
Now View Your Surfing In 3D, No 3D TV Required! WE NOW HAVE 3D HERO Systems IN STOCK! It allows you to combine two 1080p HD HERO cameras into a single housing to record 3D video and photos while simultaneously recording in 2D. A synchronization cable plugs into the rear HERO Port on both cameras to join them together, enabling both cameras to record video and photos in perfect synchronization. This is a requirement for professional quality 3D and is available only from GoPro. The included 3D editing software, GoPro Cineform Studio, makes it easy to convert your 3D HERO System footage into viewable 3D files you can watch on your computer, online at sites like YouTube, and on your 2D or 3DTV at home. Features: • Mounting System is compatible with all GoPro accessories. • 3D waterproof housing is rated 180’/60m deep. • Record 3D and 2D video and photo files simultaneously. • Includes FREE easy-to-use 3D editing software—GoPro CineForm Studio. What’s Included: • 3D Waterproof Housing. • 3D Waterproof Door + Skeleton Door • 3D Hero Sync Cable • 3D Anaglyph Glasses (3 pairs) • Helmet Front Mount • 2 Flat + 2 Curved Adhesive Mounts • Assorted Mounting Hardware • FREE GoPro CineForm Studio software GOPRO announced that it has acquired CineForm Inc., a developer of video compression and workflow technology for the professional film and television industry. CineForm is known for its proprietary professional editing codec, which will be incorporated in GoPro systems going forward. “We’re extremely excited to welcome the CineForm team to GoPro,” exclaims Nicholas Woodman, GoPro’s founder and CEO. “CineForm is an industry leader in video codec technology and is
famous in professional circles for their HD and 3D content creation tools. As GoPro is focused on making it easy for consumers to capture professional quality content, we’re eager to incorporate CineForm’s technology and passion into future GoPro products.” According to the release: CineForm is renowned for its CineForm 444 Codec, a professional editing codec that makes HD and 3D editing faster and more convenient without sacrificing image quality. CineForm has produced several award-winning editing applications that exploit the functionality of the CineForm 444 Codec, all of which are compatible with industry leading editing programs including Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer, and Sony Vegas, as well as Apple iMovie and Windows Movie Maker. Moving forward, the codec will be named ‘GoPro CineForm’ to emphasize GoPro’s commitment to developing professional content capture and editing solutions. “Numerous Hollywood feature films including the runaway Oscar winner, Slumdog Millionaire, were captured with CineForm’s codec and edited with their software tools,” says Woodman. “GoPro is in constant pursuit of image quality and CineForm represents a terrific step for us.” The first new GoPro product to incorporate CineForm’s technology is the soon to be released 3D HERO® System, an expansion accessory for
GoPro’s 1080p HD HERO line of cameras. The 3D HERO System allows consumers to combine two 1080p HD HEROs into a single housing to capture synchronized 3D photos and video. A synchronization cable joins the cameras via an expansion port on the back of each camera. GoPro has come out of nowhere to become a leading HD capture solution for professionals wanting to capture new, never before seen perspectives,” says David Newman, CineForm’s co-founder and CTO. “We were very impressed with the 3D HERO System’s ability to rival cameras costing 10 times as much. We’re looking forward to putting CineForm’s content creation tools into more hands than ever before thanks to GoPro’s global brand and distribution.” David Taylor, co-founder and CEO of CineForm adds, “It’s exciting to look out and see how many people, consumers and professionals alike, are using GoPro cameras to create compelling content. As we worked with GoPro over the last year, the more we learned about GoPro’s vision, the more we realized how complementary GoPro and CineForm are to each other. We’re thrilled to join GoPro and to help usher in a new era of accessible professional content capture and creation.” Hawaiian South Shore is your one stop shop to get all of your GoPro accessories! So come in today and let one of our friendly employees help you pick out the perfect camera for you!
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Types of 3D Formats
3D is created by super-imposing two matching yet slightly offset 2D images on top of each other. This creates the illusion of 3D depth. Because of the distance between the human eyes, each eye processes the two images from a slightly different perspective and your brain then combines both images to form a single 3D image. The 3D HERO System captures 3D by filming two separate 2D videos from slightly different perspectives — similarly to how our two human eyes see the world from two slightly different perspectives. Then GoPro Cineform Studio software is used to combine and convert these two slightly offset videos into a single 3D video, just like our brains form a single “view” from our left and right eyes. Once this 3D video or photo file has been created, you can watch it on your computer, online, or on any 2D or 3D TV. Anaglyph Display (commonly seen in Red/Blue): Anaglyph is the old school way to watch 3D content. The left video image is tinted blue and the right video image is tinted red. Both videos are then overlaid on top of each other and when you are wearing red/blue glasses the image will appear 3D. View 3D files in anaglyph formats using red/blue glasses on: Computers, televisions, online at 3D video sharing sites like YouTube, on projectors, mobile phones and in print.
Active Display: Active Shutter TVs use electronic shutter glasses that are synchronized with your TV to only let each eye see one alternating image (left and right) at a time. The left and right images flash so quickly that the human eye is tricked into seeing both left and right images as one 3D image. View 3D files in active formats on: Active 3D televisions using active shutter glasses.
Passive Display: Passive Display TVs display the left and right images at the same time on-screen, but in alternating scan lines. Each image’s scan line is polarized in the opposite direction, so the human eye only sees one image at a time when wearing polarized glasses. This creates the illusion of seeing the 2 images simultaneously in 3D. View 3D files in passive formats on: Passive 3D televisions using passive shutter glasses.
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Simon Anderson Surfboards Not sure if you got a chance to watch the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach. It was awesome to watch the world’s best in perfect waves. Jordy Smith was tearing it apart with his Simon Anderson Surfboard under his feet. Simon has been shaping for the best surfers in the world for years but has never gotten much attention by the public outside of Australia. He has a somewhat of a small but loyal following. The guys that ride his boards know how good they are, and I know how good they are because I have two myself. Come in and check out our fresh batch of Simon’s exclusively at HSS.
Jordy with his Simon during the Rip Curl Bells Contest.
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At 80, Hermosa Beach surfboard pioneer is still shaping a sport
By Douglas Morino
on the municipal pier paying tribute to the laid back beach town’s surfing legends. An induction ceremony welcoming two new members to the exclusive club - Tom Rice and Richard Mobley was held at the base of a pier. Jacobs, who was raised in Hermosa Beach after moving with his parents from West Los Angeles, got his introduction to surfing by catching waves beneath the Manhattan Beach Pier with canvas mats filled with air.
Riding Oahu’s waves
After graduating from Redondo Union High School, Jacobs joined the Coast Guard in 1951 and was stationed on Oahu. He was assigned to a boat that tended buoys, traveling between the islands. “It was a great job - I got each night and weekends off,” Jacobs said. “And I didn’t have to wear a uniform.” Hermosa Beach --Daily Breeze Photo: Legendary South Bay surfboard designer Hap Jacobs, who is a Palos Verdes Estates resident, is back shaping boards at 80. (Robert Casillas).
Hap Jacobs spends a couple of days each week working in a small, two-room studio tucked inside a Hermosa Beach manufacturing lot. The place is easy to miss. Just a single door hidden behind parked cars, among a row of auto repair shops and screen printing studios. It's here, among rows of surfboards and piles of white foam dust, that Jacobs continues to craft long boards by hand - much like he did in the early 1950s and '60s, when surfing's popularity began to soar. "It just took off - the music, the movies," Jacobs said, sliding a metal planer down the rail of a 10-foot foam blank board. "I was just there at the right time." Jacobs, 80, began crafting surfboards nearly six decades ago. Today, his work is credited with helping shape the sport's history. The rise in popularity of the Jacobs Surfboards brand directly correlated with the Golden Age of surfing, marked by short swim trunks, heavy wooden boards, beach party movies and Dick Dale songs. And after a brief hiatus from the shaping bay, Jacobs is back hand-crafting long boards from his Hermosa Beach studio. The Palos Verdes Estates resident was tapped in 2003 as a charter member of the Hermosa Beach Surfer’s Walk of Fame, a series of bronze plaques embedded
When he wasn’t out at sea, Jacobs surfed Makaha on the island’s west side with an A-list crew of surfers - among them, George Downing and Greg Noll, a fellow South Bay native. Jacobs also joined the famed Waikiki Surf Club, met his soon-to-bewife, Patricia, and shaped his first surfboard. His two-year stint in the service completed, Jacobs moved back to the mainland and settled into a small apartment in Hermosa that he rented from his parents with Patricia. Jacobs soon took a job at UCLA as a carpenter’s apprentice. He hated it. “I told the guys at UCLA I was going to quit,” Jacobs said. “I had medical benefits and a retirement, and I told them I wanted to make driftwood furniture and surfboards. They said, “You have to be analyzed. This is a bad idea.” Acting on his word, Jacobs went into business with Bev Morgan, a local diver. Jacobs shaped the surfboards, Morgan designed and manufactured the rubber wetsuits. They called their Redondo Beach store Dive N’ Surf. While most boards were still being made with balsa and redwood, and covered in a crude protective coating of cheesecloth, Jacobs began experimenting with fiberglass and foam. Not only were his boards well designed, they were lighter. “The first boards guys were riding were terrible,” Jacobs said. “They were made from heavy, hollow wood.”
Pooling their talent
He sold his stake in the store in 1953 to Bob and Bill Meistrell, founders of Body Glove, and partnered in 1953 with legendary surfer Dale Velzy. Together, they opened surf shops in Venice and San Clemente, selling hundreds of boards a week. The Velzy-Jacobs brand grew quickly. Velzy, who many consider to be one of surfing's first innovative shapers, died in 2005. "He was making a few boards, I was making a few boards," Jacobs said. "One of us would watch the store while the other would surf. Problem was, we both wanted to surf." So Jacobs opened his own store in 1960 along Pacific Coast Highway in Hermosa Beach. He developed the iconic red-diamond logo - still used by his son, Kent, a shaper in Hawaii. Jacobs had a team of riders and managed a staff of four shapers. Business began to swell. Jacobs was able to grow his brand while many of his competitors struggled to balance surfing and running a business, said Matt Warshaw, a noted surf historian and Manhattan Beach native. “A lot of what made Jacobs was that he had a business head,” said Warshaw, author of the Encyclopedia of Surfing. “He kept it together when a lot of the guys around him just lost it. He was quietly back there making boards, giving everyone the straight deal.” Warshaw said he remembered Jacobs’ cleanly kept shop at 422 Pacific Coast Highway. “It was a nice looking building, it was immaculate,” Warshaw said. “Surfboard shops were kind of ratty, they still are. But Hap’s shop was clean, well-lit and beautiful.” The stretch of Pacific Coast Highway in Hermosa was home to shops owned by Jacobs, Gregg Noll and Dewey Weber. Hermosa Beach had become the center of the booming surf industry. “Hermosa Beach was ground zero,” said Derrick Levy, a Hermosa native who rode for the Jacobs surf team in the early 1970s. “We had at least a dozen surfboard shops here. This really was surf city.” Some weeks, Jacobs would sell more than 115 boards from his store. “Everything started happening,” Jacobs said. “Before, the only people who knew about surfing were people who lived by the beach. People inland didn’t know much about it.”
An industry changes
But the arrival of the new decade would correspond to a sea change in the surf industry. Boards got shorter, narrower and lighter. The leash was invented. The sport's laid-back image portrayed in popular films like "Gidget" was altered by widespread drug use. Inland visitors flocked to once-empty local surf breaks. "It was very black and white," Levy said. "One day the boards were 10 feet long, the next week they were 6 feet long. It attracted more people to surfing, because the equipment before had been so unyielding. It all changed." Moving on the trend and growing frustrated with the direction of the industry, Jacobs sold his stake in the business in 1971 for about $30,000 and entered the commercial fishing trade. He bought a 40-foot swordfish boat, the Patricia J, in Santa Barbara and brought it to King Harbor, where he leased the marina's fuel dock. For 15 years he split time fishing for swordfish off the Southern California coast, selling the catch to markets in San Pedro and restaurants in Avalon, while operating the fuel dock. Then, in 1991, after urging from a friend, Jacobs re-entered the shaping bay. “Didn't miss a beat.” Dennis Jarvis first met Jacobs in the early 1990s, shortly after Jacobs returned to shaping long boards. The founder of Spyder Surfboards taught Jacobs how to shape a "tucked under edge," a now relatively common board feature that increases speed and the board's ability to glide on the face of a wave. “For a man who didn’t pick up a planer in years, it was amazing,” said Jarvis, referring to the hand tool used to craft a surfboard. “When he went back into the shaping room he didn’t miss a beat. His boards were just like they were in the ‘60s.” An 8-foot board made of balsa shaped by Jacobs, more a work of art than a piece of sporting equipment, hangs from a wall in a room in Jarvis’ home. “When you pick up a Hap Jacobs board you can feel the history in it,” said Jarvis, who has been shaping boards for more than 30 years and talks to Jacobs regularly. “Through the years people have tried to copy what he has done, but he’s still doing it.” Continuing reading on next page...
Hap at 80 article continued... Back in his Hermosa shaping studio, Jacobs typically begins a board design using computer software before shaping the final product by hand. Although he doesn’t get in the water as much as he used to, Jacobs continues to fish on his swordfish boat and splits time between homes in Lunada Bay and Hawaii. Jacobs mostly sells his custom-made boards to individual clients. Levy, the former Jacobs team rider, said his influence continues to reverberate through the community that was once the center of the surfing universe and beyond. “He’s an icon,” Levy said. “He’s known around the world.”
Act Fast To Minimize A Stroke's Effects About 6 years ago my parents were visiting me from California with my older sister, Mimi. The day they arrived, my parents wanted to do some shopping so my sister stayed behind and helped out at the store. While she was helping us fold some t-shirts, I noticed she was having a hard time and I told her maybe she was tired. I suggested she go home and get some rest, but before leaving she went to the restroom and came back with muddy shoes which was strange because it was such a nice day. I asked her what happened and it took her several minutes to explain that she walked into the plant area where it was muddy. I noticed she was having a hard time keeping her eyes focused on me and kept saying that she was tired. “Leave me alone and stop asking all the questions,” she said. I had never seen her this way and I called my parents and told them she was acting strange, that she couldn’t talk properly and her eyes were droopy. My parents said the flight was long and she was probably just very tired. “Let her rest and we will be back in a couple of hours,” they said. I had that gut feeling something wasn’t right so I asked her several more questions about how she was feeling and she said, “Let me go home and sleep because I’m tired.” As I was talking to her, I noticed her lips on one side were not moving when she spoke. I called my parents and told them to get here right away and take her in and get her checked by someone. So after several minutes, they came back to the store and took her to the ER. When they got to the ER and after answering some questions, the nurse said she had some kind of a stroke. Well come to find out, she had an aneurysm. I wish I would have known the symptoms, even though everything is pretty much ok today, things could have been much worse. Every year, about 790,000 people in the U.S. have a stroke, according to the National Stroke Association. While strokes can affect anyone, African Americans are more impacted by strokes than any other group in the American population. Strokes can occur suddenly, but if you know the symptoms and how to respond, you can help limit long-term damage. The faster you get medical attention, the better your chances of recovery. If you suddenly experience these six signs of stroke — or see them in a friend — call 911 right away. 1. Sudden vision changes. 2. Numbness, weakness, tingling, or paralysis in your face, arms, or legs, especially on one side of your body. 3. Trouble speaking or understanding simple statements. 4. Confusion. 5. Problems with walking or balance. 6. A severe headache that is different from other headaches you’ve had before. Even if you have one of these symptoms and it goes away, you should see your doctor. It may be a warning that a stroke may happen soon. You can help decrease your risk of stroke by making a few important lifestyle changes: * Don’t smoke. * Maintain a healthy weight. * Manage your cholesterol and blood pressure. * Eat a heart-healthy diet — including lean protein, whole grains, and plenty of produce — and limit alcohol and salt * Aim for 2½ hours of moderate activity each week, or just 30 minutes a day (check with your doctor about the right level of exercise for you).
Surfing Etiquette Pick the right surfing spots for your ability and attitude. We need to be honest with ourselves about our ability, and our intentions. We also need to recognize that some surf zones are not suited to competitive skills-oriented behavior. When it comes to selecting a surf spot for the day's fun, each of us has a responsibility to be aware of where we'll feel most comfortable. Surf spots with hollower, more powerful, high performance wave ranges will almost always feature a higher-skilled and more potentially competitive pack of surfers. Generally at such Hot Zones, the better the surfers' general skills, the more waves will be ridden per surfer, and the more pressure will be on each individual surfer to keep up the pace. On the other end of the spectrum, Cool Zones (surf spots with softer, easier and less critical wave ranges) will usually feature lots of beginners or intermediate surfers, and the vibe in the lineup will be much more relaxed, with considerably less performance pressure on the individual. In between lie a huge variety of spots, many of which aren't particularly fixed in the Hot or Cool Zone, but may instead veer back and forth depending on a given day's wave quality or crowd type. It's important for all of us to recognize that by charging into a lineup for which we're not suited, we're likely to be frustrated and to disrupt others' surfing enjoyment. If you're not a high performance ripper, but just engaging in the early learning process or feeling like a cruisey session, then tackling a Hot Zone will leave you feeling way out of your depth and may even place you or other surfers in danger of injury. If you're a budding hot surfer trying to develop a high skill range and eager to ride with people of a similar intent, then paddling out at a Cool Zone is likely to leave you feeling unsatisfied and your fellow surfers irritated by your competitive attitude. Simply by making a wise choice of location, you'll head off many of surfing's more vexed etiquette decisions at the pass. Don't drop in on or snake your fellow surfer. In other words, do not catch a wave once another surfer has claimed it by being in a deeper or more effective position at takeoff. Dropping in and snaking are the two most common ways in which we blow each other's fun in the surf. Both are usually caused by greed, and involve a ride-crippling interference by one surfer on another. The drop-in happens like this: Surfer A is closest to the curl, paddles into and catches the wave, only to find that Surfer B -- the dropper-in -- has also caught the wave, from further out on the shoulder. Surfer A is then blocked from making a successful ride. The two surfers may collide, accidentally or deliberately, but it's unlikely that either will enjoy the wave to its fullest. At some critical surf spots, Surfers A and/or B may even be placed in physical danger as a result. Drop-ins can and do happen by accident, as well as through frustration and confusion in a crowded lineup. To avoid dropping in, practice the three Ls: Look, Listen, and Learn. Always Look to your inside toward the curl before committing to the wave, just to make sure nobody's already in there. Listen for the common warning - a hoot or whistle from the surfer in position. Learn from your errors - if you drop in, make sure you're off the wave as soon as possible, say sorry, and make sure the other rider's OK before going on with your session. A more subtle, yet potentially more offensive form of ride interference is the snake. This move is very bad etiquette, a greedy exploitation of the generally understood drop-in rule, and is usually practiced by competent and aggressive surfers. Snaking works like this: Surfer A, in position and having waited his or her turn, begins to paddle for the wave. Surfer B (the snake) waits until A's focus is purely on catching the wave, then makes a quick move to the inside and takes off, claiming the wave. If both surfers end up riding, it appears A has dropped in and is in the wrong, yet both surfers, and usually most onlookers, know otherwise. Snaking can be distinguished from dropping in, in that it's rarely accidental. The result, however, is less predictable, and if A is also a competent surfer, bad feelings and even arguments may occur. If you're being snaked repeatedly by a single surfer, don't react -- it's unlikely to be personal. Simply move to another area of the break, putting yourself and the snake out of each other's wave-catching rhythm. If you find yourself being persistently snaked by a range of surfers, you may be sitting too wide of the takeoff to fully claim the wave; paddle deeper and make your intention clearer. Special Note To Beginners: You may occasionally note surfers breaking these drop-in codes, riding around each other, and grinning away in the process -- obviously enjoying the wave share. Very likely they're friends or acquaintances who've taken off on the same wave deliberately, or who're making the best of an accidental drop-in. This should NOT be a signal to you that dropping in is just fine at that particular spot. Parking Lot Etiquette: The next time you pull into that over-crowded parking lot this summer here are a few things to consider. Be aware of other cars that may be double parked with no one inside. This does not mean that if a stall opens up it is yours to take. Sometimes the owner of that car maybe just a few feet away, looking at the waves. Instead, you should make an attempt to locate the owner and ask if he/she wants the stall. If there are cars double parked that is a good indicator that people have been waiting there before you and need a parking stall. It’s like anywhere else when you have to stand in line, cutting in front of others is considered extremely rude. - by www.surfline.com
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SORRY, WE’RE OPEN: SUPER Brand’s first surf movie. Forget helicopters & fancy cameras: this is surfing at its funniest Trailer Now Live; Full Movie in SURFING and STAB in June.
Cardiff, CA, April 21, 2011 – Hey friends. Sorry, We're Open. We decided to make a no-frills movie about surfing. The main subject: fun. We went to some exotic locations and we shot our sessions in 35 and 16 mm film. Dion Agius on his perma-Bali vacation; Ry Craike off his tits in West Oz death pits; Clay Marzo in uncharted Indo and fabulous France. Along with Peru’s Gabriel Villaran, LA’s Dane Zaun, and Bali’s Lee Wilson, the line up makes for a kick in your teeth compilation. We sent the footage to our friend Kai Neville to edit; he said, 'no worries'. Kai put it all together with this soundtrack: kinda noisy, garage-y, dance-able, and FUN. We watched the finished product and got really psyched to go surfing. And so sorry if this film makes you wanna go surfing too. As if you have some other things to do, or something. Hopefully that's not the case, though... Sincerely, Your buds @ SUPER Brand P.S. The DVD of the movie is coming in June to SURFING Magazine and STAB Magazine, included for free with the both issues. A month later, the movie will be available for free viewing online on SUPERbrand’s website. For now, dig the trailer at http://superbranded.com/sorry/. P.P.S. SUPER Brand has partnered with the best surf shops across the US and Australia to host some fun premieres and parties based around “Sorry, We’re Open.” Join us for these preview showings, won’t you? The schedule is available in the blog section at superbranded.com. About SUPER Brand: SUPER Brand Surfboards, founded in 2008 by pro surfers Dion Agius, Clay Marzo, and Ry Craike, is all about progression. By joining a team of young, innovative surfboard designers—the SUPER Brand Shapers’ Collective—with a skate-influenced aesthetic and graphics, SUPERbrand is truly setting new standards of excellence in the surfboard industry. SUPER Brand Surfboards has found an unusual place in the surf atmosphere, carving out an idiom that is at once progressive and stubbornly creative.
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The Turbo Tunnel™ was invented by Bob "The Greek" Bolen. "The Greek", as he is known in the Surfing Industry, started surfing in 1958 and began shaping in 1959. In 1960 he opened a surf shop, known as "Surfboards by the Greek", in Huntington Beach which he owned and operated until 1980. He shut the doors of the shop in the summer of 1980 but never traveled far from the beach he loved or the surfing industry he helped change with his now-famous surfboard shapes such as the Eliminator, the Maui Model, the Liquidator, and the Pickle to name just a few.
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