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ep. #53 - Michael Stewart went to Indo with Pacha Light to plant Sea Trees Mar 27, 2020

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Sustainable Surf is recognized most easily among surfers for its ECOBOARD program - a standard for Surfboard Builders seeking to lower the toxicity of their surfboard building operations.

Since 2014 Firewire has been the only global surfboard manufacturer to qualify all of our surfboard production for ECOBOARD Verification, and we encourage all surfboard brands to collaborate with Sustainable Surf to do the same - the presence of the ECOBOARD lamination on any surfboard means it's carbon footprint is approximately 30 lbs less than a board made from traditional materials.

The ECOBOARD program however is just one of many programs they run. Today we discuss Sea Trees.

ep. #52 - Kelly Slater and Timmy Reyes on the Sci - Fi 2.0 Mar 26, 2020

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Timmy Reyes was in bed at Ten O' Clock when the phone rang.

It was Kelly Slater. 'Where you at?" he asked, with an immediate ask of Timmy, to take place the next morning.

Five hours later Timmy woke up with a Sci – Fi 2.0 in his truck, driving north from Huntington Beach to Lemoore where he met Kelly, who also had a Sci – Fi 2.0, along with some other assorted goodies for both him and Timmy to try.

This episode of The Wire Podcast comes with heavy visuals of both Timmy and Kelly riding the Sci-Fi 2.0 at California's best point break.

You can watch and listen above, or find this episode wherever you listen to podcasts, for example iTunes and Spotify.

ep. #51 - Shane Dorian on Jackson, Tomo, Big Waves, and more. Mar 12, 2020

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Welcome to Kelly's house on the North Shore of Oahu with Shane Dorian - describing his upbringing in entertaining ways as well as how surfboard designers and shapers impacted his life and career before material and design innovations began to impact his son Jackson through Jackson's relationship with Daniel Thomson, a relationship that influenced the Sci - Fi 2.0, along with input from other Slater Designs team riders, the details of which we discuss in this episode along with much more. Enjoy.

ep. #50 - Surfboard Historian Richard Kenvin on planing hulls, uncovering forgotten designs, and bringing Tomo to the U.S.A. Feb 25, 2020

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Today on the Wire Podcast - Richard Kenvin - AKA ' Hydrodynamica ' on Instagram, you probably already follow him.

Richard is a Surfboard Historian who has lectured in the University of California system of Collegiate Schools, he is also responsible for resurrecting Bob Simmons work from the 50's, and not just inspiring Daniel Thomson's surfboard design work of the past 15 years, but also bringing Daniel to the States in the early 2000's when Daniel's shaping career began.

Richard's roots in La Jolla, California run as deep as roots go and we recorded this episode in a secret boardroom he maintains in Pacific Beach California.

Show Notes are at firewiresurfboards.com/the-wire

ep. #49 - Chris Cote talks NO BRAINER and Succeeding in Surf Media for 20 + years. Feb 12, 2020

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Chris Cote has thrived through every switch in surf media trends over the past twenty years and today works as a commentator for the WSL among other projects,

Enjoy this episode.

ep. #48 - Nathan Myers Drifts with Rob Machado in The Surfer's Journal. Feb 07, 2020

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Rob Machado had a crisis in 2009 that spawned, the Drifter, a a film about his wanderings in Indonesia, and it wasn't until 11 years later in January of this year that he revealed publicly for the first time what that crisis was that inspired The Drifter, and he did it within the printed pages of The Surfer's Journal volume 29 number 1 - newly released at surf shops for you to read, right now.

Today we're joined by Nathan Meyers who did not just write this brand new piece for The Journal, he also acted as screenplay writer for The Drifter, suffering through more than thirteen different screenplay edits along with the rest of the crew, who were all dealing with separate nightmares in the jungles of Indonesia.

People got sick, went insane, got in fights, ruined relationships and ten years later, all approved this new article for release, airing everyone's dirty laundry and much more.

Find more at www.firewiresurfboards.com/the-wire

ep. #47 - The El Tomo Fish: How Daniel Thomson's Journey into Fish Design History lead to an Aeronautical Inspired Future Craft. Jan 23, 2020

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Daniel Thomson's El Tomo Fish is here. This episode breaks down the design story of this Jet Fighter Tailed Fish, and also delves into fun territory with discussions of Tool (Daniel's favorite band), mandalas, mathematical principles and more.

ep. #46 - Rob Machado - New Board, New Film, New Festival. Nov 05, 2019

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'My quiver is a 5'2 and a 7'0, and there's nothing in-between…'

Rob watches himself surfing the Seaside and Beyond, his new LFT shape (on video in the show notes for this episode), and recognizes he occupies a strange space on the surfboard design spectrum.

Around 5'6 and shorter, and 7'0 and longer… nothing inbeetween. And barely anything between 5'2 and 5'6. Mostly just a 5'2 (Helium Seaside and a 7'0 (LFT Seaside and Beyond).

He pontificates further in this new episode of The Wire Podcast, discussing his new board and his new film and his new music festival.

ep. #45 - Taylor Jensen talks about his Superman in Texas and more. Oct 28, 2019

Show notes

Taylor Jensen went to Texas with Surf Ride's Josh Bernard and pulled an aerial we don't see too often, especially on longboards.

ep. #44 - From Kelp Forest to Coastal Rain Forest – Kevin Whilden has Solutions to Climate Change. Oct 23, 2019

Show notes

Kevin Whilden is a permafrost geologist who as a child collected rocks everywhere he went whether playground or Yellowstone Hot Springs or Catalina Island and even Antarctica in 1995 when he was a Graduate Student student studying Periglacial Geomophology (WTF?).

"Look, I like rocks" he says "because they tell a story that's interesting. Geologists are essentially crime scene investigators.. rocks and fossils tell a story of the past in a way that helps us envision the future."

His curious obsession with rocks is something he suspects his son might be inheriting, saying "Today my son steals rocks from the neighbors yard here in South Bay."

It's here in South Bay just up the road from El Porto and Manhattan Beach, the Southern Californian Beach Breaks where he surfs daily, that he helms Sustainable Surf with his partner Michael Stewart.

Much more in the Show Notes for this episode at:

http://www.firewiresurfboards.com/the-wire

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