Experimental Big Wave Board & Getting Barreled on The Left At Waimea!

[@IdiocracySpace]

Awesome proof of concept Mark! Amazing that you can completely redefine a big wave gun so dramatically which means you can fine tune infinite offshoot designs in other sizes or preferences. 🤙🏼

[@ODL957]

Mark, thanks for sharing, very educational segment, can’t wait to see more of your blog and see you surfing Maverick this winter or Mexico on your new board design. Best of luck

[@clarkewi]

Amazing. Healey is the right test pilot.

[@joedirt8625]

Thanks Mark, Very Interesting Board design Concept. Wide point back and foiled at nose to penetrate turbulence make sense.

[@jonathanrothwell3512]

Another great little burst of knowledge and insight. Nice one, Keep it coming

[@Surferdadsocal]

Awesome Mark!! Thanks man

[@alikajohnson9250]

And now another north shore vlog I have to keep up with😆😉. Diving and big waves by a local legend? Subscribed I'm in. 🤙🏽

[@jcs7934]

Dude , I did learn so much from watching this episode . Mahalo ! Subscribed

[@LuizFin]

Very interesting board!

[@DerekPfarr]

That board is cherry! I want one 🤤. Insane barrel that thing got so round!! 🤙🏽

[@r.g.3636]

I've subscribed mr. Mark...... what a beautiful big barrel you rode...!!!!! skills and nerves of stainless steel....... its funny to see someone else with the same thought on wide point back of center on surfboards including guns,,, ive been surfing 55 years starting in la jolla,, and i remember when i first saw cheyne horans first lazor zaps, they made sense to me for shredding bigger surf as well,,, but all my fave shapers, brewer, rawson, now pyzel,,, all just shaped guns the normal way all the way to where I'm now 70 years of age...... so I'm stoked to see you and your shaper working on this..... in my opinion,, that nose has to go ....lol.... to weird, to unnatural...... suggestion,,, maybe have him try a nose shaped like a dolphin nose on the next one..... seriously...... big and round,, similar concept, without looking dorky..... and since you are one of the top elite big wave chargers..... one more suggestion,,, i saw your educational vid on what you take out on your skis to surf liquid mountains all day,,, so I'm sure its nice to have a little platform to sit on and rest in between sessions,,, so keep the skis also out there,, but heres my idea to ad to the equipment,, i thought of this 6 years ago for you big wave chargers to be rescued with , in my opinion, a much more advanced way,,,, i was studying drones a lot,, so my idea is the surfer wears a harness with a stainless ring in the front,, the the one or 2 man drone comes in to the surfer who needs help, lowers a leash with a snap at the end of it,, and the surfer clips in,,, and off they go back out to the line up or the jet ski team.......aloha.....r.g. nor cow.......

[@hope4surf]

Sick!!! Love it!

[@timbyrne81]

Rails look similar to AB channel boards, like that one you were riding on the cover of Surfing World. Can't wait to see an episode hunting a few axis. Really enjoy your episodes.

[@tonysmario817]

by the way...great left! i have watched your entire career, and you not only charge like no one else, but live the full waterman lifestyle. must have felt good to lock into that one.

[@Martin1Arm]

You're an inspiration! I need different boards due to my limitations, wider and thicker than the normal dims. The elements of that design are really interesting to me, especially the nose as punching through white water/duck diving are my biggest hurdles and the rails due to the thickness of my boards. I'm wondering if this design would work at 6' to 7' lengths?

[@nicvonrupp1671]

sick

[@briardsurf]

Such a trippy board! Yewwww🤙

[@marcvince1261]

Sick board sick waves!!

[@markusbroyles1884]

I love it !

[@rippahzentertainment2949]

Nice brah! That was a sick barrel

[@danderasmus9995]

sick one dude, keep these coming!

[@time-j8q]

Sick trial wave

[@gulfsurfco]

Healey is legit. Ron Meeks surfboards are super underrated. Look into it. I have ridden his boards since 1985.

[@kannonallen5792]

Yessa keep up the vid 🤙🏽🤙🏽🙏

[@kevingyurecz8177]

legend!

[@brettgussey6015]

THAT BOARD IS LIKE A LAZER ZAP FROM THE 80 .s ..mad into a bigwave board ,wide point way back..M.C COY .OF OLD.

[@strikemissions]

Blade Runner!

[@rodfer5406]

Where can I buy one? 👍

[@PDKpoopnugget]

I wonder if that shape would work scaled down

[@davidteves3283]

Yessah unks

[@mikemccourt6225]

You might have had a different outcome if you had that board on that Puerto wave. Awesome stuff

[@maybachyard]

"Getting barrled on the left at Waimea" reminds me of Justin Lee 😂😂😂

[@LoLoo-wg3wj]

why the hell are there two waimea's in the islands? couldn't they stick with one.

[@rvrrb]

The best shapers who ever lived were Rdick and Parish. All their rails were square with widest point in the middle any board under seven feet widest point is 6 inches up from center. V in the tail doesn't do squat except spin out the board.

[@leighmeeks2684]

I'm the guy who shaped the board in the video. 99% of all big wave boards have V in the tail to some extent. It becomes problematic if it's too pronounced, then the board overturns, or spins out.

[@r.g.3636]

@@leighmeeks2684 great job on your board design..... after surfing 55 years,, riding brewers, croteau's, rawsons, etc.,, my favorite shaper now is john pyzel,,, and the reason is,, he naturally shapes my favorite bottoms of guns,, not because they are "paddlacs" though i love and need the foam,,, it's because he shapes the bottoms of all 7 of my pyzel guns with full V from the tail to the nose ,,, and hears the important part,, with a little concave on each side of the stringer the whole length of the boards,,, my 10'5" flys and shreds on a dime in big waves,,, i get one mile rides on it at my fave surfing playground in santa cruz....!!!! now if i could only get John to get that wide point behind center like you....!!!!!....lol.... roy guy..... nor cow....... good job....... p.s. i wrote to Mark,,, a suggestion for you to consider shaping a board with a nose shaped just like a dolphin nose...!!!! big and round ,,, similar to your "plump" nose,,, but more ocean oriented...... just a thought.....

[@twmpuketa]

Any shaper will tell you some of their best boards were the weirdest. The bar just got raised

[@JasonForouhar]

"not like it was a big crazy day"...and the fist clip looks 4-5x overhead

[@derekblas4841]

Right on mark...stay legendary..kill fish and surf great waves. LIVE IT UP.. HAFA ADAI from the Marianas islands..

[@ryancorcoran1750]

when we moving to two uploads a week braddah? the people want it

[@strikemissions]

If it catches on, I may have to do it 🤙🏼

[@ryancorcoran1750]

@@strikemissions build it and they will come

[@user-di1hh4qy6r]

Ill give ya $100

[@tonysmario817]

nice try at something different. the nose has the correct concept, but defeated by the extra volume... one day big wave boards will be 8 or 8.5 feet...that extra foot is what makes them pearl on big drops...and all that extra length makes them 'sail' in strong offshores... the ANSWER is 'buoyancy vs density'...the goal is to keep the buoyancy while increasing the density. think about it. if you even get close, i'll tell you what needs to be done.

[@paulmort8507]

It sounds like your taking about the esp characteristics? But dosnt corky become a bit of an enemy with big boards

[@tonysmario817]

@@paulmort8507 way off base amigo... the tech only exists in my shop at the moment, though it could exist almost anywhere...it is universal, or was. also sustainable. there are two keys...material and manufacturing technique which provide for a surfboard that retains the buoyancy equal to the established needs, while as much as doubling the density... imagine a 6 foot board that paddles like any other 6 footer, but surfs like a tow board...that i have hanging in front of me now! but imagine a 9 footer with similar characteristics?...it will NOT float away on the face of jaws in 25 knots of wind, and once over the lip, will feel more stable and go faster than any board yet constructed... that's what i'm working on...slowly, since i don't need that board for me anymore! hahaha

[@tonysmario817]

@@paulmort8507 but i keep hoping i'll get to build one for the guys, like healy, that i grew up watching charge the heaviest waves.

[@tonysmario817]

@@paulmort8507 the only reason this isn't standard already is because the 'industry' that pays these kids a fortune to be the dancing monkeys, has preferred to make millions of dollars off surfboards that are throw away garbage instead of surfboards that are best for surfers. i'm hoping i can change that some day...i keep calling out the young guns to step up and get off the teet of redbullshit, and the like, and DO THEIR OWN THING...i have the board tech....and fin tech... that will change the world of surfing.

[@leighmeeks2684]

I'm the guy who shaped the board in the video. The nose works exactly as it should. It's never been done before, there's no existing data or info for your claim that it's "defeated" by extra volume. Other than you opinion, which is baseless.