mega hodge podge!!!!!

my good buddy miles sent me these super epic texas day photos. he says "DIG THE PIG" : Rode the original flexipig that I got used from Gene in June for the first time for a full session (5 hours) this morning and it’s a blast and nose rides very well. 9.7 and like 28 lbs and flat as an ironing board but that and the 7-8 second swell made it pretty easy to catch waves. I think the fact that it’s only 9.7 made it easy for me to put it where I wanted in a hurry compared to the monsters I usually ride.

my good buddy andrew is having an art show in Oceanside Friday (514 coast highway) . Be there!!!!!!!

john cherry sent this to me via surfapig@live.com: "Hi Mike, I just posted a couple pigs I built for Japan. 3” chambered balsa stringers. The template is the same one I put together for Bobby Donnelly’s pig that we shaped just before I got your VJ to restore. If you recall, when I laid my template over your VJ, it lined up identically with the exception that my template was about 1/16” wider through the middle third, giving an ever so slight curve in the mid rail more so than the VJ. I love the template. BTW……I love your new Bing!!!!! Aloha Bro, JC"

andy byrne sent this to me via surfapig@live.com: Hey Mike!Been lurking your blog ever since it popped up. Love the stoke sharing going on!So I did a craigslist swap this weekend. I ended up trading a 9ft Ryan Lovelace Pointer (which to begin with is a very piggish/chip outline) for a real deal Terry Martin 9'6'', 3.5'' double volan pig. This thing is MEAN. Probably weighs about 15lbs. Anyway I took it out at Porto yesterday for some chest high soft waves. I couldn't believe how well it rode. Plus I even got some cheater 5's in. I was a little worried that it would be a straight shooter boat. It couldn't be more of the opposite. Anyway, super stoked on it. It's the first pig I've ever owned and I think it will not be the last. Oink Oink. Here's a couple pics. Maybe you've seen it around. Andy www.theanchored.blogspot.com


a little departing shot from south of sliders:

shark a pig!

ben gyger sent me this via surfapig@live.com:Pig Shark Hybrid ...I Just picked up my good lookin 9'6 Terry Martin Custom Pig, A Thanks for the addiction to pig's goes to my friend Matt Branco and also thanks to Steve Banks for hooking me up with Terry Martin. This piglet comes in at 9'6 x 16.5 Nose x 22.75 x 17 Tail x 3.25. I raced home to take pics so i can wax her up ASAP for what i hope to be a great session tomorrow am...

NICE!!!

terry martin chip...SOLD!!!

cheyene skasick sent me this via surfapig@live.com: 9'9 terry martin malibu chip/pig , $650 obo

SOLD!!

cheyne skasic's terry martin chip.

cheyne sent me this: Hey Mike after regretting throwin the fin that I did on the malibu chip I had Jeff Beck from Ninelights surfboards hand foil a new bigger more fitting fin for my Terry Martin 1958 chip. He did a impeccable job. Fin looks like it was on the board from the get go and looks beautiful. Took the board out this morning and there is a noticable differerence in the feel....really livened the board up. Think I'll have this board till I die....also side note if you surf pigs why not have um tattooed on your feet haha I get all my work done up at Idle Hands in San fran by Cris Clean. He worked up these two numbers for my feets. Based off a old Maritime tradition that said if you had a Rooster on your left foot and pig on your right it was good luck for not drowning due to the animals being the only ones to survive ship wrecks due to them floatin ashore in wooden crates...thought you'd might enjoycheers keep up the awsome site




NICE!!!
YEAH!

surf a pig, surf a simmons!

i went surfing with my friend tim today. our buddy steve picked up, surfed , then gave to us this bob simmons replica that John Cherry and Terry Martin made. the documentation of the session is below.

the board is not a pig.
the board carries momentum. The board surfs higher in the water than a pig does.
there is a lot of shape in the board.
the other day , i noticed how awfully un-attractive I am.
I kept forgetting I wasn't on a pig.
she would really get going. i tended to want to be too far forward on the board. she was fastest quite far behind center.
mind blown.
i didn't forget about the pig.
our buddy matt laying his board on a rail!
I get some great video of the simmons replica in action. the board hauls ass. it has a control...or a feel more akin to an ala(i/y)a than a pig. what an honor to get a go at this board. what an experience! so stoked to know the people ...and surf the wave... i do! check the video!

stoke is contagious.

mathew branco sent me this via surfapig@live.com:

I'm a big fan of your blog and i check it weekly to drool all over my keyboard viewing other peoples piggies. Now i have my own custom to brag a little bit about! Hot out of the oven to me about 2 weeks ago thanks to Steve Banks that got me hooked up with Terry Martin and Bashams (The Factory) for the sick glass job. It's bright ass orange with Odd Ball Orange metal flakes, dims are 9'-6"x16.5"Nx23"x17"T and glassing is double 8oz top and bottom. Glides and turns as smooth as butter and noserides the pocket real sweet. First place i paddled it out was at the Bu' which was bitter sweet, the bitter part the crowd trying to bump rails with you to get you off the wave and the sweet was the waves i got all to myself to turn, trim and hang my piggies over the nose of my piggy!! Thanks Mr. B for putting the truth out there about Pig surfboards. Thank you,Matt

yeah!
ohhh!
curve.
this is what this blog is all about.

ah, yes.

so i received an email from a kid named cheyne skasick. the title was "thought you'd appreciate this." turns out he was right. first, a little back story: i lived in huntington beach for 5 years (2000 - 2005). i listened to slayer,mason jennings and the White Buffalo. i surfed logs at NORTHSIDE! i was first exposed to Terry Martin's shapes then. since then , I have seen some collaborations of his with John Cherry and Tyler Warren. thank goodness cheyne came across this blog. so STOKED! check it out. sent via surfapig@live.com: Just had this 9'9 1958 model "malibu chip" shaped by terry at his house about a month ago. My friend steve banks introduced me to Terry knowing that I'm lost in his era and that I'd appreciate the experiance. I went to his house and it was such a humbling experiance. We spent about 2 hours shaping the board. It probably woulda only taken Terry 45 mins but we got cought up in talking about the good old days which me being 25 never saw. Then we talked cars do to me mentioning my model A late 40s style lakes RPU. One of the nicest, neatest old men I've ever came across. The board is glassed with full 10 oz volan with a deck and tail patch. I had Bashams glass in a captain fin co volan D fin and the colors match perfectly. Its all sand finish with just Terrys signature running along the 3/4 stringer. the board is beautiful and timeless but the experience with Terry was unforgettable. enjoy Cheyne Skasick costa mesa CA

costa mesa has some LEGIT shit going on. believe it.

steve banks' Terry Martin PIG!

Steve Banks sent me this via surfapig@live.com:

"hey mike, here are the picks of the board terry shaped for me.  9'8x16.5x22x16.5x3.25.  the fin is 8 inches tall and 10" wide at the base.  The board turns amazing, locks into the wave, gets going real parallel and feels solid on the nose.   the very tail of the board looked too big when i first saw it, but it really does some magic!  the pinlines were done by my buddy mike of embark studios in orange county! "

thanks for the contribution!