dan shred

dan stopped by after picking up his new feral pig "olive". we had a super rad sesh. yeah danny boy!!!

a few pier nugs

thank you greg pearson for shooting and surfing with me.  i've been wanting to shoot here for years.

the BING FERAL PIG!!!!!!

This BING pig surfboard is a design Matt Calvani and I (Mike Black) collaborated on.

The historical significance of BING surfboards and pigs makes this collaboration a dream come true. It is with great pride and honor that I bring my years of exclusive pig riding knowledge to Matt's years of quality craftsmanship.

The Feral Pig comes with a 2" balsa stringer, and a traditional glass on BING D fin.

the bing feral pig fin template!

check the video!
since the time of this video, i have received these photos of the board in progress...below the board is glassed, hotcoated and sanded...just waiting on pinlines!

the eyes of the bing feral pig!
feral pig gets a blue fin!
pin lines added!!!!!!

the finished product!!!!

sneak peek.

what happens when you collaborate with a professional, quality oriented, American company, rich in surfing tradition, capable of producing and shipping the best pigs available around the world in a timely manner?

...THIS HAPPENS!!!!!!!

what fin template is that?

the question was asked. I was there when gene took a pencil and "free" drew our fin template on some flimsy template making board. we messed with the height a bit. gene had the front curve and the back curve in his  head. to me it looks like the profile of a "pigskin" stuck in the sand (for those american "football" enthusiast). truth be told... gene has seen a fair share of bing surfboards in his time. all of the photos below are from the classic bing surfboard site (except for the top one). that site rules. 

"So here's the story on the fin. I walked into the Garden Grove factory one morning at about 4am to work on bb#1 and looked up and saw this POS board that Michlers dad found in a trash can back in the 60's. No logo, no idea who made it but I liked the fin shape and how the trailing edge was cut in so the fin could hang off the tail. Got a ladder to get up there and traced it on hardboard, cut it out, then whittled on it for a while. Turned out kind of what I scribbled out for GG a few days earlier. So I had a this fin template before I finished my coffee. If I knew it was going to lead to this much discussion I would have spent more time on it."