There are a few people in the world of surf that truly ooze style. It’s much more than a dropped back knee or a soul-arch… it’s something only found by someone who surfs the wave, instead of the surfboard. Style is hard to put your finger on, but when you see it, it’s obvious. Such is the case with Rob Machado, Ryan Burch, and Tom Curren.
All three ride anything and everything. They use what works for them, and they keep an open mind about non-traditional craft. The board, after all, is merely a vessel to pair the human with the wave. In the Mollusk video above, all three prove that “ripping” isn’t exclusively done on standard shortboard… but you probably knew that already.
A little info on the boards ridden, from Mollusk:
The magenta deck is 5’3 x 19 x 2 1/4. Shaped by Rob for Rob, it has an experimental Greenough bottom with an epoxy twin fin set up with a trailer.
The brownish looking squid is 5’5 x 18 3/4 x 2 1/4. Named the “Almond Joy” after Rob’s favorite candy bar, it’s a standard thruster.
Ryan Burch is on something strange, as usual: a self-shaped 4’11 twin fin.
And Curren, in the vein of the last few months, is riding a Brad Domke model from Exile Skimboards with some very strange looking fins.
