Back in 2021, Oscar Langburne made a career move you don’t see from a lot of surfers. He left his deal with one label for the opportunity to ride an array of different boards that would be coming from different shapers and labels. Ironically, the first bit of content that came from that shift has kind of come full circle.
One edit in March of 2021 came from a single 24 hour-period following Langburne on a board he was given off the rack. It was meant to be a bit of a surfer-shaper feedback exercise, with his first batch of customs getting dialed in off the feedback given to shapers.
“Brent knows (an) amazing amount about boards and really understands my surfing and what works and what doesn’t,” he told The Inertia at the time. “So I guess if he gives me something fresh off the rack to try he’s probably got a good idea it will suit me.”
And it looks like that old off-the-rack experiment suits Oscar just fine. A little over a year later, Onboard Store Bali sent him to the Mentawais to try a handful of different shapes from Christenson Surfboards — twins, quads, basically anything but a thruster. Three of the five boards featured in the resulting edit were that same model in Langburne’s 24-hour short, as a matter of fact. And they slid some Neil Young into the edit to give it an appropriate vibe for the Langburne/twin/quad pairing.
“It’s pretty mellow but I really like it for that reason,” he says.
