Matt Biolos volume tank
Here we see, at left, the noted Californian surfboard shaper Matt Biolos, BeachGrit's Chas Smith and Benji Thompson, from boardformula.com. He explains the volume tank!

Just in: BeachGrit’s new TV series!

First episode: Matt "Mayhem" Biolos and his amazing volume tank!

Let me be the very first to welcome you to BeachGrit’s newest offering. A television series we call Like, Bitchin!

Each two-to-three minute episode will pull back the curtain on some pointless extravagance of our little surf world. Some inconsequential but almost fun-ish insight.

Are you curious about how rocker changes the way you ride?

About Michael Tomson’s opinion as to why our industry died?

About China’s bald-faced Horn of Africa land grab and how this is affecting the world potash market?

Well, take your shoes off and pour whatever alcohol you have nearby into whatever juice was leftover from breakfast. You’re going to need it!

It won’t be the most exciting 2:51 you’ll spend today but it is worth it to watch Matt Biolos, a sculpture in his absolute prime, do a Chris Ward impression. Also of note is host Chas Smith’s very clear ignorance around a surfboard. He has no idea what volume has to do with anything and is still puzzling over which half of the board is the deck.

This first season will feature eight episodes in total. Number one explores Matt “Mayhem” Biolos and his Volume Tank.

I went to Matt’s lovely San Clemente artist cottage on a fine spring day to hear him talk volume and what it means to the shaper and, thereby, us. It won’t be the most exciting 2:51 you’ll spend today but it is worth it to watch Matt Biolos, a sculpture in his absolute prime, do a Chris Ward impression. Also of note is host Chas Smith’s very clear ignorance around a surfboard. He has no idea what volume has to do with anything and is still puzzling over which half of the board is the deck.

Real quick, do you remember Like, Bitchin? Derek and I started a blog years and years ago with that name. I can’t remember anything about it and do you want to know why?

We became very embroiled in a certain controversy and ripped the whole thing down and we ripped it down so so successfully that there is no trace of it anywhere. Poof. Gone.

But back to Like, Bitchin! 2.0. It is much better than the original. Maybe.

Like Bitchin! Episode One: Matt Biolos and the Volume Tank
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Limbless Jack
Limbless Jack
10 years ago

Now we should all get barrels….to check our liters

bitter guy
bitter guy
10 years ago

science is hard

jimbome
jimbome
10 years ago

Wasn’t as good as this: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Dumb Florida Redneck
Dumb Florida Redneck
10 years ago
Reply to  jimbome

Yeah my friends had seizures from that shit, at expo. Great time!

bitter guy
bitter guy
10 years ago

what do expect the engineering team to do, weld a second 55 gal. drum on top of the other one?

Dumb Florida Redneck
Dumb Florida Redneck
10 years ago
Reply to  bitter guy

The height of three Mexicans.

bitter guy
bitter guy
10 years ago

it would be cool if buoyancy and volume were equivalent. we need to measure buoyancy in pounds. just push down on it with a bathroom scale and see what it takes to sink the whole deal. epoxy corks compared to PU.

dickie toledo
dickie toledo
10 years ago

I see stars & bars flag flying on the white truck. wow, future blood feud?

DrunkenAngel
DrunkenAngel
10 years ago

oh. one more thing. there should be a competition. commentators send in your videos now. we just need a prize to fuel the enthusiasm.

Kook of the Day
Kook of the Day
10 years ago

of note, the boys have just provided proof that Biolos and Kevin Smith are the same guy.

DrunkenAngel
DrunkenAngel
10 years ago

oh. and there should be a uniform for all hosts. i have just the thing.

you are welcome.

DrunkenAngel
DrunkenAngel
10 years ago

put shade cloth on chas’s head and he’d look like a cocktail umbrella.

DrunkenAngel
DrunkenAngel
10 years ago

the solution is a pompous british accent. turns any mediocre production into gold. just ask the bbc. i can source for you if you please. either that or Glaswegian accent. has the same effect but by fuck do you laugh … oh so joyous especially after the lads are onto the 5th pint.

but whateve you do, please make it so i never have to hear a californian accent in surfing again. it has to stop because my ears can bleed no more.

Bleach'd Git
Bleach'd Git
10 years ago
Reply to  DrunkenAngel

BG should get Micro on board.

A$AP Honky
A$AP Honky
10 years ago

seems a bit archaic, surely theres some lazer gadget thingo that can measure the litres?

bitter guy
bitter guy
10 years ago
Reply to  A$AP Honky

the CAD program is using bullshit math to reach a number, but this is the only way to check it, and they’re really getting displacement

capn birdseye
capn birdseye
10 years ago
Reply to  bitter guy

doesn’t the whole board need to be under water to measure displacement? edit – never mind I have the attention span of a fucking hummingbird.

Kook of the Day
Kook of the Day
10 years ago

Bravo Boys. Biolos is still a fucking kook.

DrunkenAngel
DrunkenAngel
10 years ago

i love him. he makes me look ‘fit’.

Badger
Badger
10 years ago

I liked the production immensely. I’d say less surfing and more people moving forward.

Weslley’s Secret Life - Wozzle
Weslley’s Secret Life - Wozzle
10 years ago

worse than stab mag

Gynecomastia
Gynecomastia
10 years ago

I’m just happy that my profile picture is suddenly so relevant.

velobwoy
velobwoy
10 years ago

What’s up with Biolos’ hair? Is that really the best he can do?

Shark week is every week
Shark week is every week
10 years ago

3 minutes is not a TV episode you fuckin lazy bludgers

Tate MacDowell
Tate MacDowell
10 years ago

Was that a Haole Puncher Production?

Lemmy
Lemmy
10 years ago

when did you guys pick up ellen to host the show?


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