Five hundred dollars apiece! Plus free Japanese beer…
If you’re kicking around Sydney’s northside and you’ve got a few c-notes in your billfold, I can’t think of a better way to liberate that cash than with the purchase of one of Craig Anderson’s old-ish surfboards.
Craig, you might remember, was the star of Slow Dance and Cluster, the participant in one of the great moments in surf history, helped popularise one of the most significant board designs in recent history, quit Quiksilver despite being offered a million bucks a year and the company’s blessing to start his own label, and a couple of years back did start his own label, called Former, with Dane Reynolds and a skateboarding man.
Several Februarys ago, I watched as a Jew supplicated himself before Craig at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem; the day before at the Jaffa Gate, American girls had swooned as Craig roared past on a Segway, your reporter in the hottest pursuit!
Craig, who turns thirty this year, is a surfer whose surfboards matter, I think. And if you go to the Hayden Shapes headquarters, in Sydney’s Mona Vale, today and tomorrow, you can buy one and examine a few others.
Still left (a Holy Grail just sold for $A600), are three 5’7 1/2″ White Noiz’s, hand shaped by Hayden Cox, with Futures fin boxes (the best in the biz and the choice of champions from John John to Ando and so on), Former, Electric and Huff stickers and in a condition that ain’t pristine but ain’t beat-up either.
The price? Five hundred Australian dollars. Three-eight or so Americano.
Come and Hayden will even give you a Kirin beer for free!
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How can you trust somebody’s choice in surfboards if they’re twisted enough to turn down a million dollars a year to be a disinterested pro surfer?
The thing about Ando, her boards are dainty. I’d like to see those boards under the feet of some real women. Might I suggest they offer a 50% Off Discount Price to women’s tour pros. It’s not like the WSL can turn their 50% less negative into a positive.
I would do her
I’ve decided to purchase these gucci horsebit fringed leather sandals instead. I believe they were recommended by Chas or Derek quite recently. I am VERY impressionable. Also, am wondering if these fashionable sandals would be appropriate to be fashioned at a wavepool event. I think yes.
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Fuck surfboards, you’re gonna be DA BOMB in those.
Whhoooooo-weeeee!!!
Sho nuff.
I usually recoil from Gucci’s signature vulgarity, but these I like!
Do they enhance my rear buckled knee look?
That’s gonna require some aftermarket gear. I recommend the deck mounted signature Kai Leany Knee Rigid Foil Buckle Control System, aka the kerfuffle muffler.
No,but just imagine what it will do to your hair . It won’t happen overnight but it will happen , because Craig’s board is worth it ?
My hair got strangely shorter and thinner after I stopped riding the ‘Ando’ model so I can to attest to this.
Wait shouldn’t we be buying the book, cocaine and something irrelevant but fun?
Yes, buy that too, and board, and vulgar Gucci slippers.
Can I buy 20 years of youth back?
How much y’got?
Buck fiddy?
Talk to Lucifer
Jebus can do anything.
What about new ribs?
I weigh the same as 2 Craig Andos, so going to have to pass on this one.
Maybe Hayden can shape you a 10’15” White Noiz! Same dimensions as Ando but scale up!
If we can get some of andos pubes in the deck wax, then I’m interested
He’s a manlet.