Can you imagine anything more American than Futures Fins from Huntington Beach?
New Jersey changed me. You may recall that I was there earlier in the year in order to coordinate our Fairytale Wetsuit shoot featuring the wonderful Tommy Ihnken though, before leaving I will admit that I wasn’t thrilled.
The Garden State doesn’t have the best reputation, see, and I never liked Zack Braff. I thought it was going to be bad, slow, ugly with bad, slow, ugly food and bad, slow, ugly people.
I could not have been more wrong.
An energy crackled in the air. Crackled off the boardwalk, through the streets, from The Stone Pony where Bruce Springsteen first played. I fell in love with New Jersey and its everything but mostly its pork rolls and, in turn, fell in love with America again.
Behind those industrial walls in a bland industrial park, Futures feels like a cross between Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory and a Detroit, Michigan Ford plant. Dreams are being dreamed in the front. Dreams are being milled in the back.
This country, to many, seems a train wreck but it’s also a grand train wreck with Bruce Springsteen crooning blue collard anthems and Americans drinking Coors and Coors Light and those Americans manufacturing. Americans like the ones at Futures Fins in Huntington Beach manufacturing fins that make your board go better.
Behind those industrial walls in a bland industrial park, Futures feels like a cross between Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory and a Detroit, Michigan Ford plant. Dreams are being dreamed in the front. Dreams are being milled in the back. Brett Simpson’s American spirit floats and inspires and Brett Simpson’s actual body (feat. his spirit) shows up from time to time as well. It is, truly, a wonder to watch the time, the effort and the skill put into these fins.
True labors of local love.
And can you imagine anything better? Anything more American?
Watch this little tour and if you don’t feel inspired then get the hell out with all the other draft dodgers and flag haters.
Enjoyed this but Chas sounds like a middle-schooler presenting a book report. Mix the vocals in louder or speak with some friggin authority this is AMERICA DAMMIT LOUD N PROUD.
absolutely fucking sick!
Cpt.Finco next?
is chas the new tony bourdain? tony wrote books, became semi-famous then started making beautiful tv. like tony, chas is tall, tatted up, a dick that tells like it he sees it.
I have spent a number of hours in machine shops wearing inappropriate shoes where they make rad bits and pieces for bikes on CNC machines. That shit is so cool.
Holy fuck mega neck!
I have never seen a neck such as yours. Did they make fun of you in school and call you giraffe and such?
Yeah lost 3 fins from this….$70 bucks for the spares 🙁
Are the ones they make in China made in America?
Sounds iffy to me.
Neat shirt, Chas!
Bruce Springsteen. Net worth: $460 million. Didn’t get it from writing about men in stretchy rubber suits.
Oh my goodness…. it’d be at least at least 200k.
Just for the B-sides!
Does any one have surfing kids? Have you seen how many fins they accumulate? And Dad always ends up riding odd fins and being unable to notice the difference……sadly
I want Glass ins.
Where they do they get all the damn things from? Daddy buy? Do they lift?
Some of them are definitely trophied from the sponno kids. The fancy one offs. The rest of them are like fucking socks. You buy a set and never see them together again.
BG fins should only be able to in backwards.
I think FCS is working on it! The fin system for adult learners!
I just got a review board with FCS II and the dang fin box got knocked out after a very minor engagement with underwater rock.
Oh god, I destroyed a board with FCS 1 on a reefy thing and there were tears. It took forever for the fucking thing to dry out and get fixed and whatnot.
Hahaha…. Wait! I know some in the surf industry think Chas is Jen, but could it be Derek is Jen See? Or maybe Jen See is Derek?
Ha ha, nah! I promise we are all separate people! I have never even been to Australia!
For god’s sake man, don’t blame your minor child. Own it.
I’ll blame who I damn well want! For god’s sake!
Futures would have straight smashed that rock to smithereens!
Lulz at royalty free version of Born in the USA 🇺🇸
We have an EP of Springsteen covers now by Vaughan Blakey! Born in the USA, Blinded by the Light, Hungry Heart with cameo from Ozzie’s wife, Miley, on Because the Night!
** Breaking News **
WSL’s Kanoa Igarashi is 50% better now because he’s being more aggressive, more savage against other WSL Pro’s when the Heat is ON! He’s beating Pro’s now with savage aggression. These last few years his safe approach was casting negative points from WSL judging. 50% Better! More aggressive! More savage! Beating better WSL Pro’s. Excellent scores evidence the WSL judges want to reward his more aggressive approach.
Good thing he’s representing Japan. If he was doing that shit for Hawaii it’d be a whole different story.
That was super fun and made my inner nerd so very happy!
And did Drew, the fin expert man, make you smile? He does it to me every time! Very good electricity.
Definitely!
CNC machines! So sexy!
I think, bad FCS operative might’ve sabotaged your beautiful boxes.
What a co-inky dink, blue collards are my favorite American food. Love em with pulled pork and a cold Bud!
Just watch on the WSL site. I don’t have Facebook and I’m looking at ‘89 world champs ‘stache right now.