Will Leonardo DiCaprio join Team Pyzel?
Well what a week it has been. Our surf heroines, and heroes, have begun landing in Tahiti ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympiad, surf champion Kelly Slater has broken his self-imposed social media exile to launch broadside at Brit Pop icons Oasis and the kindest of Southern California surfboard shapers found himself on the pointy end of many sticks.
Yes, Album Surfboards certainly has had a run over the past five plus years, dropping lusty model after lusty model, Josh Kerr, Jack Freestone, Coco Ho and friends just ripping the Matt Parker designs while he humbly goes about his business.
Shock, then, when Stab Magazine put on its paternalistic pants and whooped Album a good one. Actually, not shock there. Stab‘s “Royal We” of interns and “associate editors” love nothing more than coming in aggressively and passively. Shock, though, for real when the model handsome Jon Pyzel told Parker to keep his “uninformed opinions to himself.”
Yowza.
Parker, in any case, might be smarting except he has received boisterous support from it boy Cole Bennett and that should be just enough to get through these dark days.
Bennett, a rap music video director, has mostly flown under the radar except now he appears to be dating Leonardo DiCaprio’s ex Camila Marrone.
The latter was attached to the actor famous for coupling with younger women then jettisoning them when they near 25. She was with the Kelly Slater eskimo brother for four years. She is currently 27.
Bennett, anyhow, is 28 and People Magazine is reporting, “They (Bennett and Marrone) were taking a stroll (in New York), with his arms around her. They looked happy as they shopped, and Cole was gazing lovingly at Camila.”
Wonderful but more important to our story is the fact that the Chicago native dawned a Album hat amidst the furor. No telling if the lantern jaw’d blonde surfs but what does that even mean anymore?
David Lee Scales did not directly speak of Cole Bennett, Leonardo DiCaprio or Camila Marrone during our most recent chat but we did cover Stab.
What little bay shrimps.
Listen here.
Good for Cole is her is sleeping with Camila Morrone.
Ohh I rolled one in between snaps… I always clear my hits like a good Stick…man.
Here , no lighter it’s still going!
BG contest – Matt Parker has to make a pyzel inspired short board and fool pyzell team riders. John Pyzel has to make alt surf craft inspired Album board and has to fool Album team riders? Pyzel v. Parker?
DLS has jumped the shark, completely odious.
The album hat on Cole has made me very angry
need a hemp wick!
Who are any of these people again?
Pyzel shapes JJF’s boards and left a funny comment here awhile ago. None of the others are of any significance whatsoever.
Also: “The Grit”: never have; never will.
yea he lost his decks
Who cares. They both make boards that work and have fun on. Storm in a tea cup.
Who?
I’m going to need something a little more personal, or political to even care about this. Shaper wars is an ongoing episode in every zip code since Y2k.
oh no it goes way back when men were men, egos were enormous, when surfer/shapers competed at every level…the only difference now is we have the internet/social media……and am wondering why journalists have not had a peek at why Josh Kerr has no more albums?????
As you are well aware the board industry is tough. You have been doing this for a long time. The egos are huge and its easy to throw mud on the internet with no recourse of sorts which BG does not so well.
Are we tripping yet
So the caption says “cole bennett, left”, you have to view it upside down, right?
Don’t believe anything you read here.
Stage left. I thought that went without writing.
You know Josh Kerr no longer rides for Album?
That he started his own company, Draft Surf?
Looks just like Album but not associated with Album (unlike Koa and Coco’s brands).
https://draftsurf.com/
The Twinsman looking thing is the “Trust Me” model and the Disorder looking board is called “Bi Polar”…
Pretty interesting parting of ways. Maybe you guys should do a story?
Who cares
OI CHAS
Check the ReeseBros vid with Owen Wright.
I can’t say too much cos I asked Dezz to check it out and disqus reckons I’m spam.
It’s BG appropriate comedy, and was on FB a week ago.
Find it and share it here
Ta
I like the Pyzel/Parker surf off idea, but take it one step further to make it a team event. Pyzel and Parker flip a coin to decide whether Chas or DLS is their team member. They shape boards for themselves and for their respective team member. All four surf a 1.5 hour-long heat at once. No priority, and you can full on block for your teammate, burn, back paddle (Parker’s specialty), grab leashes, etc. Each man’s best two waves score.
Livestream the heat and have the BG community judge. Get CJ and Gerlach to announce in real time.
Losing team has to exclusively ride the winning shaper’s boards for a year, paying out of pocket for whatever stock or custom boards they require.
Like Joe Biden said, “any time anywhere.”
swap the DLS for some LSD…