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The California Log
Reborn by JT, 1999
Died at Bells, 2025
RIP

How did he hold on to that for so long..that’s manhandling that wave

Carn the local lass!!

That Buttenshaw looks great

There must be a nose width requirement....

interested that rounded pins are permissible for a longboard event. Almost a gun !

They clearly perform better in the juicce

Gotta watch running on the beach dragging the board in the sand - you will eventually wear through the glass on the rails!

Yeah SR, the tail is a gun... only the nose is not!

haha thought so!!

Rachel Tilly surfs unreal

Some lovely drone footage in the heats

Dreamy longboard conditions.

kevin skvarna vs taylor jensen = 9.43 vs 8.67 opening rides respectively..
I might have to go back and watch.. (banner heat for scando names..)

Good on you B6 for putting up the thread today. Keeps the live coverage going! Good day down here today.

The run of Delperro's 2+1 continues.... I'm going for this board!

Waves look so much fun.

Today on a middy or a performance long board would be heavenly

Declan v Max heat was a cliffhanger

Hitting the lip on the shorebreak on a traditional log!

A bit more on the rails, noticed some of the leading contenders on the unedged longboards with tails that go square/rounded square/swallowtail, and a straighter bit of rail leading into this on the outline. Slight scoop on the deck. The rails are without edges I'd assume, but get more and more pinched.

As the waves get hollower/more powerful, the round 50/50 can be pinched (maybe like a Spitfire wing rather than a DC-3) to cut into the face more and hold higher speeds before water delaminates. Our 1967 family longboard is more like this in comparison to our 1962 one.

The next great leap forward was Diffenderfer with the down rail, then the addition of tucked under edges to these in the very late 1960s/early 1970s allowing full roundhouse cutbacks...

3 fins - there's so much fin area that you have to have an edge in the rail, the fin clusters dictate completely different ways of riding the boards and the fluid dynamics they will accept.

I'm getting a bit lost @VJ, I'm popping in and out.. was the lip hit you're talking about Edoard Delperro's 7.33, like, his second wave..? seems like they missed it talking about golf courses and interviews.. only on replay?

Delperro v Skvarna - Bells sorting out the direction of design and the direction Longboarding will go in...

Will it continue to be traditional, or begin to progress again?

Bells is the ultimate crucible, the history shows this

Another cliffhanger!

B6 - it was Max and Declan going for it on their boards, I think 'Involvement' type

Wave for wave, 5 mins left, Skvarna ripping, this heat is hugely significant

9.57!

Could be a reverse Bells '81 result... the single fin continuing to reign supreme in the world of longboarding...

hehee..

And there it is! Massive result there. Kudos to Delperro surfing something different so far, showing there's another type of longboarding right up to the pointy end of Bells, in significant size.

Traditional continues. Could be another 10 years before it's challenged like this again.

Just caught the tail end of that. Ripper of a heat.

Can't wait for Big Kev on the glass..
could be equally at home in 1982 Aus, as 2025 Cali..
could have been a cricketer of footy player if he had been born here then.
or an Ironman triathlete for that matter..

Skvarna phenomenal performance.

Feels like 1992 (?) Bathurst where the Nissan R34 Skyline whipped the Aussie V8s - Jim Richards "You're a pack of arseholes" to the Ford and Holden Fans booing him...

The Aussie cars then formed V8 Supercars and spent the next 25 years in blissful isolation.

haha, here he is!

Kev could have been in the Australia II crew in 1983....

haha, perfect.

Considering the wind and squalls coming through the waves still look pretty clean on the faces.

B6, what’s your usual choice of board?

That's the cliff effect RK, in lower areas it's more blown out

rainbows, drinks in the booth, a good bells comp ending..
"wind on the eyes, salt in the skin (hic) - everything is beyoodiful" ; )

Ok, VJ. Nice.

I’ve never been there…it kind of intimidates me too much to go and surf it. The locals all seem super good surfers and out of my league.

Just on the hugeness of the day, so it's Longboarding so design is far more individual than the shortboard world tour, there are more surfer shapers, design is evolving faster, and there are two paths you can take - traditional, or performance.
Bells has thrown up size this event and it really showed the shortcomings of the traditional designs in places. A supreme test of surfer and board design, as it always is.
Bells varies, from little to big. The best surfer on the best equipment stands a good chance of winning
Eduard Delperro came into the event with modern rails, 2+1, gunny tail, a thoroughly performance shape, and it shone on the big days. Lots of us from the gallery can see this and ride variants of the performance design put into boards in the last 40 years.
Performance longboarding was a thing in the 90s, it was scorned because of the way the style looked in comparison to the flow of the Joel Tudor style traditional surfing. Millions of longboarders have been inspired by the JT style in the last 25 years.
Delperro very nearly won it! Only stopped by a rampaging Kevin Skvarna on a very well sorted traditional single fin and a great heat surfed.
It's as if Bobby Owens knocked out Simon in 1981.... we all know what works at size.
Perhaps after this the traditional shapes will evolve to handle size (some did really well) better and we'll really see an alternative future!
What an event. Still a bit to go.

pragmatic mids these days @RK, been mucking around on a fat (vol) little sanctum fish, trying to get out of my latter-day comfort of just cruising down the line this winter.

Blue in slo mo was super to watch…got her flow on point.

Great surfing blue…well deserved

RK I don't surf it too much because I can find less crowded waves nearby, do enjoy Rincon, Lowers and Centre/Southside when I have a go. A couple of minor spots nearby shine too.
I hear you on the intimidation, "saw a mini mal out at Winki"/"Did he get stabbed?" lol

Soleil is amazing so fast and flowing when you see her in real life out on Rincon

Yeah….Weston. Wows.