GOMEZ SURFBOARDS BLOG
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
SGD shop open from this weekend on...
Surfboards new and second hand, the Lighting Bolt comeback with boardshorts, tee shirts and the new SGD artist series tees, you can also have your coffee and watch a surf video while we draw your new stick...
The first one of those two boards is a 6'0'' x 18 1/2 x 2 1/4, has a wider nose than standar boards and a flat rocker through the middle for more glide but still has a standard rocker on the nose and lift on the tail, big concave all the way through for more speed, good for an every day board, (one of those boards you wanna always have on your quiver...) from 5'9 to 6'2.
The second one a 5'8'' x 18 1/5 x 2 1/4, a round pin tail for more drive and a flat rocker to get through the flat parts of the wave, extra tail kick and nose flip to fit on the pocket of the wave and do what ever you want to. A good summer board...this model comes from 5'6'' to 5'10''.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
This board I made for Twothirds sportwear exposition to protect the Bluefin Tuna. The art work on the board has been made by the great graphic designer Emil Kozak for the same exposition and the lines on the design represent the same lines we see when we chop a fish to make sushi...
The Giant bluefin tuna (for individuals exceeding 150 kilograms or around 330 pounds) and formerly as the tunny. Atlantic bluefin are native to both the western and eastern Atlantic Ocean, as well as the Mediterranean Sea. Atlantic bluefin have become extinct in the Black Sea and Caspian Sea.
Atlantic bluefin tuna are capable of reaching well over 450 kilograms (992 lb) in weight, and rival the black marlin and blue marlinas the largest Perciformes. Throughout recorded history, the Atlantic bluefin tuna has been highly prized as a food fish. This commercial importance has led to severe overfishing. The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) affirmed in October 2009 that Atlantic bluefin tuna stocks have declined dramatically over the last 40 years, by 72% in the Eastern Atlantic, and by 82% in the Western Atlantic.
The particularity of those kind of boards is the speed that you can generate thanks to the inverse tail rocker and the flex they've got.
Inspired on the old school snowboards or first snowboard prototypes.
the first of those two boards (fast tuna one, 5'0'' x 19'') it was a bit too short but it responded very good and it did as I expected. The seccond one a bit bigger but we didn't have the opportunity to try it yet.
I'm plannig to make the thirth and fourth with a more of a flex tail...
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