Congrats, BigKahunaBoy!

We have more surfboard giveaways lined up so join the Stoke Community today — get in on the action.

For those of you that don't know, BigKahunaBoy of GA is yet another Stoke Community member that won a free surfboard.

This time its a Aloha Bean, a ridiculously sick top-of-the-line surfboard from our friends at Global Surf Industries.

It's a $500+ value, and BigKahuna gets it for free in our giveaway!!

Dailystoke is the best surf site on the ‘net for giveaways, with 3 board giveaways in the last few months — and more lined up.

So join our community and remember — we like members like BigKahunaBoy that are active in our community and on our site — so post a comment, submit or check into a spot, or friend some hot wahine in our community — and maybe an Aloha Bean will show up on your doorstep.

BigKahunaBoy tells us he is stoked, and will be taking pictures and videos of the board — and will also write a short review of what he thinks of the board.

Stay tuned — more sick giveaways are coming.

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I took more away from that class than any that I took in high school or college!

I made an amazing board and some great friends in the process but I also picked up a nasty little addiction to wooden surfboards that I haven’t been able to shake since!!!

We ended up hitting it off and found that we shared a common passion for sawdust and boards.  After the class wrapped up Mark and I stayed in touch and he recently told me that he was working on something that he was super excited about and unlike anything else on the market today.

I was chomping at the bit to find out what he has up his sleeve and I finally got the call that he was ready to reveal.  What he has created truly is amazing and it goes to show that there is still so much more to discover about the surfboard and related construction processes. During the class, Mark’s wood working skills, experience, and techniques stood out from the rest of the pack and I was envious of his craftsmanship and deep understanding of board design and his creative ideas around construction.

The traditional HWS construction methods are great and I love all of my boards.

My favorite part about this new concept is that the highly sustainable wood surfboard blanks are completely customizable and one-off.  Now any local/professional shaper can make a wood surfboard suited for local

conditions or for any individual surfer's abilities. However, these classical techniques are somewhat limiting and create challenges for more complex designs.

Mark’s goal has been to create hollow wood surfboard blanks that are constructed so any shaper can use the same tools and process they would on a foam blank.  Built from sustainable Paulownia wood, Mark is taking

advantage of the material’s incredible natural weight to strength ratio, flex properties, and rot/water resistant attributes.  Now having built a few boards out of Paulownia myself, I confidently endorse it’s use to any board builder or craftsman/woman…it’s just amazing stuff!

Now ready to take his proof of concept to the next level, Mark has started a Kickstarter project to help fund this next evolution in sustainable wooden board design and construction.

• BigKahunaBoy of Georgia

Yes you're stoked, you just won a 6″6″ Aloha Bean Surfboard courtesy of Dailystoke.com.

What do you have to say???

(we need to hear from you to claim the prize)

Enter to win today at dailystoke.com

Hint: we like members that are active on our site so like us on facebook, add a spot, or post a comment — do something

This is a 6'6″ board that is professional level top-of-the-line quality, so you better have some game if you win…

What lucky stoke member gets it??

Ya see that board over there that looks like it's made of brown marble?

Yeah?

Coconut.

Coconut? No shit!

Yep. Coconut.

Why didn't I think of that?

Cause you keep yapping on about hemp boards, then smoke all the materials.

Global Surf International dreamed up coconut mat boards and brought their patent pending idea from concept through production. As coconut water has rapidly become the new water, we're left with mountains of empty coconut husks itching for a second life. This waste was a daily reality for the Thailand based GSI employees on their daily treks past coconut fields to the GSI factory. The question was, what could be done with all those shells? A little creative thinking and testing had GSI turning them into eco-friendly surfboard materials.

The final product looks like a standard PU board with brown marble paint jobs on top and bottom. The coloring is not paint at all, but is actually brown coconut husk strips from a loose shake that are patted flat and glassed onto the board. This is no woven fabric, nor synthesized product. It's just 100% pure coconut goodness spread around the top and bottom of the board. Why do this, you ask? A) it looks cool as shit; and B) the coconut strips offer a stronger, lighter alternative to even carbon fiber cloth, giving the board a super-natural strength.

I'm sold on the concept and I'm sure it won't be very long before other shapers start incorporating some type of coconut mash into their designs. Check the coconut mat boards out at GSI's website and stay tuned for more coconutty concoctions in the near future.

Just one week left until we giveaway the Aloha Bean Surfboard to one luck Stoke Community member.

This board ain't for kooks, its a high performance shred stick so be sure you can handle it.

Hit up dailystoke.com and enter to win today!

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The backdrop:

Bells Beach during the 2012 Rip Curl Pro. Second round, heat five. Fred Patacchia vs. Michel Bourez.

The wave:

A clean head-high line unloads on the bank. The Spartan strokes into it in the pocket, while Freddy P. paddles in just a few yards inside, all eyes on where he's going, without even a glance toward the pocket.

The incident:

Freddy P. gets to his feet and takes a quick look back, only to see Bourez charging towards him. Freddy quickly hits eject and kicks over the back. Michel, undeterred, goes on to hack the wave to pieces.

The call:

Freddy got hit with an interference call, meaning his second highest score in the heat would be halved.

The result:

A hobbled Freddy P. tore the bag out of everything he could get, while the rattled Spartan dropped the oversized ball and couldn't put enough of a score together to take the win. Even with the interference, Fred survived to surf another day.

Why the interference?

If you look carefully at the moment of the incident, you can see an ever so subtle hesitation on the part of Michel Bourez. But, even a millisecond of hesitation can make or break a score. The line Michel might have drawn had Freddy not paddled in may have very well been the same, but… allowing Freddy's pop up sans interference would open the door for others to do the same.

You might not agree with the call (especially after seeing Bourez proceed to demolish the wave), but that's how priority positioning works. You wait your turn and take your wave. You never interfere with the surfer with priority's scoring potential. And, whether you have priority or not, you always, always, always keep an eye on where the other guy is.

The lesson:

Mistakes happen, but cooler heads always prevail.