a house on the beach
For some different reasons (an awesome wave & some awesome people) we just couldn’t leave this place. So this bungalow became our home for eleven days.
For some different reasons (an awesome wave & some awesome people) we just couldn’t leave this place. So this bungalow became our home for eleven days.
I love this place! Nothing beats a lineup screaming and whistling of joy for each other. They call this place Ladylongboardlandia. A lineup filled with pure aloha, and how much we learned surfing with some of the world’s best surfers, thank you for some amazing days! Also a big thank you to Margaret & Matt
Avocados, papayas, bananas I loove it! We stayed at a place where it took forty minutes to an hour to get the food you ordered, then the avocados came in very handy! But while waxing his board I think Petter wanted to eat his Bing fish..
Mick’s face was one of the first one who greeted us when we arrived to the Bing surfboard factory on the hill in Encinitas. He has a face you rember, it’s the archetype of the American dream with a perfect smile. I remember I wondered if all Californian guys were gonna look like that, later
Linn got a pinkish, polished, Bing mini simmons with glassed on fins and a ceder stringer. No one really knows what color it is, it’s like a cameleont, sometimes it’s vintage golden, sometimes it’s yellow peach and sometimes it’s something else. When i surf it it’s yellowish, but when Linn surf it is always pink
We met up with one of the best longboarders in Mexico. Israel Preciado is a Mexican surfer born and raised in Sayulita, a get away surf paradise in the northern Pacific Coast of Mexico. He started surfing as a little kid and has always had a thing for bigger longer boards, back in the days
I guess it haven’t been the easiest thing to follow how we traveled through California, that’s because we traveled back an forth… A lot. The original plan was to go from San Francisco to San Diego but because of different reasons (you know it hardly ever goes as planned, at least not for us) we
Went back to Encinitas, San Diego after our Highway 1 road trip to pick up a brand new board and say goodbye to the Bing family. And here it is, Matt Calvani’s version of the Mini Simmons aka the board that brought back the joy of surfing to me. As you can see it looks
Ignacio “Chuk” Solis is Bing´s ambassador from Spain. Here´s his brand new 9,5 Bing Pig they just sent him over the atlantic. Doesn’t it look awesome?