If you ever get a chance to ride the WaveLoch at the Wave House in Mission Beach or elsewhere around the world, you need to jump at the chance. I first became interested in making flowboards back in 2001 when I saw one of Bill Bryan’s boards made by Carl Ekstrom. I was very impressed with Carl’s board but wanted to make something a little different. I made a couple boards for Bill that turned out lighter and stonger. Months later Tom Lochtefeld approached me to make him ten different samples for the portable Flow Rider. When Tom ordered fifty nine boards (16 different shapes) for the opening of his new Wave House in South Africa I resigned from Victoria Skimboards and went into flowboard production. The opening was a big success with Bill Bryan winning the contest. Bill has won many contests on my boards. The opening contest of the Wave House in San Diego was won by, snowboarding legend, Terje Haakonsen riding my personal flowboard. He did two amazing Haakon flips back to back on the same wave. In recent years I have worked with Jaime Lovett on boards that are more bi- directional for ease in performing switch tricks. Jaime is amazing to watch on the “B-Max” has won a couple Wave House competitions on both the straped-in and strapless Grape flowboards. He was the first to land the double back flip on his bi-directional 44” X 12”. Jaime also enjoys a massive 48” long board that is too big for most humans and he is second to none riding the Grape strapless board. I have now have 25 different flowboard templates to start from, but each board is made custom. The Grape flowboards are lighter, stronger, out perform the competition, and are used by the best.
