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The Wire by Firewire Surfboards
by Firewire Surfboards
Firewire believes in the perpetual improvement of the surfing experience through the development of new materials, construction methods and surfboard design, while maintaining continued focus on improving the ecofriendliness of surfboard production. The wire is our platform for introducing Firewire fans around the world to our community of Firewire contributors, as well as other individuals who's work and expertise benefits all surfers.
Episodes
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ep. #73 - Kelly Slater talks Great White Sharks and The Great White Twin
Inspired by the body of the Great White Shark, Kelly Slater designed the 'Great White Twin' in I-Bolic Technology with Volcanic Lamination alongside Bali based surfboard designer Mike Woo. This high performance fish fits in your quiver where most fish don't - it creates speed in weak waves, but...
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ep. # 72 - Kevin Schulz raids Kelly's shed and shares his worst injuries, best boards and why he rides the Mashup as a 2 + 1.
Kevin Shulz has a new career in the Fire Service but still maintains his old career as a professional surfer. In this episode he shares what its like to be called 'the Air GOAT' while designing boards with the actual GOAT, Kelly Slater.
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ep. #71 - Tomo buys land in Scotland and rips Surf Ranch on a REVO
Fresh off a productive knee rehab, Tomo joins us today to discuss buying land in Scotland, ripping Surf Ranch on a REVO, and riding the most uncommon wave craft we've ever seen - a 'Surfmat'.
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ep. # 70 - Duct Tape Invitational Champion Taylor Jensen
This August, nearly 20 years after winning the U.S. Open of Surfing in 2003, Taylor Jensen became the Vans Duct Tape Invitational Champion at the U.S. Open in Huntington Beach, riding a Thunderbolt RED Special T model by Dan Mann. Enjoy this episode.
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ep. # 69 - REVO discussion at Nixon HQ, with Nixon VP of Sales Charlie Ninegar
Charlie Ninegar began his career at a Los Angeles Surf Shop and after a storied series of roles at many surf companies you've heard of, he is today VP of Sales at Nixon, where he spends at least some of his working hours partially occupied by thoughts of surfing his Tomo EVO and REVO. Enjoy.
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ep. # 68 - C.J. Nelson talks Parallax, Apex and Outlier + Surfing like No One is Watching
C.J. Nelson is a Duct Tape Invitational Champion and a Mexi Log Fest Champion who made a career for himself in the 90's and 00's as both a nose rider and performance long boarder. Today though he prefers the subtler aspects of surfing such as trim and turns, and he shares much in this episode…
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ep. # 67 - From the Quiksilver Crossing to 'Women on Waves': Jim Kempton has built a career of dream jobs in surfing.
Jim Kempton spent years on the Quiksilver Crossing with Kelly Slater and others, seeking undiscovered waves around the planet. Decades previous in the 70's, he was the editor of SURFER Magazine. And today, he is President of the California Surf Museum in Oceanside California. On July 6th he is...
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ep. # 66 - International Surfing Day with Surfrider CEO Chad Nelsen
Happy International Surfing Day! Chad Nelsen joins us in this episode to discuss saving surf spots, stopping single use plastic, and so much more. For more on Surfrider, and to become a member for just $25 dollars a month, visit Surfrider.org. The Surfrider Foundation does important work…
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ep. # 65 - Hayden Everett Partnered with Surf Filmmaker Ben Weiland on his new Single 'Still'
Would you move to the wilderness on the day your new album drops? Hayden Everett would. He's on his way to Yosemite right now. Today you can find Hayden's new E.P. 'Kennecott' wherever you listen to music. And you can find the music video for his new single 'Still' on YouTube. The video features...
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ep. #64 - Sunday with Rob Machado; the Anti-Swell Chaser
This episode was supposed to be 15 minutes but it ran for well over an hour. It's a deep dive into Rob Machado's surfboard designing mind, tracing the Sunday back through a lineage of boards that began when rob left the tour twenty years ago, and hung up his truster along with his contest jersey,...
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ep. #63 - Akila Aipa Returns from Mexico with Jackson Bunch and The Flat Earth
For the past six weeks, Akila Aipa has been scoring perfect right hand points in Mexico with Jackson Bunch. Jackson is one of Hawaii's most promising up and coming talents, and today, both he and Akila are in California, just hours after stepping off their return flight to the United States.…
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ep. #62 - How To Save a Surf Spot with Nik Strong-Cvetich; Executive Director of Save The Waves Coalition.
Having self-directed his own career around surfing and the ocean, Nik Strong-Cvetich is focused on saving our planets best waves from dangers both present and future through collaborations with many organizations, governments and communities around the globe. His Santa Cruz based organization…
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ep. #61 - "No Brains, No Headaches". Finn McGill shares his Life Philosophy.
Finn McGill lives life without brakes. And 'No Brains, No Headache' is more than just a life philosophy. It's an all new video part from him that is now live on Firewire Surfboards YouTube channel. Finn put two years, three injuries and more surfboards than we can count towards this 24 month...
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ep.#60 - On the North Shore with Brodi Sale, talking Jackson, Shane, Surfboard Design and More.
Recorded at Kelly Slater's North Shore beach cottage, Brodi Sale shares the story of meeting Shane Dorian for the first time at just six years old, and soon getting sponsored by Billabong after performing well at Shane's annual Keiki Classic surf contest on the Big Island of Hawaii. Brodi also...
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ep. #59 - Kevin Schulz Wants To Give You His Surfboard ( + the intricacies of good aerial surfing and a breakdown of his favorite shapes.)
Kevin Shulz has a broken hand. And he's not scared to elaborate on his scariest moments in the ocean. He is also generous. He wanted to give away one of his Dominator II's on this episode, so we said yes. Listen for more. Find show notes at firewiresurfboards.com/the-wire.
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ep. #58 - Timmy Reyes Returns from Injury on the Dominator II
Timmy Reyes says that Huntington Beach is a wind factory and that all the wind in California comes from there, and from Oxnard too. We're not sure if that's true. But we believe him when he says it's good to be back in the water, riding a Dominator II, a shape that he describes as 'smoother' than...
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ep. #57 - Building Boards like Lego Blocks; Sandwich Construction with Dan Mann and the Dominator II
Dan Mann is a core board builder who describes the merits of Sandwich Construction in Surfboard Design as a 'lego blocks' process where different materials can be swapped in and out for desired strength, weight and flex. The key benefit to Sandwich Construction as he describes it is the ability…
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ep. #56 - Sunrise with Rob Machado, talking music, GLAZER, and Magic Potions (feat. Rip Zinger)
Last year when the Seaside and Beyond arrived at Surf Shops for the first time, Rip Zinger became nearly more popular than the board. You probably remember seeing him in a video with Rob, describing the kale salads he made for Rob in 2019, before each session at Seaside. If you haven't yet seen…
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ep. #55 - ' Twice Baked ' Deep Talk with Dan Mann and Mark Pesce: Sizing, concave, fin placements and more.
Trimming in Timbertek through chop and slop – the Twice Baked is made for coming out of isolation. Dan Mann designed the Twice Baked to stay in your trunk because it excels in junk, so that your surf stoke won't be wasted after being out of the water for weeks. The Twice Baked is fun to surf no...
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ep. #54 - Tristan Sullaway is a San Diego City Lifeguard who wants you to #StayHomeShredLater
After years of effort Tristan Sullaway landed his dream job just several weeks ago. He's now a full time lifeguard with the city of San Diego, one of the most coveted career paths among surfers who seek to live a life near the beach aligned with their surfing passions. The irony is that he was…
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ep. #53 - Michael Stewart went to Indo with Pacha Light to plant Sea Trees
Sustainable Surf is recognized most easily among surfers for its ECOBOARD program - a standard for Surfboard Builders seeking to lower the toxicity of their surfboard building operations. Since 2014 Firewire has been the only global surfboard manufacturer to qualify all of our surfboard…
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ep. #52 - Kelly Slater and Timmy Reyes on the Sci - Fi 2.0
Timmy Reyes was in bed at Ten O' Clock when the phone rang. It was Kelly Slater. 'Where you at?" he asked, with an immediate ask of Timmy, to take place the next morning. Five hours later Timmy woke up with a Sci – Fi 2.0 in his truck, driving north from Huntington Beach to Lemoore where he met...
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ep. #51 - Shane Dorian on Jackson, Tomo, Big Waves, and more.
Welcome to Kelly's house on the North Shore of Oahu with Shane Dorian - describing his upbringing in entertaining ways as well as how surfboard designers and shapers impacted his life and career before material and design innovations began to impact his son Jackson through Jackson's relationship...
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ep. #50 - Surfboard Historian Richard Kenvin on planing hulls, uncovering forgotten designs, and bringing Tomo to the U.S.A.
Today on the Wire Podcast - Richard Kenvin - AKA ' Hydrodynamica ' on Instagram, you probably already follow him. Richard is a Surfboard Historian who has lectured in the University of California system of Collegiate Schools, he is also responsible for resurrecting Bob Simmons work from the 50's,...
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ep. #49 - Chris Cote talks NO BRAINER and Succeeding in Surf Media for 20 + years.
Chris Cote has thrived through every switch in surf media trends over the past twenty years and today works as a commentator for the WSL among other projects, Enjoy this episode.
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ep. #48 - Nathan Myers Drifts with Rob Machado in The Surfer's Journal.
Rob Machado had a crisis in 2009 that spawned, the Drifter, a a film about his wanderings in Indonesia, and it wasn't until 11 years later in January of this year that he revealed publicly for the first time what that crisis was that inspired The Drifter, and he did it within the printed pages of...
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ep. #47 - The El Tomo Fish: How Daniel Thomson's Journey into Fish Design History lead to an Aeronautical Inspired Future Craft.
Daniel Thomson's El Tomo Fish is here. This episode breaks down the design story of this Jet Fighter Tailed Fish, and also delves into fun territory with discussions of Tool (Daniel's favorite band), mandalas, mathematical principles and more.
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ep. #46 - Rob Machado - New Board, New Film, New Festival.
'My quiver is a 5'2 and a 7'0, and there's nothing in-between…' Rob watches himself surfing the Seaside and Beyond, his new LFT shape (on video in the show notes for this episode), and recognizes he occupies a strange space on the surfboard design spectrum. Around 5'6 and shorter, and 7'0 and...
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ep. #45 - Taylor Jensen talks about his Superman in Texas and more.
Taylor Jensen went to Texas with Surf Ride's Josh Bernard and pulled an aerial we don't see too often, especially on longboards.
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ep. #44 - From Kelp Forest to Coastal Rain Forest – Kevin Whilden has Solutions to Climate Change.
Kevin Whilden is a permafrost geologist who as a child collected rocks everywhere he went whether playground or Yellowstone Hot Springs or Catalina Island and even Antarctica in 1995 when he was a Graduate Student student studying Periglacial Geomophology (WTF?). "Look, I like rocks" he says...
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ep. # 43 - Firewire History + Scoring Barra w / Chuy Reyna
Chuy Reyna is the Man in the Demo Van - he runs the demo program in California but also does much more, often pushing 'the button'; Firewire speak that translates to: 'Chuy says the board is perfect and we need to release it to surf shops everywhere.' Much more in this episode.
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ep. #42 - Ben Skinner is a Purveyor of Fine Vibes and Exceptional Surfboards
Ben Skinner grew up with Jeremy Flores under the tutleage of Tom Carrol and Gary Elkerton. He was first sponsored by Quiksilver at eleven years old and was immediately put in to a grind by the "Sandhill Warrior" Rob Roland Smith, the legendary personal trainer employed by Quiksilver to train the...
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ep. #41 - Bleeding Ears and Three Wave Hold Downs. Timmy Reyes Presents 'Love Letter'.
Timmy Reyes took a well deserved break this summer, staying away from his usual fare of thirty, forty, even fifty foot waves or bigger. On this episode of The Wire Podcast Timmy talks about the injuries he needed to rehab, and the sessions that make up Love Letter - Timmy's new feature film...
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ep. #40 - Is Tristan Sullaway Pro? + Tavarua, paddling across oceans, and Kelly on Dan Mann's boards.
Tristan Sullaway has been tubed at Cloudbreak, and once surfed G - Land for eight hours straight. He has stickers on his board but also graduated college. He's a lifeguard who is 6 foot 3 and maybe still growing. He rides Dan Mann's boards (and Tomo's) and actually borrowed Dan Mann's paddle…
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ep. #39 - Relik Recap with Taylor Jensen (3X World Longboard Champion) + more
Taylor Jensen is on The Wire to recap the unexpected way he surprised his competition, his audience and even his wife at the Relik Malibu Classic. We cover much more in this quick and fun episode.
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ep. #38 - Rob Machado in conversation with SWITCHFOOT
If you haven't yet heard the story about the person who approached Rob Machado one day at the airport, moments after Rob got off a plane from Mexico, then you haven't yet heard one of the most memorable tales of hilarity that a pro surfer has ever told. It shocked us. It shocked SWITCHFOOT too....
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ep: #37 - 'Hendo' from Pro-lite talks Cymatic, Seaside and Baked Potato + C-Street, Kayakers and designing board bags that last.
Hendo is a huge human who rips. He rides a Seaside. A Cymatic too. When it's really small, a Baked Potato. He is also one third of Pro-Lite, a company that makes what many of us at Firewire think are the best surfboard bags on the planet, for example, The Smuggler, a collaboration with Firewire...
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ep. #36 - Todd Glaser talks Seaside and more.
Todd Glaser is a professional photographer, former professional bodyboarder, and friend and collaborator to Kelly Slater, Rob Machado and many others. In this episode he shares thoughts on the Seaside shape, the Seaside surf spot, and his new special edition of Proximity Book. There are many...
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ep. #35 - Mark Price on the Good and Social Podcast
This episode is borrowed Kassia and Maureen of the Good and Social podcast who interviewed Firewire CEO Mark Price on many topics. The Good and Social podcast is a series of conversations with social and environmental innovators from across industries featuring risk takers, activists, business...
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ep. #34 - Rob Machado and his Therapist talk broken bones, mysterious text messages and trophies in the garden.
What you know is that Rob Machado is a Pipe Master. You know that he competed on the world tour for ten years. And that he won twelve events before retiring in 2001. You also know about his second career. The seventeen years since he left the tour, surfing everywhere; inspiring, exciting and...
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ep. #33 - Tomo talks cymatics, the universe, esoteric ideas and obscure scientists
Energy = Mass x Speed of Light Squared. This was Einstein's big idea. And while you might not be the type stay up at night researching this type of thing, Tomo is very much that type of person. This episode covers Tomo's interests in physics, the universe, esoteric ideas, and obscure scientists....
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ep. #32 - The Board that Spent Two Years in Kelly Slater's Shed.
Shaping since 1996, Dan Mann made his first board for Kelly Slater in 2015. Then it sat in a San Clemente shed. For 24 months. Until....
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ep. #31 - Mark Price interviewed by Kamea Chayne from Green Dreamer
Mark Price is the CEO of Firewire Surfboards. Kamea Chayne is the host of Green Dreamer - a podcast for creatives, visionaries and entrepreneurs dreaming of a sustainable future. This episode covers much with Mark, such as: - What first got Mark into sustainability. - The process of manufacturing...
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ep. #30 - Timmy Reyes is Wrestling with Mother Nature
"I love conditions" Says Timmy Reyes; "Whether it's a one-foot glassy beautiful day with a little peeler... that gives me as much joy as a twenty-foot day... glassy and peeling.... its the same to me." On a one foot day Timmy prefers the Go Fish. On a twenty foot day, he likes the Hydronaut.…
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ep. #29 - The Man in the (demo) Van: Chuy Reyna
If you grew up in California in the 80's or 90's you saw Chuy Reyna on TV. In magazines. In surf videos like Blazing Boards alongside Mark Occhilupo. If you're growing up today in California you've seen him beachside with more surfboards than you've ever seen fit inside a Mercedes Sprinter. He's...
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The Wire ep. #28 - Behind the Scenes at Surf Ranch
It's not physically possible to fit each of you who read this inside the Surf Ranch gates at the same time, but we still wish you had been with us on April 10th in Lemoore. By now you've most likely seen the result of our time there with Kelly and the Surf Ranch crew. The video we made just…
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ep. #27 - How a Swedish surfer crafted the Slater Designs leash.
To invent something is to take nothing and turn it into something. To innovate is to take that something and significantly improve it. The surfboard leash was invented by Jack O'neill's son Pat, a Californian. And it's most recent innovation has been crafted by Jan Pearson, a Swede - he is from,...
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ep. #26 - Art is Everything, Bigger than Life Itself. A Conversation with John Van Hamersveld
John Van Hamersveld designed The Endless Summer poster - very likely the most iconic graphic design ever produced in surfing - an enormous cultural achievement that was only the first rung of many on a ladder that has since led him to become one of the most recognizable graphic artists ever. John...
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ep. #25 - Irish Isolation with Dan Mann (who also froze in Poland)
Deep Shaper talk. Thoughts on Craftsmanship. And freezing in Poland followed by getting stranded in Dublin. Dan Mann has had a wild week, and we dig deep into it in this episode.
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ep. #24 - Kevin Whilden on how Climate Change impacts surfing
Kevin Whilden is a scientist with a Masters Degree in Geology and a lifelong interest in how the world works. Today he is partnered with Michael Stewart at Sustainable Surf, overseeing a host of programs like Deep Blue Events, an initiative directed at helping surfing's largest brands lower their...
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Firewire believes in the perpetual improvement of the surfing experience through the development of new materials, construction methods and surfboard design, while maintaining continued focus on improving the ecofriendliness of surfboard production. The wire is our platform for introducing Firewire fans around the world to our community of Firewire contributors, as well as other individuals who's work and expertise benefits all surfers.
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