While most guys his age are either frothing on the cutting edge of thruster performance or groping at surfing’s roots cross-stepping in beaver-tails, Burch is taking his own middle path. He’s teaching himself piece by piece how surfboards move through the water by shaping and mastering every kind of board imaginable. He started by shaping alaias a couple summer’s back, then got into shaping logs and gliders, next he moved on to Simmon’s style planing hulls and finless pieces of foam. Recently he’s been experimenting with more and more refined asymmetrical surfboards and he’s pushing the boundaries of glide and performance.
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August 1st, 2010
80′S 8” something frys……….
August 3rd, 2010
he’s taking the “retro” movement back into modern open-minded relevance.
August 4th, 2010
While many surfing athletes come across stiff, two dimensional and only interested in the flavor-of-the-month manuevers, this truly insightful piece really made me feel that I was getting to know someone interesting. Not only that, but someone interesting who not only cares about making it as a surfER, but cares about advancing surfING–and moving it further forward than by a one more quarter rotation in the air. That’s something not many surfers can lay claim to.
August 5th, 2010
Kid rips! stoked, Im 31, been surfing since I was three, goofy. from the east coast of Oz. feel the flow n respect the environment!
August 12th, 2010
Interesting kid. He makes surfing look fun and effortless. Good stuff.
February 10th, 2011
I want one, how can i get in contact with ryan ?
ps goofy footers rule the planet
March 5th, 2011
Well said answers in that interview.
May 20th, 2011
[...] creepy fingers is a superb film. if there were special features, this might be included. http://vimeo.com/14078036 something tells me this human being might enjoy surfing here and have an idea on which board to do so with. just saying. http://www.korduroy.tv/2010/ryan-burch-innerviews [...]
June 6th, 2011
[...] On a même eu le droit a une session surf avec Craig Anderson , Dan Malloy, Alex Knost, Ryan Burch et Thomas Campbell que du beau! Attention Inshallah risque de vous charmer! Merci encore [...]
June 8th, 2011
[...] Stoked and Broke is a journey along the coast of Southern California where Cyrus and surf buddy Ryan Burch meet up with people who hold surfing high on their list of priorities and the way they have figurer [...]
September 16th, 2011
[...] 6’2″ Burch asymmetrical channel bottom board Richard is riding is a culmination of Ryan Burch’s surf/shaping room R&D and Carl Ekstrom’s decades of asymmetrical experimentation and [...]