"Dave Rastovich tests a Bing Sunfish"
It sounds more like a children's book and, truth be told, the storyline is equally as simple. A hippy who lives in a wooded valley rides a magical surfboard and has a wonderful time.
The end.
What more do you want?
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Comments
It must be all about the feelz because that board didn't look too magical, especially the first righthander in Indonesia. Looked a bit slow off the bottom.
Rasta ripping! Those laybacks around 2:20 were fucking sick.
A sun fish or is it a baby whale?
Love Rasta's surfing eh.
Ha ha...sounds like Frank Rizzo:
What more do you want???
How bout some reality??
Not sure how you can claim to be a hippy when you spend 90% of your time jetting around the globe getting paid shit loads to go for a surf.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't air travel the most environmentally unfriendly thing you can do?
I'm fairly certain injecting panda bears with greenhouse gases while flushing barrels of palm oil from orangutan forests down the toilet is the worst thing you can do but your point stands - Rasta is ALMOST as bad as a panda killer.
That was some great surfing although a lot of people would probably be bogging a bit on that board
.Didn't look too slow to me .
Rasta could surf any piece with style - love it. He is having a ball.
He makes it look easy. No way would I be surfing a twinnie in those ways. The instant acceleration, tail side, top to bottom speed and the directional change in a blink are not easy to get a handle on. Believe me these things are not slow I have one and can be a hand full.
So he's still on the up and go! That old kid knows how to have fun! Loosen up folks it's hard to be a hippy these days with all this new fangled technology and wods of cash! Enjoy!
What more do I want The Truth....... Millionaire rides free surfboards on free trip OS,, GETS MONEY from BING marketers, Blah blah BING (even though I have never heard of you are going on my long list of shite companies).
Crappy board choice for the waves on offer.
Futting Hipsters
They did not even show what the board look liked was it twin quad etc etc na marketing knuckleheads in Sydney who dont surf just thought the average bearded hipster would check it out FAIL.
What is a sunfish SOLID FAIL,
Who are bing surfboards SOLID FAIL
maybe hippie dave IS BING SURFBOARDS because they are spruiking hipster dave,
Who got more marketing out of that FAIL
Haters gonna hate.
Realists are gonna be real. What should we love ????? GROG
Lookout, Mr 303 has figured out content marketing!
Stunet simple concept acquire and retain . They did not acquire. filthy hipsters, i ride my single fin in private
Yeah, I got no idea what you're talking about now.
"Blah blah BING (even though I have never heard of you are going on my long list of shite companies)"
Oh dear.
Classic pic of Keith Paull from 1969 on there insta
Loved the surfing and while the board is probably not for me, the thing definitely works.
I don't know about you Rule303 but I'd be so fucking embarrassed not to recognise a name that's been associated with surfing for longer than fibreglass;)
I dont know about you BODA I Would be so fucking embarrassed to not recognise a name that is just a brand in America. Not the person or the time.
If were talking about BING Copeland Bing Copeland began surfing in 1949, at age 13, at the Manhattan Beach
Bing opened his first surf shop in the fall of 1959 with his friend Rick Stoner and became one of the major surfboard manufactures of the sixties and early seventy’s.
The late 60s was the beginning of the end for the major manufacturers. It was a time of the “back yard board” and “no label” surfboards. Bing along with his master shapers and new designers, the Campbell Brothers, transitioned to shorter boards with a few models, but despite Bing Surfboard’s continued popularity, sales declined and it became obvious to Bing that the business may not survive. It was also around this time that Bing and his wife, Conlee, decided it might be best to move their young family away from the drug scene that had developed surrounding Hermosa Beach. Bing decided to pursue a career change and moved his family to Idaho.
In 1974, G&S took on the license of Bing Surfboards THE LICENCE EXPIRED BRAND DISAPPEARRED FOR 26 YRS
In 2000, Matt’s friend, Dan Bendicksen, head shaper for Bing Surfboards in the late 60s, introduced Matt to Bing Copeland and Mike Eaton, which paved the way for Matt to inherit Bing Surfboards. ...INHERIT....
SO some people bought some brand with some heritage
WOW Look out gordon woods the hipsters are coming.
Sorry your preaching to the wrong crowd I buy my boards locally I give no money to Surf companies or delude myself with their heritage Statements.
Sounds like someone has been busy on the Google machine
Geez if Rasta is a rampaging Capitalist Pig Dog that makes me worst than Rupert.
Rasta Earns more than you or I put together memlasurf .
Rasta is a rampaging poodle capitalist
I think some yoga and meditation might be of help to you. You don't seem very happy.
Rasta has done more for the ocean then anyone on this forum has done....