Noseriderx Garmendia Surfboards

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CAPTAIN FIN – SCOTTY STOPNIK – 9.8””

DEFLOW – LUC ROLLAND SOL

Jon Garmendia showing the new batch of Garmendia Surfboards for Pukas Surf Shop. Pic by Xabier Beloki.

100% Hand-Shaped Ready for Noseriding

The classic Noserider with some design liberties taken for a more suited modern surfing.

Paying special attention to detail to make this happen, this Noserider is ideal for those small and perfect wave days.

Honoring its name, this is a very stable board for the Nose and soft when surfing in the back.

The Bottom Structure:Long concave on the nose, which reaches almost to the middle of the board. Belly for the rest and it ends in flat just after the fin box (kick). This will help the tail to nail down the wave and work as a counterweight to be able to noseride.

Therailsaresoftand finished in50/50so the water flows around the soft curve of the rail before releasing. It will better hold in subtle turns (if you can manage one that were sure you can if you put your will into it).

Theglassin the Noserider is 6oz bottom + 6oz +8oz volan on deck.

Garmendia Surfboards. PicXabier Beloki.

The Ride of the

Jon Garmendia did it again. The second time around winner of The Longboard Spanish Championship and winner of the expression session of the best shared wave with Alex Knost at Vans Duct Tape Invitational. This young surfer keeps quite some secrets under his belt that we are going to unraveled, starting by saying that he is not only a shaper, and a very good one at that, but much more indeed.

30is hours to finish a surfboard 100% hand shaped that demands care, attention to detail and solely two pair of hands that do the whole work from start to finish. Starting with the special selection of stringers, shaping, glassing, sanding And yes, only a pair of hands: Jon Garmendias. The man, the brand, and the wings behind the butterfly.

Jon Garmendia’s creation process. 100% hand shaped. Pic xAitor Molina

You could think about what kind of relation could a butterfly and a surfboard have, and the answer has a name: Jon Garmendia.

Thissurfer from Zarautz, a little town in the Basque Country (Spain), is also asurfboard shaper, glasser and sander, that has just won for the second time around The Longboard Spanish Championship;winner in A Frouxeira de Valdovio beach in A Corua and in Salinas, Asturias riding one of his own longboard designs and creations.He was also the invited to take part in the expression session ofTheDuct Tape Invitational organized by Joel Tudorin Zarautz among 38 surfers and actuallywonit alongside Ale Knostfor the best shared wave.

At he MexiLogFest (MXLF21),one of the musts in the longboard festivals arena, he got in theTop 16. Another victory for sure.

Jon Garmendia dominating the elements. Pic byIigo Agote.

Not only that, he is a father of a beautiful baby girl and works part-time at the Spanish leader in furniture fittings manufacturing company as well. His hands are full right now with work at the company in the mornings and his passions: his family and, as he says, seeking happiness by shaping his own surfboards, longboards among them, and riding them.

So, afternoons would be the time when Jon puts the hat of Garmendia Surfboards and shapes his midlengths, twins, longs …, while steals time during weekend mornings or dawns to surf himself, try his designs and keep improving shapes for those boards that fill, not only his demands, but also the ones that more and more want to ride one Garmendia Surfboard.

| Curiosity Lead to Longboards and More

Being passionate about singlefins, twinfins and longboards, he started to feel interested about classic shapes after falling in love with the lines they drew. That was it. Even though it started as a hobby,an endless curiosity about this particular classical shape made him be on a mission: to shape the longboard he was longing for him that could not find anywhere.

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Created the Longboard he Couldnt Find Anywhere

Jon Garmendia noseriding a Garmendia Surfboard. Pic byXabier Beloki