Bulletx Garmendia Surfboards

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Some specifics of the Bullet 92 is its sharp edges. It makes it more technical due to less stability but provides more grip with bigger waves (wall grip).

RECOMMENDED FINS

FCS – FCS II WHIP – 9 – 1 FIN

DEFLOW – CREAM 9.75”

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

Speed andManeuverability 100% Hand-Shaped

The Bullet is a more versatile board than the Noserider.It will allow you to surf in all kinds of conditions, from beach-breaks to point-breaks.

The Bullet allows us to make tips, turn with ease and feel the trim.Speed and maneuverabilitywould be the two adjectives that best describe it. A very smooth concave just below the nose that extends almost to the middle of the board with a light belly for the rest until almost to the end is the trick that Jon Garmendia adds to the mixture of this versatile board.

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

The Bullet can be described as the day to day board that looks for maneuverability thanks to the more backward center. It is lightened at the tip/nose so that it does not weigh down. It is more unstable than a noserider because it lacks surface area, but also more daring.

Garmendia tells us that he likes toplay with the railswhen riding this board.Havingthinnerandsharpersrailshelps catching more powerful bigger wall waves. At five feet it is more maneuverable and playful, he tells us.

Thebottomhas more rocker in the nose and less in the tail . It has also more grip and some “kick tail” in order to nail the surfboard to the wave and be able to walk forward to the tip.

Garmendia Surfboards. Pic Xabier Beloki.

Thenosehas soft concave, to making pivoting and turning a little easier which the belly also helps with. This board helps you surf in a smooth, flowing style.

The recommended fin for this bullet is one with a wide base but with quite a rake and flex.

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 noseriding a Garmendia Surfboard. Pic by Iigo 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