people always associate him with his unusual design stuff
but most didn't realize he made a damn good thruster and longboard
He told me once when I was queuing up my next order and asking for a suggestion up at his waialua shop
he said " you know I make a damn good thruster, let me make you one"
and he was right that f..ckr was fast
but then like always I got too fat for it and had to sell it
he could make anything, but he was trying to create his own unique niche brand
to find someone that would help him "blow it up big time" as he would say
He tried it with firewire but mass producing his fins were always a problem
Maybe it would have been different with NVS and their G10 mass market offerings
way too much of a perfectionist for this fake underground economy wannaby industry
the kind of crap he went through would make a great spike jonze documentary for vice one day
he always wanted you to go stand under the banyan tree with your new board to take a photo for his collection
Aside from biking, photography was another of his hobbies