This place continues to amaze me, as everyday brings more fun and adventure. We found a break up north of town that was an oil glass wedging beachbreak, with bowling ramp wedges and barrels without a drop of water out of place, and not a soul to be seen for miles, absolute bliss. But same as to the south, winds pick up by mid morning, and the sand point dreamworld lefts are the afternoon salvation everyday. My boards of choice for this trip are both Al Merrick shaped Channel Islands shortboards, one is a 5′11″ Round Tail Proton and the other is a 6′0″ Round Tail AME, both with the Lokbox Fin System which 101 Fin Co. utilizes for their incredible Bamboo Fins.
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This board is a 5′6″ x 18 5/8″ x 2 5/16 concave deck (2 inch at center), double stringer, half moon tail 5 fin plugged, re-worked Flyer.

Behind the cover: This board started off as an experiment. Kelly took it down to Mainland, Mexico on a Quiksilver photo trip (all the cypher vision ad concepts you’ve seen lately), then placed second on it at the Pipeline Masters, and now it lands on the cover of Waves Magazine after a memorable session somewhere in Australia. This board has logged some serious miles and might make an appearance in the CI line in 2011… Would you be interested in giving this board a go?

Kelly grabs the cover of Surfing on his 5′9″ x 18 1/2″ 2 1/4″ round tail Flyer!

Behind the cover: This board was stashed away in Kelly’s garage for a little over a year in Australia. Kelly decided to take it for a spin one day on the Gold Coast and ended up on the cover of Surfing Life.

Vote for Conner Coffin!

“nice job boys..Conner is an old soul with the energy of a kid and the ability of a super star. I’ve watched this 15 times and it stokes me each time.”
- Pat O’Connell

The Channel Islands LA Store customer appreciation night was a blast! One lucky kid even walked out of there with a signed Dane Reynolds board. With an awesome DJ and a live performance by Jonathan Swift and Rob Machado, the night was one for the memory books.

Big Congrats goes out to Masatoshi Ohno for winning the Surf Ride Freedom PRO-AM at Oceanside Pier this past weekend and pocketing $10,000 USD. Riding a 5′4″ x 19″ x 2 1/8″ Dumpster Diver.

Gabe Kling is victorious at the 6.0 Lowers Pro riding a 6′1″ x 18 3/8″ x 2 ¼” Proton.

Gabe Kling (St. Augustine, FL), 29, won the ASP PRIME 6.0 Lowers Pro over ASP Dream Tour No. 13 Chris Davidson (AUS), 33, in two-to-four foot (1 metre) surf at the famed cobblestone pointbreak of Lower Trestles after the world’s finest surfers pushed the performance barriers of competitive surfing throughout the entire week of competition while reveling in the firing south swell.
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The Ultimate Wave Tahiti featuring Kelly Slater is now playing in featured IMAX locations.

Channel Islands Surfboards Party in LA is tonight!

It’s Saturday already and we are on countdown to a fun night tonight. Please get your RSVP in, as we will be closing the list soon!! An awesome DJ and a great live artist will be sure to make for an incredible evening!!

All the information is here or below. We look forward to seeing you all!

Come join the fun Saturday night at the Channel Islands Surfboards Store in LA! RSVP now, there’s limited space available. We Look forward to seeing you here!

STORE: 8175 Melrose Ave.
Los Angeles, CA
PHONE: 323.370.1700
RSVP: rsvp@cisurfboards.com

…And yes Dane did make this poster!