Flyin’ Lion
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shaper breakdown
Flyin’ Lion
A board that has a feeling of continuous on-rail motion taking natural lines that run cross-grain to the natural pull of the water flow on the wave face; letting you gain drive by a board that intrinsically wants to go hard on rail and turn grippy yet responsive in the steepest parts of the wave.
The Flyin’ Lion places the steepest point of the rocker between the center of the board and the front fins, making for an extreme bubble or apex point in the curve of the board between the feet. Both the stringerline rocker, rail line rocker and outline have the majority of curve placed behind center and through the back of the board. Complemented by a lower entry rocker just ahead of the front foot, accelerated sweeping tail rocker and a jetstream concave cutting through the back half of the board, bisecting the added extreme rocker in the tail.
This creates a board with the feeling of a giant ball-bearing between the feet.
The entire concept is as if you took a reverse vee rail line but then cut through all the hull contours with one deep deep accelerating jeststream concave that reaches its deepest point at the front fins. A board that has a feeling of continuous on-rail motion taking natural lines that run cross-grain to the natural pull of the water flow on the wave face; letting you gain drive by a board that intrinsically wants to go hard on rail and turn grippy yet responsive in the steepest parts of the wave.
Flyin’ Lion popular dimensions
all boards can be completely customized during custom order process
| Popular Dimensions | Volume | Rider Weight |
| 5'9" x 18 1/2" x 2 5/16" | 25L | Rider weight: 145-165 lb / 65-75 kg |
| 5’10” x 17 7/8” x 2 1/8” | 22.63L | Rider weight: 120-145 lb / 54-66 kg |
| '10” x 18 3/4” x 2 3/8” Nick Rozsa's dims | 26.7L | Rider weight: 155-175 lb / 70-79 kg |
| 6’0” x 18 1/8” x 2 3/16” | 23.75L | Rider weight: 125-155 lb / 56-70 kg |
| 6’1” x 18 1/2” x 2 1/4” | 25.46L | Rider weight: 145-165 lb / 65-75 kg |
| 6’1” x 19” x 2 7/16” Peter Mendia's dims | 29.7L | Rider weight: 165-195 lb / 74 - 88 kg |
| 6’2” x 18 5/8” x 2 3/8” | 27.89L | Rider weight: 155-175 lb / 70-79 kg |
| 6’4” x 18 7/8” x 2 3/8” | 28.68L | Rider weight: 165-190 lb / 74-86 kg |
| 6’6” x 19 1/2” x 2 1/2” | 31.52L | Rider weight: 175-200 lb / 79-90 kg |
| 6’8” x 20” x 2 3/4” | 35.98L | Rider weight: 190-220 lb / 86-99 kg |
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Typically it takes two to tango, but we see the jolly rogue @p_fly two-steppin’ some serious salsa moves here solo while his girl snipes the lenswork from the shore. 📷 @gcastillophoto
Castanets sold separately. 5’9” x 18 5/8” x 2 5/16” #Shalomicintervention
Here’s a 6’2” x 18 3/4” x 2 7/16” #Shalomicintervention HD #jetstreamsurfboard #anteupsurfboard for Nate for a trip to Hawaii at the end of the month. Nate is an awesome 15 yr old kid from San Clemente who has a great attitude and is ripping harder everyday.
#boardsforthejourney
Nothin like the joy of a new #shalomicintervention Nate with his 5’10” x 18 5/8” x 2 5/16”-2 3/8” 26L | 31/5’7.5”/150lb/for central coast Cali & Mex
Just shaped 'em: 5'11" x 19 1/8" x 2 1/2" 28.8L #flyinlionsurfboard and 6'1" x 19" x 2 1/2" 29L #Shalomicintervention two-pak for Pascal from Malibu who's headed to Indo...and who also sent us feedback on a 5'10" x 19 5/8" x 2 1/2" #Zipstajet in the latest 'Stoked surfer report' >> this just in: "
"Hey buddy I just want to let you know that board is ridiculous!!! It really carries speed well down the line and it’s really everything I can ask for out of a board that size.
It’s almost as if the less I try the faster it goes as far as Malibu is concerned anyway. I’m going to Indo in September.
Can I order three more boards please...
1. I want to get on exact replica of the board you just made me
2. 6’1” short board (pulled in squash)
3. 5’11” squash
Thanks Todd I'm super stoked!"
- Pascal #surferfeedback
A traveling three-pak headed to John on the East Coast for a trip to Caribbean, Mexico and/ or Central America. 6'6" x 19" x 2 5/8" 32.5L #Anteupsurfboard step-up #Shalomicintervention, 6'1" x 19” x 2 1/2” 31L #flyinlionsurfboard 6’0” x 19 1/8” x 2 1/2” 30.5L
All made in teamlite poly construction with carbon/ basalt stringer patches. John is 31/6’1”/185lb
This kid from Salt Creek has turned up his game radically this year. Graduating from kid snaps to man turns in one season, Nate is turning heads and spraying bleary eyed faces up and down the Cali coast.
Nate is 15, 5'11", 155lbs. and rides a 6'0" x 18 3/4" x 2 3/8" 27.5L #Shalomicintervention roundtail.
@damienhobgood in our town. #Shalomicintervention @salty_crew @globebrand @voltewetsuits 📸 @evo_n8
Stoked surfer reports: this just in >>
“All my boards are still intact and going mental. I love all of them. I am currently packing to go to ***** right now … strike mission to ***** if all goes to plan. Big swell coming. I’m bringing the step up and the Shalomic.
Both have been going cosmic 👌
I always ride the pipsqeak when it’s just fun rippable size and it is so good it doesn’t feel like it’s even there. So connected. When the waves pump I ride the Shalomic, then when it's big I step it up with the quad. Beautiful quiver 🙌
“ — Pierce 30/5’6”/150
📷 @charliecullenphoto
#surferfeedback #pipsqeaksurfboard #shalomicintervention #superaboundsurfboard step-up #frothingjourneyman #thejourneyisthedestination #equippingyouforthejourney
Stoked surfer reports: this just in >>
“All my boards are still intact and going mental. I love all of them. I am currently packing to go to ***** right now … strike mission to ***** if all goes to plan. Big swell coming. I’m bringing the step up and the Shalomic.
Both have been going cosmic 👌
I always ride the pipsqeak when it’s just fun rippable size and it is so good it doesn’t feel like it’s even there. So connected. When the waves pump I ride the Shalomic, then when it's big I step it up with the quad. Beautiful quiver 🙌
“ — Pierce 30/5’6”/150
📷 @charliecullenphoto
#surferfeedback #pipsqeaksurfboard #shalomicintervention #superaboundsurfboard step-up #frothingjourneyman #thejourneyisthedestination #equippingyouforthejourney
Sheldon's three-pack headed to Kailua-Kona. #Shalomicintervention, #Zipstajet, and #Postmodjet. With a few slides closeup of the delicate nuance of hand done resin art.
Road Trip Warriors: Pierce and Guy stopped by and grabbed up a coupla freshies on their first day of a road trip embarking from the factory in Ventura whose end destination is down to Central America.
5’9” x 18 1/2” x 2 1/4” 25L #Greasedpigsurfboard
and a 5’9” x 18 7/8” x 2 7/16” 28L #Shalomicintervention
How about some #shalomicintervention for the weekend with @petemendia behind the wheel...
6'2" x 19 1/8" x 2 5/8" 32L thumbtail in ultralite poly construction 🔨
Pete is 6'1" 190lbs. of true grit.
🎥 @anthony_walsh
@billabongusa @billabong @proctor_surfboards @localbrandfl @electric_surf @nomadsurfshop @freak_traction @crowdcontrolsurf @sushibyjoe @aulta_surf
“Hey Todd I️ need a good waves shortboard for a long righthand pointbreak when it’s overhead and good...I️ want it to throw buckets like Occy in rail carves yet have a crisp fin release like Wilko too...can u do it? What will you make me?”
Here’s Ricky’s 6’2” x 19 1/8” x 2 5/8” #Shalomicintervention thumbtail with accelerated #jetstreamsurfboard concaves. Ricky is 6’0” 185 lbs. and tears!!
Some groms with their new blades: (left to right) - 5'11" x 19 3/4" x 2 5/8" #Zipstajet stringerless epoxy in #techtonaught / #exoskeletonsurfboard construction for Ricky 5'11" 180lbs., 6'0" x 18 3/4" x 2 3/8" 27.5L #Shalomicintervention for Nate who is 15, 6'0", 160lbs., and a 5'11" x 18 3/4" x 2 5/16" 27L #Flyinlionsurfboard 🦁 for Riley who is 17, 5'11", 155lbs. Peeps wuz shreddin' on this day.
This just in: from the Hawaiian front / North Shore theater @petemendia punches through the chandeliers halfway through open face surgery.
#Winstonapproved
#Shalomicintervention
6’1” x 19 1/4” x 2 5/8” 31.5L Pete is 6’1” 190lbs.
@billabong @billabongusa @proctor_surfboards @nomadsurfshop @electric_surf @electric @crowdcontrolsurf @freak_traction @sushibyjoe @aulta_surf
Just painted it: A 6'0" x 18 7/8" x 2 7/16" 28.5L #Shalomicintervention thumbtail for Tsuyoshi passing through from Japan 🇯🇵 another #toddproctororiginalshapeandart duplicating the art from slide 2 ➡️
This is Nate. He's 16 and from Dana Point. He's six feet tall, 155 lbs. He rides a 6'0" x 18 3/4" x 2 3/8" 27L #Shalomicintervention roundtail.
#goodkids
#ripperkids
#corelocals
Throwback Thursday: There’s all these pictures tacked up throughout the factory. They’ve gathered over the 17 years we’ve been here and look much like a sort of wallpaper in spots...kinda like the inside of a kids clubhouse or something...this one in the lam room had me studying the other day since it was a one-off experimental design from years ago back when @whoisjob was a QS warrior. He randomly showed up at the factory and was like, “I️ have no boards”...and Cali was going off. In fact the spot closest to my house; and a rare gem was going richter. There were a few different boards that were his dims, but I️ gave him the experimental one rather than plucking one of the ‘conventional’ ones. This ended up being on the cover of a vhs video that was made from that session that day by a local legend filmer /photographer from here named Dean Hotch. And Jaime took that board and a couple others and went on to a final that year in France. All the history aside, I️ remembered just this week when I️ saw that pic and dusted off the resin caked layer from it...that that thing was an early early #Shalomicintervention that I’ve finally revisited in the design realm after all these years. Funny thing time is....
Here’s our buddy Pierce @p_fly enjoying the crystal blue perfection of @aurasurfresort in Indo. Film: @charliecullenphoto
Pierce is 30, 5’6”, 155lbs. riding 5’9” x 18 5/8” x 2 5/16” #Shalomicintervention
Interesting bit of ripper trivia for y’all...Remember that movie with Nicholas Cage called ‘The Rock’? Well it turns out that @petemendia loves to quote (out loud) the line, “I take pleasure in guttin’ you boy” while doing this particular turn. All with a gutteral snarl and a bit of spittle. I’ve heard it. I’ve seen it. Now, do you believe this story to be true?
6’2” x 19 1/8” x 2 5/8” 31.7L #Shalomicintervention
@billabong @billabongusa @nomadsurfshop @localbrandfl @electric_surf @crowdcontrolsurf @freak_traction @sushibyjoe @aulta_surf @gardenoflife
This just in: East Coast Hurricane Watch - the Dorian encounter....After he’s done “Harnessing Free Friction” on a twin #postmodjet in Indo, @petemendia likes to “Harness Hurricanes” on a #Shalomicintervention in Florida....so here’s what a lot of water looks like right before it slabs like an act of God.
Black bears, claws and deep cuts on the Nicaraguan frontier.
@petemendia pioneering. 📷 @meatballlifestyle @billabong @billabongusa #proctorsurfboards @nomadsurfshop @electric_surf @electric @crowdcontrolsurf @freak_traction @sushibyjoe @aulta_surf
Two stiletto’s headed to Tommy in Florida.
5’9” x 18 7/8” x 2 7/16” 28L #g471surfboard for all around home and abroad, and a 5’10” x 18 7/8” x 2 7/16” 28L #Shalomicintervention for rounder, hollower hurricane waves and travel. Both in poly construction. Tommy is 5’10”, 170lbs and rips.
In a brave new world where size doesn’t matter, intimacy still reigns supreme. Tommy-O from FLA cuddled up for the weekend. 6’0” x 18 3/4” x 2 3/8” 28L #Shalomicintervention 📷 @jasondhines
She caught my eye: 6'2" x 19" x 2 5/8" 30.6L new good waves ripping board...almost a slight step-up, but not. For Pete. Pete rips. For a trip. A sick trip.
#Shalomicintervention
...what began as an ideological word study on peace in the Middle East, burgeoned into a thought process on worldview and the power of mindful contemplations regarding life and death. This blade is meant to give life... a goodie when the waves get fun.
Try and name the surfer, their age, and the spot. And we’ll tell you their build and the dimensions of this board.
Stoked surfer reports >> this just in: “Hey Todd! Just rode the board twice today, it feels super buttery and i can do super tight carves in the pocket Got a couple of tubes too! Thank you so much!!!” -
Nate
6’0 1/2” x 18 3/4” x 2 3/8” 27.5L
#Shalomicintervention roundtail
Nate is 16, 6’0”, 165lbs. rippa from Laguna #surferfeedback
Pop Quiz: Who is it? (1) Felipe at Keramas.
(2) Billy Mumphrey displaying unbridled enthusiasm.
(3) Young buck up and comer from Ventura.
(4) A frothing working class 30-something warrior for the love of the game.
First person to guess the right answer wins a set of power broker fins. For U.S. residents only. Winner announced this Friday. *hint: the board is a #Shalomicintervention in ultralite poly construction.
#Powertothepeople
A tail waft at Leo by a teenage Malibu styler named Sean. 5’9” x 18 1/2” x 2 1/4” #Shalomicintervention
📷: @seanjohnsonyeww
She caught my eye pt. 2: After seeing some new lines and bigger chunks esploding from the rail of a new experimental board I made for Mendia on a recent r&d trip to Nicaragua...I decided I ought to make one of my own. 6'2" x 19" x 2 5/8" Shalomic Intervention...for when the beachies get real. #shalomicintervention
Just painted it: some artwork on a board for Sean from Malibu. 5’10” x 18 1/2” x 2 1/4” 25L #g471surfboard #jetstreamsurfboard #Shalomicintervention
Sean is 17yrs old, 6’0” 155lbs. and knows how to cut a rug two ways to Sunday.
another #toddproctororiginalshapeandart
She caught my eye: 6'3" Shalomic Intervention...for akickin' and agougin' in the mud and the blood and the beer... (that's actually J.R. Cash's explanation of it) #kickedlikeamule #bitlikeacrocodile #cutoffapieceofmyear #shalomicintervention
Just shaped it: 6'0" x 18 3/4" x 2 3/8" 27.3L #ShalomicIntervention for Tommy, super-ripper from the EC. This is a new board model that reflects an ideological concept I've been contemplating lately during long shaping stints. It emanates from an ancient word, shalom; a word I've heard before but never really knew what it meant so I did a bit of research and discovered that it's kind of like peace ✌️... the definition of peace means the abscense of conflict. Shalom is defined as perfect peace not through a lack of conflict, but as in all things operating in perfect harmony... as in the way they were originally intended. It made me think of the decisions we make every day. Whether we put ourselves first and demand outcomes a certain way; sometimes even by trying to put down others to get ouselves ahead...and our actions towards other people...do we desire to see the best brought out in others? Or do we try to keep people down by the use of our actions and our words? Some say the fittest survive, kill or be killed...but where does that leave us as a whole in the end? I think we have two choices all the time at any given time...to be a fragrance of life that builds others up or a force for destruction that tears others down. It's as if everyone throughout all history is connected; is a part of an immense instrument...each of us a string that echoes a certain reverberation with each thought and action we pursue. Those reverberations echo out and ripple an effect towards peace, towards shalom, or towards chaos...and everyone effects the tune that plays as a whole. This board is a latest attempt at a tune that wants to find that perfect balance of design elements that works to bring a note of shalom echoing into the future.
Here’s a 5’9” x 18 7/8” x 2 7/16” 28L #Shalomicintervention squashtail ultralite poly ...ready to light up the world.
Pumping out the performance shorties. Winter is right around the corner. #g471surfboard #mendiasurfboard #Shalomicintervention #superaboundsurfboard #supertyphoonsurfboard #jetstreamsurfboard
Our buddy Tommy-O looking a lot like A.I. bucket busting in a recent comp. 6’0” x 18 3/4” x 2 3/8” #CelestialTransporter / #Shalomicintervention
Tommy is 5’11” 175 ripper.
So just this week @petemendia got barreled out of his coconut during a freak two day run of epic swell in his backyard (as seen everywhere). He also discovered a new perfecto slabbo in a remote island chain (check that story now playing @surfline it’s pretty nutz). Last but not least, he then appeared in the new Surfer mag that just hit ....and guess what??...he’s in there landing a huge inverted corkscrew (I think that’s what you call it). Hmmmmmmmmm but he’s not even an air guy 🤔....(Winston begs to differ). 6’1” x 19 1/4” x 2 5/8” 31.5L #Shalomicintervention
Pete is 6’1” 190lbs. 📷 @nicolalugo
#handmadeinthefreeworld
@billabong @billabongusa @gardenoflife @localbrandfl @electric_surf @nomadsurfshop @crowdcontrolsurf @sushibyjoe @freak_traction @aulta_surf
Angle of attack: there’s something special about the beachbreaks at home that let you slot all that extra power into a dead-stall snap in the nugget, and still know you’re gonna get the view and the exit. Here’s Damien making the road trip from SD well worth while.
5’9” x 18 7/8” x 2 7/16” 28.5L #Shalomicintervention 📷 @evo_n8
There was recently a launch at Vandenberg AFB...here is another launch from Hawaii by @petemendia
Pete likes to boost highest when the board sprays are boldest and brightest; #powertothepeople #powertotheyetis
6’1” x 19 1/4” x 2 5/8” 31.5L #Shalomicintervention
The Yeti is 6’1”, 190lbs.
This just in >> @petemendia 's been getting some rocky raw hazardous pits over on the East Coast during the latest swell anomaly happening out there. His analysis regarding the very first #shalomicintervention I ever made : "Blacky feels so fun." To which we reply, "Yeahnowww yeeeew shackadilly yowzow!!" 6'2" x 19 1/8" x 2 5/8" 31.5L
@billabong @billabongusa @nomadsurfshop @electric_surf @electric @crowdcontrolsurf @freak_traction @sushibyjoe
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