Matt was invited along with Pat Rawson, Robert August and a selected few to shape at the recent Sacred Craft SHAPERS 4 HUMANITY Expo. Matt decided to shaped a Bing Pipeliner Gun. I wouldn't mind getting my hands on this board for myself. Well done Matt.
There's been some fun little loggin waves around this week and the best part is I've been sharing waves and switching boards with my good mate Tony. Happy days.
Simon Perini was gracious enough to let me use one of his snaps at the top of our blog and soon to be on our website. He also sent me a couple of extras so I thought I'd share them with you. Check out Simon's blog 'Simple Machine'. You can click on the link bottom right of our blog page, enjoy. 
Wanna watch a good surf flick?? The Drifter featuring Rob Machado has got some really good surfing as you would expect from Rob. The commentary is pretty depressing so press play, hit the mute button and put on your favourite cd and crank it up.
A couple of pics of some special Almond Surfboards that are heading to OZ. They should arrive in this great country of ours around mid March so keep an eye out for them.
Spent part of yesterday at Six Ounce Board Store Manly. Call in and see Ben and Roberto and run your hands over some of the nicest and best range of quality Australian and Californian built boards in OZ.
It's on again, 26th Feb. Stefan's wall of joy of pre 1990 boards up for grabs so put your board on consignment while you spend the day looking around and eating the fine Deus bites. Plenty of new and vintage boards on offer. Gates open @ 10am, call Keith if you want to be part of the day 0417 217 530.
Jack picked up his 9'6" Elevator today and was stoked how it turned out. I'll have to agree with him, it's one of the nicest boards I've seen in a while. Enjoy!!!
Ryan Burch..3rd place at the Joel Tudor Duct Tape Invitational last week. Winner of Sacred Craft, Young Guns of Shaping 2010. This guy can do it all.
Steamer Lane, Santa Cruz.
Bing Copeland & Chris Del Moro chatting after Chris' heat.
Alex Knost takes 1st place in the Joel Tudor Duct Tape Invitational @ Steamer Lane, Santa Cruz.
A nice batch of Almond Surfboards heading to OZ. Kookumbers from 5'11", Surf Thump, Lumberjack's, Nath Adams model, Log Rhythm, mid length's ++. A fine example of their range to show. They should be finished and here in around 6 weeks time. See the guys at Six Ounce if you're interested in a board from the first batch.
The guys at the Bing factory have been producing some amazing resin work on their boards lately. Here's another one that should arrive mid November. Clear deck, butter yellow tint bottom with resign design tail and a 1/4" black pin line. 
9'2" #10004 (deck) black & white tiger stripe nose + turquoise body top/reverse lap, clear bottom, red+black double pin lines, 2-stringer, single box.
Bottom #10004
8'8" #9996 (deck), Mexican blanket nose + red body top/reverse lap, clear bottom, black+blue double pin lines, 2-stringer, single box.
Bottom #9666.
So good to see Six Ounce have reopened it's doors again and the walls are lined with the finest craft you'll come across. Call in and see Ben and his amazing hoard of fibreglass at 48/50 Pittwater rd, Manly.
Bing Surfboards team rider, Chris Del Moro will be flying the Bing flag at the Santa Cruz leg of the Vans Joel Tudor's Duct Tap Invitational being held on the 14-15th of January at the famous right hander, Steamer Lane. Chris has been working hard with Matt Calvani to put together the right quiver for the event which includes a 9'8" Levitator, 9'6" Elevator and a 9'6" Lovebird. Good luck Chris.
Mike Black AKA ***SURF-a-PIG*** is a die hard pig lover that is full of stoke and smiles. If you've got a soft spot for the pigs or in the back of your head you think you may like to get yourself one check out his blog. Share your love of bacon with Mike and email him any pic's of you and your pig. The pic's above are of Mike on his 10'0" Bing Pig and before the board was waxed. Love the off set stringer. Go to the bottom right side of this blog and you'll see a link to Mike's blog. Happy days.
Hope you all have a safe and happy Christmas.
In the last edition of Pacific Longboarder magazine, all the subscribers went in the draw to win a Bing Elevator and George was the lucky winner.....well actually, his partner Alicia won the board for him. Alicia gave George a 12 month subscription to PLB as a birthday gift and ended up winning George the board. As you can see from the photo above George is pretty stoked about it.
This weekend's surf looks like we're going to have off shore winds with next to no swell. Tuesday's a totally different story, forecast is for a new south swell to peak at 1.5-2.0 meters with light winds. Wednesday and Thursday are looking promising at the moment as well.
Ryan Gerard is the owner and operator of Bing Surfboard's only Great Lakes dealer, Third Coast Surf Shop. Surfers have been sliding freshwater waves since the 1960s but with a recent growth in popularity, Ryan opened up shop in New Buffalo, MI in 2005 and has been leading the charge and spreading the stoke ever since. Above are a few pics of Ryan sliding his 9'4" NR Slim and one of him on a recent winters day (info from bingsurf.com).
DF 6 1/2"
Flash Bach 8 1/2"
We've now got a nice range of Bing Dharma's in stock from 5'6" up to 6'0". These can be surfed short, if you ride a 5'10" fish you can surf one of these gems all the way down to 5'6" with ease. Get one, you'll love it.
One 5'8" twin fin fish, moss green tint top & bottom with glass-on fins and one super sweet Mini Simmons, denin blue tint nose + white opaque body, glass-on timber Gephart fins and a classy wedge cedar stringer. Couldn't ask for more. Both in stock.
GEPHART FINS..........
Deus are filling their racks with some quality boards, call in and have a look. From left to right, Bens new Lovebird, one for stock, Stephens Pintail and a magic 6'0" Synchronizer for stock.
HG picking up his Lovebird at Deus while attending the launch of Christo Reid's new book 'Cactus'. In Australian folklore Cactus Beach is legendary and the original secret surf spot on the edge of an Australian desert. The book documents 25 years of surfing at South Australia's iconic beach where Reid says 'The waves are ripe and the water alive with prehistoric eating machines'. Pick up your copy at Deus Ex Machina, Camperdown.
