Hey, welcome back to shaping surfing on the Surf Splendor Network. This is David Scales.

Today's episode features surfboard shaper Mani Caro.

Remember that episode of Wax On I did with Jack Coleman?

I've been like up at five. I've had this weird kind of energy right now. I guess I'm just

kind of really excited for summer, especially when there's waves. Well, when I was researching

that episode, it was taking a ton of time just because Jack has so many short films.

So I was just skimming through most of them because I had seen a lot of them previously anyway.

But one of them, in particular, caught me transfixed.

And I watched the entire thing twice.

It was about six minutes long.

It's called Proportional Harmonics.

And it features surfboard shaper Mani Caro. The main surfer is actually masked in the movie, like wearing

a full-on black ninja mask. It looks like it's attached to his wetsuit. Without even eye

holes cut out, you must be able to see through it. It's kind of hilarious, but he's going

super fast on a right point break. And then he's writing a really little board that has these little

finlets in it. So he's, he's getting a lot of drive out of the board and going real fast, but then at

the same time, he's doing spins and he's breaking the fins free. So the shaper, Mani Caro, as Jack's interviewing him,

he's shooting target practice with a bow and arrow in his backyard. And he's holding up the

arrow and explaining how the little wings on the tail of the arrow have provided inspiration for

his surfboard designs. So I'm going to let him explain it to Jack for you to listen.

It's fun.

It's just another hobby that's really fun,

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