{"id":17391,"date":"2010-08-16T16:13:09","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T00:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=17391"},"modified":"2011-12-09T07:52:46","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T15:52:46","slug":"biolos-out-shapes-the-shapers-at-sacred-craft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=17391","title":{"rendered":"Biolos Out Shapes The Shapers At Sacred Craft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/48181.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/48181.jpg','popup','width=500,height=333,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/48181-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"48181\" \/><\/a>Saturday August 14, 2010, while watching shaper <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/2ern3d\" target=\"_blank\">Larry Mabile shaping away inside a plexiglass box<\/a><\/strong> in what we thought was one of strangest parts of the surfboard fetish show <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfboardshow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sacred Craft<\/a><\/strong>, we realized that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lostenterprises.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lost&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong><strong> Matt Biolos<\/strong> was standing right next to us.<br \/>\n&#8220;Wouldn&#8217;t that be kind of weird to be working in a clear plastic box with all these people watching?&#8221; we asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to be in there tomorrow,&#8221; Matt said. Then he explained the contest to us. Shapers were given an hour in a half to copy some one else&#8217;s shape. In this contest it was the thruster that <strong>Simon Anderson&#8217;s<\/strong> surfed to victory at Bell Beach in 1981.<\/p>\n<p>Not only did Matt show up, he showed the rest of the field who was boss by winning the event and a $1,000 check signed by <strong>Scott Bass<\/strong>, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalsurfnews.com\/news.asp?Id_news=48181\" target=\"_blank\">Global Surf News<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This is a bit of redemption for me, as I am sometimes pegged as a guy who is only known for his marketing expertise, and maybe I don&#8217;t get credit for my shaping ability,&#8221; said Biolos in front of a large crowd on Sunday at Sacred Craft. &#8220;It is real honor to win this event, as Simon Anderson is a true legend.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A gracious Biolos reportedly offered the prize money to a local charity. Kind of bummed we didn&#8217;t get to see it all go down live. Follow the jump for video of the entire contest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalsurfnews.com\/news.asp?Id_news=48181\" target=\"_blank\">Global Surf News<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><!--more--><object width=\"450\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NNpdgdJqutI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NNpdgdJqutI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"450\" height=\"315\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday August 14, 2010, while watching shaper Larry Mabile shaping away inside a plexiglass box in what we thought was one of strangest parts of the surfboard fetish show Sacred Craft, we realized that Lost&#8217;s Matt Biolos was standing right next to us. &#8220;Wouldn&#8217;t that be kind of weird to be working in a clear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17391"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17391"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26926,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17391\/revisions\/26926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}