{"id":8814,"date":"2009-06-21T21:23:05","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T04:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8814"},"modified":"2010-09-21T16:38:40","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T23:38:40","slug":"meyerhoffers-weird-surfboards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8814","title":{"rendered":"Meyerhoffer&#8217;s Weird Surfboards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"430\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/J-SS7XpYQ4s&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/J-SS7XpYQ4s&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"430\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thomas Meyerhoffer<\/strong> is one of those &#8220;designers&#8221; who makes everything look a little too easy. He&#8217;s designed products for <strong>Apple<\/strong>, <strong>Scott<\/strong>, <strong>SonyEricsson<\/strong>, and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonluxat.com\/a\/Thomas_Meyerhoffer_M2_Armchair.html\" target=\"_blank\">furniture for Capellini<\/a><\/strong>. Of course, his real passion is surfing. And he&#8217;s been creating these hour-glass looking longboards for a couple years now. <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/06\/19\/DDBS185221.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">The San Francisco Chronicle<\/a><\/em><\/strong> checked in with Meyerhoffer last week to see how things are going.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many designers add. Meyerhoffer took away. . . He cut out the sides, creating a distinct waist and hip that extended the contours &#8211; and benefits &#8211; of a short board. . . He tapered the tail to increase speed, but kept its length to balance the weight up front. There, the width remains to make nose-riding possible. . . &#8220;I was pleasantly surprised,&#8221; said Maverick&#8217;s surfer Peter Mel. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t know how good it would feel for how odd it looks. It just had a real nice flow to it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We still think they look too weird to ride. And, honestly, why would anyone want a longboard to turn like shortboard? If you want a board that turns like a shortboard, then ride one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/06\/19\/DDBS185221.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a><\/strong><strong> and <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5297581\/what-if-apple-and-chumby-designed-a-surfboard\" target=\"_blank\">Gizmodo<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Meyerhoffer is one of those &#8220;designers&#8221; who makes everything look a little too easy. He&#8217;s designed products for Apple, Scott, SonyEricsson, and furniture for Capellini. Of course, his real passion is surfing. And he&#8217;s been creating these hour-glass looking longboards for a couple years now. The San Francisco Chronicle checked in with Meyerhoffer last [&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":[24,6,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8814"}],"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=8814"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17946,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8814\/revisions\/17946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}