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JonGarmendia Surfboards. Photoshoot and Pics byCris ArbizuandUxue del Ro

Happy Buddha, the Name Says it All

We bring you a new noseride design by Garmendia Surfboards. A classic outlinewith some special details that offers a modern surfing.

You'll feel it fits like a glove on those days, whether there are small or biggerdays with the confidence to also enjoyit. You can count on its stability for nose riding and soft feeling when it comes to surfing on the backside.

HAPPY BUDDHA'S DESIGN SPECIFICATIONS

The nose and pintail are wide with rails that are lowered 50/50. The Happy Buddha has a soft rocker in both front anda nice concave on the nose.

It has a round belly on the second half of the bottom and a soft vee in the fin box area. These features will offer a fluid maneuverabilty.

Garmendia Surfboards. Photoshoot and Pics by Cris Arbizu and Uxue del Ro

The Ride of the

Jon Garmendia did it again. The second time around winner of The Longboard Spanish Championship and winner of the expression session of the best shared wave with Alex Knost at Vans Duct Tape Invitational. This young surfer keeps quite some secrets under his belt that we are going to unraveled, starting by saying that he is not only a shaper, and a very good one at that, but much more indeed.

30is hours to finish a surfboard 100% hand shaped that demands care, attention to detail and solely two pair of hands that do the whole work from start to finish. Starting with the special selection of stringers, shaping, glassing, sanding And yes, only a pair of hands: Jon Garmendias. The man, the brand, and the wings behind the butterfly.

Jon Garmendia's creation process. 100% hand shaped. Pic xAitor Molina

You could think about what kind of relation could a butterfly and a surfboard have, and the answer has a name: Jon Garmendia.

Thissurfer from Zarautz, a little town in the Basque Country (Spain), is also asurfboard shaper, glasser and sander, that has just won for the second time around The Longboard Spanish Championship;winner in A Frouxeira de Valdovio beach in A Corua and in Salinas, Asturias riding one of his own longboard designs and creations.He was also the invited to take part in the expression session ofTheDuct Tape Invitational organized by Joel Tudorin Zarautz among 38 surfers and actuallywonit alongside Ale Knostfor the best shared wave.

At he MexiLogFest (MXLF21),one of the musts in the longboard festivals arena, he got in theTop 16. Another victory for sure.

Jon Garmendia dominating the elements. Pic byIigo Agote.

Not only that, he is a father of a beautiful baby girl and works part-time at the Spanish leader in furniture fittings manufacturing company as well. His hands are full right now with work at the company in the mornings and his passions: his family and, as he says, seeking happiness by shaping his own surfboards, longboards among them, and riding them.

So, afternoons would be the time when Jon puts the hat of Garmendia Surfboards and shapes his midlengths, twins, longs ..., while steals time during weekend mornings or dawns to surf himself, try his designs and keep improving shapes for those boards that fill, not only his demands, but also the ones that more and more want to ride one Garmendia Surfboard.

| Curiosity Lead to Longboards and More

Being passionate about singlefins, twinfins and longboards, he started to feel interested about classic shapes after falling in love with the lines they drew. That was it. Even though it started as a hobby,an endless curiosity about this particular classical shape made him be on a mission: to shape the longboard he was longing for him that could not find anywhere.

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Created the Longboard he Couldnt Find Anywhere

Jon Garmendia noseriding a Garmendia Surfboard. Pic byXabier Beloki