This is an excerpt from the extra features of  Ryan Thomas’ excellent movie BS! It features Ryan Burch and Mitch Coleborn on Virgo models. Surf footage by Matt Shuster.

Well, my newest alaia/ paipo/ boogieboardish thing worked. I was a little worried that this one was too weird but RT tried it out and liked it. Largly inspired by the footage of Ryan Burch on his blocks of foam, I designed this board really wide at 23 1/2″ and short at 5′. I kept the volume down in the rails and the reverse curve in the outline so the board would hold in better when trimming. I still have some bugs to iron out, but there’s definitely some possibilities here.

Ryan Burch on Nine Lights Wood & Foam Alaia.