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.

Chris Malloy and his 5’8″ fish.

A really nice guy named Paul was interested in an Openface shape recently. He saw Mitch Coleborn riding one in the extra features of BS! RT originally prompted me to come up with this construction to get more flex. He’s 70 lbs. lighter and several inches shorter than this customer, so the dimensions had to be blown up considerably.  RT’s original dims of 5’6″ x 20″ x 2 1/4″ were changed to 6’0″ x 20 3/4″ x 2 5/8″. The rocker and foil were kept the same as the original design but the rails were plumped up a bit so the board can push back through turns. Thanks for the order Paul and enjoy. Toothpaste green is the new black.

Ryan Burch on Nine Lights Wood & Foam Alaia.

When Ryan takes a break from making movies and gets out from behind his camera or computer its clear he’s equally good at surfing as he is at visually musing on it.  Here he’s putting his own Openface through its paces with style to spare. Photo John Slavin