Alaia Surf

Sunday Wegener creates the art on her dad's new Surfie, a wood belly board made by Tom Wegener. Tom gets a good wave at Noosa, Queensland Australia. "I like surfing in the wave now. It feels good and there is a lot of skill involved. It is stripping surfing back to is most basic and making it better," Tom Wegener. Sunday Pinta la nueva surfie de su padre, un belly board hecho por Tom Wegener. Tom coge una buena ola en Noosa,   Queensland Australia. "Me gusta surfear la ola ahora, te sientes bien y hace falta callo. Es deconstruir el surf a lo mas basico para hacerlo mejor" Tom Wegener.

Tom Wegener has developed a simple little alaia he named the Surfie. It is perfect for small waves and makes the average day of surf super fun. Surfing has been too focused on perfect surf which means either surfing in crowds or travel far to be alone. But there is great, uncrowded surf most every day at every beach. This day several non surfers found the same stoke as the rest of US on the Surfie. And now they are HOOKED! Tom Wegener ha desarrollado una pequeña alia llamada Surfie. Es perfecta para olas pequeñas y convierte un dia pobre en olas en una superdiversion. Ultimamente la tendencia ha sido la búsqueda de olas perfectas, lo que significa surfear en medio de masas o conducir largas distancias. Hay olas de playa disponibles para ser surfeadas, muchos no surfers se están enganchando también!

T om Wegener has been at the center of the alaia movement. “Tom Wegener’s odyssey with the rebirth of the alaia has led down a path back in history that gets bigger and more travelled the further back it goes.  Tom  will discuss the vibrant belly board movement that went around the world 100 years ago. The little wood body board has been the centre of surfing for a very long time.  Now, with the discovery of Paulownia wood we can make really good belly boards and experience this super fun style of surfing.  Then Tom will discuss the more in depth aqua dynamics of the alaia and how flex, edges and gentle curves work together to hold the wood into a steep wave’s face.” http://www.byronbaysurffestival.com/portfolio/belly-boards-alaia-odyssey-by-tom-wegener/

Tom Wegener es un maestro visionario, punto y final. :)

A Paipo Interview with Tom Wegener Relearning ancient wisdom May 1, 2010 - Noosa Heads, Queensland, Australia. Questions and telephone interview by Bob Green . Tom enjoying a Noosa righthander lying down. Photo courtesy Tom Wegener. When and where did you start surfing? In 1976, when I was 9 or 10 years old at Palos Verdes Cove. Palos Verdes is a little quiet town just out of Los Angeles, but it does have PaddleBoard Cove which was very famous in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, as it was the top surf spot even before Malibu became famous. The Cove has gentle rolling waves and it is the closest thing to Waikiki that California has to offer. So all the surfers would go there in the 1930s and 1940s. Tom Blake was there, Doc Ball was there. That’s where they surfed and that’s where they took those photos of these guys riding planks (the cover of the book, Time of the Terrace Land). That’s what enamoured me with surfing, just the thought, the smile and the energy of these old black ...

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Tom wegener 14 ft tuna. yep! from matt williams on Vimeo . This is Tom wegener on his 14 foot tuna at noosa heads QLD. notice how fast he is going on 6 inch wave. the boards is a finless hollow 14 foot tuna with a concave from the tail to about 3/4 of the way up the board. it can and will make every section you throw at it..! Tom Wegener surfeando un Tuna de 14 pies!!!

Algunas fotos del Noosa Festival of surfing 2011 relacionadas con el surf sin quillas. MoonwalkerPhotos.com Noosa Festival of surfing 2011 CHRISTIAN WACH Finless floater on TW Tuna Finless Final Noosa 2011 Matt Williams Lala Tom riding a Seaglass project Tuna

En este video Tom Wegener ofrece su vision del surfing sin quillas. Ademas de ser un documento de los inicios del movimiento lala. Gracias Tom y Familia!!!

Tom Wegener presenta en USA y Australia su nuevo proyecto de la mano de Global Surf Industries. Se trata de la SeaGlass Project Tuna. una tabla construida con SLX Epoxy y que viene en dos tamaños 5'3'' y 6'2''. El 5'3'' esta pensado para riders con peso menor a 85kg de peso y la 6'2'' para riders con mas de 85kg. Los origenes del concepto son las mismas Alaias, que al tener mas volumen y flotacion hacen la remada mas facil y acercan el "lala" a un rango de surfers mucho mayor que las exigentes Alaias. El flex como en las Alaias sigue teniendo gran importancia y su outline recuerda al modelo Stuth de las alaias de madera de Tom. Como las Alaias es totalmente plana y tiene una entrada de agua en el nose y un profundo concavo. Mas informacion en: http://www.surfindustries.com/surfboards/seaglass_tuna.php?src=pacLong

alaia #1 from debolex films on Vimeo .

Story by Tim Baker I have managed to resist the alaia movement thus far. The fact that I can barely remain upright on a standard, finned surfboard might be part of it. I was convinced the alaia and other whacky finless designs were for those wildly talented individuals who find surfing so mindlessly easy they are forced to ride impractical equipment to keep it interesting.I also harboured an uneasy sense that I was being “sold” something with the alaia, that this was another contrived, retro, watermanly marketing exercise to convince cashed up, white, upper middle class wave riders to part with some more hard-earnt to connect with their Polynesian roots. And so I can say it loud, I am an alaia virgin and proud. All these pre-conceived notions were put to the sword, however, on making the acquaintance of the founder of the modern alaia movement, Mr Tom Wegener, formerly of California, USA, more lately of Noosa Heads, Qld. For one, Tom actively encourages surfers to make their own alaia...

Dave, bendice su Olo antes de entrar al agua. Nathan Oldfield y Mick Waters andan por alli capturando esta parte de la Historia.

Dos Maestros y una tabla para Reyes. Por un lado tenemos a Tom wegener, un maestro del shape, que destaca a mi parecer por tener una vision mas amplia de lo que son las tablas de surf. Por otro lado tenemos a Dave Rastovich, uno de los mejores surfers del planeta en la actualidad. Como nexo de union, un olo... ... el resto es historia por escribir.

Dave Rastovich surfeandose una increible derecha en el Festival de Noosa Heads 2010 en una Alaia de Tom Wegener . Cutback, Tubo, Lala, Tubo....

Unas fotos que me envia David Simó "Awakate" Son de este verano en Salinas. Gracias David!!! La mayoria de las fotos corresponden a una sesion en marea baja, en el pico del campeonato. Tom Wegener y Mikel Urigoitia. Tom Wegener, Indar, Salvador Artaza, Mikel Urigoitia, Argu, Un chico de Donostia (Si alguien sabe su nombre que me lo de) Creo que es Ion Eizaguirre Indar

Tom Wegener en Zarauz http://www.loreakmendian.com/web/blog/tom-wegener/