derek hynd

cocky bastard, but with unmistakable style.

steven holl once told me, "brad, to be a good architect (and i mean good), you kinda gotta be an asshole sometimes".  i guess the same sorta goes for the best surfers as well.  i suppose that's why i'm neither...

derek hynd

derek hynd.
finless magic.
i'm not so into the whole alaia finless thing, but you gotta admit that this thing is pretty damn cool.  and- after watching that footage that recently surfaced online of him riding huge j-bay on one of these and just ripping the place way over, it's really opened my eyes to other horizons.  what really surprised me was the non-chalance with which he was blindly carving, sliding, slipping all over those huge walls.  as if he were riding a 3 foot wave.  so intimate..