DEEP March/April 2014 Green Issue | Page 72

BOARD TRACHTING   PHOTO: DAVE “MOUSE” FRIESEN The Rabbitsfoot SHAPED BY RYAN LOVELACE BY SHAWN TRACHT Once you start spinning, just hold on and enjoy the ride. W atching Trevor Gordon, Ryan Burch and Ari Browne shred this freak show board in Ryan Lovelace’s movie, “Almost Cut My Hair,” I quickly became amazed, excited and scared out of my mind. These guys had surfed the Rabbitsfoot in epic overhead waves, and thus, the bar had been set. Terrified, I knew that I had to wait for the larger swells in winter to really give the board a true test under my feet. Now while these young lads were carving turns and finding the tube around the world, I found my style of riding the board to be different. I mostly just spun the heck out of it! That being said, the board brought a new spark of intrinsic stoke to an everyday go out for both myself, the rider, and everyone else at the beach. Shaper’s Take: The Rabbitsfoot isn’t for everyone, but for those curio \™[