I that kid! I laminated some boards for him in 2003, and you're correct. Nobody got it then, and if they still don't their clueless. Anytime I've been around him it's inspiring, and usually outrageously fun. Glad to see this video pop up on my t.v..
i'm a surfer and I wish they would have showed more of his boards and why they are so special and how they ride. I have been very obessed with learning about all kinds of different boards in the past. And have had several different kinds of boards from long boards to quad fishs to small short boards longer short boards quad bat tail short boards old school single fin. Its lik they showed the artist but barely showed his art work.
Oh dude, I am totally jealous of all these guys living the dream. Vice will never show up to talk to me about my 40k job. His peak is miles above mine for sure.
@ 2:15 "i wanna do a neon green board", "i'm sure u do but thats not gonna happen" trips me out when people actually try to fight the masses on whats "cool, hip, lame, or constitutes being a kook." Ive surfed all around the world n the majority of surfers do what makes them happy, not fight to hold on to a counter culture ideology. U know whats cool, not caring about what people think and just surf for fun!!!
Not trying to be an ass here, video didn't give any examples of his innovations. Anything that can be pointed out or explained? Young man is a fascinating personality but video did not clarify what makes Robin so special. Enjoyed video none the less :)
This guy talking at 0:38 about how robin kegle is doing things that are so new is full of bull. How can you be doing some thing new when everything has already been done and robin kegle is just directly tracing every board he can find from the 50's, 60's to start his career and he doesn't even know anything about what it was like back then to be some one like Joe Quigg who had no one and no boards to copy and invented all these designs in the 30's,40's, and 50's, because he was inventing the riding styles of the times with his friends, exploring, which made Joe think of how to change the boards and construction methods, before anyone. Joe was the original revolutionist who blew tradition apart and started the high performance revolution. And he was a genius self taught nautical engineer, inventing with each board he made. Now days, this is merely the great age of plagiarism, and robin kegle and his crew at the point of this movie are watching old movies and finding old boards to copy and they are mindlessly copying everything they can get their hands on without knowing why. Then they are copying the avant garde arty color specialist glassers from the 60's from Huntington Beach, Ventura, south bay, Newport and san clemente that did the trippy resin art on 60'd and early 70's boards. Guys like gene Cooper, zeph carigan, the Patterson brothers at Hobie's, Bosco burns and Gene Camy in Hawaii. The 70's, 80's and 90's era wiped out vintage longboards and the high end trippy hippy resin art and concentrated on clear boards and airbrushed boards loaded with sponsor's stickers all over the boards, just because robin kegle was on the coat tails of the revival of vintage longboards and high end resin art doesn't mean that he's doing anything new. He just wasn't born yet when it was new and was the latest happening thing, with all the reasons why we were doing it. That Laguna, Newport, Huntington, Malibu, and Ventura surfboard art era of the late 50's through late 60's. I'd say if anyone is doing anything new, it has been Alex knots, with his entertaining enthusiastic fresh new riding styles. He slightly pulls from the '60's era, but takes it out there into new territories. And even though he strikes a lot of poses at an accelerated rate, sometimes for the wave he is riding, he still creates a performance that is high talent and extremely functional in critical parts of epic waves. Not like robin kegle's wanna be forced jerky poses with flailing arms and a lack of function and talent. About the best thing that robin kegle has going for him was Alex knost teaching him how to surf, teaching him the surf scene, and carrying him this far by promoting his plagiarized board business, thus propelling his act to success. And I can see that Robin has used good timing to make extremely good moves to promote his surfboard art business.
This is your peak. Vice showing up with that silly little camera and you doing this silly little interview is the top of the mountain. The ride down is fast a furious so I'd put on some shoes if I where you.
+joseph pablo hipsters wanna be like this but these guys ain't hipsters. I think youre referring to fashion centric champagne socialists who're only interested in image. these boys dont give a fuck and they're the heart and soul of the surfing community
You didn't have to watch it.... Nor like it..... You NOT liking it and drawing attention to it...... doesn't make you cool or special either. You must be appealing to a certain subculture with your comment maybe?
+bob hope Fuck your "technical surfboard explanations" go by and demo a board if you like it... thats good, if you don't... thats also good at least you had a crack. But then again maybe you'd be better off sticking to your 6'4 thrusters or whatever "technically" conventional boards you ride.
+bob hope Yeah every guy they interview about robin says "just so unconventional, cant believe they work but are awesome" etc. Then they hardly even show his boards or compare them to conventional boards to explain any differences. They don't look very groundbreaking to me. I can't see any differences.
I agree with you. I get that he's "ooooout of his mind" and "doesn't give a fuuuuck," but it'd be great if they explained a bit about his board designs. I give the guy a ton of credit for doing his thing, but the boards look like old longboards with cool paint jobs.
+Joseph Mairo maybe he's old school? that said, I don't think they r just long board's w cool paint job's. these are custom made surfboards built for all-around surfing.
I see "waking up, not being hung over, and being ready for work" was like a plan-B for this guy.
I that kid! I laminated some boards for him in 2003, and you're correct. Nobody got it then, and if they still don't their clueless. Anytime I've been around him it's inspiring, and usually outrageously fun. Glad to see this video pop up on my t.v..
robin either has adhd or hes snorting the candy
i'm a surfer and I wish they would have showed more of his boards and why they are so special and how they ride. I have been very obessed with learning about all kinds of different boards in the past. And have had several different kinds of boards from long boards to quad fishs to small short boards longer short boards quad bat tail short boards old school single fin. Its lik they showed the artist but barely showed his art work.
"this is a non-operated bathroom...this is a bow". LOL
Oh dude, I am totally jealous of all these guys living the dream. Vice will never show up to talk to me about my 40k job. His peak is miles above mine for sure.
@ 2:15 "i wanna do a neon green board", "i'm sure u do but thats not gonna happen"
trips me out when people actually try to fight the masses on whats "cool, hip, lame, or constitutes being a kook." Ive surfed all around the world n the majority of surfers do what makes them happy, not fight to hold on to a counter culture ideology. U know whats cool, not caring about what people think and just surf for fun!!!
Not trying to be an ass here, video didn't give any examples of his innovations. Anything that can be pointed out or explained? Young man is a fascinating personality but video did not clarify what makes Robin so special. Enjoyed video none the less :)
Those guys are cool as fuck, do it for the love of it, fuck the money and those bloodless corporations. Fair fucks to him
Can we get a update on dis fool
If you call them hipsters disparagingly, that just highlights your lack of creativity. :)
Bullshit. Nothing they're doing here is new, unique or nuanced.
@@easterdm go surf with him and you'll feel different. The kid rips on those boards.
everyone in this episode is super baked!
This is a bow..I’ll just move from here to here..carries on with life.
This guy talking at 0:38 about how robin kegle is doing things that are so new is full of bull. How can you be doing some thing new when everything has already been done and robin kegle is just directly tracing every board he can find from the 50's, 60's to start his career and he doesn't even know anything about what it was like back then to be some one like Joe Quigg who had no one and no boards to copy and invented all these designs in the 30's,40's, and 50's, because he was inventing the riding styles of the times with his friends, exploring, which made Joe think of how to change the boards and construction methods, before anyone. Joe was the original revolutionist who blew tradition apart and started the high performance revolution. And he was a genius self taught nautical engineer, inventing with each board he made. Now days, this is merely the great age of plagiarism, and robin kegle and his crew at the point of this movie are watching old movies and finding old boards to copy and they are mindlessly copying everything they can get their hands on without knowing why. Then they are copying the avant garde arty color specialist glassers from the 60's from Huntington Beach, Ventura, south bay, Newport and san clemente that did the trippy resin art on 60'd and early 70's boards. Guys like gene Cooper, zeph carigan, the Patterson brothers at Hobie's, Bosco burns and Gene Camy in Hawaii. The 70's, 80's and 90's era wiped out vintage longboards and the high end trippy hippy resin art and concentrated on clear boards and airbrushed boards loaded with sponsor's stickers all over the boards, just because robin kegle was on the coat tails of the revival of vintage longboards and high end resin art doesn't mean that he's doing anything new. He just wasn't born yet when it was new and was the latest happening thing, with all the reasons why we were doing it. That Laguna, Newport, Huntington, Malibu, and Ventura surfboard art era of the late 50's through late 60's. I'd say if anyone is doing anything new, it has been Alex knots, with his entertaining enthusiastic fresh new riding styles. He slightly pulls from the '60's era, but takes it out there into new territories. And even though he strikes a lot of poses at an accelerated rate, sometimes for the wave he is riding, he still creates a performance that is high talent and extremely functional in critical parts of epic waves. Not like robin kegle's wanna be forced jerky poses with flailing arms and a lack of function and talent. About the best thing that robin kegle has going for him was Alex knost teaching him how to surf, teaching him the surf scene, and carrying him this far by promoting his plagiarized board business, thus propelling his act to success. And I can see that Robin has used good timing to make extremely good moves to promote his surfboard art business.
this is what its about. doing whatever the fuk u want and not giving a fuk about other peoples opinions
+Luke Melby pursue happiness fuck acceptance.
that how I feel brah
we need more people that think like that, so many people don't get it.
Longboarders always trip me out
This is an old episode, isn't it? Or is it just being re-uploaded to UA-cam now since it only existed on the Vice site before?
Make a documentary on soul surfers, whats left on their community!!!! PLEASE!
'' this is a bow '' NO! No kidding! :O
Yes that is apparent.
This is your peak. Vice showing up with that silly little camera and you doing this silly little interview is the top of the mountain. The ride down is fast a furious so I'd put on some shoes if I where you.
This is a bow - 1:36
surfboards are good
someone sounds jealous. People who take time out of their day to comment on such things are anyhow. lol
Yep! The kids a genius, and most people don't get it.
hipsters everywhere
Colby Riviere i scrolled down here and first thing i expected to see was hipster comments. and rightly so. lol
+joseph pablo hipsters wanna be like this but these guys ain't hipsters. I think youre referring to fashion centric champagne socialists who're only interested in image. these boys dont give a fuck and they're the heart and soul of the surfing community
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Cool, but his boards are 2 thousand dollars
And they are totally worth it
don't need college when your a trust fund baby
You didn't have to watch it.... Nor like it.....
You NOT liking it and drawing attention to it...... doesn't make you cool or special either. You must be appealing to a certain subculture with your comment maybe?
Im not gonna say it
huh
drugs are bad
and this kids is why you should go to college
What innovations???? We need technical surfboard explanations - not all this hipster shit!!!
+bob hope Fuck your "technical surfboard explanations" go by and demo a board if you like it... thats good, if you don't... thats also good at least you had a crack. But then again maybe you'd be better off sticking to your 6'4 thrusters or whatever "technically" conventional boards you ride.
+bob hope Yeah every guy they interview about robin says "just so unconventional, cant believe they work but are awesome" etc. Then they hardly even show his boards or compare them to conventional boards to explain any differences. They don't look very groundbreaking to me. I can't see any differences.
I agree with you. I get that he's "ooooout of his mind" and "doesn't give a fuuuuck," but it'd be great if they explained a bit about his board designs. I give the guy a ton of credit for doing his thing, but the boards look like old longboards with cool paint jobs.
+Joseph Mairo maybe he's old school? that said, I don't think they r just long board's w cool paint job's. these are custom made surfboards built for all-around surfing.
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Alex knost is snobby and has a huge ego lol