Given to ride
I love boards, riding them, looking at them, or simply talking about them gives me a real kick. Sometimes it's the graphics, or the lines that I like, but more often than not it is the fact that they are built for one thing, to be ridden. Whether that is on water, asphalt, concrete, wood or snow, these things have a kinetic energy, it is this that gives them their allure. When I look at a surfboard for example, preferably one that has seen a lot of action, been used and abused, travelled, I can imagine the waves it has slid on, the moves it has pulled, the spray the rails and fins have generated, not to mention the adventures it's owner has put it through. This is particularly true of some of the used boards that I have picked up over the years. They might be beaten, and have seen better days, but these are the qualities that make them special. It is the history that they have that makes them more than the sum total of the materials that they ar...