The same thing happened when other parents put their kids on it and they progressed immediately, so we put that in the line. I realised that a smaller version of the board I was on (in concept, not specific design) would help him stop his helicopter-to-crash sequence every time he tried to turn, and so I made him this little 105 swallowtail (that had a shorter edge length than his 90cm twin). My son was just 3 when I started Soul Stick, and he was struggling on his rockered, curved base twin tip. It really grew organically, and honestly, quite selfishly. We started off with just the one design and making them ourselves, but we quickly outgrew our capacity to do that, and so the hunt began for somewhere that could make them to the same standards we were accustomed to. Several friends tried it, loved it, and they all pushed me to produce it, so I did. The goal was a board that I could “surf” on groomers as well as I could on powder. I tried a whole bunch of boards, some I liked and some not so much, but all had some personality and uniqueness to them.īut here where I live it’s often icy, and mostly crowded, so these perfect powder condition boards were not doing it for me. The following year I moved to California and was really focused on competing on the SUP Surfing World Cup, but when I returned to Canada in 2015, I knew that I wanted to adapt my snowboarding to snow surfing. Then, in about 2009, I got onto an Original Sin 4807 volume shifted directional board, and it was a shazam moment. They were high-end carbon Kevlar builds and expensive, but it was a different market back then – kind of the time when all the “off brands” were being weeded out and the industry was falling in behind a few dozen big players. I was a sponsored racer all through the 1990’s until I started to make my own boards in 2000 under the brand ‘Riot’. Please tell us about the brand and how you got started. Taking Surfing to the Mountains: Soul Waterman Talks SnowboardsĬombining his pro experience in snowboarding, kayak and SUP, plus multiple years as a surf coach with 30 years of designing and shaping, Corran Addison tells us about how his boutique brand – Soul Waterman – got started and the creative process behind his snowboard line.
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