What gives you a natural high?  How do successful people get and maintain happiness and thrive in an uncertain world?  Let’s take a look at Rob Machado, professional surfer.

• Wikipedia information about Rob
• Rob about surfing as a natural high and living healthy and happy

The Drifter – A film about Rob soul searching

• “A surfer is trying to identify the rhythm of his soul in the surrounding world. He uses travel as a tool which allows him to discover himself.” – IMDB.com
  • Behind the scenes of the film

Mr. Le Duc’s Story of Becoming a Surfer

• Inspired by the movies Surf’s Up and The Present
  • Alaia sequence
• He decided to make an Alaia,  an ancient Hawai’ian wooden surfboard
• He could not find a good guide to build one so he sought mentors
• He found some mentors in The Wegener Brothers

  

  • Called Jon and emailed with Tom
  • Bought Tom’s video, The Alaia Story.
  • Here is video of Tom talking about Alaia’s
  • They are DIY projects that are:
    • Simple
    • Complex
    • Non-toxic
    • Custom
    • Inexpensive
  • Here’s video of Tom surfing his Alaia
• Mr. Le Duc decided to document his building process
• Mr. Le Duc’s Alaia Surfboard how-to images at Flickr
  • It took about 30 hours and $100 of supplies
  • These images and short video clips are gifts to the DIY surfer community as a thank you to all that helped him along the way to building his board
  • Video of shaping
  • Video of sanding