CHAD MARSHALL: Wetsuits, longboard.
Do we need anything else?
CHAD MARSHALL: Was she cool?
-Yeah, she was a model.
CHAD MARSHALL: It's a good thing I don't like redheads.
[LAUGHS].
JAKE BURGHART: Chad and his brother Trace Marshall sit at
the top of the pecking order at First Point, Malibu.
Over the past few years, they've dabbled in clothing,
wetsuits, and now rumor has it they're doing a movie with
Jamie Brisik.
Chad's also been riding some crazy new boards he wanted to
show us, so we went out and spent a few days with him.
CHAD MARSHALL: I grew up in Agoura Hills, which is just
right over the canyon from Malibu.
Basically I was on the beach when I was in diapers.
My dad surfed, so I was going down there at
a super young age.
So growing up in the Valley, me and my brother pretty much
labeled Valley kooks since we were kids, just kind of
accepted it.
Always kind of ran with it a little bit.
In our older age, kind of embraced it.
Which is good, because I mean, that's what we are.
We're just Valley kooks.
Take it or leave it.
It's rad.
Me and my brother are kind of taking over the
Point a little bit.
It's good.
It's fun.
I think people are kind of freaked out, or they hate us
or they love us or they tend to hate us or hate to love us.
It's such a perfect wave.
It's like you can ride anything.
It's so good.
-Hey, Chad.
CHAD MARSHALL: How's it going?
-Good.
CHAD MARSHALL: I've been screwing around a lot on these
kind of semi-finless shortboards that Scott
Anderson and Josh Farberow came up with.
And the they're the funnest fucking boards ever.
I feel like it's a new genre of surfing that hasn't really
been explored yet.
Or you know, people are starting to push the limits
and it's pretty bitchin'.
What's up, handsome?
SKIP ENGBLOM: You sent us an email.
CHAD MARSHALL: What?
My brother did.
SKIP ENGBLOM: Oh.
CHAD MARSHALL: In Japan?
SKIP ENGBLOM: Uh huh.
CHAD MARSHALL: What'd it say?
SKIP ENGBLOM: It was in Japanese.
I couldn't read it.
[LAUGHTER]
SCOTT ANDERSON: [INAUDIBLE].
CHAD MARSHALL: How's it going?
SCOTT ANDERSON: Good, man.
CHAD MARSHALL: We came to bug you.
SCOTT ANDERSON: Right on.
Just waiting for you.
Give me a couple minutes here.
I gotta talk to my account real quick.
CHAD MARSHALL: I've been working really close with
Scott, trying to work on new designs and tweaking little
things with it. 'Cause it's just literally like an avenue
of surfing that hasn't really been explored.
-What are all these?
CHAD MARSHALL: That's me.
There's my bro and Eric.
Bunch of creeps.
Josh Farberow, who I grew up looking up to.
He fucking owns Malibu.
He's the best.
And then that's Matt Kivlin, who was one of the first dudes
to surf Malibu.
That's where Dora basically got his style,
was from Matt Kivlin.
And then you come over to this side over here where it's
photos of me and my brother, but all the photos, the heads
are wrote over because everyone hates us.
[LAUGHS].
So what's up?
SCOTT ANDERSON: Just dealing with the tax man.
Hey Dean?
DEAN: Yeah?
SCOTT ANDERSON: You got a business card?
DEAN: Somewhere.
CHAD MARSHALL: Taxes, dude.
That's what they're talking about.
SCOTT ANDERSON: Gotta get your taxes done.
CHAD MARSHALL: How big's this one?
SCOTT ANDERSON: This one's 5'10".
Little smaller.
CHAD MARSHALL: Has Josh been riding it with the swallow?
SCOTT ANDERSON: He actually just put a little curve here.
But I was thinking, to break that up a little off the tail
if we went smaller--
CHAD MARSHALL: Yeah.
SCOTT ANDERSON: Made a break where the fin's at so it
breaks loose a little easier.
CHAD MARSHALL: Do you think when you're driving off the
bottom, it's going to still have that bite?
SCOTT ANDERSON: Well, you're still going to have the fin
and the bite here.
We've taken out a little off the back here so you can get a
little to break a little looser.
CHAD MARSHALL: Yeah.
SCOTT ANDERSON: But if we put a little wing in there you
could slow off some of the speed.
Once you get going really fast, you could--
CHAD MARSHALL: Kind of wing it?
SCOTT ANDERSON: Slow a little speed off of it.
[INAUDIBLE]
Let me move this one up and we'll shape the board up.
CHAD MARSHALL: [INAUDIBLE].
Surfboards.
That's how you get surfboards made for you.
SCOTT ANDERSON: Just trying anything out of the ordinary.
Let's just see what it does.
You've just got to try it.
It's the only way to do it.
The Alaia's a great idea.
I mean, it's great.
But at some point, you go, OK well, what's the next level?
Yeah, I think in the next couple years there's gonna be
a lot of new stuff out there.
What the heck, let's go with it.
[LAUGHTER]
SCOTT ANDERSON: We had a lot more line here.
This will loosen up so you could slide it
out a little easier.
And a problem we're having with these now is they've got
more drive than you actually need.
Like you're flying down a line.
And you get out past the section and you're out on the
flats and you've gotta come back around.
This way you can bleed off some of the speed.
CHAD MARSHALL: Oh, maybe I'm a idiot or something, or just a
Valley kook.
But [LAUGHS]
it's fun.
That's all I can say.
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