A Day on the North Shore With Surf Historian and Longboarder Matt Chojnacki

Check out this great article below with our Ambassador Matt Chojnacki with credits for the article and images from Ella Boyd at The Inertia.

Getting Inside the Mind of Surf Historian and Longboarder Matt Chojnacki on the North Shore

Matt brought out a shorter Nat Young board, an original from 1973. “Nat Young grew up in the same area I did, in Collaroy, the northern beaches of Sydney, Brookvale was our industrial surf city, that was like our South Bay of Sydney. We had the Brookvale Six: Barry Bennet, Gordon Woods, Scott Dillon, McDonough, Bill Wallace, and Keyo surfboards all within a couple blocks, which is where I live now.

Nat’s ‘66 world-title winning surfboard ‘Magic sam’ was made there, and to this day I can really feel the history coming through my own surfing. Most of my own vintage collection was made by the Brookvale Six, with a few of them by Bob McTavish. Bob was influential with the vee-bottom, but prior to that was influential in putting roll in the boards and really defining Australian power surfing”

Getting Inside the Mind of Surf Historian and Longboarder Matt Chojnacki on the North Shore

Getting Inside the Mind of Surf Historian and Longboarder Matt Chojnacki on the North Shore

Read the full article here:

https://www.theinertia.com/surf/matt-chojnacki-surf-historian-profile-north-shore/

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