Charissa,

Thought you would like to know that I absolutely love my Proctor board, and just wanted to take a second out of my day to thank you and Todd for it.  It’s such a faithful board, and I have been having so much fun on it lately.

It’s made perfectly to suit my needs and I just want you to know how much I appreciate it.

If you have a second, check out my blog and you can see how I have been riding–I posted a video!!!!

Love, Kat

Kat Hervey, Somis, CA

9′0″ x 22″ x 2 3/4″ Super Full Concave Nose Roundpin Classic Longboard

Hi Todd and Charissa,

I surfed the new board last weekend for three days.

I’ve been surfing for 21 years.  Never before has riding waves been so effortless.

The board almost just by thought takes me anywhere I want to go.  My friend who is learning to surf paddled a 9′6″ board I’ve surfed for 10 years, and he was lucky to catch two waves in two hours.

He tried Proctor and he caught 4 waves in less than 20 minutes.

Everyone who saw the board at Mondo’s in Ventura commented on its beauty.

The board is so light. On a scale of 1 to 10 on the fun factor, my surfing has just taken about a 20 point move up.  Awesome.

Thank you Todd and Charissa so much, for listening to what I was looking for in a board, and taking it to the next level.

Peace,

Denno
Dennis Crispin, Thousand Oaks, CA
11′0″ x 24″ x 3 1/2″ Proxy custom epoxy Classic Noserider Longboard
pulled square tail

Hey Todd,

On Thursday I had to take the board to my old backyard, Surfrider beach.  I lived there just south of the pier for a year before my daughter was born, and used to surf 3 days a week.

It was a small day.

Unbelievable.  I caught every wave I paddled for…. 100%.   I was able to ride anywhere….

The break there is a pretty strong right as you know…and it helps to really be going.

This board is part of me. I think I know what the word stoked means now.  Thanks.

Denno

Local Ventura Longboard Ripper, Larry Ugale
with his quiver
Performance Twin, Retro Single Fin, Manatee, Performance Longboard,
Performance PROXY (custom epoxy) Longboard, Performance Noserider,
Classic Noserider

Todd, your boards have smoothed out my style &
I feel my surfing getting better with each new board.

It’s true, what you say you do….
your boards are taking my surfing to the next level.

Thanks, Larry
9′4″ x 23″ x 3″ Classic Noserider

larry ugale, ventura, ca
film/edit: alex neiberg

Todd and Charissa,

…Don’t know what to say…the Twin Fang, Lil Rascal and the board you made for my 8 year old daughter Samantha came out absolutely amazing!

The art work, craftsmanship and attention to detail was incredible.

I can’t thank you enough…I don’t even know where to begin. I am so pleased with these boards and I cannot wait to ride them. Samantha sends a HUGE thank you!!!! She said this was the coolest birthday present ever!!! Expect pictures soon!!!!

Mahalo,

Ronnie and Samantha Santaniello

I’ve been riding my board non stop and i love it. thank you guys so much. it was such a pleasure dealing with you. its obvious you genuinely care about the quality of your product and service.

It’s weird to leave a surf shop feeling like a pro.

thanks so much. im definitely sold for life.

-wilson riggs, 22, Ventura, CA
9′2″ x 22 3/4″+ x 2 7/8″ Performance Noserider Roundpin

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To Todd & Charissa Proctor,

I would like to again express my thanks for making me a quality board! I have had my Rocket 88 now for a little over three months and I am still 100% completely satisfied. I continually get comments on how cool the board looks. This is the second board I have owned and the fifth board I have ridden. My previous board was a 9′4 Robert August and just prior to buying your board I rode a 10′0″ Clyde Beatty Jr., 10′6″ Bruce Jones, and a 12′0″ Mickey Munoz. I still consider myself a beginner since I have only been surfing six months after a twelve year break. But, it was until recently that

I noticed how much better my Rocket 88 was over all the other boards I have ridden.

I took a co-worker out with me to teach him how to surf a few weeks ago. I gave my co-worker my Rocket 88 to try and I rented a 11′0″ Mickey Munoz. By the end of our session my co-worker was standing up and surfing without any assistance. After helping my friend I started catching some waves myself and it was at that time that I realized the difference in the performance of the two boards. It literally felt like I was driving a station wagon instead of a Porsche. My Rocket 88 turns on a dime despite it being 10′2″. The 11′0″ board I was using despite it being only 8″ longer felt like a tank and seemed to have a lot of drag. That afternoon made it clear to me that the Rocket 88 was a “Magic Board”. My surfing has dramatically progressed and I have yet to find a limitation with my Rocket 88. Thank you!

Mike

Mike Brown, 30, Ventura, CA
10′2″ x 23″+ x 3 3/8″ Rocket 88 Pulled-in Square Tail

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Todd, just to let you know that during 30 years I walk away from longboards considering them not performance oriented, I was so wrong.

Your Performance Longboard is an oversize shortboard with all the characteristics of its smaller relatives.

I am stoked to be able to late take off, cutback and bash the board against the foam, floaters are not too far away.

Muchas gracias amigo…..

Roberto Torres, 48, La Libertad, El Salvador
High Performance Longboard 8′6″ x 21 3/4″ x 2 5/8″ Squashtail

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Hey Proctors, haven’t been able to test my new board in any challenging surf yet, but I have taken it out twice and adjusted quick. I haven’t put it to its limits yet, but I do know I haven’t lost any paddle speed,

It’s a lot quicker, turns faster and still allows me to cheat 5.

I like it alot and love the final look, thanks for your help, I know I’ll be back soon either to try somthing else or bring a friend.

Jim Darin
Custom Proctor Epoxy “PROXY” Surfboard: 9′6″ x 23″ x 2 7/8″ High Performance Longboard Roundpin

Dear Mom and Pop surf shop proprietors –

Just got out of the water – first session on my new board. I always try to pay extra attention the first time on a new board to retain a sense of how the board ‘feels’ in some standard maneuvers as compared to the ‘muscle’ memory from a previous board.

So, here are the results:

The board paddles like a dream. The extra thickness works perfectly. Knee paddling is a snap. Prone, I can get going really fast and maintain trim across the water. It gets “up on step”, to use a seaplane term for takeing off on water, and from there I can maintain speed with just minimum effort combined with quick strokes.

I put the fins in, two on the outside, the big one in the center. So I’ll have to futz with that set up, including adding high density foam to the outside fins to give them foil. However, the lack of foam up in the nose area, due to the pulled in template and step deck, results in the board coming around on a dime under complete control. No sense of steering a big block of foam around, no pendulum effect from a big blobby nose.

Speed and trim are simply remarkable – the pulled in nose gives the outline the perfect curve vs. the wall of the wave, so I can do a quick cross-over step and the board just fits the wave and goes!

Got two good lefts, and a friend on the beach said it looked like I was riding a shortboard!

So, all in all, the first impressions couldn’t be better. Everything I wanted to achieve with the modifications over last year’s board seem to have been accomplished!

And the colors! So cheery and friendly! Maybe I need a death’s head skater logo or something, cause just sitting on the board makes me smile.

Ok, that’s about it for now. Thanks for all the effort – we set out to do something different based on sound reasoning about what makes a good longboard, and the results couldn’t be more encouraging.

Regards,
Glenn Hening, Ventura, CA, Founder of Surfrider Foundation
9′1″ x 21 1/4″ x 3 1/2″ Diamond Tail Step Deck Longboard/Hybrid

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Hey Guys,

I got home late last nite tired out after the last days of “test riding my new board”.

WOW!!!!!!! I could not believe my first ride. I felt like the board was connected to my brain.

It was awesome. The transitions from rail to rail were so smooth and quick. Turning from the tail was great.
It really was an effortless ride.
That was my first ride. I was, of course, quick to attribute it all to my superior skill level. However, as the days went on, I really came to appreciate how well the board rode.
Some of the qualities I really appreciated and what I had asked for were,
1. The board was very stable under foot.
2. Turns were quick and smooth
3. Speed was there and getting up the face and sticking that high line was cake.
4. I had a couple of late take-offs but no problem. A liitle weight shift and I rode the tail through the drop into a nice bottom turn. It never felt out of control.
5. The board just did not want to pearl even when I got my fat ass up front it rode beautifully. In fact I kept looking down at the nose thinking, “it should dive about now and send me over the nose if I don’t move”.
6. The board is really light but it has plenty of float and really easy to handle through the paddle out.
7. The board made me feel like a much better surfer than I am. I never had to fight it, it just did whatever I wanted.

I used an 8″ center fin (instead of 9″) centered in the box. Beautiful!
I still need to get used to a little harder, stronger paddle getting into the wave after my 10″ but that will come.

Needless to say, I really love this board and can’t wait to take it back to Costa Rica in June. Thanks so much for the great job!

Tony Beck, South Africa
9′6″ x 23 1/4″ x 3 1/4″ High Performance Longboard

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