I paddled over to him and I was like, ‘I just shaped my first 11-footer.’ It was his 70 th birthday.”Ī half a decade later, Warren is still drawn to the Glider. “Skip just happened to be out there on that day,” Warren remembers. Upon paddling out, Warren bumped into the shape’s luminary. But the test-drive would be more an instance of kismet. Having just crafted a bulky, 11-foot twin-fin, he paddled out amongst the multitudes of loggers and surf-eccentrics at San Onofre’s Old Man’s, hoping the years of R&D he’d put into his elongated surf craft would enable him to lock into trim and outrun sections at blinding speeds. Tyler Warren has fond memories of his first self-shaped Glider. They can really open your eyes to what’s possible, or how much fun is possible.” “They are really fun in small waves, but you can ride them on bigger surf, too. “I think are great for those people who ride shortboards and longboards, who might be bored with some of the stuff they are riding all the time,” he says. Meanwhile, multi-talented Southern California surfer-shaper-artist Tyler Warren, who is renowned not only for his abilities on a diverse range of equipment, but for his faculty in crafting a miscellany of unique shapes (His miniature Bob Simmons-inspired planing hull, the Bar of Soap, or rippable, double-ender mid-lengths like the Quadratic Egg), says the Glider fills an important void in his ever-evolving quiver.
Fun, perhaps, but likely too cumbersome, too awkward, too peculiar a shape to merit an investment. Due in large part to Thomas Campbell’s early films “The Seedling” and “Sprout,” which featured legendary San Diego surfer-shaper Skip Frye trimming with stoic confidence at high speeds atop long, decidedly-narrow boards with parallel outlines, the word Glider has since been linked to boards of extraneous-seeming length.Īlthough shapers like Frye, fellow San Diegan Josh Hall, and Santa Cruz’s Marc Andreini have been making a wide variety of Gliders for years–with a diverse assortment of lengths, outlines, and bottom contours–the Glider may seem, to the uninitiated, a novelty item.
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