my weekend via camera phone

blacks going off, my test quiver on the beach at blacks, cliff rescues and new shapes and paints ... enjoy ...

twin pin porpoise long board

riding a tri fin porpoise shortboard - new video on espn surfing

a story and video was recently posted on espn surfing from a trip i did to natividad over two years ago. what they dont mention is that i was riding the board in the pics below. a nick mirandon shaped single porpoise tri fin modern shortboard. have fun watching ...





here's a link if you want to read the story and check it out more biigga

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=4446009

i went to fish fry japan 2009 heres the first pics

mirandon boards of all kinds and some collaborative boards i did with pendo flex and mandala

mi casa

THIS IS WHAT MY HOUSE LOOKED LIKE LAST WEEK ... KINDA FUNNY SO I TOOK SOME PICS ON MY PHONE...

anything but 3 fish fry 2009

what can i say ... i got there took some boards to the sand and chatted with some folks who had questions. i rode a couple boards and enjoyed the sun for the few minutes when it poked through the clouds. then i saw joe wood , previously lead singer of TSOL, went off at the fish joint restaurant in oceanside... jamming blues and old stuff and some new music, quite unreal ... took home a couple blanks from ice 9 which we won . THANK YOU ALL !

i borrowed the pics from www.surfysurfy.net see more photos there

and the text from www.anythingbut3.com check it out for more


Ice-9 Foam donated a bunch of blanks to be handed out to boardbuilders with stand out boards at the AB3/Fish Fry. This was an informal and friendly competition. A secret panel of three handsome and intelligent judges quietly walked the beach and scoped out all the boards. The judges had a tough job because of the hundreds of extremely high quality boards.

The categories and winners :

Best in Show-Dennis Murphy for a special lightweight wood board made out of a recycled water tower. Dennis also wins a berth into the Sacred Craft Shape-Off at the next Del Mar event in Fall '09.

Best Homebuild/Garage board-This guy Hans Hans Enyedi from Leucadia that nobody has ever heard of before. He made a resin swirl mini-Simmons that was a clean shape, had a tight cutlap and good resin pinline and polish. This was a tough category for shure.

Best Art-Cher Pendarvis for her groovy blue Sunfish art on one of her husband's Pendo-Flex boards. Another tough category to judge.

Best Glassjob-The judges did not know who glassed this board until after is was chosen. It was an Ian Zamora shape with a stunning multi-colored cross out of resin. Overall it was a tight board and a crowd favorite. Turns out if was glassed by Jimmy Robertson (JJR on this forum) at the Lokbox shop in Oceanside. (*note-Michael Miller from San Diego was a close runner up).

Most Original-Eli Mirandon for his trippy "Porpoise" twin fin. He also paddled out on this board and did an air on it.

Biggest Roach-This category was for the ugliest/funkiest looking board and Eli Mirandon also got this one for the same above board, hee hee.

Best Fin(s)-Daniel Partch for his beautiful marine-ply tri-fin set (oops, "anything but 3"???) with art engravings. On a Michael Miller Frye Eagle inspired board.

Furthest Traveled-Greg Griffin from Hawaii who unfortunately was sick and wasn't around much during the day. Griffin was in the running for best fins for his tight handfoiled G10 fins.

*To everyone who didn't win, you still shred and thanks for spending your Sunday at the beach with us.

Discuss this topic on the Surfer Magazine Design Forum.

Special Thanks to:

Ice-9 Foam
Shawn Ambrose from Real Surf
Destination Surf
The Fish Joint
Musician Joe Wood
Big shout out to "Boston Tony" for helping organize and print the t-shirts.

NEW COLOR WORK ON MY NEW 5'8"

SOME FUN COLOR WORK I DID A COUPLE DAYS AGO ON A PERSONAL BOARD 5'8" GOING TO BE READY FOR ANYTHING BUT 3 / FISH FRY 2009 AT OCEANSIDE THIS WEEKEND ... ILL HAVE A FEW ELI TWIN PIN BOARDS TO TRY OUT AND THE BLUE AND WHITE PORPOISE BOARD ... HOPEFULLY MY UNCLE BEAR WILL COME ALONG AND WE WILL HAVE SOME CLASSIC TWIN PINS ... http://www.anythingbut3.com/

evolution of the eli twin pin mirandon fish

Nick Mirandon, my dad, on the left and Eli on the right ... from left to right, bear 1968 twin pin, nick twin pin single fin gun 1981, nick twin pin with three fin boxes (to be ridden as a single or twin, not tri)1981, eli twin pin mirandon fish 199?, eli twin pin fish 5'8" 2009 and eli twin pin fish 5'5" 2009

LAST WEEKS PROJECT - 5' 3" ELI TWIN PIN FOR ERIK

I BUSTED OUT THIS BOARD FOR MY BUDDY ERIK. IN THREE DAYS. ITS NOW SOMEWHERE IN CENTRAL AMERICA FOR A MONTH...

THE ELI TWIN PIN MIRANDON FISH

THIS IS THE BOARD IN THE PHOTO BELOW FROM SURFLINE AND ALSO THE ONE IN THE VIDEO POSTED BELOW ...

MIRANDON FISH

HERE IT IS, THE MIRANDON FISH, SHAPED BY ELI MIRANDON, WITH MY DAD NICK MIRANDON'S WATCHFUL EYE ON IT THE WHOLE TIME. I DID THE COLOR FLOW ON THE BOTTOM , THE PINLINES AND GLOSS COAT... LOTS OF WORK AND LOTS OF FUN. GLASSING BY NICK MIRANDON AND THE MIRANDON TEMPLATE SINGLE FOIL BAMBOO FINS BY MARLIN AT 101 FINS. I WILL PUT UP SOME PHOTOTS OF THE FINISHED PRODUCT SOON... ROB SCHELL IS THE THE RIGHTFUL OWNER AND HAS BEEN LOVING IT... http://www.flickr.com/photos/rschell/

porpoise board by nick mirandon

works in progress... so far so good.