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This past winter in Hawaii Joel was kind enough to let my girlfriend and I stay at his house in Hawaii...The day we shot this photo was probably one of the flattest days we had ever seen the north shore in the winter, but that didn't stop us from surfing!  We went into Haleiwa and borrowed a '65 Bing Copeland 9'9 and went surfing out at Vland..This is Joel on one of his first waves riding the board.  Joel surfed this board better than I have seen him surf any other longboard (except for his 10'0 Wayne Rich)..Below is a video from Vans of Joel talking about the board and footage of the day we shot the photo