Hi Todd/Charissa,

The board was delivered on my doorstep on Wednesday. Amazingly there was also a clean chest high swell running at one of my favorite breaks!

I’m very lucky to get a new board and use it the same day in inconsistent Bermuda.

The board paddles amazingly well and gets into the waves nice and early and charges fast with the nose eagerly passing through the sections.

It rides exceedingly well on the faces and is very loose rail to rail.

It has done everything Todd said it would do for me and I’m really looking forward to getting it out in the looming hurricane swells!

Please thank Todd for exceeding my expectations

and providing a custom service with the upmost integrity!

Have a great weekend.

Andrew Scott, Bermuda
Custom Surfboard: Proxy Epoxy construction: Lil’ Rascal
6’6″ x 21″ x 2 3/4″ swallow tail

Hey Todd:

Been awhile since I picked up the boards, but I wanted to let you know that they both work unreal.

I have never had boards that are so light and responsive as this. Especially like the Pig and have surfed it in head high waves.

Been on that board alot. Waiting for a little more juice to get the Accelerator going, but so far I am totally satisfied. I think you dialed in exactly what I needed in both boards and it feels like my surfing has gone to the next level. The rest of my boards are just collecting dust right now!

And thanks for the personal service. Best custom service I have had.

You have a great operation and I like that fact that you treat everyone with equal respect and attention. I will be coming back for more, if these Proxy’s ever give out!

Off to Costa Rica next month and will send you some photos. Wanted to check to make sure there
are no issues with the Proxy’s when traveling or in the heat. Let me know if they require any special
care.

Best to you and Charissa.

Richard Stoner, Venice, CA

Custom Proxy Epoxy Greased Pig
5′10″ x 19 1/4″ x 2 5/16″ single wing swallow tail

Custom Proxy Epoxy Accelerator [Parabolic]
6′0″ x 18 7/8″ x 2 1/4″ rounded squash tail

Todd,

I bought a 6′ 10″ x 21″ x 3″ Big Chief back in April.  I was not able to get it out for a while due to a new baby and flat surf.  I finally got it out in some pretty small stuff a few weeks ago.  Although I was pretty out of paddling shape (my wife having 2 little girls in three years has slowed me down),

I really liked how the board paddled and took off.  I  am super happy with it!  It makes it even better knowing how much pride you take in your work.

Thank You

Chad, Crystal River, FL
Custom Big Chief  6’10″ x 21″ x 3″ squash tail

Todd,

Thanks for the update. I’ve been meaning to get back to you regarding the board you shaped me last January, the Groveler IV.

The thing works amazing, plus it’s one of the strongest board I have ever owned.

It’s nice to finally get a board that actually holds up. I’ll probably be coming by the shop next month to talk to you about getting another board.

Thanks again!

Ben Bourne, Oxnard, CA
Custom 6’1″ x 18 1/2″ x 2 1/4″ Groveler IV.p squash tail

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

hey todd and charissa,

sorry i havent sent any thing back in a while been bizzy.

the board is insane by far the best board i’ve ever ridden! i took it out on a good day and the thing just went mental i couldnt believe it thank you so much.

i look forward to ordering more boards from u guys in the future…
thanks again for everything

Kurt Ravenfeld, Pennsylvania
Custom Surfboard: 6’2″ x 19″ x 2 1/4″ Groveler IV.p – Rounded Squash tail

Todd & Charissa:

I am soo stoked you guys had a great time in Bali!  We need to organize and go together or at least hook up next time.

Indo is insane – nothing compares, I’m ruined as far as surf trips go!

Also, have you found it hard to get fired up since you’ve been back?!

The Mentawaii Islands are unreal!  I see what all the fuss is about now.  Surfing here in California so long, it took a session to get used to all the open ocean water moving when the swell was bigger, but I soon adapted.

We surfed so many world class breaks:  Kandui, NoKanduis, Rifles, Hideaways, Ebay, Beng Bengs, A Frames, and the break right out front 4 Bobs.

It was consistently head high to overhead nearly everyday and we had only one day that was flat by Indonesian standards – still was chest high on the sets that flat day.

We were so fortunate to be booked the same week as a group of top pros, the experience of surfing, hanging out and talking shop with these guys was priceless.  It was pretty common to be eating lunch, having a beer or getting boated to surf with the likes of Kelly Slater, Andy Irons, Shane Dorian, Ross Williams, Martin Potter or Kai Garcia.  Kai took me a couple of times on the back of the jet ski to check Kandui!  I played cards with Martin Potter (Martin Potter!) and just hung out and talked w/ the rest of the pros like we knew each other for years.  ESPN2 and Transworld Surf were filming every hiccup these guys did and we got to watch the footage each night over dinner.

Surfing the same waves and watching what these guys were doing 10 yards deeper than any mortal wanted anything to do with, over nearly dry coral, was a real eye opener.

I got cut so many times, I thought I was going to need to be airlifted to Oz more than once.  That’s the thing with a lot of these places!  The videos make it look so perfect, but what you can’t see from these videos is the dry coral or exposed rocks in front of the person taking off or when they are driving a barrel.  Speaking of that topic,

your epoxies must have kryptonite in them!  I snapped 3 leashes and lost both the SR71s to absolutely dry reef

(like 20 yards of it) and both boards suffered minor scratches that I just rubbed out and one minor spider crack.

Not one ding!!

Same thing happened to the Blackbird two days later at a different reef.  I was being clever trying to get one more snap too close to the end section and I was absolutely thrashed on the reef, bleeding everywhere (still have cuts!) and convinced the Blackbird was toast.  After a 20 minute swim around I went in to shore to pick it up off DRY reef and it only had the same type of scratches as the SR71s from a few days before.

Rubbed them out and the board is as good as new!  No one could believe these boards survived!  Everyone was impressed!!!

I’m stoked to hear of the design updates for the SR71 and the new Rascal II.  I spent a considerable time talking with Kelly and he is absolutely convinced that going shorter is the new way to go.  I am thinking of bringing down the 6.0 to a 5.11 or 5.10, but thickening it up to like 2 3/8 maybe even a 2.5 so I won’t lose any paddling foam.  The Rascal II looks like a guaranteed winner here in grovelling type waves.  What do you think of a 5.8 x 11.75 x 19 x 14.75, 2.5 moon tail.

I hope all is well with you both!

Take care and God bless!

Paul Pence, Cardiff, CA

Proxy custom epoxy SR-71: 6’4″ x 18 1/4″ x 2 1/4
Proxy custom epoxy SR-71: 6’1″ x 18 1/2″ x 2 3/16″
Proxy custom epoxy Blackbird: 6’0″ x 11.25″ x 18/5″ x 14″ x 2 3/16″

Stephen Carson, Bali, Indonesia
Custom Proxy Epoxy Surfboard: Groveler IV.p 6’1″ x 18 5/8″ x 2 5/16″ Titanium Series 1.0 & 2.0

Stephen Carson, Todd & Charissa’s brother, gets his first ever barrel in Bali…..yeeeewwwwhhhh!

To say that Todd Proctor shapes to precision the absolute best surfboards in the USA would be the understatement of the decade!

In fact, it would be erroneous and rather misleading, as I can say with the utmost confidence that a board shaped anywhere on this planet cannot hope to compete with the perfection in craftsmanship that Todd Proctor engineers into each and every board that he designs.

When purchasing a board from this legend, not only are you investing in a genuine work of art that will boost your surfing to the next level and rocket you into (Slater-like) pro staus

…but the conductor of this surfing symphony himself will spend the necessary time with you to find out what type of masterpiece you want him to create for you.

When you get your board shaped by Todd Proctor you are the pro…
Like Todd always says “The best surfers in the world are the ones having the most fun”
… and all that I can add to that is… “as long as you’re on a PROCTOR SURFBOARD!”

So, in the end, if your surfboard is “just” a floating foam log and it doesn’t become an extension of your own surfing soul while you’re in the ocean … then, my friend, you must do what the rest of us (some pro, some “almost” pro – but we all like to be treated like one) did…

… GET A PROCTOR SURFBOARD,
AND GO SURFING FOR THE FIRST TIME… AGAIN

Cause if you’re not riding a PROCTOR SURFBOARD
you may as well…

GO BOOGIE BOARDING!!!

Best boards in the whole bloody world mate!!!
Stephen J. Carson