Kirk Brasington
By
Pete Dooley
Kirk Brasington, of the fabulous creative Brasington
brothers, shaped surfboards for years with Matt Kechele. The Brasingtons
eventually gravitated to the high tech realm of Kiteboarding. Kirk
and his brother ran the cutting edge Hana Crew Kiteboards for years.
Now they have a new cutting edge construction system for surfboards.Surfboards
go to two extremes these days. The classic surfers ride 44 lb. remakes
of designs from bygone eras with gallons of color and resin on them.
While the radical surfers look for the lightest possible high tech,
ultra light wave blasters. The Brasingtons are the new heroes to a
small but rapidly expanding group who have had the chance to check
out their new light, strong, amazingly flexible, coil construction
epoxy boards. Read about what they are doing in the West coast mags,
Surfer Magazine or Surfing Magazine five years from now or read it
NOW in the Freakin Beachside Resident!
You have a new breakthrough surfboard technology “Coil
Construction,” your new concept seems to solve the age-old conflict
in high performance surfboards. It is strong AND light. Tell us everything,
we won’t tell anyone.
By using a patented super collider process we are able to chemically
alter the molecular structure of both the inner and outer core. Then
using space age technology we bond them together by reversing the
polarity, applying a negative charge, then BOOM-sham-a-lam-a-ding-dong,
we have the strongest, lightest, and most durable water dissection
device on the planet.
Was this new construction inspired by your brother Scott’s
secret burrito wrap from Dakine Diego’s?
Certainly the burrito wrap laid the ground work, but obviously for
royalty reasons, the two are nothing alike. The inspiration was drawn
more from the old motivational saying, “great taste, less filling”.
Although right now, I can’t seem to recall the scholar who coined
that phrase.
You shaped for years in virtual anonymity do you yearn
for the glory?
“Glory” really isn’t my style. Anonymity affords
me certain benefits that I wouldn’t trade for anything. Let’s
just say I am more than ready to become “anonymously wealthy”.
You and your brother (the quiet one) seem to be offering
your technology to other companies on their shapes. Where is the glory
in that?
“Offering our technology” is one step in the “anonymously
wealthy” business plan. Its a very similar premise to the “free
sample”, although not as free. Walk into any local supermarket,
someone is handing out a free taste of the latest product. Pop it
into your mouth and say, “Wow, those are fantastic”, and
then you have no choice but to buy it. Its a tactic I learned from
my mother-in-law. She was a record setting demo lady.
You guys were known for some time as THE guys in the kiteboard
scene. Kiteboarders get drug across the water and get chopped up by
their boards. Are they all dead?
Kiteboarding????....oh yes. Its true, but much like a jazz singer,
our work in that industry wasn’t appreciated until our demise.
Our kiteboards have a huge cult following now by those that ride.
Yep, they are still going strong, and so are the people who covet
them. So I guess the only thing that died was our kiteboarding company.
It is rumored that two or three moussed and gelled California
pretty boys are hanging from the electric fence surrounding your ultra
secret compound. Will it be a boring five year wait until the Cali
hype machine figures out what you are doing and claims that some slipper
wearing chimp in San Diego came up with the same idea in 1943?
First things first...no one, and I mean no one, can get that close
to the Coil Research and Design compound. We spare no expense on security.
And if people on the left coast are going to wait five years to figure
out that what we’re doing is the future, then they have already
been left behind. Its sad to say, but thats just an inconvenient truth.
All your boards seem to be solid white. Is that part of
the process, or does it stand for purity, justice and the American
way?
Actually our boards aren’t white. That’s a common misconception.
They are “cerebral”. This allows the rider to “envision”
any color, design, or graphic they desire onto the surface, and they
can change it at any time by simply “re-envisioning”.
Welcome to the future....now prepare to be assimilated.
