On saturday 21st of September the Flama-MadDonkeys team made its first appearance at the Kostafest 2024, in the vecinity of Sopelana, Basque Country, Spain. There we showed some of the boards we’ve been making with the FlamaVolta technology.
There we coud hear the first “wooh” and “what??” of people at realizing how light we can make our boards. Wooden surfboards are not heavy anymore!
The compsand construction (vacuum bagged skins over eps), invented by Australian guru Grant Newby, allows to build boards that are 70% organic by weight and carbon neutral. No fiberglass or resins of any kind are necessary, they only need a protection coat like oil or wood floor varnish, which makes repairs super easy!
SMALL DING SKIN REPAIR
BIGGER DING WITH LOSS OF MATERIAL
FlamaClassic is the original concept that started my adventure in 2010 with some very simple yet optimistic goals: building 100% organic surfboards out of wood with the least environmental impact. 15 years later we can say we achieved many of those initial goals: we brought the technique as far as we could, perfecting it and trying to make lighter yet durable boards, and the test of time has proved that the FlamaClassic technique is totally trustworthy.
FlamaClassic construction is carbon negative, probably the most sustainable technology today
MAIN GOALS
> 100% organic and unglassed surfboards
> building blanks to be hand-shaped
> offering custom blanks at market price
> best weight/durability ratio
> simplest construction method with minimum energy consumption
