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Honouring and inspired by the pioneers of surfboard manufacturing.
Built by 2025 World Longboard Champion Kai Ellice-Flint
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let’s do this thang! comp starts tomorrow in El Salvador 🐨🦘
@higherstatesurfboards
@surfingaus @theirukandjis @isasurfing

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@glidingbarnacles

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Epic 2026 Woopi winter classic run by @woolgoolgalongboardclub absolutely stacked 6 person finals in every division. Arrawarra turned it on for two full days of some of the best longboarding I’ve seen. A few pics I have had the chance to get to so far. Great rivalry’s, great comradeship between competitors, and new friendships are forged. Got to say as close as I got to winning I was stoked to get runner up in 2 division against some of the best in the business. I nearly didn’t make the over 60s final these guys seriously are so gnarly as competitors, 6 man heats are bloody tough. @sawtellsurfboards @bennetsurfboards and @munro_and_sons thanks board sponsorship 🔥

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@kai_gord
riding @higherstatesurfboards

#longboardsurfing #noseride #surf #coffscoast

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Two legends just arrived ⚓️

Uma homenagem e uma inspiração ✨
Construída pelo Campeão Mundial de Longboard de 2025, Kai Ellice-Flint.👑

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Honouring and inspired by the pioneers of surfboard manufacturing. ✨Built by 2025 World Longboard Champion Kai Ellice-Flint WIP👑

Mahalo ⚓️🙏🏻
@higherstatesurfboards
@kaielliceflint

#longboardculture #surfculture #shapers #culture #legendary

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Tweedvegas for stop number 6 of my surfing tour. In town for the national longboard titles as Megan’s nutrition and high performance coach and what a freaking awesome time it was. Day one and two were spent lightning it up in Byron and the Goldy.
We’ll be plotting our inevitable and semi-permanent return won’t we @meggytucker

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Out n about with some good humans lately 🧚‍♀️

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@kai_gord
riding @higherstatesurfboards

#longboardsurfing #surf #longboard #noseride #coffscoast

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FRISSION — The Frission is the model that Kai was surfing in the World Title winning contest in El Salvador and is geared towards surfers who wants to drive a longboard — not just ride it. This is your Formula One machine: reactive, precise, and built to be pushed hard through critical sections. From the tail, the board offers exceptional retention against the wave face, allowing the surfer to create a line and drive firmly off the hard edge while engaging the generous rail-line rocker through the rear third. The Frission locks into the pocket and accelerates with intent. It responds immediately to back-foot pressure, allowing committed direction changes and tight arcs while maintaining lift for extended, elevated noserides. The Frission is for surfers who want to attack the pocket, draw powerful lines, and experience a contemporary version of longboarding at full throttle. Best suited to steeper, more performance-oriented waves where control and projection matter.

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@kaielliceflint shaping @higherstatesurfboards at @shapersclub

#35mm
#blackandwhite
#doubleexposure
#analog
#portrait

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What a special time that was at @shapersclub. I’m deeply honoured to have you open the opportunity for my boards to enter the European market.

It was also a genuine challenge to my understanding of surfboard building.

This trip marked the beginning of an exploration I’ve been curious about for a little while now—taking my designs from KKL scans, translating them through Shape3D, and finishing boards cut on an APS3000 machine. A process that sounds straightforward on paper, but in reality revealed just how much nuance exists between a board design and a board shape.

The transfer of data between systems was throwing me around more than I expected. Different software interprets information differently, and the resulting cuts often carried subtle highs and lows that weren’t present in the boards I know so intimately. Finding my way back to the same curves and feelings I’ve developed through years of shaping wasn’t simply a matter of removing foam. It was about understanding where those curves had shifted, how they interacted with each other, and how to guide them back into harmony without disturbing the overall design.

My boards have evolved into fairly complex forms— bottom contours rapidly changing within short sections of foam, whilst rail-line rocker and stringer rocker often telling different stories while still working together. When machine cuts come out this close to completion, there isn’t much room for correction. Every pass becomes deliberate. Every adjustment carries consequence.

The process gave me a deeper appreciation for the craftsmen who have mastered digital design as a shaping tool. Creating a board that flows naturally through software, machine, and hand is an art form of its own.
Photos @jeancric

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Notre Champ’ Longboard en résidence dans notre atelier @kaielliceflint @higherstatesurfboards toujours un grand plaisir de partager de bons moments et de proposer des design et custom incroyables aux surfeurs. #shapersclub #longboard #kaielliceflint #guestshaper #shape

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