SPORTING-SAILS - An Evolution of "Deploy & Enjoy"

Ryan, Kalon and Billy - All in a row and putting on a show

SPORTING-SAILS - Skate and Deploy

Skate and Deploy, originally uploaded by SPORTING-SAILS.

Pro Snowboarder & Patagonia Ambassador, Forrest Shearer, deploying in Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah.

Photo by Caroline Gleich

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SPORTING-SAILS - Solvang Sail

Showing some of the local kids in Solvang how to skate and deploy with the SPORTING-SAIL

SPORTING-SAILS - Nick Smith & FCD Surfboards

Sporting a soupy-toed noseride hogging the inside

Sporting an egg-cellent 6"6 single fin

Sporting a stylish cutback showering the face with clouds of spray

Sporting a signature bottom turn in delayed fashion

Nick Smith (SPORTING-SAILS Co-Founder & USC Surf Captain) having fun in some summer surf in San Diego

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SPORTING-SAILS - Skate & Create - The Ramp Room (aka "The Pit")

There was a time we skated inside.

Washington winters and nothing was dry - not even the sky.

Up and down we skated around.

All sorts of sound made the neighbors frown.

Best room in town.

Skate & Create

"The Pit had a nostalgic smell to it. They lived there for but a year, but the character and memories that the air in there held made for a surprisingly comfortable setting that even strangers couldn’t ignore. One could smell it in the air…this was a good place.

There were strange vessels filled with fluffy ash and various accoutrements. The kind of things that could have only been acquired by those so enthralled in the pursuance and dispersement of the happiness provided by a supplement to, soon to become an accomplice of, surfing. A man could spin around and around, getting lost in the patterns and dream scenes on the walls, without seeing a unit of foam and resin. But it was there. It was always there. Harbored within two men that quickly came to understand that even in the wettest of environments, waves are not always found. Within a mile of salt water, cargo ships, whales, and octopi, waves are not always found. Not in here. Not in the Sound.

So they sat. They thought. Puff. Drink. Skate. Create. Stumbling and learning and through an endless imagination, a creation is unveiled that made wide the eyes of those in the know. A ramp was created and thus sparked the endless creation of human movement. A dance floor was born. And in the Sound, where waves were not always found. These men created. And skated." - Nick Cowgill, Pit Resident (circa 2005-2006)

SPORTING-SAILS - Imagination & Inspiration

Sometimes the most memorable evolutions in sports

lack complete desire to progress.

Making something from nothing is what having an imagination is all about.

The more you know, the less you need to have fun!

"When there's surf, I'm totally committed;

when there's none, it doesn't exist" - Miki Dora

SPORTING-SAILS - Malibu - Call to the Wall 2008

Co-Founder of SPORTING-SAILS & Sukräfte Team Rider, Nick Smith, gracing this beautiful & historical wave with an elegance derived from ski/skate style & strength.

SPORTING-SAILS by Sukräfte, LLC

inspiration is the reason

try something new

not bound by the season

enjoy many sports

not just one
mix them together

have fun

rid the conventions

simply create

skate like you ski

ski like you skate

SPORTING-SAILS by Sukräfte, LLC

SPORTING-SAILS - A Tribute to Bill Smith Jr. & The Ski-Klipper

vail, colorado

nineteen seventy-one

bill smith jr. & karl hochtel

laughing in the sun

camprobbers cabin

game creek bowl

bratwurst & schnapps

no ski patrol

colorful ski-klippers

for miles & miles

friends & family

with faces full of smiles