Walk into Donald Brink’s shaping bay and you’ll be hard pressed to find a surfboard that looks much like anything else out there.  It’s not that Donny couldn’t build your standard thruster, he just doesn’t want to. He enjoys the task of unlocking a new design, of taking an idea in his mind, sketching it out for a client, and creating a fully function, one of a kind piece, designed to perform. Donald’s track in surfboard building has a clear start from his youth. While very much into painting and music as a kid, Donny always had a mind for how things worked, and when he began surfing the transition was natural. He wanted to figure out why certain boards worked a certain way, what made a quad faster, what made a squared off rail different.

Talk to Donny about boards and you might as well grab a seat and crack a beer, because you probably wont be going anywhere for a while. At the end of the day Donald realizes that you can learn how to make just about anything work, and breaking down your approach to surfing, and having fun doing it, is where the key really lies. “You just have to trust it. I think the conversation of how to ride a board is far more important than what’s going on with it. Technique is always going to triumph the design.”