SCENE BEFORE THE TRIP

            gato Heroi headquarter before the trip:

  

  
NEW KILLER SERIES SURFAR!  

left: Killer Sun prototypes fresh stack before depature .

New model based on the gH Kookkiller updated for the surfar series and evovled for the new year. Modified rail line slightly tuned rocker make the new key length 8' to 9'1 and feature limited deck patch print by Chiz.

See chiz ride the Killer Sun in featured clips to come .

            
 gH MMXII: A NEW BREED -


9'2 Jungle boat:  the original Jungle shape (bottom). Narrow rounded tail with bell shaped nose and wide point slightly aft being the most versitile Jungle model and agile longboard suggested from 9'0 to 9'4.


9'0 Jungle Rpg: Featured in Hash! (middle outline) wide point forward, designed for transitional mid length style surfing with trim speed from the nose due to entry vee from 8'0 to 9'0 see Rgk ride Rpg while tripping Surfar!


7"11 Jungle Acid: Featured Chiz ride in Jungle Dreme
Inspired by transitional length design of the acid era, the Jungle Acid carries features from the Jungle family
around 7"11. built for the trip Surfar, and gH featured mid length for next year

MAKE YOUR TRIP EASY
everyday session or far away. . . 




SURFAR!  EDITION FLIGHT BAG
gH travel board bags feature the sophistication of tailored design and weather proof recycled material. Double or single available in various length and prints

    SURFAR! TIP for the trip 


    ROCKETS MADE FOR FAR OUT LOCATIONS 


    The Tail unfolds here! Hepcat continues to load scenes from the trip and provide the future schedule abroad!

SURFAR ENDS PHASE I

                                                    

JUNGLE ACID and the NEVER-ENDING TRIP

     

 gato hepcats worldwide gathered to celebrate on a remote location in Northern Africa. 

Filming upcoming film; Dynamic Endevours and

"hashing out" details for gato Heroi 2012.  Consisting of gH representitives from Italia, France, Australia, Japan, Morocco, California, NewYork and North Carolina camping for weeks finding endless waves perfectly suited for new prototype foils like: Jungle Acid, Killer sun, and space oasis.

: rides at hash passe on jungle acid prototype

NOTE to enthusiast : Surfar models available for limited time! placing orders now see schedule below:

SURFAR! 2012 WORLDWIDE SCHEDULE:

December's end 2011: END SAHARA OCCIDENTIAL Rgk & Surfar cats return to the US from afar.

 January & February : Rgk continues to refine Surfar and build custom for Ca, Haw,& Seakong Japan

     January - March : Sickrat & Andy (contact gato OZ blog) prebook custom orders for Surfar! go OZ

      february -March :  Rgk and Surfar! concept goes to Australia for filming and custom orders

    January - March:  Gato Basque prebooks orders for Surfar! Europe (contact gato bask blog.)

        March - May :   Rgk returns to France to build the Surfar models in thier final evolutionary stage.

      SURFAR! PROTOTYPE PERIOD ENDS in the spring for the northern hemisphere.

Feel the Evolution of the never ending trip . . . Far out and near your homebreak, the above schedule 

outlines the destination fields for the final stages of development for surfar prototype. 

      Rgk gH shaper:   "I want rider to feel the evolution of the prototype, in fact I want the riders of the world to influence the final components of the surfar models . Thats why for 2012 the plan goes as follows : Return to the US with the footage, photos, templates, and basic elements achieved by Surfar

so far . Revisit the information and refine key elements (rocker, rail severity, weight, etc.) 

Build custom orders according to the Surfar series explaining the experience had with the prototypes while abroad and converse over specific custom elements for paticular surf destinations and rider need

By spring of 2012, to fortify all the loose elements and simplify  two or three models from the trip out.

If you want to be involved, your order will change the course of evolution for the unique series of exotic pleasure craft. I want to work these shapes into the new year. , and by next spring be reproducing the best of the trip, the ones that survived winter, the evolved form. . . 

      NEW PHASES N WAVES FOR NEW YEARS AHEAD! Surreal Surf next in line of conceptual product following the end of Surfar! custom orders.  NOTE: Surfar custom tailored board bags available at discounted price for prebooked orders along with appropriate fin. January 2012: Drop into Gato Heroi California . See the templates, test a demo. Rgk will be at gH headquarters doing custom surfar prototypes for riders and customers for only 2.25 months before tripping afar again. " I plan on saturating local surf spots with experimental design types based on the currently evolving series we are working on while Im home."  Check in with robin or larry @ gato heroi.com for new and used unique rides. More from the Surfar trip to be released! see here.

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        WAVES ON THE WAY BACK ON LINE IN A COUPLE DAYS LOGNOUT FOR NOW!

JUNGLE DREME

                                            

SPACE OASIS

                                                                                                                                            photo Pero
     gATO GOES: LEAVING BIARRITZ TO FAR OUT SURFAR LOCATIONs!
  

FRANCE NOV. 16


Driving all night Volkswagen
packed tight 7 test foils, 6 cameras and 3 hepcat hit the road south through centre espana. Madrid midi, cadiz and the straights by midnight. Early morning 6am aboard a ferry boat headed for the African continent. Quite a long senic venture.
RGK blazing the once gyped  drawn trail insearch of foreign finds. Pero prepared to catch inspiring sight with his camera day or night. Bradford with guitar providing handmade sound and "along for the trip" catching pictures of his own. Spain's vast Geology looks like landscape painting flying past at 100Km. The color changes with the temputure as we reach Europe's gateway to Northern Africa. Surfar prototypes still stuck at customs, gato had to go, meeting up with chiz, Toshi from seakong and Nakamura Jr.& Sr. already at Surfar basecamp on the otherside of the straight.. The original registration was jammed behing the dashboard and African custom officals are quick to take a car. "Driving can be more like surfing for me than surfing". When the road is open and interesting terrain is never ending.  Thats the freedom that Surfar hopes to represent. A sort of enigma, its not really about just surfing. its about living with surf. Thats why Surfar is so unique. Most surf travel stories in todays world are so progressive. World class surfers surfing freakwaves. like super heroes and fantasy lands. towing into monsters, or living boats locked outside of remote islands to catch to perfect boardshort selling photo. Surfar is quite surreal in the fact that we represent single fin evolution on a low non commercial frequency. The performance level is not completely out of the average surfers ability. Simple esthetics , trim speed + direction change avec casual style in even critical situations. We are a breed longboarder. Whether some admit it or not. Sure, we all want to be good surfers.  Single fin surfing doesnt have the ability to keep up with the surf industries Bullet train of progressive athleticism and monthly line sheets with updated pipeline and tahiti movies of heroes drilling super holes for every drop. thats some futuristic shit man. Gato heroi therefore has nothing to prove. Its more of a feeling a mood. a wavelenght. A genre, a trip, we are on it. here it is SURFAR! Cats, dogs, boys and girls all aboard the Marrakesh express. hope all is  well in California and all the bars, glad to be far far away. Staying far out, not to return until 2012 if it last that long. keep hosing down the edison plant, keep it cool at sano and trestles. Get ready SURFAR OZ is coming to bring aquatic creature like foils and planes down under! SURREAL SURF is next in line, with  far out places 2012!

SPAIN'S ROMANCE LIES MOST ON THE OPEN ROAD        photo Pero    
Lanscape scenery reminding a van of surf-gremlin theres more out there than just the surf beach

                               
        Sleeping on a boat after driving 18 hours at 100 km maxed out volkswagen, maxed out driver rests for the trip ahead. . .photo pero
        SURFAR! PRPOTOTYPES missing?
Guilham waits in Biarritz for the rest of the test foils to arrive from customs. Once recieved he hits the road south to the surfar basecamp location. thank you guilham! Good conditions predicted for the next couple of days. see the trip here! 

gato go! -

         SURFAR!FRANCE END TRIP OUT SAHARA AHEAD .   *

                   photo pero

 Black and white Volkswagen loaded. . . 7 boards, 3 cats,  and film headed south through Espana early this morning. To the western Sahara by friday! France provided great test rides for JUNGLE ACID prototype no.1 We had perfect weather and conditions for 10 days . Thank you to Cedric from VIRAL SURF for housing the project while in france.

Viral is a major suplier of blanks and fiberglass in Europe . Gato Goes to FAROUT location soon to film for new gH movie DYNAMIC ENDEVOURS. . . Guns still in customs cant wait any longer gotta get goin.

Hopefully the rest of the prototypes find there way south soon. But until then we got JUNGLE ACID, a classic SLIVER, wider driver,POCKET JOY 7'4, and fresh PISTOLA prototype and pero's rainbow rider.

REPORT FOR THE FAROUT LOCATIONS: LOOKS GOOD.

PROTOTYPES: STUCK IN CUSTOMS

STATUS: SURFAR AHEAD SEE HERE SOON.

  

  Leaving France, we stopped to discuss the trip with JB and Clovis from WALLAKO surfshop in Bidart. They might join us in the desert for SURFAR! filming . Clovis is intreasted in the CLASSIC SLIVER. His surfing looks towards Phil Edwards and Cody Simpkins with classic Joel elements. Clovis classic longboard aproach would compliment the SLIVER well, and key to have a goofy Wallako will recieve a few of the used prototype boards and be taking orders for Rk's return to France early march. 

   CEDRIC VS.RK BATTLE ROYAL photo pero

BRADFORD WITHOUT KAZOO

                                        

KEY to the CAT KINGDOM

gato' sucre a la monde

                                                  gato secures its place in the Antlantic


                            DYNAMIC FOIL + EVOLVING CONCEPT 

                                BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION
                   
                              Look at her as she lies on the sand. 
                            wet with  seafoam and gH C.  fin. . . 
                            Like a beached sea creature , dynamic
                            design created for SURFAR! enthusiest 
                             afar. 
                              
                              9 foot in lenght suitable for conditions 
                            big or small. carve or trim take your 
                            natural course. 
                              
                              The concept behind SURFAR! based 
                             on evolution and natural progression .
                             Blending existing gato properties with 
                             transitional era surfboard design factors
                             to create all around progressive single 
                             fin longboard. Throw out the noseriders
                            buy a suitcase and explore! have no 
                            shame in leashing the acid. Shes   
                            designed for the international market  
                            of riders who dont consider themselves   
                            longboards only, but the rider who needs 
                            a 9 foot pintail built for carving and entry trim 
                            PREBOOKING JUNGLE ACID AND OTHER SURFAR! SERIES MODELS NOW!
                            
                              In order to follow natural progression of design elements evolving, The SURFAR
                            models are availible for limited time . Pre order now for the following travel schedule

JUNGLE ACID! see more at SEAKONG JAPAN

                           
                            SURFAR! : SHAPED AFAR!
            EUROPE : NOVEMBRE - MARCH 

           US and HAWAII : JANUARY - FEBUARY

           AUSTRALIA : FEBUARY - MARCH

          JAPAN : already shaped and shipped!

JUNGLE ACID FEATURING VEE ENTRY  RK DROPS OUT PHOTO PERO


SURFAR! PHOTOGRAPHER PERO HAYASHI                                                                                                  

!In search of mood driven visual 

interputation of the trip. .  

He has shot many gato projects prior

to SURFAR! His photo can be seen on 

the gH shirt freakwaive. Also 

abstract image " paddle out":,

 as seen printed on the flight bags. 

His work exibits feeling and classic surf

 esthetic and can be seen in japanese magaizines Blue, Nalu and On The Board.

          Spinner take off's give him a unique surf 

style not seen since vinatge Takayama. 

 Look for SURFAR! photo: PERO here!

            SURFAR! second camera and American musician Bradford "along for the trip". . .

PERO SLIVERS LEFT ! PHOTOS BRADFORD

                                      GUILHEM SLIDES LEFT ON DALEY DRIVER

                                                                                             

                                                                                             

  

       

                                                                                                 

ACID TEST FRANCE

Featering a straight vee and turning from the front half,  Rk on JUNGLE ACID PROTOTYPE no.1 . Gyro Turn  inspired by George . Gato goal: get 9 foot equiptment on rail!     photo pero

                                                           PSYHCEDELIC SUNSET AFAR! 

SURFAR! currently taking place in FRANCE avec RARE indian summer conditions so far! 

Perfect head high offshore conditions act as perfect test fields for new foils . 

Classic gato Heroi sliver worked well in softer offshore conditions, like a hot rod log , low rocker and knifed rails penetranted the stiff morning wind and high tides.

The JUNGLE ACID prototype no.1 

had the basic essentials for the overhead days. Providing carving properties, and a critical floatation 

level bridging transitional era surfing with moderrn longboarding.

"The two boards had an amazing amount of similarities . The Sliver shape and jungle board together proved to be a key combination for riding waves from waist high to overhead. the common factor between the sessions so far would be 

would be that the wind  has stayed offshore every session. The slivers low rocker and knifed rails can be a problem in choppy conditions. The jungle acid's vee entry helped me backside with the side offshore chop, displacing the negative energy  off the bow . . ." says Rgk gato Heroi shaper commenting on the recent trip out in FRANCE . 

photos byBradford








JUNGLE ACID ACTION!

SURFAR! LEAVING FRANCE

OFF TO FAR OUT LOCATIONS 

SAHARA DESERT BEYOND!

catch the TRIP OUT here with currently uploaded visuals!

FLIGHT BAG - travel taliored

 GATO GO - for the trip out

   

FLIGHT BAG :

 by gatoHeroi

  DYNAMIC design foils
carry less resistance. Needing a FLIGHT BAG by gato Heroi means less excess material on the trip afar. . . Unique construction of recycled SAIL material. Sleek

demensions tailored fit for gato design .wont fit noseriders, based on functional design only.

Lightwieght shape is easy under the arm. Prints  and logos are subject to varry. complete with 

over the shoulder strap. ANY LENGHT AVAILABLE, DOUBLE or SINGLE version.

                                                


 photo pero

  

                                                                                                       SINGLE VERSION DOUBLE VERSION 

JUNGLE ACID CUTSBACK

 THE GATO FEATURED FIN BELOW YOU CANNOT SEE IS A GH C MODEL  pero!

THE GHC HAS BIG A BIG PART OF THE EVOLUTION OF DESIGN WITH GATO MODELS. ALLOWING NEW RAIL CONCEPTS TO COME ALIVE WITH AGILITY AND  FLEX - DRIVE. 
AVAILABLE FROM GATO DIRECT FOR $50 US DOLLAR AND
MIGHT CHANGE THE STATE OF YOUR CURRENT BOARD!
COLORS VARY.  9" - 9.65. 949 496 GATO

    SURFAR! PHOTOG HEPCAT, BRADFORD SLICES BACKHAND SPACE PIG ACTION 

      PHOTO PERO