For almost a year, Andrew Mooney has been making surfboards under a company name called Serpent Sleds. Of course, Mooney knows a thing or two about surfboards. He has, by his own admission, an “unhealthy obsession with surfboard design.” Like most great shapers, Mooney puts his designs through the wringer on a daily basis. Not just any wringer, though–Mooney’s one of those guys that finds the biggest, scariest wringer he can find and throws himself headlong into it. He was the only guy at the now-famous Red Bull Cape Fear event to ride a self-shaped board.
The board in question was a model called the Hekkaz Tekkas, which is his standard shortboard. Just prior to the Cape Fear event, he had returned from a trip to Indonesia, and he had snapped almost all of his boards. The one that he used for the contest was an order for a customer that he hadn’t shipped just yet. After the event, he he asked the guy if he minded that he’d already ridden it. He didn’t, so Mooney shipped it off to him. And if Mooney’s surfing is an indication of his boards, that guy is going to be stoked.
The clip above was shot over the course of a few sessions on the Central Coast and one mission to Shipsterns in Tasmania. Right, Mooney is concentrating on building a website for Serpent Sleds, mostly for Australia and Indonesia. So for now, the only place to get a hold of Mooney and see his boards is on his Instagram–but that’s going to change soon.
See more from Mooney and Serpent Sleds on Instagram and see more from filmmaker Owen Milne on Instagram and his website.
