It’s rare to see board-mounted GoPro footage of longboarding. Oh, we see plenty of it on shortboards — too much, perhaps — but longboarding is an entirely different beast. Drawn out lines, that gentle cross-step dance, a separate feeling altogether. It’s a feeling Harley Ingleby knows better than most because he’s a two-time world champion who recently won the Australian Open at D’bah. But it’s not just boards with length that he excels on. He’s one of those rare surfers who will rip on pretty much anything he decides to ride. He’s “able to switch from a twin keel fish in knee-high slop with a skill reminiscent of Machado, and then follow Shane Dorian inside a barrel big enough to fit a car with rocks only inches beneath his fins,” writes Firewire.
Because of all that, Ingleby worked with shaper Bill Tolhurst to create the HiHp, HiH4, Moe, and the Cruiser, a quiver of longboards created for all manner of waves. Above, you’ll see beautiful tail-mount footage of Ingleby test driving the HiHp model, and if that bottom turn doesn’t make you want to ride a longboard, nothing will.
