Bataleon & Bill Stewart Triple Base Surfboard

We're not exactly great at surfing and usually, of course, we'd blame our personal shortcomings on the board. Sadly, with the first ever 3BT surfboard coming out, that won't be an option anymore. This deck has the most sophisticated shape ever made by Bill Stewart, and that's as though you got the fastest car by Porsche in your garage.

Snowboarding and surfing share some striking similarities - except for maybe bindings, our handrail fetish, Shaun White, all those layers of confining garment, goggles, triples, funparks, chairlifts, expensive day tickets, Aspen, glaciers and so on. Yet, the feeling of burning a turn in the pow and slashing a wave are supposed to be equally close to swimming in a pool full of cotton candy. Accordingly, it makes total sense that a board shaper combines his experience in both surfing and snowboarding to produce the ultimate surf sticks in cooperation with one of the most most bad-ass snowboard brands in the game. It's like when we took our drinking habit and combined it with our smoking habit and something really beautiful happened as a result.

Anyway, Bataleon has taken things to another level by working with San Clemente-based Stewart Surfboards on a truly unique surf shape. They have combined their 3-dimensional design expertise with Stewart’s surfboard shaping knowledge and created a one of a kind surfboard with 3BT shaping elements.  With a blunt nose, half-crescent tail, 3BT shaped nose and the same insane airbrush graphics as the snowboard that will be released this fall, it’s the Camel Toe for liquid water.

As Stewart put it, “We are two like-minded brands, - we have a passion for riding and we like to make badass boards.”

Featuring a flat tail that releases into a double concave in the middle of the board for speed, the surfboard then changes into a single concave for ease of paddling… then you hit the Triple Base in the nose that lifts the rails and makes it more forgiving on both sides of the board.

Shayne Pospisil. Mahalo.

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