Walden Surfboards 70's Arrow logo t-shirts

Just in...Walden Surfboards "70's Arrow" logo t-shirts. The Walden Arrow logo debuted in the early 70's as the main laminate on all Walden Boards, today it is only used on our mid-range boards like the Magic Fish and Retro Wing swallow tail. As we get ready for our 45th anniversary in 2010 we are reissuing some of our vintage logos.
We offer two color ways, blue fade or our red-yellow fade on five different color shirts. To see the entire selection visit us online at http://www.waldensurfboards.com/T-shirts-C10.aspx

or visit or shop in Ventura, Ca.

Walden Surfboards SALE

Walden Surfboard in-store and online SALE...remaining 2008 & 2009 stock boards are now on sale*. It's not to early to start holiday shopping especially since our quantities of stock boards are limited and some sizes have already sold out. If your in Ventura we are located at 853 E. Front Street open Tuesday-Saturday 9:30-5:30, Sunday 10-4. Mondays are for shaping only and we are closed to the public. If your not in Ventura visit us at www.waldensurfboards.com

Our Ventura store is approx. a 3000 sq. ft warehouse, we usually stock about 300 boards both custom and stock. On most days Steve is shaping in our shaping room at the back of the store. We have men's women's, kid's apparel and gear. We do ding repair and have a full demo program so you can "try before you buy".

*Our sale does not include customs or SLX carbon rail Magic models

MSA Classic , Malibu September 12-13

Steve doing "The Walden"
The GSI Crew

Pre-Contest party

Australian chanp Josh Constable on the Walden 10'10 SUP

Heat 1

Old friends

2nd place trophy

Ventura's Danny B. on the new Walden Starto-Flex

The 2009 MSA Classic is always a great surf event, this year was no different.

"The MSA Classic is the premier competition in the Coalition of Surfing Clubs annual series. This club-level, invitational contest will be held at Surfrider Beach, Malibu from September 12-13, 2009. More than 275 invited athletes representing elite surfing clubs from California, Hawaii, the East Coast, Japan, and Australia will come together to compete at First Point, Malibu, one of surfing’s legendary waves.
"Other sports have Yankee Stadium, Churchill Downs, Old Trafford, Madison Square Garden, and Camp 4, Yosemite. All fine. Surfing has their spots, too, and one of them is First Point, Malibu. So come to Malibu. Hang out with us and take it all in. Witness the history and walk among the legends.” said Michael Blum, MSA President.
Events during the MSA Classic are free of charge and open to the public. Early rounds begin Saturday, September 12th and run through Sunday, September 13th."

MSAsurfing.org

Steve Walden competed in his first contest in over a year. Steve still recovering and a little weak from the dreaded flu came to Malibu unsure of what he could muster up, he left Malibu with a 2nd place win in his age group.

Walden Surfboards Tweets

Walden Surfboards and Walden Wahine are now on twitter. Follow us on Twitter and find out what goes on day to day, minute to minute sometimes at Walden Surfboards. You can follow our tweets in our "About Walden - News" section on our wesbite at http://www.waldensurfboards.com/about_news.aspx

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Walden 5 Stringer Strato-Flex

Now in Production...The Walden 5 stringer Strato-Flex. The Strato-Flex debuted on the 2009 USA dealer tour to rave reviews. We have been working all summer to fill orders, check out the new video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3UNGHlVbqc

The first dealers to get Strato's in stock are:

Walden Surfboards, Ventura, Ca.

Surf-n-Adventure, Virgina Beach, VA.

Longboard House, Indianatlantic FL.

Eastern Lines, Bel Mar NJ

Ocean Surf Shop, Folley Beach, SC

Sunlight, Pacifica, CA.

Chauncey's Ocean city, MD

2009 Longboard luau Invitational

Live Auction preview
John Peck & Linda
Fernando Aguerre & family with Brandy of Walden

Live Auction

A few Legends

Jericho & Linda Benson

Hula before the auction

Mickey

Woodie, 2010 co-chair

The third week in August is the Moores UCSD Cancer Center Luau & Longboard Invitational to help to increase cancer awareness and raise much needed funds for cancer research and care.
Now in its 16th year, it has become one of the most successful surfing fundraisers and donated more than $3 million for the Moores UCSD Cancer Center. The Luau & Longboard Invitational has an international reputation for bringing together in the aloha spirit some of the most respected men and women in surfing history with community leaders, scientists, and national celebrities to surf for a cure.

The 2009 Longboard luau was a bit smaller this year a combination of scheduling conflicts ( surf expo was the same weekend) and no doubt economic issues, but what did not change was the stoke in the air for this great cause. Year after year the Longboard luau team puts on an amazing first class event and year after year the legends show up with out compensation to surf and support the longboard luau. It was great to see the cancer survivors team go out and surf strong, and to hear the crowds on the beach cheer them on.

Walden Surfboards was proud to participate again this year, even though Walden himself could not attend, he was overseas doing dealer and promo tours. Sent to represent the Walden Surfboard family was girlfriend Brandy who once again dreamed up a great concept surfboard for the live auction. The winner of the 2009 Longboard Luau Walden/Brewer photo surfboard was Fernando Aguerre, Fernando was also the winner of the 2009 Walden board. A big thank you to Fernando for his support, we are proud to have two boards in his amazing private collection. The auction didn't fetch the prices it had in previous years, but we know the team at the Longboard luau will just work harder, their good at that. We can't wait for next year.

2009 Moores UCSD Longboard luau

2009 Longboard luau donation in progress
2008 signature board winner Fernando of Reef

2006 "Tattoo" board hand painted by the artists of TV's "Miami Ink

2005 "LIVESTRONG" surfboard

Countdown to the 2009 Moores UCSD Cancer Center Luau & Longboard invitational

Each August, the annual Moores UCSD Cancer Center Luau and Longboard Invitational surfs for a cure to raise awareness and much needed funds for cancer research. By bringing together some of the most respected men and women in surfing history with business leaders, scientists, local politicians and national celebrities, the Longboard Luau is one of the world’s most successful surfing fundraiser and has an international reputation for celebrating the “aloha” spirit in the fight against cancer. Now in its 16th year, the Invitational has raised more than $3 million for the Moores UCSD Cancer Center. http://www.longboardluau.org/

For the past 8 years Steve Walden & his girlfriend Brandy have participated in the event, each year donating a one of a kind surfboard to the live auction. " The Longboard luau is such an important event and I am honored to be a part of it and to help raise money for such a worthy cause" says Walden. Past Walden donations have included a Lance Armstrong "LIVESTRONG" Magic model that Lance himself signed. which sold fore 27,500.00 A balsa Magic model signed by Greg Noll, Al Merrick, Renny Yater, Bob Mctavish an many more which sold for 17,000.00

This years donation may top them all, Walden Surfboards has partnered with legendary photographer Art Brewer for one of mostly ambitious boards ever. Art has a collection of never or rarely seen Polaroid photos of the surf industries greatest riders & personalities, the 2009 luau board will feature a compilation of some of Art's greatest photos from this collection. Art has also put together a Limited edition book which includes every photo on the board, this book will be included in the auction with the board. As a rule Walden never shows the completed board until the auction is complete but we have a sneak peak of the board being glassed.

Each board idea is dreamed up by Brandy and usually takes about 6 months to complete. "Last years donation was the toughest, trying to track down 50+ surfers to sign a surfboard was a challenge, but everyone involved was really into the cause and was thrilled to lend their name to the project" says Brandy, she adds..This year's board was an enormous job but Art really did most of the work in scanning each picture and laying them out". The live auction is August 23rd, we hope this special surfboard helps raise a lot of money for Cancer research.

Special thanks to: Art Brewer for donating his amazing art and his time to this Project & Ray Moss for donating again his printing services. For more info on Art Brewer or Ray Moss visit: http://www.raymosslongboards.com/

http://www.artbrewer.com/