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Hey everybody…Welcome to Tony and Amery’s R&D Blog henceforth known as the
“T & A Blog” (laughs)

First, a little background on me to begin. I grew up with a very limited options for things to do. My father was (and still is) really into huntin’ and fishin’ so that’s what we kids did. I was packing a shotgun by age eight and it was all I wanted to do at the time. This all changed one day when we were fishing. We were making a nice wake from our boat and I was looking at the wave. Then I threw out the spoon that was on my line and it started to plane along on the wave. I could control it up and down the wave and I started pretending that I was really small and I was surfing it. (I didn’t know surfing existed at this time.) That night I went to my tackle box and found a longer spoon, I cut the hooks off. Now it was designed just for surfing the wake, and I was ready! So when the wake was shaping up on the next fishing trip I was in the back of the boat mind surfing! I became a student of surfing, I just didn’t know it yet. I think these early years of my life developed a unique understanding of how things interact with nature. These types of experiments led me into a diverse background in skateboarding, surfing, windsurfing, waterskiing, wakeboarding , snowboarding, skiing, motocross, and for the last ten years kiteboarding. It’s been a fun ride. So I thought we would share some random moments. In this blog

But enough about me! Let’s talk about Amery. Where to start? Amery Bernard is a very dedicated, hard working person that is entrenched in SS R&D. He has a true passion for it and it definitely shows. I think Amery sees R&D the same way that I do, as a science and art form. We thought it would be fun to post stuff on the blog like R&D board porn, music, food and life. Whatever! I hope you enjoy our posts from our travels and work.

Cheers ~T~

10/27/2009 Darko Test Report

10.28.2009 – 2:29 am

Yo. Taken a while, but finally putting my first post up on this thing. Been feeling pretty lame about the whole thing, but finally found something somewhat worthy. Translation available upon request Lay…later

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Slingshot endorses Sesitec 2.0 as innovation of the year!

12.22.2008 – 10:59 pm

A few years ago, we made a trip down to Florida, to “roll” out our new wakeboards and boots.  It was a pretty big time launch. Ha ha!  It consisted of going to the Projects to let their crew check the stuff out.  It was the first time we met Pat Panakos and Robby Jacques.   So [...]

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