Length: 12´0" 365.76 cm
Nose: 6.81" 17.30 cm
Mid: 21.19" 53.82 cm
Tail: 9.50" 24.13 cm
Thick: 7.06" 17.93 cm

In the beginning, there was Velzy. And he begat Hap Jacobs and Johnny Rice and Bing Copeland and Rick, and if you start in the highest branches of the current family tree of surfboard shapers that numbers in the thousands, go to the roots and you will find The Hawk, deep in the wood, in the roots. Asking Velzy who his shaping influences are is like asking God what the Universe was like before the Universe began: "No one. My dad, I guess, because he was a woodworker." Velzy’s first board was a balsa redwood shaped in Hermosa Beach around 1943. "I saw the boards the older guys were riding and they were heavy and didn’t work too good. I was a little guy and all those boards were too big and heavy so I sawed about two feet off the things and reshaped the bottom until I found one that worked. I liked what I had done and just kept going."