surfboard shaping, surfing, seeking the Living God in spirit and truth
Movies
Introducing the "PROXY" - Proctor Custom Flexible Epoxy version 2.0...plus Titanium Series Performance Upgrades!
Blackbird Model Performance Shortboard - for the New Order of Surfing
The "Four Leaf Clover" Quad Fin
Precision Surfboard Design by Todd Proctor
Custom Epoxy Performance Longboard Surfing
Go Retro Speeding on a Proctor "Twin Fang"- Twin Fin Fish - Take TWO
Proctor Surfboards Retro Surfing Footage: the "Lil' Rascal" in Malibu Mush
Hear from the Shaper on the Lil' Rascal, Todd discusses performance characteristics of the Rascal
Accelerator - talk to the shaper, performance small wave shortboard
Performance Shortboard Footage, Mexico & Channel Islands, Featuring Shaper's Choice: SR-71
Surfing Australia's Gold Coast
Board Model: Tail Caves II
Custom Epoxy Surfboards by Todd Proctor, Small Wave Destroyer Surfing Footage
Classic Noserider Surfing Movie ~ Free your Mind and your Toes will Follow
Do you not fear Me?' declares the LORD. 'Do you not tremble in My presence? For I have placed the sand as a boundary for the sea, An eternal decree, so it cannot cross over it. Though the waves toss, yet they cannot prevail; Though they roar, yet they cannot cross over it.
Jeremiah 5:22
I caught the surfing bug in the 80’s as a skinny young kid. My mom would take me to the beach as a grom and once that stoke hit I surfed pretty much every day all day. I grew up surfing California’s point breaks in northern L.A. County, Ventura and Santa Barbara. After high school I spent some years on the road traveling; surfing all over Australia, South Africa, Hawaii and Mexico. Shaping grew out of my love for surfing. No matter where I happened to be, when the swell dropped off, I would manage to find myself at all the back woods shaping rooms hanging out and seeing all about boards and what makes ‘em tick.
I shaped my first boards in a shed in my grandpa’s back yard in 1991 and shortly after got my first job finishing off pre-shapes for McCrystal Surfboards in Oxnard, CA. I started my own label on the side in ’92 shaping boards for friends, people I surfed with and friends of friends. I was offered a job shaping full time in San Clemente with Lost Surfboards in ’94 where “I would get my own shaping room and have the freedom to hand shape…as many boards as I want…and get to keep my label on the side”…oh boy! I thought, what could be better than that….so I packed up and moved. Working on different design ideas with Matt Biolos and shaping boards for various tour and team riders helped to hone my design and hand shaping skills…and was a lot of fun.
After awhile my heart longed for the open country and long points of Ventura, and the vision of a state-of-the-art board operation there. I opened the doors of the factory in 2000 and have been dedicated to building boards that move ever forward with the changing face of performance surfing; Boards built with the best quality in mind, and always looking for fresh, new, innovative ideas in materials and design.
God has blessed me with a supportive wife that works alongside me and a fine team of guys that have the same level of care and desire to put out the best boards we are capable of.
My inspiration:
“Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men…It is the Lord Christ whom you serve.” Colossians 3:23-24
Mission Statement:
My #1 goal is to work with surfers who are serious about getting the board that will take them to the next level. I offer highest quality design and craftsmanship, my personal attention, innovative technology, integrity, a fair price and quick turnaround.
Typically most companies reserve this type of service only for the “pros” and “elite” few. I enjoy making boards for many of the world’s most talented surfers; their feedback pushes me as a designer to shape boards that respond to the highest demands of performance surfing - I bring that same level of quality and attention to you . . . the individual surfer who wants the magic board.
Remember – the best surfers in the world are the ones having the most fun!
It’s your board . . . talk to the shaper.
The Journey Determines the Destination . . .
Equipping you for the Journey...
Todd Proctor
Is there a God?
Is there a purpose and a plan to our lives?
Or are we basically intelligent animals that live for a time, then die, and are no more?
Is God dead?
In our world today, our country, our culture; it is unmistakable not to notice that there is an underlying sentiment of what life here means….
The majority of our media, institutions, and thinkers tell us that we don’t really know where we come from, how we arrived here, or what we are doing here….only that we are evolving; that our destinies are of our own choosing; that what feels right to each of us on an individual basis is good and should be respected and pursued as our right. My name is Todd Proctor. I design and shape surfboards out of Ventura, California. I want to share with you my story…
I lived a large part of my life periodically wondering, “…how did this world begin and what is the point?…”
I was brought up in a family who taught me of a God of love who created everything, knows everything and has a plan for good for all those who seek to know Him ~ for all those who follow His plan for this life. My parents taught me that there were two types of people in the world, “those that live for themselves and those that live for something greater than themselves….those that live for God.” I was a ‘good boy’ who obeyed his parents and did his best to follow God’s directions found in the Bible….The Word of God. I became good at following rules and putting up a nice appearance.
When I was twelve years old I got bit by the surfing bug. ..and man was I a hooked little grommet. At this same time my parents decided to have me taught at home. Back then, homeschool was not cool...and kids would tease me; but I didn’t mind because my mom had made me a deal that she would take me to the beach when my schoolwork was done. Tease away, I thought….I’m stoked!! Surfing became my thing and I would just obsess over it. When I wasn’t surfing, I would be thinking about it constantly. My neighbor Mike, who was like an older brother to me, drove an old VW surf bus and would take me surfing with him to all the LA county spots in the summertime….Malibu, County Line, Zuma…and in the winter it was an adventure to surf Rincon and the more powerful Ventura County waves. I was out there when the waves were good…bad…didn’t matter, but I had never felt so alive as when I was surfing really good waves.
Much like our world today asks questions; after a few years I began to question “my reality”….Why can’t everybody just get along? Why are there wars, and sorrow, sickness….and death; why is there pain in the world? Why not constant laughter, smiles, perfect waves all the time, peace….If there is a God that loves us why would He make an imperfect world? The answer I was so often given, “…because that’s life man.” At this time, I also began to look at people in the church with a more scrutinizing eye and I saw hypocrisy there. I thought, “most of these people don’t really even believe what they’re talking about.” I desired what was real. I decided to answer my questions by chalking everything up to “no one really knows what’s going on, and no one but me can tell me what I ought to do with this seemingly short span of time I’ve got to call mine.” So, as a young man at age 18, I set off on my own to claim from this life the things I felt would make it most worth living; I did things my way!
“The way of a man seems right in his own eyes, but this path leads only to destruction.” – Proverbs 14:2
I bought a lie that you hear a lot in our world today. It sounds something like this, “You can do whatever you set your mind to….just believe in yourself….if it makes you happy it is good….as long as you are happy and doing what you love that is most important.” Traveling the world surfing, searching for perfect waves, traveling to exotic places, partying, and concentrating on good times was my new religion. I saw and experienced, drank in what life had to offer and pursued always the things that made me feel most alive. I lived and surfed all over Australia, South Africa, Hawaii, and Mexico; and I took up shaping surfboards. My dream was to be a “free spirit” - to surf the best waves in the world, to get the pretty girl, to be “cool”, and to be accountable to no-one. For the next ten years of my life, I did exactly what I wanted to do. I would surf all day and use drugs and alcohol to free my mind at night. When confronted by people who were concerned about me, I would say I’m just having a good time….what is wrong with wanting to have fun? Many times I felt as if I were in complete control of this new reality. I would convince myself I was just living out a part in a movie for the most fantastic life ever lived…..yet it wasn’t fantastic and the contentment I sought was elusive. I never would have admitted it, and probably wasn’t even consciously aware of it at the time; but at the root of all my motivations was fear…..fear was driving me. You may say, “fear….what….how could fear be motivating you?” Underneath it all, it was fear that this life was all there is and that the clock was ticking away with only so much time to get all I wanted out of it.
“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love and of a sound mind.” – 2 Timothy 1:7
During the in-between times, the questions would come back, “why am I really here? why are any of us here? I will not live forever, so why does there one day need to be an end to all this?”
Then one day I realized I had arrived at what I set out to accomplish….I was surfing the best waves in the world, and at the level I had always desired to achieve….I was the life of the party….I was getting the pretty girls….I was shaping boards for a living…I was accountable to no-one….I was doing what I wanted….I was having fun. I had achieved my goals; I had gained the world that was rightly mine; I was happy right…? The interesting thing is that I actually had become an empty shell of a person, who deep inside, was despairing and heavily weighted down by guilt from leading a selfish existence.
“For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet loses his soul. Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?” – Matthew 16:26
In a sense I had become my own god determined to fulfill my destiny through the sheer strength of my will. The only problem is that the things I had pursued left me wanting, questioning; it ended up not being the fulfilling picture I thought it would be. As much as I desired to be in control of my world; to be God – I was not. God humbled me in the face of questions I could not answer and made me aware of my emptiness and selfishness. Living a selfish life is sin according to God’s Word. I remembered from my boyhood days at church that sin separates me from having a relationship with a sinless, holy God. I remembered that Jesus is God and that He came into the world as a man and died on a cross to bear the sins of the world so that mankind could be set free from the bondage of sin and from death; And that Jesus is a merciful, loving and personal God that cares for us and knows everything about each of us. And that if we only believe that Jesus Christ is God and confess our sin to Him and turn from our sin, that He will be faithful to help us overcome that sin, and to have the real life; the most fulfilling life; the one we were created for. A life that offers the best things – “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control” according to Galatians 5:22-23. If you are honest with yourself, there is nothing else this world has to offer that compares to these things.
I could no longer hide from the truth of God. I prayed this prayer to God in a more real way than I had ever spoken to anyone in my life:
“I don’t want to be in control any more. I know I am a sinner and that my sin separates me from having a relationship with you God. I believe in you Jesus, that you are the only one and true God that created everything; that you came to earth to die on a cross as payment for my sin…the sin that separates me from having a relationship with you. Please forgive my sins and take control of my life, guide me in Your truth.
I will go wherever You lead.”
So I chose to let go the controls of my life into God’s care. I chose to stop living for myself and to live how God wanted me to live. I began to read the Bible and pray and find other real Christians who truly believe; and to learn all about this world through the eyes of the One who made it. And from the time I made that choice to humble myself and follow God’s plan for my life through His son Jesus Christ, an amazing thing happened – life got harder….much harder. The self-centered world I had grown so accustomed to living in challenged my every thought. Inwardly I wrestled with questions in my head,
“What are you doing?”, “Do you really believe in a God you can’t see?” ‘This God of yours is for weak people that haven’t got the backbone to face the real world.” “You can’t know what happens after this life….you don’t even know how long this life will be, or what it has in store…Live like there’s no tomorrow is the only way…”
These questions came back attempting to convince my mind that real answers could not be grasped in this life. And this my friends is a very exciting and supremely important part of what it means to be fully engaged with what real life is all about. There is a very real battle that goes on over your soul…and it starts in your mind. It begins with who you believe God to be….what you think the character of God is like….what the plan and purpose of your life is….these are important things that direct your decisions and determine the state of your eternal soul. The battle is over the truth to these questions and it goes on everyday and over each person who will ever walk this earth. This is where every person chooses a side; those who choose to live for themselves choose to separate themselves from God and oppose Him. Those who choose God’s plan for their lives become united with Him.
“For our struggle is not against people who are made of flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness of this age, against spiritual forces of wickedness in heavenly realms.” – Ephesians 6:12
I was challenged again with the question, “What do I truly believe?” and at the age of 28 these passages from the Bible came to my mind and settled upon my heart, soul and mind as the truth:
“For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for peace and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.” - Jeremiah 29:11
“I have come that you may have life, and have it more abundantly” – the words of Jesus from John 10:10
My life continues to be abundantly blessed, but it is not some perfect rosy journey, free from hardships or trials and struggles. Yet I do know that it’s the most real journey of any path there is. And life in this world is just the beginning. One man described life in this world as only the cover and title page of the great book where the best part of the story is yet to come, where each new chapter is better than the one before, and which goes on forever. Let God begin leading you today on this journey…
God has a plan for your life. If you would like to have a relationship with the one and only true God; The God who created this entire universe and who knows you and loves you, please visit JesusIsReality.com to find out more.
I need the link to the villas we arrive late on the 30th, we'll be waking you up, sorry. We'll have to get a cab to the villa but i am sure that won't be to hard.I'm so excited and glad your bringing the entertainment.
I need the link to the villas we arrive late on the 30th, we'll be waking you up, sorry. We'll have to get a cab to the villa but i am sure that won't be to hard.I'm so excited and glad your bringing the entertainment.
Thanks for the info. I will send you a copy of my disks I am still waiting for the one from the photograper. Hope to see u guys soon!!!Email me your address lware80@yahoo.com
Hey guys!! I had so much fun in costa can't wait to get back. Jay needs a new board again broke the new one twice down there. So maybe we can make a trip up? Thanks for everything charissa I had so much fun with you, and thank you for doing my face up so pretty!! Can't wait to see you guys again. What was the name of that one eyeliner product? Can't remember!! See ya soon- luv ya Mrs personality
