UPDATE: We’ve picked a winner. Our favorite haiku came from Fred, who wrote:
Craig, son of Ander
Surfs with style to remember
I need his pad, brah!
Thanks to everyone for slinging words. Twas a tough choice.
Modom is a palindrome, as well as a sweet little accessories company out of Victoria, AUS. A lot of trac pads look like hell and mar otherwise beautiful surfboards. Ugly! But Modom takes pains to put out clean-looking product, like Craig Anderson’s signature traction (below).
They wanted to make a little surf clip (see top of this post) to release with Ando’s pad, as Modom’s Lincoln Eather explains: “Instead of flowing us some footage, Ando decided to cut a little clip himself. Sliced together pretty much on his iPhone with some music from GarageBand (his mate’s tunes), he pulled together a neat little 20-second clip. Gotta admire having a team guy like this on the books.”
What a creative fella. You be creative too, and write a Craig-themed haiku in the comments. Our favorite haiku gets Craig’s pad and maybe a job as our next surf magazine editor. But probably just the pad though.
And as a reminder, a haiku is a poem with five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second, and five syllables in the third. That’s it. Here are some examples to get you going:
My board is pad-less
I want to do airs like Craig
So I need his gear
My trac pad’s heinous
Neon blue and yellow squares
My poor, poor surfboard
Craig Anderson sucks
You guys are so gay for him
Poor man’s Clay Marzo
Whaddya got? Go ahead and take the weekend, we’ll make a pick Monday.
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Can’t count syllabs
Pad won’t help grammar
But surf it will.
my fish has no pad
craig doesn’t surf the fishes
put it on craigslist
I wanna shred gnar
but Hawaii is too far
thank god im not Craig
I don’t need this grip
cause my board – fully equipped
But it is so sick
craig sure surfs real good
with his flowing golden locks
damn, what a hipster
the pad is cool and
craig surfs with sick style but
time for a haircut
the laws of attraction
why is this happening
where am i now
I like Sushi most,
but they forgot to cook it,
burrito instead.
some may ask, why craig?
sick flow, style, punts, traction.
did i mention flow?
surfing is fun
surfboards are slippery
pads are grippy
craig, son of ander
surfs with style to remember
i need his pad bra!
craig’s got influence
For no apparent reason
he surfs alright too
I don’t surf that well
Craig surfs better than me
the pad won’t change that.
Pads are so boring
A dying breed with no hope
oh shit heres ando’s….
Progression is weak.
Occy does not need a pad.
Its overrated.
In order to surf,
I must acquire new grip.
This pad is a start.
Without some new steez
to add to my blank surfboard,
life will be real bland.
Time to dance and sing-
Ando made a pad. A pad!
Striped foam- so hip!
A new pad- huzzah!
Will I now surf like Ando?
I can only hope.
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