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About Me

I've been around since balsa wood, but recently got a facelift. I was a church at one time, but have been serving as a home base to the San Clemente community for over four decades. I have been owned by several legends over the years, including Herbie Fletcher, Rick James and Jimmy f$%kin Nudo. In August '05, Mike and Matt --the original founders and current owners of ...Lost--inherited me. Now I am Catalyst and my tradition carries on from the days of Herbie Fletcher Surf Shop and San Clemente Surf Co. If my walls could speak, there'd be people in jail. I'm pretty sure I'm the only shop that has ever kicked out Kelly Slater. Now I am filled with over 300 new boards including ...Lost polyesters and XTR's (new epoxy technology), ...Lost/Aviso Carbon Fibers, ...Lost/Soloman S-Core models, Mark Richards, San Clemente Surf Co., Placebo (new Flexlite technology that Cory Lopez is riding), and a ton of used boards, many of which are team rider trades.And, of course, I am filled with all the latest ...Lost and Lost Girl clothing and videos. Mini ramp out back soon and skate decks n hardware soon too.www.CatalystShop.com

My Interests

good surfing, art, spitting tubes, beautiful scantily clad girls, riding my mini-ramp, our friends, chicks, our friend's chicks, making pottery with mob--actually we'd rather break those damn pots

I'd like to meet:

www.CatalystShop.comMiki Dora, Tom Curren, Michael Ho, Ana Beatris Barros, Thom Lamb, the Geico Gecko, Bob Ross, John Lydon

Music:

all kinds of good shit. especially minor threat and frank black.

Movies:

Repo Man, Jaws, Forrest Hump, Tour de Pants, Dances with Strippers, Surf 2, On the Road with Spike, 1941, Office Space, Mean Girls, Mary Kate and Ashley get fucked up in Amsterdam, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Point Break, North Shore, Lilo and Stitch, Chronicles of Gnarnia

Television:

www.lost.tv; chris ward and matt biolos on fuel tv sounding really highwww.CatalystShop.com

Books:

kelly slater's book, what was it called? Rabbit's book. Hakman's book. Surfer's Journal. Thrasher.

Heroes:

tom curren, top 44 guys who don't know/care about their ranking on tourHow many WCT surfers don't know their ranking going into the last event of the season?
How many don't care what result they need in that last event to requalify?
Yup, you guessed it: at least one, and it's San Clemente's Chris Ward. The surfer's surfer, Chris is far more concerned with getting tubed than World Tour points. Even more, he's not shy about it.
Chris don't lie. See for yourself.
And about the photo: What's REALLY Goin' On in Chris' head in Hawaii? photo by Tupat

My Blog

THE COMP-4 W/VIDEO CLIP

The Comp-4: Sometime last year, one of our employees who thinks he can surf asked Biolos if he could get a Whiplash with a quad set-up. Biolos responded that he's been making them for a while and they...
Posted by www.CatalystShop.com on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:25:00 PST

chicken

This is a must-see event! Chicken Willy will be opening for Pato Banton tomorrow night (Friday, October 19th), playing an acoustic set. In case you're too young to remember Chicken, he hosted the earl...
Posted by www.CatalystShop.com on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:37:00 PST