Share What You Are Up To This Weekend and Win a Grill Mount

@keonibalonii duckdiving with the Grill Mount. Seal off the Free Flow Breathing Channel with your lips for a perfect seal and a normal feel. Want to win a Grill Mount? Post up a photo on to your Instagram profile showing what you are up to this weekend, hashtag it #getstoked and #theprostandard and we will randomly pick a winner on July 1st. 

Keoni Jones Interview in GhettoJuiceMag.com

Vissla Clothing and Vertra Sunscreen sponsored pro Keoni Jones has been a big part of the launch of the Pro Standard Grill Mount and we're stoked to see the publicity he's been getting lately.
Here's a link to an interview in Ghetto Juice Mag
Get Stoked.

Explanation of the delay in shipping the Grill Mount.

I thought I would post up on what the delay is on shipping the parts.

We shot the first test Grill Mounts from the molds on Monday and found that the heat generated in the production was curving the arms of the mount. We went back into the mold and added a little pin on the end of each bite pad so that when the EVA is shot onto the polycarbonate body, the arms don't curve up. The pin holds the end of the arm in place do it can't deflect when the heat is on. It will also get rid of the smiley face at the end of the EVA.



You can see the Extra Beef GoPro Mount that is a stock feature on all the parts we make. Yes... there is more cool stuff coming. It's at least three times as strong as a stock GoPro mount because the nut side takes the thickness of the nut pocket all the way into the tine. Perfect for Dungeons and Cortes Bank as well as epic sessions at Teahupoo.

The slight change has set us back a week and a bit, but we figure it's worth it. After this long in development we want it perfect. The colors you see are the food grade EVA and the food grade polycarb in the raw color. They add dyes to get it the color we want. All the material in the Grill Mount is "Food Grade" so you know there is no nasty chemicals in the part that could leach into your system during a long surf session.

The mold maker says he should have the changes done by Monday AM and we should be able to shoot the next test that day. If everything goes perfect we will drop in the right colors into the mix and press start on the injection molding machine and start pumping them out.

GoPro is celebrating their success with an IPO and we're celebrating our success with an IPA... or a Powder Mountain Lager.  You have to drink the beer that's named after your favorite catskiing resort... Powder Mountain Catskiing and Heliskiing

We should have parts by Friday and shipping the Monday after.

Sorry for the delay, quality takes time.
Ken, Greg, Matt

Win a Grill Mount @GoProOfTheDay on Instagram

If you want a chance to win a Grill Mount, jump on your Instagram and go to @goprooftheday and follow the instructions on how to enter. Free stuff doesn't get much easier.

Use Your Grill Mount As A Hook Mount

You can't shoot photos and video all the time, so we designed the Grill Mount to be easy to carry. Fold the Grill Mount closed and hang it from the edge of your pocket like Heidi DeGroot has done here. Juggling kids and chaos sometimes doesn't leave you a free hand to hold your GoPro, so hook it on a pocket.

The Hook ability of the Grill Mount is incredibly handy. You can hang your GoPro from pretty much anything and get a super stable shot for video or time lapse shots.

Order your Grill Mount at www.prostandard.com

Our First Print Ad - Freesurf Magazine

Our first print ad is going to drop in the next issue of Freesurf. We're stoked to be in Freesurf for our first ad as they have helped us so much with the launch of the Grill Mount. Also thanks to Vissla and Vertra athletes Keoni Watson and Keoni Jones as well as Freesurf photographer Sean Reilly, we couldn't have done it without you.

If you are waiting for your already ordered Grill Mount... they are scheduled to land at the beginning of the week and as soon as they hit our warehouse, they will hit the road on FedEx to your house.

If you haven't ordered yours yet, don't miss out of free shipping. If you pre-order a Grill Mount before we get them in, you get FREE SHIPPING in North America.

Order yours at ProStandard.com

How 3D Printing Let Us Create a Perfect Mouth Held GoPro Surf Mount

Keoni Watson is a big wave legend and our rep in Hawaii. He's also the Vissla and Catchsurf Rep. He's a rabid snowboarder so he fits right in with our crew. We couldn't have created the Grill Mount without him. He named it as well. Here he is testing a 3D printed prototype with Freesurf photographer Sean Reilly.

3D Printing let us sculpt the Grill Mount so that by the time we got to the final version, the 7th generation, the Grill Mount fits perfectly in your mouth and hand. Other than where your GoPro mounts to the Extra Beef Camera Mount, and where the heat moldable EVA is attached to the Grill Mount, I don't think there is a straight line on the mount. 

That's what we mean by sculpted. We'd imagine it in Illustrator, draw it in Solidworks, and then print it and go surfing and test it. 

The ability to take millimeters off the design here, add a millimeter there until it was exactly what we wanted, was what made the Grill Mount fit so well in your mouth and hand. It's by sculpting we got the fit and feel perfect where the mount rests between your fingers when you paddle and duckdive while filming your friends.  

The other good thing about 3D printing was we "had" to go to Hawaii to test each round of prototypes and our crew of pro surfers had to test each round in Bali, Pohnpei, Tofino and Australia to make sure the design changes did what we wanted, felt like we wanted and that the Grill Mount worked like we hoped, but in the real world.

It's amazing how 3D printing allows you to fine tune your creation so that when you build it you are stoked that it's as perfect as you can make it. We didn't just print it on any 3D printer, we partnered up with Camosun Technology Access in Victoria, BC to make our ideas real. From Illustrator to Solidworks to printing. Their lab has incredible $250,000 Stratasys Fortus 400 MC 3D printers that let us get the feel and function and material as close to the final product as humanly possible. I think in the end before we pressed "Go" we printed well over 100 prototypes. It took us longer than we thought to get the GoPro Surf Mount we now called the Grill Mount dialed but we know that once you try it, you'll feel where the time was spent.

3D printing is also great for letting you try ideas that never again see the light of day because they didn't work like we'd hoped, but at least we tested it so that when you get your Grill Mount you know that we've taken the design as far as possible then brought it back to what works and now you're getting the ultimate GoPro Surf Mount.

Super tech, super tested, super light, super rugged, multi functional and super dope. Order yours from ProStandard.com. All that tech is only 29.95. 

Reesebeehler123 Wins the GoPro 3+ and The Grill Mount

We dropped a contest on Surfline.com's Instagram and it went off. Reesebeehler123 is the winner.
We will do another one soon. Follow us on Instagram @theprostandard to have a chance to win.

Get Stoked.

Thank You For The Support

So amazed at the response to the Grill Mount. When we dropped the Grill Mount, we thought it would take 6-8 months to hit the volume price breaks to get The Grill Mount price down to $29.95. Thanks to all of you, we managed to hit the minimums in a week.

Thanks to everyone for making it happen so quickly.
Special thanks to the people and brands below that helped us with the launch.
Keoni Watson, +keonibaloni . Donald Del Carmen, Andrew Hicks, +WWW.FREESURF.TV  +freesurfmagazine +SURFER Magazine +Surfline +magicseaweed +VISSLA Vertra and The Camp of Champions

Keoni Jones fooling around right before his flight to Australia.

Overwhelming Response To The Grill Mount Lets Us Price it $10 Cheaper

When we dropped the Grill Mount last week, we priced it at $39.95, planning on dropping it to $29.95 in 6-8 months once we hit the production volume price breaks to let us do so. Thanks to the overwhelming response to the launch of the Grill Mount, we've managed to hit those numbers in a week. Thank you to everyone that has ordered one so far, you'll get a $10 refund when we ship your Grill Mount. Words can't express how blown away we are. Thank you to everyone that told their friends about it and blew it up on Surfline.com,Surfer and Magicseaweed Surf, facebook and Instagram. We appreciate it more than you'll ever know. #gratitude Keoni Jones at Rocky Point, Hawaii a couple days ago.

Duck Diving With Your Grill Mount

Keoni Jones shows duckdiving with the Grill Mount. Film your friends from the inside as you paddle back out with your Grill Mount in your hand. Grab your rail, duckdive the sets, the EVA bite pads cushion your rails. 

Keoni Jones Getting Busy In Panama

Vissla Surfer Keoni Jones just got back from a trip to Bocas Del Toro in Panama with Hawaii based Freesurf Magazine and they scored. Check the clip and photos. It looks like they put their Verta Sunscreen to good use.

Hummingbirds and kicking back... or not.

Life isn't about getting rad all the time. Sometimes you need to kick back and smell the flowers or look at the hummingbirds thinking they are smelling the flowers. Here's a video of some Lillooet, BC hummingbirds. Shot with a GoPro 3+ Black Edition and a Pro Standard Grill Mount used as a hook mount on a branch as well as a GoPro Jaws Flex Clamp. Check the hummingbird taking a dump at the 13 second mark... never seen that before.

Win A GoPro 3+ and 1 of the first 25 Grill Mounts

You might want to check Surfline.com's Instagram tomorrow. Follow us, follow Vertra, tag your friends and share Surfline's post and you could win a GoPro 3+ Black Edition and one of the first 25 Grill Mounts ever made.

If you aren't feeling lucky, you can also buy your Grill Mount online at:

www.prostandard.com