Surfing Boneyards with Pops... and a Grill Mount

I think there is a line from somewhere that says the family that surfs together, stays together.
Here's Brian Cox and his Dad, staying together.

Kite Surfing With The Grill Mount

Lance Kenny from Perth, Australia, has been a big supporter and user of the Pro Standard Grill Mount since we launched. He seems to have as much fun as humanly possible at almost all times. That gets us stoked. Here's Lance taking his Grill Mount out for a kite surf.

Learning Surf Photography Unboxes their Grill Mount The GoPro Mouth Mount

Ben at Learning Surf Photography.com just dropped this clip on unboxing the Grill Mount GoPro Mouth Mount. He makes a very good point. Because of the rigid design, there is none of the bouncy flexy footage that you get from a rubber snorkel style mount. Grill Mount... mo betta.
Check it.

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. 

Keoni Jones at Rocky Point

Keoni Jones has been a big part of making the Grill Mount awesome. Here he is testing Grill Mount version number 7 - the final product. The first production parts hit the beach June 21st. Pre order at www.ProStandard.com and get free shipping.

Rocky Point with Keoni Jones

Keoni Jones has been testing the 3D Printed protoypes for about a month now on the north shore of Oahu and is stoked. The Grill Mount hits the beach in about 2 weeks. Get ready! Here's a quick screen grab.

Keoni Watson Using the Grill Mount and a Hand Held Grip for Your GoPro

We designed the Grill Mount to fit in your mouth for a perfect relaxed fit. Sometimes it's nice to take it out and get a new angle... like this.

Keoni Watson started with the Grill Mount in his mouth and then after he dropped in, slid a couple fingers between the mount and his chin into the curved space that was created for just that purpose by designing the Grill Mount to "float" slightly in front of your chin with the your GoPro below your chin.
Super comfortable and super quick to grab when you want to change angles.
Want to see more? Go to www.prostandard.com
Want to have fun this summer? Come to The Camp of Champions.

Greg The Assembly Robot for distributors and team / testers

Greg - AKA - The Assembly Robot, has been busy all week putting together the final samples of the 3D printed prototypes for all our distributors and our friends/testers in Hawaii and Bali. Keoni Watson, Keoni Jones and his brothers, Jaymo and Sean Reilly are killing it on testing.













How could you not love science. All week Greg has been fooling around with 3D Printers, lasers to cut the EVA, and all kinds of high tech stuff that makes us look really smart. Now we just have to mount the lasers on the shark in the office and it's on!
We've printed three colors now. White, Black and Red.

Keoni Jones testing.

Pre-Order your Grill Mount

New photo for the Pro Standard Facebook page. Keoni Watson at a spot on some island, somewhere cool. That's all I'm gonna say. GoPro surf photo. Pre-order your Grill Mount today at www.prostandard.com
Shot by Sean Reilly

Hey! This thing is a tripod too!

The Pro Standard Grill Mount is in Mexico being tested with older model GoPro cameras to make sure they are good to go... anywhere.
Hey! This thing's a tripod too!