What Happen When You Fall On Your Face - Does It Rip Your Teeth Out?

When we started prototyping the Grill Mount we went with an international test crew consisting of Tom Butler, Keoni Watson, Keoni Jones, Raph Bruhwiler and Ryan Hipwood as well as numerous other big wave surfers and freesurfers to be our prototype enjoyers and destroyers. We tested in Hawaii, Indo, Bali, Australia, Portugal, France and Tahiti because we figured they could put the Grill Mount through it's paces in those places and test it as hard as they could possible test it. They said when they crashed on their face on the face, they didn't even notice it was there because it didn't move due to the solid connection between their molars and the mount as well as the stiff poly carb construction. Due to the molded mouth guard style fit that is custom fit to your teeth, on a stiff spine that holds your camera, the way it locks into your teeth and doesn't flex, it keeps it away from your chin, keeps it from ripping your teeth out and keeps the mount from coming out. The lack of flex also keeps your footage smoother. Check a Grill Mount out, you'll be stoked on the difference hell men, engineering, science, orthodontists, 7 generations of 3D printed prototypes and almost year of prototype testing make to the final product. 
Ken

Chris Monroe... testing.

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. 

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.

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!

The Pro Standard Website is Live! Get Stoked!

The Pro Standard website is now live. Get stoked!
Check out the many uses of the Grill Mount. Our first product arrives mid June so get your pre-order in and we will ship you one of the first ones built.
Like the best bands, you can say you knew us when.

A Day So Good, You Want To Feel It, Not Just Remember It

I suck at a lot of things, but I'm really glad that I don't suck at riding pow. I love those days at Powder Mountain Catskiing and Heliskiing in Whistler when the snow is so insane, the crew is so awesome, the sun is out and the day is so damn good that you actually let and want yourself to get sunburnt so that for the next five days or so, you don't just remember the day, you can still feel it. The Camp of Champions is like that too I guess, Maybe that's why campers and me get burnt so often every summer. My Pro Standard worked awesome as well.

Pro Standard Grill Mount Promo Shoot with Freesurf Magazine in Hawaii

Had such a fun time in Hawaii with Sean Reilly and Keoni Watson testing the latest generation of 3D printed Grill Mount prototypes. Thanks to Darrick and Tiger Doerner at DDSEA for the accommodations. I've just finished sorting all the shots from the #grillmount promo shoot with Freesurf Magazine. We shot mostly on the North Shore and a few other spots. We thought the weather and waves were going to be not so great but we hit a great little sun and swell window and got what we needed.

Grill Mounts... Fresh from the oven

The latest generation of Pro Standard Grill Mounts for hands free shooting with your GoPro when you surf and bodyboard, are fresh out of the oven at Camosun Applied Research and the 3D prints are perfect. So stoked. Now it's off to Hawaii tomorrow to test them one final time before we commit to cutting metal. Game on.

Grill Mount and Curved Mount Powder Testing

Snow Testing the Grill Mount
I went up Whistler Blackcomb yesterday with Bob Smith to ride some powder and do more cold weather testing with the Grill Mount and The 360 Quick Connect Curved Mount. We figured we'd ride the Blackcomb Glacier so we could see how the snow is piling up for The Camp of Champions this summer.
It was sunny and cold so it was perfect for riding pow even if the tips of our noses got a little cold being exposed while riding the chair. Good day all in all. Can argue with two good Saudan Couloir runs. Yeah... I know it the Couloir Extreme now, I just can't say the word "Extreme"
Ken