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.

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.
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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.

Fun fact about friends. They invite you to do fun things like demo a Tesla P85. A "thing" that is really, really, fun. I asked my friend Jon who was in charge of the demo, how many people get in and the the first thing they do is put the hammer down...  "All of them he replied."  So I put the hammer down. I'd be in jail in a week if I owned this car. My record time to Squamish would be a lot lower than it is now.
Thanks Tesla. A car so nice it almost makes me want to work...

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