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

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.

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. 

First Pro Standard Ad Appears on FreesurfMagazine.com

Stoked, the first Pro Standard display ad is live on Freesurf. Double stoke it turned up on the story of the Local Motion Surf into Summer contest presented by Vissla.
Small world... Ken's first clothing sponsor as a pro snowboarder was Local Motion. The more things change the more things stay the same.

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.

Keoni Jones Joins the Pro Standard Team

Keoni Jones the 22 year old North Shore ripper has joined the Pro Standard team as an athlete, product tester and all around good guy. Follow @keonibalonii on Instagram to stay in tune with what he's up to. We're stoked to have Keoni on the team and we are going to have a lot of fun together getting photos and clips to get you stoked.

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!

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.

Caprii "Want's to be a snowboarder"

I've never pushed my girls one way or another on how they enjoy winter but I have to admit I was really stoked when Caprii woke up yesterday morning and said "I want to be a snowboarder". So the Ken Achenbach lesson tradition of taking you to the top of the lift, and saying "Point your hand where you want to go, don't worry, you'll figure it out by the bottom" and "If it feels right and you're having fun, you're doing it right" continues on. Magic Carpet lift was closed but Caprii said "That's for babies" so down the Magic Chair we went. First run 30 falls. Kaia teaching her the finer points of learning to snowboard that my pointers somehow missed. By the third run she made it down with about 4 falls. So stoked. Thanks Burton Snowboards and Jg Gerndt for making such awesome kids products that make learning to snowboard so easy, so fun and so painless, no matter how lazy my lesson was. Next time she'll be in the Don Smith advanced class - Put cookies in your pocket for lunch and when they aren't reduced to dust by the time you want to eat them, you know you are getting better. Caprii's fire is lit, she wanted to skip school and go snowboarding today. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. She will be running the Camp of Champions in no time with her sister.

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.

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...