The Bonzer Experience - Malcolm Campbell at Magic Quiver

Legendary master shaper and creator of the original Bonzer, Malcolm Campbell will visit Magic Quiver Sunday afternoon/evening 24th July. Stop by to meet one of the most important figures in surfboard design and enter The Bonzer Experience. Malcolm Campbell is shaping a limited number of boards with MSD Surfboards in Aveiro for the eight consecutive year. Contact us if you are interested in a board.

The revolution, "The Bonzer Experience", is about evolution: evolving ones thoughts, experiences and consciousness. It's about dynamic changes that produce quantum shifts in understanding and performance.

J.G. Bennett, describing Gurdjieff's concept of evolution, states, "Evolution is the production of high level energy from a lower level source.This requires an apparatus of a different kind; for the "upgrading" of energy is improbable and cannot occur at all unless some high level energy is present. Life is an evolutionary process that goes against the direction of probability. The work by which Mankind is transformed is evolutionary."

This quote sums up in a nutshell, more than 30 years of some pretty intense work. In 1970 the 3 fin Bonzer represented a quantum leap in possibilities, and in late 1982 the 5 fin Bonzer presented another tremendous shift in design and performance potential.

"Maybe it was pure naiveté or a misguided sense of mission, but whatever it was, ever since the first wave we rode on a Bonzer we have felt an obligation to continue refining the design in order to keep possibilities open. We have wanted to give something back to surfing, which has so greatly enriched our lives.

So against all probability, and to the joy of many and irritation of some, the Bonzer stands here today as a symbol of the open-ended nature of evolutionary potential and performance capabilities."

Malcolm Campbell 
Duncan Campbell