Mikey February Is Back On A Thruster At The Pyramids Of Giza In His New Edit

In June, Mikey February walked down the runway for Louis Vuitton in Paris Fashion Week.

He then got straight on a plane and headed to Morocco to score the clips you’ll see in the edit above. He then looked at flights, got the idea to go to Egypt, and decided to see a place he’d never been before… however, he had to lug his boards around the whole time.

“It was cool, man. It is kind of funny. Some of the best views of the pyramids are from the Pizza Hut,” Mikey said. “But once you get away from the city, it’s pretty surreal to see those things in real life. It was pretty rad to go there, a really special, unique place. It’s been really fun, with “Spearhead”, thinking of things more broadly: being able to do a surf trip, but still be open-minded, like, ‘There’s somewhere that doesn’t have much to do with surfing, but it’s close by, so we can make it a part of the trip.’ You get to think about those places and travel to them, and it’s just as productive as going to a surf spot.”

“Over the last few years I’ve been doing a lot of stuff outside of surfing,” Mikey explained. “Obviously, surfing is the core of what I’m going to do, but it’s been really fun to step outside of that. Doing those kinds of shows and trips like Egypt. Before, I didn’t know that was a possibility, and seeing it be a viable thing to do has opened my mind to being able to do different stuff.”

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Mikey has created a truly singular career for himself. In the past 10 years, he’s qualified and then left the CT, created hyper-respected surf videos like Sonic Souvenirs, helped shape the Twin Pin (one of Channel Island’s best-selling boards of all time), starred in the Electric Acid Surfboard Test, landed mainstream modeling gigs, started a YouTube channel (“Spearhead”), and, most importantly to him, become a husband and father.

“I’m 33 now. I’ve got two kids, and another one coming,” Mikey said. “I’m more focused on that, the most serious part of life, and the surfing is really just enjoyable and fun. Even the fashion stuff and the other stuff, I don’t take it too seriously. There’s a lot more freedom, having “Spearhead”, to explore the creativity and do lots of other things. I don’t really know what to expect, but I’ll just try to have fun, create some cool stuff, some different stuff, see what’s new, but mostly, try to get some uncrowded waves. That would be nice [laughs].”

Mikey splits his time between South Africa and Carpinteria, California — the latter being an ideal place to work closely on boards with Stab In The Dark’s 3x winner, Britt Merrick.

“I live a two-minute drive from the CI factory, and I get to work really closely with Britt and the team,” Mikey said. “I go surf with Britt, talk about how it’s feeling, see some video stuff, and then I go back into the van and start tweaking things already. And some days I’ll have Brent Powers, the team manager, knock on my door with a freshie, even though I didn’t know it was coming. It’ll just be some random thought that Britt had. In fact, I think the twin pin version two is next for next year.”

Cha-ching.

But the highlight of this new video, “Shortyhead”, is not Mikey Feb on his patented twinnie, but back on a Thruster. We know Mikey’s prowess on a three-fin. Aside from qualifying for the CT on one, he also sneakily won the Thruster division at the mega-posh Sultan’s event in the Maldives. The man can whip a triple-triangle.

“The last two board models I did with CI, when I stopped competing, I jsut jumped straight into doing the twin pin and then the fish. Those are pretty intensive, long projects, working on those board models and riding them the majority of the time,” Mikey said. “I always love having variety in my quiver. After riding those boards, certain boards make you surf a certain way, and you’re always looking to feel something different and ride waves differently. With the thruster, I never thought that was a possibility with CI. I thought I’d just do twin fin models and things like that, but they were super keen to do something with me, and Britt had some ideas.”

Britt wasn’t kidding. And in the video above, you’ll be reminded that while Mikey February is partially responsible for the commercial resurgence of the twin, he is still very, very good on a “normal” board.