Broken Molds | Official Trailer | UHD

Broken Molds is an award winning documentary highlighting the best of the mind-blowing wave riding sports of today, while exploring the roots of their inspiration through rare vintage footage and interviews with the legends who innovated them. The film follows the journey of the Schweitzer family and the invention of the windsurfer, highlighting the challenges and sacrifices they faced while growing the business and the sport of windsurfing into a worldwide phenomenon that ultimately changed the course of many lives. The historical beginnings of Windsurfing are covered with some never before seen interviews and images on the patents and early designs. It is clear through the voices of the early pioneers of the sport that there is no question that Windsurfing would not exist without the dedication and powerful force of the Schweitzer family. Hear stories and perspectives from legendary watermen like Gerry Lopez, Matt Schweitzer, Laird Hamilton, Robbie Naish, Kai Lenny, Pete Cabrinha, Zane Schweitzer, Jamie O’Brien, and more. They truly reveal how influential the sport of windsurfing was in inspiring the evolution of new water sports that are making it possible for today’s athletes to push new limits in wave riding.
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[@tomking7080]

I can’t wait to see this. I love any sport that involves the water. I’ve been surfing since I was 13 years old,I’m 44 now. I moved in with the boss of our company because he lived right on the water in Malibu in 1997. Drew Barrymore was our neighbor and Bob Dylan lived like 6-7 houses down. Before this I lived in Woodland Hills,CA and would have to wake up really early and take the 101 to Malibu Canyon Road and take that all the way down to the beach. Living in Malibu I could be in the water longer before I had to go to work. I was transferred to Tokyo in late 98,I was a sales trainer and got to travel the world opening up new offices. Once we hired locals to work in the office and they were doing well enough on their own I was off to the next city. I had the best gig in the world. At least I thought that it was pretty cool. A couple of the dudes that we hired,I would do most of the hiring and I would always ask them if they surfed or boogie boarded lol. The 2 dudes that I hired,Iummi and Yogi,showed me a few surf spots that they would surf and we all went every morning before work. Kamakura is a famous spot in Tokyo. You can actually see Mt. Fuji in the distance while you are surfing 🏄‍♂️ it’s a unbelievable view. My favorite was Kamogawa because the waves were better and usually bigger and if you were there early you can avoid the crowds because it does become pretty crowded. One weekend we took a ferry to a island called Niijima which was really rad. We surfed almost all day on Saturday and half of Sunday and then went back to Tokyo. If you ever get a chance to go to Tokyo please go. You will not regret it. Tokyo is like you woke up and ended up in the future. The people there are very nice,the younger people. The older folks I noticed really didn’t care to much for Americans and I understand why. I started lying and started telling them that I was Canadian lol.

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As a lifelong windsurfer and close observer of the sport, I and others know that Matt Schweitzer’s claim in this film that “my dad invented windsurfing in 1967” is a fully-realized lie that’s been told by the Schweitzer family for the past 50 years. Recently restated here and also in the Schweitzer-funded film ‘broken molds’ released a few years ago, this depiction of the sport’s invention deliberately ignores the truth - that Jim Drake, the ‘Father of Windsurfing’ is the real inventor of windsurfing. Here’s what is known:
Being “co-patent holder” and Windsurfing International “co-founder” with Jim Drake does not make Schweitzer “co-inventor”. Any claim Schweitzer or his family make about being part of the invention of windsurfing is, put bluntly, a lie.
From what I know, contrary to Broken Molds film, Mr. Drake alone - using his well-known engineering background - designed and built the first universal joint, first wishbone boom, and first daggerboard his Santa Monica garage, alone wrote the specs to build the first board and sail, guided their construction, and then tried it alone for the first time. The original windsurfer blueprints, displayed in the film and created by Mr. Drake alone, were taken from his professional ‘white paper’ presented to the Rand Corporation think tank prior to the Drake/Schweitzer co-founding of Windsurfing International, and Drake’s white paper later became the primary documentation for approval of the Drake/Schweitzer co-patent.
Hoyle Schweitzer had no role in the design/building of the first free sail system, no role in the creation of Mr. Drake’s patent-getting white paper, and in turn, no role in the “invention” of the modern windsurfer. In fact, I understand that when the first windsurfer was was shown to Schweitzer, it had already been built and tested by Drake months before.
Hoyle Schweitzer, in turn, had no part in the invention of the sport. This is no surprise to close observers, however, considering Schweitzer’s lack of any documented professional mechanical engineering competence and Mr. Drake’s oft-cited testimony - portrayed in countless publications and legal court papers over many decades - that he alone is responsible for the invention of the windsurfer with no input from Schweitzer.
The film Broken Molds, therefore, in the eyes of many, is a Schweitzer-driven attempt to push a false family myth crafted over fifty years ago - and still laughably pushed by his grown children - to position Hoyle Schweitzer as the inventor instead of Mr. Drake.
This, of course, is nonsense, and no amount of Schweitzer-sponsored filmmaking ($300,000 to push false a narrative) can change that.
Schweitzer as company co-founder and co-patent holder? Yes. As co-inventor? No chance.