Kai Ellice-Flint is in Marennes — Order a custom from the World Champion, without import fees

WSL World Champion 2025. Shaper. Artist.
And starting May 12, he'll be here — within reach.

There are rare moments in surfing. Moments when history meets everyday life. Kai Ellice-Flint, WSL Longboard World Champion 2025, is coming to the Shapers Club this May. And with him, an opportunity few longboarders in Europe will ever have.

Who is Kai Ellice-Flint?

Born in 1996 in Byron Bay, Australia, Kai Ellice-Flint isn't just a champion — he's an anomaly in modern surfing. In November 2025, he won the WSL Longboard World Champion title in El Sunzal, El Salvador, beating French world number 1 Édouard Delpero in the final. What makes this victory extraordinary? He won this title on a board he himself shaped, glassed, and airbrushed. With his own hands.

This is the 8th time Australia has won the longboard world title — a lineage that includes Nat Young, Harrison Roach, and Harley Ingleby. Kai is now part of it.

But Kai isn't just a competitor. From Byron Bay, he runs Higher State Productions, his own surfboard brand. Every board that leaves his workshop is shaped and finalized through a process he himself describes as "meticulous, almost obsessive" — embodying elegance, precision, and Australian craftsmanship. His boards are not available in stores. They are on a waiting list. And shipping costs from Australia can easily exceed €300 to €400.

Higher State: A Shaping Philosophy

Higher State Productions is not a mass-production brand. It's the expression of a craftsman who considers every curve, every concave, every rail as an artistic as much as a technical decision. Kai designs his own fins — the Omni, Legacy, and SixtySix fins, tailored for classic noseriding as well as engaged modern surfing — and is personally involved in every step of manufacturing, from blank to finish.

His shapes cover the entire range of contemporary longboarding: from fluid and technical noseriders to versatile midlengths, as well as performance longboards capable of combining authentic glide and engaged maneuvers. Whether you're a fan of cross-stepping and pure noseriding, a style surfer looking for big curves, or a modern longboarder who wants reactivity — there's a Higher State for you.

And while ordering from Australia involves delays, a waiting list, and several hundred euros in shipping costs... ordering in May at the Shapers Club is another story.

On May 12, he's here. This is your moment.

For a few days in May, Kai will be present at the Shapers Club in Marennes. He will shape, share his world, and most importantly: he will be available to take your custom orders directly.

• No more shipping fees. You leave with your board. Period.
• You pick up the board from the shaper himself. Not an intermediary, not a carrier — him.
• Your shape discussed directly with the World Champion. Your dimensions, your surfing style, your conditions — Kai adapts each board to the person who will ride it.
• You access Higher State without a waiting list. And without the barrier of the other side of the world.

How to order?

The process is simple:

1. You pay a deposit of €500 to secure your slot in Kai's schedule.
2. We will call you back within 24 hours to define your project: model, dimensions, design, options...
3. Kai shapes your board directly in our workshop in Marennes.
4. You pay the balance upon delivery or pickup at the shop.

Indicative prices in PU (without design or fins)

The deposit is non-refundable and guarantees your reservation. The balance is adjusted according to your board's specifications.

👉 Book my slot — Deposit €500

Spots are extremely limited. Kai can only take a restricted number of orders per session. Once the slots are full, it will be over — and the next Higher State you order will come from Australia.

Higher State Productions. Shaped by the WSL Longboard World Champion 2025. Available for the first time in France, without shipping costs, directly from the shaper's hands.