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Great
surfboard shapers from the Southern California
area.
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Ian Wright
I have shaped tens of thousands of boards, I'm just starting to evolve into my own. I mean that in the sense that after ghost shaping for some of the biggest names in our industry from various parts of the world..... |
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Michael Zippi
Mike
Zippi has broken the fish down to a science. What
was once thought of as a board fad is now being
turned into a functional high performance board.
What used to be a fat bellied bottom, with cumbersome
rails, and unnecessarily deep swallow tail, Zippi
has honed into a speedy wave magnet. These features
allow his fish to fill a niche within the board
market for a high performance.....
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Tyler Hatzikian
El Porto parking lot, South end… 8 a.m. the
dawn patrol has already been out and is now headed
for work, school, elsewhere. Parking spaces are
opening up. Cars and trucks face the line-up, their
decaled ass-ends stake claim to surf turf... 'O'Neil',
'Heal the Bay', a 'Tyler' decal on one, two, three,
trucks in a row. Skip one, empty spot, another Tyler
decal.......
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Mark Brog
Stoked. That,s the best word to describe Mark Brog.
As soon as you walk through the door of his surf
shop, Soul Performance, in Redondo Beach, he is
all smiles and instantly strikes up an enthusiastic
conversation......
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Dan Cobley
The corn on the cob logo is a familiar sight in
the south bay. It is synonymous to the meaning of
a great surfboard - a board that was made with extreme
care and effort. Dan Cobley is the shaper of these
magic boards and anyone who has ridden one of his
boards can attest to the fact that he sure has the
right touch.......
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Pat Ryan
In February I had the opportunity to interview Pat
while watching him gulp down a burrito. Pat put
his life into precise chronological order. By the
time it was over not only did I have a great respect
for him but was also exhausted from taking lengthy
notes (he was making sure I got it all)........
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Ben Aipa
We realize that Ben is not a "South Bay Shaper"
but his influence on modern surfing has affected
all of us. His major contributions to shaping are
such things as the ever so popular swallow tail,
the "stinger" and the modern longboard.
Considering his contribution we felt it necessary
to do it......
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Scott Anderson
It’s hot. It’s California, The South
Bay, Marina Del Rey, we’re sitting in an outdoor
work area in the parking lot outside Scott’s
shop. A lunch table, lawn chairs, broken templates,
the refrigerator kicks on, rattling the discarded
blanks stacked against it, some shaped, some partially
shaped, none are glassed, various shades of sun
stained brown-yellow, all rejects......
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