Greetings, Shredderz! Today we’ve got a beautiful Steve Lis shape for your perusing pleasure. I’m fascinated by the fact that Lis is at once well known as the inventor of the fish, yet still somehow low profile. I understand he lives on Kauai and still shapes, but I hear there’s a long wait…
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Greetings, Shredderz! I’m guessing journalistic best practices dictate that you shouldn’t write a blog post about a video where the video can’t even be embedded, but here’s hoping this technical snafu just adds to the mystery. Orange County branding agency Untitled.work — whose website is very slick indeed — released an edit covering…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Here’s an O’Neill ad from sometime in the 80s featuring Mike Cruikshank and Martin Potter. This ad, like so many others I’ve featured here, originally appeared on Davis Ballard’s amazing Dusty Ads site.
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Greetings, Shredderz! I suspect that many of you feel the same way I do about social media: it is an invaluable tool, a source of inspiration and at times even beauty…and it’s also the fastest way to kill brain cells that doesn’t involve huffing paint. Well, let’s focus on the good, I guess:…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Today we’ve got a very cool single fin courtesy of @milomony, who has shared some rad boards with me over the years. Give him a follow on IG. You’re looking at a 1979 Hawaiian Island Creations single fin shaped by Mark Angell. The board is 6’7″ long and no other dimensions…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Channel Islands just dropped a scorcher of an edit, which can be viewed in full below. What does it say about the state of the surf industry that the single largest (and I would argue most influential) board manufacturer continues to look beyond the thruster for its signature models? The video…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Technically speaking, the Weekend Grab Bag runs during, well, the weekend, but I’m guessing you don’t read Shred Sledz for its punctuality. One Grab Bag rule that remains inviolate is that every single board featured here is currently for sale somewhere on the internet as of publishing time. There are some…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Newport Beach’s Daydream Surf Shop has long been on the list of stores I’d like to visit sometime soon. On the digital front they keep knocking it out of the park with their “Field Notes” video series. Episode 20, directed by Nico Ramos, is a great little flick. Yes, there’s quality…
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Greetings, Shredderz! I’m on a bit of a Tom Curren kick today, as I earlier today I shared an Instagram post featuring his segment in Lost Surfboard’s seminal 5’5″ x 19 1/4″ film. Here’s more Curren, this time in a, well, unusual 80s ad for longtime clothing sponsor Ocean Pacific.
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Greetings, Shredderz! There’s currently a very rad Larry Bertlemann hand shape available on eBay, which I thought was worthy of a brief write up. You can find the listing here. Bertlemann AKA Da Rubberman remains one of surfing’s most photogenic surfers. Bertlemann’s style extended beyond his radical, skate-inspired surfing. His boards were frequently…
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