Greetings, Shredderz! There’s still not quite an hour left in Takayama Tuesday, so I’m gonna make this quick. Featured here is a very cool 8’4″ Donald Takayama Dale Dobson longboard that was recently sold on Craigslist. Pics are all via the original listing. This board is a trip, and as far as I…
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Greetings, Shredderz! I myself am not a huge Liddle guy. I have yet to ride one, and riding some of Marc Andreini’s boards is the closest I’ve come to surfing a proper hull. I’m sure I’ll get around to it someday, so if you see me and I’m muttering to myself about minute…
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Greetings, Shredderz! If you read Shred Sledz, you know who Joel Tudor is, and he’s probably had some influence on what boards you ride. Whether it was being the sole longboarder to earn the grudging respect of the potato chip surfboard-obsessed surf media in the 90s or 2000s, or his continued championing of…
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Greetings, Shredderz! The Sagas of Shred series here on the blog features a different vintage surf ad every Thursday evening (California time). This time around we’re switching it up a bit. It’s Easter this Sunday, which means it’s time for the venerable Rip Curl Pro, held at Bells Beach in Torquay, Australia, future…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Sometimes, being an unpaid surf blogger is a very simple occupation. For example, if Torren Martyn and Ishka Folkwell release a new movie, I write down a few quick words, link to the video and publish the post. Easy peasy. Check out “Distant Shore” in full below, and check out the…
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Greetings, Shredderz! I can’t imagine many of you are wondering about my pet peeves, but here goes. If you’re the type of person that chops up a perfectly good surf magazine to sell each of the ads one by one on eBay, I think that’s lame as hell. And this is probably the…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Today we’ve got a Dextra Surfboards ad from the late 60s, I’m guessing. Dextra was one of the many so-called “pop out” manufacturers that were popular in the 60, referring to the fact these boards were mass produced in molds, versus traditional shaping methods. Based purely off of how many Dextra…
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Greetings, Shredderz! We’ve got more reader submissions for you today, and there’s some heat in here. Keep reading for more. Thanks @drewbmiller for sending in photos of this beautiful green Gordon & Smith Midget Farrelly Stringerless Model. I understand many of these were shaped by Skip Frye; I don’t know enough to say…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Surf filmmaker Jack Coleman is back with not one but two tidy little edits. “Doin the Dance” features some formidable female talent, and it clocks in at a tidy 2:56. At this point has Steph Gilmore done more for the white wetsuit than Kelly Slater? Coleman also dropped “Beautiful World” a…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Per Shred Sledz custom, here are some surfboard-related highlights from social media over the past month or so. There’s some nice range in this edition, if I do say so myself, spanning from a talented modern board builder to some classic Occy vs Curren vibes. Keep reading for more. Tristan Mausse…
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