Greetings, Shredderz! Here’s a rad Lanty Surfboards ad featuring not one but two of the most radical surfers of the late 80s / early 90s: Christian Fletcher and Matt Archbold. I posted another Lanty ad featuring these two, which you can find here. Originally saw this ad on Pinterest.
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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! Look, it’s not every day that health professionals recommend we all stay indoors glued to our phones, and yet here we are. Hope you are all staying healthy and sane during these surreal times. Without any further ado, here are some recent social media selections for a much needed dose of…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Welcome to the very first Social Media Roundup entry of the new decade. I know you all came here for the pics and not my blathering, so let’s get right to it. Here is Joel Tudor posing with an unusual board: a Donald Takayama-shaped Nat Young model. According to Tudor the…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Today we’ve got a doozy for you. (If you enjoy these scans of vintage surf ads, check out the entire Sagas of Shred series when you get a chance.) The ad you see below is for Lanty Wetsuits, a defunct wetsuit brand. At some point in the late Eighties Lanty had…
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Shredderz, it’s late, and I’ve got stuff to do. But nothing — nothing — stops the Sagas of Shred train from leaving the station every Thursday night, delivering more vintage surf ads to all you internet surfers. The topic’s of today’s entry is none other than esteemed aerialist and counter culture icon Christian Fletcher. Here’s…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Today we have a modern day classic for you: a vintage Christian Fletcher Surfboards ad from 1989. Yeah, I know, it was just last week when I ran another Christian Fletcher ad as part of the Sagas of Shred series, but what can I say: if it ain’t broke, don’t fix…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Have I got a curveball for you: here’s an ad featuring legendary surf rebel Christian Fletcher in a spiffy black tie getup. It’s a pretty dramatic departure from Fletcher’s reputation as a tattoo covered, mohawk sporting, chainsmoking anti establishment figure. But hey, Fletcher cleans up nice! This ad originally appeared in…
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Greetings, Shredderz! For those of you who don’t know, Sagas of Shred is a series on the blog where we run vintage surf ads. While old magazine articles are great — The Surfer’s Journal digital archive, available to subscribers, is amazing — an overlooked angle is the fact that surfing’s story often gets…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Today we have one of the greatest ever surfboards from the late 1980s / early 1990s: a beautiful example of a Christian Fletcher Surfboards stick shaped by Oceanside, California shaper Steve Boysen. The board pictured above was briefly posted on Craigslist, but the seller tells me he has since traded the…
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