Greetings, Shredderz! The Weekend Grab Bag has very strict rules in that all boards featured in a post must be listed for sale somewhere online as of publishing time. This time around we’ve got a handful of sleds, not all of which are up for grabs, but are still worth writing about. We’ve…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Here in Northern California, I seem to be located in the sole part of the coast that is not enjoying an absolutely epic run of swell. It’s raining, it’s windy, and the water quality is dubious at best — what better to do than trawl Craigslist for some interesting finds. We’ve…
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Greetings, Shredderz! There is an absolutely unreal vintage Donald Takayama longboard that was listed somewhere online earlier today for $300. By now someone has pulled off an absolute heist, and if I had been within a 2 hour drive of that board I’d be in the car instead of hammering out this blog…
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Greetings, Shredderz! I’m stoked to be coming at you today with a board that I shockingly have not written up before (or, more likely, I wrote it up years ago and just can’t find the original post): the Donald Takayama Joel Tudor Model. Takayama helped guide Joel Tudor during the early parts of…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Yeah, it’s time for another Weekend Grab Bag, so we can all take a peek at some of the boards currently listed for sale online. There’s some nice variation here, starting with a cool Lightning Bolt single fin, and including an 80s Takayama egg and then a Freeline Design stick. As…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Welcome to another installment of the Shred Sledz Weekend Grab Bag, where I highlight a few boards that are all listed for sale as of publishing time. We’ve got some sweet sleds for today’s post, so keep scrolling if you wanna check ’em out. 6’6″ Surfing’s New Image Aipa Sting (Craigslist…
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Greetings, Shredderz! It’s time to revisit some submissions from all of you, which is honestly a blog post I look forward to writing every single month. You guys are sitting on some serious heat, which I am pumped to share. Keep reading for more: First up, we have a killer pair of boards…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Donald Takayama is a fixture here at Shred Sledz, although to be honest, that’s probably the single worst way to recognize his long and influential career. Takayama was the runner-up in the 1966 and 1967 United States Surfboard Championships (as always, the Encyclopedia of Surfing remains an essential resource for facts…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Per the title, here are two random Donald Takayama boards that I recently saw listed online. The first is a 5’6″ Donald Takayama Larry Bertlemann twin fin. I’m guessing this one was shaped in the late 90s or early 2000s, as the signature on this board matches the style that I’ve…
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Greetings, Shredderz! There exists a long, not exactly organized list of surfboards I’d like to own someday. A hand shaped Donald Takayama longboard is somewhere close to the top. If you want to be ultra accurate, I suppose you could say a hand signed Donald Takayama longboard; like many other labels with large…
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