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Shred Sledz Social Media Roundup

Fantastic Acid In Hawaii & More

Greetings, Shredderz! It’s almost the end of the month and that means it’s time for me to share some social media highlights. Now this is a proper quiver shot! I spy at least four Takayamas in there, with some pretty old school looking Hawaiian Pro Designs laminates on the rails. There’s a Sunset…

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Shred Sledz Social Media Roundup

Fantastic Acid Quiver, Bird Goes Deep on Fins + More

Greetings, Shredderz! Welcome to the latest edition of the Social Media Roundup. We’ve got some primo selections from a month’s worth of mindless Instagram scrolling. Keep reading for more. How insane is this selection of Fantastic Acid surfboards? As Matt Biolos of …Lost pointed out in the comments, it likely took hundreds of…

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Shred Sledz Social Media Roundup

Tom Curren Quiver, The Green Iguana & More

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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Shred Sledz Social Media Roundup

Modern Maestros: Social Media Roundup

Greetings, Shredderz! We’ve got another edition of the Social Media Roundup headed straight to the glowing rectangle of your choice. Here at Shred Sledz I mostly write about vintage surfboards and surf history, but really the project is an ode to surfboards and the craftsmen that make them. This go around I’m featuring…

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Atlantic Juice & Skip Frye Fish Down Under

Greetings, Shredderz! Here’s a selection of some surf videos I’ve been enjoying lately. No, I’m not contractually obligated to post about every single new Lost Track episode, but can you blame me? This time around Torren Martyn samples Morocco’s macking right hand point breaks, and the results are spectacular. “Lost Track: Atlantic” is…

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Shaper Spotlight

Fantastic Acid Parlementia Gun

Greetings, Shredderz! Today we are featuring a beautiful and functional hand shaped surfboard, courtesy of Tristan Mausse AKA the man behind Fantastic Acid. Tristan is a French surfboard shaper who is based out of French Basque Country. He shapes stunning displacement hulls under the Fantastic Acid label, and a whole bunch of other…

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Clipz: JOB Eighties & More

Here’s a selection of some recent surf videos that caught my eye. Keep scrolling for more. Jamie O’Brien was ahead of the curve when it came to vlogging — which seems to be an essential part of any up and coming pro’s self-promotion strategy these days — and he’s also collected a bunch…

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Clipz: Bill Delaney and Euro Hulls

Greetings, Shredderz! As we ease into the weekend I thought I’d share some videos I’ve been enjoying lately. Well, you can’t watch the video above embedded in this blog, but it’s worth checking out on Vimeo. The Encyclopedia of Surfing has published the entirety of “Waterborn”, a 1987 surf movie from Gotcha, on…

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