Griffin Colapinto’s Hawaiian Quiver
By Matt Biolos of …Lost
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Griffin Colapinto is one of the most dynamic surfers on the planet. The young San Clemente, California, local finished the year third, performing in front of his hometown crowd at Lower Trestles during the WSL finals. This year, he comes into the 2024 season looking to finish two spots better and take the title home to Southern California. But before he can do that, he’ll have to lock in solid results at Pipeline and Sunset Beach during the Hawaiian leg of the tour.
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To prepare himself for Hawaii, Griffin called on his longtime shaper Matt Biolos of …Lost to help build him the ultimate North Shore quiver. Matt recently posted on Instagram with a Hawaii winter 2024 quiver photo of Griffin, and his stack of fiberglass looks pretty impressive. Griffin has eight or nine boards for each event, with the Pipe and Sunset boards featuring important design tweaks that cater specifically to the two waves.
Griffin’s everyday shredstick is a 5'11" Driver 3.0, and his quiver goes all the way up to 6'8" for big days at Pipe and Sunset. The Pipe boards are a bit thicker for added volume and paddle power, but have tapered decks and down rails to help them hold a line in the extreme concave barrels at Pipe and Backdoor. Meanwhile, the Sunset boards have more of the typical shortboard characteristics, albeit stretched out into longer versions to give Griff more paddle and turn power in the large, open-ocean walls of Sunset. Griffin placed second at Sunset last year, so he knows what he likes and was able to give the …Lost team a bunch of feedback, which they have integrated into his fresh stack of blades.
We look forward to seeing what Griffin can do on his …Lost boards this week when the WSL world tour kicks off at Pipe!
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