SURFBOARD CONSTRUCTION

Aug 25, 2020

How Timmy Reyes Helped Create the Helium Hydroshort

Helium Hydroshort California’s Timmy Reyes has been a free surfing fixture for two decades. From his young days as an up-and-coming grom to his current legend status as a feral explorer of frigid barrels, Timmy has been shaping surf culture since he was an adolescent, and his edits continue to get us pumped up to drive a bit farther, pull on some rubber, and have an adventure. As it turns out, Timmy Reyes is influential in the surfboard design realm as well. Timmy got on one of Kelly Slater’s Hydroshorts (made by Tomo) a few years back, built in Firewire’s LFT...

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Apr 4, 2019

GETTING TO KNOW DANN MANN - The Mind Behind Many Of The Surfboards You’ve Ridden

Kelly Slater's Surfboard Designer Slater's Surfboard Designer When Kelly Slater calls you up and asks you to design a board for him, you know you have made it as a shaper. However, when Slater rides that board and then decides to add it to the Slater Designs line, you really know you have done something special. That’s exactly what happened to Dann Mann, when his FRK design became the latest in the Slater Designs arsenal. Mann had been around a long time before Slater invited him to join the SD team—in fact, he’s been a master shaper for...

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