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    Big Wave Surfing

    Team Rider – Keito Matsuoka

    Keith Matsuoka is an incredible big wave surfer and is the best guy to work with on guns. Every winter I shape him a big wave quiver and watch him rip on the North Shore. Working with Keito, Dean Morrison and Carlos Burle on their Hawaii quivers each year has

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    Team Rider – James Woods

    O'Neill's James Woods is 19 years old and based in Tugun on Australia’s Gold Coast. You'll find James surfing D’Bah, Snapper or his favorite South Straddie with back-footed panache. James finished 9th last year on the Pro Junior series and is looking to go better this year and qualify for the

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    Team Rider – Brett Burcher

    Brett has surfed all around the world, but his favourite place to surf is still around home, where he grew up – Mollymook, which is out of Ulladulla, which is in Shoalhaven South Coast NSW. “Home is paradise,” he says. We don’t disagree! I love working with Brett and he

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    Local rippers – Matty Korvin and Elliott Marshall

    Elliott Marshall and Matty Korvin are two of Australia's up and coming Pro Junior surfers.They both surf on the Joistik team and I love making them boards for the heavy slabs on the South Coast of Sydney and for their strike trips to Hawaii.    Elliot Marshall is an underground charger that hails from

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    The Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau

    The The Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau is a one-day big wave riding event with strict wave height requirements; it will only take place when waves meet or exceed the Hawaiian 20-foot minimum (wave face heights of approximately 40 feet). This was the threshold at which Eddie enjoyed to

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    Big Wave Guns, Tow Boards and SUPs

    This month I have been shaping a number of big wave guns, tow boards and performance Stand Ups for Australia and Hawaii. The Matador Series is designed with the big-wave realm in mind and I fine tune these designs for my big wave team riders. Although the boards in this

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    Team Rider – Dean Morrison

    It's been a super busy few years in the bay as the top WCT surfers like Dean Morrison go through a hell of a lot of surfboards. I shape him an entire quiver for every event on tour. It’s one of the best things about being a shaper, shaping boards for

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    Big Wave Team Rider – Carlos Burle

    Carlos Burle contributed to the professionalisation of “tow-in surfing”, where the surfer is “towed” by a jet ski down the wave, to improve his speed an allow him to get bigger waves, he wouldn’t be able to paddle into. In addition to surfing giant waves surfer Carlos Burle is also

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    Big Wave Models

    The Matador Series is designed with the big-wave realm in mind. Although the boards in this range are the standard designs for each particlar sphere of big wave riding, all guns/tow boards are custom designed for location and rider and tow boards more precisely designed around rider build, stance and

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