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Surf Splendor

002 – Shaper’s Series: Eric Arakawa

Surf Splendor

David Lee Scales

Sports

4.8653 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2013

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Listen or subscribe on iTunes. I was excited to interview Eric Arakawa. I grew up watching Andy Irons shred on Eric’s boards and I knew that he was regarded as one of Hawaii’s finest shapers. I was surprised to learn that shaping surfboards has only been one facet of Eric’s career. He’s an astute entrepreneur who … Continue reading "002 – Shaper’s Series: Eric Arakawa" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:33.8

On this episode of Surf Splendor. What it was like shaping boards for Andy Irons.

0:40.3

And I see him walking on the beach for his heat with a 7-6.

0:44.3

And he never even wrote this thing.

0:47.3

He never even just waxed it up.

0:49.3

Ah, it'll go.

0:52.3

He pals out.

0:55.0

Got a giant giant wave on the second reef.

0:59.0

Roll the thing all the way and just these big turns, you know, on the outside and then when it dropped into the inside of reef, you just set it up and just got... Really? funneled all the way through almost down the gums.

1:13.6

And what it was like inventing the nose guard and how it felt receiving that first order.

1:19.6

He told us you want to place for 20,000.

1:23.6

And I go, 20,000 want $20,000 worth?

1:28.3

And you know it wants 20,000 units.

1:32.3

And that, that, um, computed to $100,000 sale.

1:38.3

So that was, oh, that was just one order.

1:40.3

That's Eric Erikawa, right now right now on an all new Surf Splend.

1:57.3

Hey there, podcast listeners. Thanks for tuning in. I'm really glad that you found us. A quick order of business before we get into the show. I just wanted to say, thank you for listening. I'm thrilled that you found us. I hope that you enjoyed episode one with Chris Cote. If you haven't yet listened to that, definitely go back and find it.

2:18.8

It's both on our website, which is surfsplenderpodcast.com, and you can also find it on iTunes.

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