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Surf Splendor

218 – Travis Reynolds

Surf Splendor

David Lee Scales

Sports

4.8653 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2018

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Santa Cruz board builder Travis Reynolds is the 2018 winner of the Icons of Foam shaping competition. In today’s episode Travis opens up about the perils of rapid growth, the value of shaping machines, exploring asymmetry, and growing up riding big boards during Santa Cruz’s high-performance heyday. Enjoy! Today’s studio A post shared by David … Continue reading "218 – Travis Reynolds" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to the show.

0:18.3

This is David Scales for Surf Splendor, bringing you an episode today with board builder, Travis Reynolds.

0:25.3

Actually, I should say, 2018 winner of the icons of foam tribute to the masters at the boardroom show two weeks ago.

0:33.9

You've heard Scott Bass and I talking about that a lot, the icons of foam shaping

0:37.5

competition. This is the man that won it, Travis Reynolds. So we will get into that in this show.

0:43.3

I've got a couple of things I wanted to bring you up to speed on. Before I do that,

0:47.5

the aforementioned, Scott Bass has launched a new podcast. It's called The Boardroom.

0:53.3

And he's talking about waves and the equipment to

0:56.9

ride them with. It's going to be interviewing a lot of people. Episode one launched earlier this week.

1:01.8

He interviews Willie McFarlane, who is the son of the owner of American wave machines, which is

1:08.5

the company that is responsible for the technology in the WavePool

1:12.1

that we've seen in Waco, Texas.

1:14.1

They've been developing that technology for a very long time.

1:17.2

So really interesting conversation.

1:19.3

And Scott gives a great little history lesson on WavePools.

1:23.4

So check that out.

1:24.3

You can download it.

1:25.0

It's available on its own feed.

1:26.4

So pull up your app and search The Boardroom. You will download it. It's available on its own feed. So pull up your app and search

1:27.9

the boardroom. You will find it there. Chas Smith and I are recording an episode of The Grit

1:33.4

tomorrow with a special guest snowboarder Todd Richards. Our entire goal there is to get down to the bottom

1:41.2

of the number of degrees in an air rotation in surfing. It doesn't matter to me

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