397 - Stu Kenson
Surf Splendor
David Lee Scales
4.8 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2022
⏱️ 98 minutes
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San Diego board builder Stu Kenson has built boards for decades, with Rusty, for Joel Tudor, with JS, and all the while for his own SK Shapes label. Today he joins us to discuss surf culture's recent infusion of "recreationalists", the magic of channels, building Maverick's Guns, and how to surf at a high level into your mid-sixties. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Realwatersports.com. They are our surfboard retailer of choice. |
| 0:09.0 | And they should be yours as well. They have solved the shipping equation. So real water sports |
| 0:14.7 | is based in North Carolina, but wherever you are in the world, Europe, Australia, Hawaii, Indonesia, it doesn't matter. They can ship |
| 0:23.5 | you surfboards anywhere in the world, guaranteed to arrive in pristine condition, and they offer a |
| 0:28.9 | flat fee for their shipping. And their surfboards are super competitively priced. So even with shipping, |
| 0:34.5 | you can often get it to you cheaper than if you bought it from a local |
| 0:37.6 | retailer. And more importantly, they work with a who's who of surfboard shapers. My local |
| 0:44.3 | shaper, a guy that we've had on this podcast a number of times is Roger Hines. And he just dropped |
| 0:49.5 | a small batch of handcrafted, fully tricked out, tinted, polished, pen lines, everything. The board model |
| 0:57.8 | is called the Time Machine, and it is a mid-length twin. It's something that he and I have actually |
| 1:02.5 | been working on. If you want more information on the Time Machine, obviously realwatersports.com has it, |
| 1:07.5 | but you can also reach out to me directly, and I will give you my two cents on those boards. |
| 1:11.9 | But you can see these specific beauties on realwatersports.com along with the rest of their |
| 1:18.4 | 1500 board inventory. Place is no joke. So realwatersports.com, phenomenal resource for any |
| 1:26.9 | surfer and a must check for your next surfboard purchase. |
| 1:31.3 | Enjoy. Stu Kenson is our guest today. |
| 1:51.0 | Honorable, the venerable, legendary San Diego board builder, Stu Kenson. |
| 1:57.0 | And you hopefully have heard his name. |
| 1:59.5 | I know Scott Bass and I have talked about him, and he's been involved in the boardroom shows, icons of foam shaping competition a number of times. |
| 2:07.2 | And his colleagues and mentors are a who's who of icons in the shaping world. |
| 2:13.0 | But Stu's name perhaps isn't quite a household name. |
| 2:16.6 | And that's a shame because you've seen the |
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