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Surf Splendor

432 - The Shaper's Shack: Part Two

Surf Splendor

David Lee Scales

Sports

4.8669 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2022

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Summary

The Shaper Shack is a four part series featuring some of Australia's finest surfboard shapers. From inventing the Thruster, to developing renewable materials, incorporating artificial intelligence into shaping, and scaling a global business, these shapers share their blueprint and speculate on the future. Today's episode features Chris Garrett, Andrew Mooney, Bryan Bates, Dylan Perese, and Daniel Thomson. Enjoy!

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Shaper Shack.

0:11.8

This is Part 2 of 4.

0:14.3

Listening back to the series, what stands out to me most is just how interesting it is that these guys all come from distinct, unique backgrounds,

0:23.3

but really they're just applying objective hard physics of hydrodynamics.

0:29.4

And yet they're netting entirely different results, coming to different conclusions

0:33.3

based on their own interpretation of those objective laws.

0:38.2

It's just really fascinating to hear each person's perspective, back to back,

0:43.0

and sometimes hear their overlapping influences,

0:46.1

maybe their unknowing influence on one another,

0:49.4

and again, net very, very different styles of surfboards.

0:53.5

So I hope that you're enjoying this as much as I did producing it and creating it.

0:58.7

And these conversations were recorded in Manly Beach, Australia in April of 2019.

1:04.3

They were organized by Visla as part of the Sydney Surf Pro.

1:08.3

Visla had a shaping booth and a lamination room actually set up on the beach for

1:12.9

spectators to watch boards being built by some of Australia's finest board builders,

1:18.1

and it was my job to help share those stories. So we'll go ahead and get right into it right away.

1:23.7

Today's shapers are Daniel Compson, Dylan Paris, American Brian Bates, Andrew Mooney,

1:30.8

and then we're going to start with Chris Garrett.

1:33.7

My name is David Scales for Surf Splendor, and I hope that you enjoy today's show. Let's start with

1:52.0

Hello.

1:53.7

Good place to start.

1:55.3

Hello is a good place to start.

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