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Surf Splendor

503 - Clint Runyon: Runyon Surfboards

Surf Splendor

David Lee Scales

Sports

4.8669 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Retired Marine Combat Photographer Clint Runyon shares how he discovered surfing while stationed on Camp Pendleton (Trestles adjacent), how an economic crunch led him to shaping, building out a surfboard "factory" on deployment, and details the journey to discover the true value of a surfboard. Enjoy!

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0:00.0

Surf nvs.com. NVS fins comes up organically in conversation more than I can tell you.

0:07.5

It comes up with random friends telling me about a new set of fins that they love.

0:12.3

Comes up with board builders like it did today with Clint Runyon.

0:16.8

You'll hear in this conversation with Clint, he needed a specific style of fins that didn't

0:22.4

exist for one of his board designs.

0:24.8

So he called up Laif from NVS and they were able to do a set of one-offs for him.

0:30.1

I'm picking up a board from John Simon later today in asymmetrical quad and I had no idea

0:35.8

what fins to ride in it. The guys at NVS called John

0:40.0

directly. They got all of the intel from him and then they made me a bespoke set of fins out of

0:46.3

G10 laminate. They refer to it as their apex series fins, so that's what you want to look for.

0:51.8

But their service is unparalleled. If you're a board

0:54.5

builder who can't meet the large minimum order quantities of other brands, or you're just a

0:59.7

surfer who wants the best fins on the market, honestly priced lower than you would expect,

1:04.8

you can find NVS at retailers all over the world, including our beloved real water sports.com, or just grab them online

1:14.2

at surf nvS.com, build out your fin collection, and exponentially multiply your quiver options, surf nvs.com... I'm honored to share today's

1:47.0

I'm honored to share today's episode with you. It developed unlike any other, and it turned out to be

2:05.0

amazing, if I do say so myself. Clint Runyon won last month's surfboard giveaway, the Exo Halcyon.

2:13.8

So I emailed with Clint about him winning. Turns out he's a Marine veteran who discovered surfing while stationed in Southern California at Camp Pendleton.

2:23.4

Raising a young family on a military man's budget, he could not afford a surfboard.

2:28.7

So he learned how to build surfboards out of necessity.

2:32.2

Then after over 20 years in the Marines, he's retired and now works

2:36.7

full-time as a board builder. After hearing all this, I asked him to join me for a Zoom just so I could hear more.

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