Leo belly boards

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Leo belly boards

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So-cal board maker I found .

http://www.bellyboard.com/
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Re: Leo belly boards

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From the web-site :

"Born from the short-board era of the 70's, influential shapers like Mike Hynon, Dick Brewer, Sam Hawk, Herbie Fletcher and more.... began to shape fiberglass bellyboards for prone riders. This surfboard inspired culture started the evolution of the bellyboard into what you see here today.

​Leo Bellyboards and renowned shaper Chris Kaysen have taken this to the next performance level. Creating a prone riders dream..... A High performance bellyboard design that can be customized to a riders specification".

A couple of things of interest: does anyone know of Brewer, Hawk etc bellyboards? Sounds like Chris Kaysen is form around San Clemente. Anyone know about these boards?
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Uncle Grumpy should know something about this and likely Jeff Quam as well.

Typical Southern California in some ways, "short-board era of the 1970s" is almost too funny, as we had shortboards big time in Puerto Rico starting in Winter of 1967/68.
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Think I saw some "Leo" stuff at Boardroom a year or so back. Didn't strike me as groundbreaking.
Kaysen shapes out of Basham's "Factory" IIRC.
Paipo surfer in repose,
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Who is the other guy behind it, besides the shaper?
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I sent their facebook page a message with a link to this post if they wanted to come tell us about there boards, but no show so far
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Maybe he should have Googled "innovative"...just sayin'
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nomastomas wrote:Maybe he should have Googled "innovative"...just sayin'
:lol: :lol: :lol:
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krusher74 wrote:I sent their facebook page a message with a link to this post if they wanted to come tell us about there boards, but no show so far
They said they could not access/join the forum. So no info comming I guess.
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krusher74 wrote:
krusher74 wrote:I sent their facebook page a message with a link to this post if they wanted to come tell us about there boards, but no show so far
They said they could not access/join the forum. So no info comming I guess.
I provided info on how to do it. If you are in contact with him please request a user profile name he would like to use and I will set him up and send you the info via Personal Message.
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