JS Surfboards

JS Surfboards

JS Surfboards is actually called JS industries but everybody refers to them as JS Surfboards.  Jason Stevenson is the brilliant shaper behind JS Surfboards.

The inception of JS Surfboards is an interesting story.  Jason was shaping for Pipedream Surfboards around the age of 23.  Incidentally, or maybe not so incidentally, Darren Handley of DHD Surfboards fame was also working at the same surfboard factory at the time.

When DHD Surfboards started, JS joined them and stayed with DHD for about 4 years.  When he left DHD, he started JS Industies.  One of the first high profile surfers to ride JS Surfboards was Luke Egan, who after coming 2nd that year was down a surfboard sponsor.  After Luke Egan, came some of the giants of surfing.  JS Surfboards started shaping surfboards for Andy Irons and Bruce Irons.

Jason Stevenson himself has said in interviews that the relationships formed over the years of shaping surfboards and Joel Parkinson winning his 1st world title were big factors in the success of JS Surfboards.

Ken Reimers is a shaper who Jason Stevenson himself credits as teaching him a lot in his early days of surfboard shaping.

Our Favourite JS Surfboards

JS Monsta

JS Monsta

JS Matrix

JS Matrix

Check out JS Industries Website

Rusty Surfboards

Rusty Surfboards

Rusty Preisendorfer is the man behind Rusty Surfboards.  Born in 1953, it was around 13 years old that Rusty Preisendorfer discovered surfing.  From this point it took approximately 4 years for the 1st unofficial Rusty Surfboards shape to come to life (not that Rusty Surfboards existed yet…) . After meeting Peter Townend at the World […]

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