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Jay Rice is a great surfer that doesn’t follow the crowd
Jay Rice is a great surfer that doesn’t follow the crowd.
A San Clemente local who surfs for all
the right reasons as far as I’m concerned.
Everytime I surf with Jay he’s always stoked just to be in the water & has a positive outlook in general. You wouldn’t think it by looking at him though. Usually dressed in black with no labels, except for the occasional underground punk band or some obscure core symbol you’ve never seen before. I think he shopped once at an army surplus store or thrift shop & I don’t think he’s bought new clothes since.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been surfing & the recognized rippers are out with all the latest stickers on their boards; photographers on the beach…
and here comes Jay blowin’ up under the radar…
the heads turn and they say “who was that?”
the board I make for Jay is available as one of our shortboard models. We’re calling it the “BLACKBIRD”.
The “Blackbird” is a lively, spry backfooted bugga’. Developed around San Clemente’s variety
of waves; it loves points, reefs, and beachbreaks alike. It has a heavy single concave through the tail which gives it controlled release in the lip to re-engage for fins-free type of maneuvers, airs, reverses…
i haven’t ridden anything else for 10 years…
tamayo at pipeline
Todd,
I wanted to call right away, cause I just got out of the water & I got to ride the 7′2″.
Everyone was crowding the right @ Backdoor,
and I saw some good ones nobody was going for @ Pipe, so I swung into a few.
On the first wave, I took off & thought I was way too deep,
so I railed into it a little &
felt the board take-off like I’ve never
felt a board accelerate in the barrel before.
I’m stoked,
we are on to a good track already
with these first boards…
not bad for just talking over what I needed on the phone.
Tamayo Perry
