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Classic Takayama surfboards are antique boards see donald takayama surfboards for your
next vintage surf board. View donald takayama longboards from 70s surfing films and get a donald takayama surfboard or takayama
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Shapers come and go and come back again. Takayama has been hard at it since the middle-50s from Hawaii to California
and back again. with very few detours. Takayama claims some fine names as shaping influences: Dale Velzy, Renny Yater Pat
Curren, Mike Diffenderfer, Ken Tilton, Hap Jacobs, Joe Quigg, His first surfboard was a redwood in Hawaii, around 1948. Takayama
started surfing in Hawaii and worked for John Price and Surfboards Hawaii before he came to California in the middle 50s on
a wing and a prayer. He opened Donald Takayama Hawaiian Pro Designs in Encinitas. He moved it all to Oceanside and has been
there ever since. He's been going non-stop for the last 35 years. He was one of the Re-founding Father who promoted the
resurgence of longboarding in the early 90s. I make boards for California but there are Takayama licenses in Australia
and Japan and France. The demand is amazing. I had no idea surfing would be as large as it is today and as a manufacturer
I know there is no way I or any of us can fulfill this market.
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