Shaping Kulture

A SURF KULTURE DEEP DIVE

A compelling 8 episode series with each episode featuring a legendary surfboard shaper & up and coming surfboard shapers.

Episode 1: Peter Schroff

Shaping Kulture EP1:
Peter Schroff

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Biographical documentary of legendary surfboard shaper, fashion designer, performance artist, entrepreneur, Peter Schroff following his early days as a southern Californian surfer through his controversial performance art pieces, involving hacking surfboards with a chainsaw in protest of the capitalist corporate takeover over of the alternative sport to his architectural and interior design of his new nirvana-on-the-coast air BnB.

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Shaping Kulture EP2:
Shawn Stussy

Potential Future Episode

How do you write an introduction for a man like Shawn Stussy? There’s no easy answer to that. How do you succinctly introduce a man who has effectively spawned an entire subculture and, in turn, changed the face of youth fashion irrevocably? In short, you can’t. What you should know, however, is that without Shawn Stussy, this website, this culture and probably the clothes you’re wearing right now would likely not exist.

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Shaping Kulture EP3:
Bob Hurley

Potential Future Episode

Successful surfers seem to have a knack for making the right moves at the right time on a wave. The same could be said for the business mind of lifelong surfer Bob Hurley. Born in Canada, Hurley moved to Orange County with his family in 1963 and began surfing at age 13. By the time he was 21, Hurley was an established shaper, going on to work for Infinity, Wave Tools and Lightning Bolt before opening a small factory-retail outlet in Huntington Beach called Hurley Surfboards.

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Shaping Kulture EP4:
Matt Biolos

Potential Future Episode

Biolos was born (1969) in Anaheim, California, raised in Chino, and began surfing in 1983 during a family vacation to Orange County’s Dana Point. Nearly 30 years after Matt “Mayhem” Biolos first entered the shaping scene, sanding surfboards under Herbie Fletcher, he owns Lost Surfboards, one of the biggest and most recognizable surfboard brands in the world.

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Shaping Kulture EP5:
Evan Keshav Menen

Potential Future Episode

‘Coach Evan’ ‘Brothers Menen’…Shaping the future! A core representation of the past, present, and future of the soul of the surfboard! Bettering man, woman and child’s relationship with the ocean. Communicating stoke/joy/aloha!

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Shaping Kulture EP6:
Rob Machado

Potential Future Episode

Rob Machado is an American professional surfer. Rob competed on the World Surf League Championship Tour from 1993-2001. A legend and once crowned number 2 surfer in the world. Since then he has become a professional free surfer.

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