Welcome to nobbywood surfboards.
This is one of Japanese wooden surfboard builder's website.
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It was in the early 1960s that the surfing culture came to Japan.
That culture was introduced by American surfer living in Japan.
Before that, a timber board called "Itako-nori" which was
like a belly board was used in Japan,
but it was not as popular as in Hawaii where kings enjoy surfing.
That’s because the sea was the place fisherman work in,
not a play of amusement.
The short board revolution which came soon after that made
the length of surfboards shorter and shorter,
and eventually wooden surfboards were forgotten before
most Japanese surfer experienced them.
Wooden surfboards attracting attention in recent years are unknown
ones for Japanese surfer.
However, I think it’s a very potential surfboard in Japan which has
wood cultures of architecture, furniture, and eating utensils,
and is also a country endowed with rich forest resources.
Myself I'm from a generation unfamiliar with wooden surfboards had to
reevaluate my opinion after riding these "nostalgic old boards".
It has come to a point that I no longer wish to go back to riding
foam boards but only want to ride the old renewed wooden quiver.
NOBUHITO "Nobby" OHKAWA: wooden surfboards builder
I helped a surfing school at Infinity Surfboards Japan
for four years from 26 years old.
This experience gave me an opportunity to go to Infinity Surfboards
at Dana Point California and I met wonderful shapers.
I yearned for their lifestyle and wanted to be a shaper.
After that, I shared experience living with a shaper’s home-stay family
several times and taught myself shaping/glassing after returning to Japan.
I started making wooden surfboards from 2007.
nobbywood surfboards
Hamada 2-7-2
Mihama, Chiba city
CHIBA, 261-0025
JAPAN
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